steven. it's a word.
I...am...in...PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA! And to make things easy on myself here's the email I wrote to my dad a few minutes ago.
I'm good! I am in Pittsburgh right now. It's really, surprisingly, a very cool city. My friend Kass lives in a suburb of it called Monroeville, and her brother Rob has been nice enough to let me stay at his place in the city and take us all around to see the cool stuff. It's really the first city I've been in that anybody made an effort to show me around. Last night they took me to an Asian buffet and taught me how to eat sushi and then to a cool cafe where a band was playing and we played Scrabble. Today we went to the Warhol and Carnegie museums, had an interesting "Cal-Mex" meal, and were going to go to an outdoor bluegrass festival but Kass (who has chronic fatigue & fibromyalgia) was feeling rundown after all that museuming so we two are hanging out at home for the evening and later tonight when Rob comes back we're going to go see the city at night. Pittsburgh is very, very cool, with lots of nifty artsy neighbourhoods, hills, rivers, bridges, so it definitely has sort of a San Francisco vibe going on, except for the rent is cheap.
Tomorrow night or Tuesday morning I'm taking the bus to Ohio to spend my last few days with Rorie and Michelle.
I haven't been able to use my phone since the third, because besides having no service in Canada (which I only got out of on the eleventh), I have also completely run out of power and left my charger in Bayville. I was going to buy a new one but they cost thirty dollars so I'm going to wait till I get to Ohio, where I can use Rorie's charger (and phone), and just have the Kellys ship me the charger asap. I'll call when I can. Don't forget to pick me up on Friday night!
Hope you are well.
Love
Rachel
And in case you're wondering, YES KASS IS SITTING RIGHT NEXT TO ME! I CAN'T TYPE! UERTPOWEUPOWE
THIS IS KASS I HAVE KIDNAPPED RAKIE! I WANT 10,000 IN UNMARKED BANANAS DEPOSITED IN A SOME BROWN PAPER BAGS IN FRANK THE GOAT'S PEN OR THE RAKIE BITES IT AND I'M NOT TALKING SUSHI!
...uh, hi, Rakie here again (italics denote HER ravings) and..."really scared" doesn't do much to describe my current sense of apprehension concering the sometimes devil-horned woman at my right.
I like it here.
MMmm burrito sundaes.
You spend two day-and-a-half periods riding the bus inside of one week, and you learn to look at the world in a whole new, somewhat hallucinogenic way. And sleep. Sentence structure that don't fuck around.
Um. There's something that I might get to do but I don't want to jinx it, so let me see if it happens and I'll get back to you and listening to Year in a Red Room with Shawn & Steph will be pffftworthy. I never really woke up today. That might come through in this entry. WHat do you think, KAss?
Mmm. burrito sundaes.....
...And the verdict's in! You heard her. Mmmmmmm.
tHAT's all for now folks. check back in a few hours to see if we're still alive or sane. forecast looking not so good. byeeee.
p.s. i have decided on a tattoo design that i want to get, sort of to commemorate my trip, sort of as a reminder to myself, and if im lucky i will have it by the time i get home.
beat
bam
I'm good! I am in Pittsburgh right now. It's really, surprisingly, a very cool city. My friend Kass lives in a suburb of it called Monroeville, and her brother Rob has been nice enough to let me stay at his place in the city and take us all around to see the cool stuff. It's really the first city I've been in that anybody made an effort to show me around. Last night they took me to an Asian buffet and taught me how to eat sushi and then to a cool cafe where a band was playing and we played Scrabble. Today we went to the Warhol and Carnegie museums, had an interesting "Cal-Mex" meal, and were going to go to an outdoor bluegrass festival but Kass (who has chronic fatigue & fibromyalgia) was feeling rundown after all that museuming so we two are hanging out at home for the evening and later tonight when Rob comes back we're going to go see the city at night. Pittsburgh is very, very cool, with lots of nifty artsy neighbourhoods, hills, rivers, bridges, so it definitely has sort of a San Francisco vibe going on, except for the rent is cheap.
Tomorrow night or Tuesday morning I'm taking the bus to Ohio to spend my last few days with Rorie and Michelle.
I haven't been able to use my phone since the third, because besides having no service in Canada (which I only got out of on the eleventh), I have also completely run out of power and left my charger in Bayville. I was going to buy a new one but they cost thirty dollars so I'm going to wait till I get to Ohio, where I can use Rorie's charger (and phone), and just have the Kellys ship me the charger asap. I'll call when I can. Don't forget to pick me up on Friday night!
Hope you are well.
Love
Rachel
And in case you're wondering, YES KASS IS SITTING RIGHT NEXT TO ME! I CAN'T TYPE! UERTPOWEUPOWE
THIS IS KASS I HAVE KIDNAPPED RAKIE! I WANT 10,000 IN UNMARKED BANANAS DEPOSITED IN A SOME BROWN PAPER BAGS IN FRANK THE GOAT'S PEN OR THE RAKIE BITES IT AND I'M NOT TALKING SUSHI!
...uh, hi, Rakie here again (italics denote HER ravings) and..."really scared" doesn't do much to describe my current sense of apprehension concering the sometimes devil-horned woman at my right.
I like it here.
MMmm burrito sundaes.
You spend two day-and-a-half periods riding the bus inside of one week, and you learn to look at the world in a whole new, somewhat hallucinogenic way. And sleep. Sentence structure that don't fuck around.
Um. There's something that I might get to do but I don't want to jinx it, so let me see if it happens and I'll get back to you and listening to Year in a Red Room with Shawn & Steph will be pffftworthy. I never really woke up today. That might come through in this entry. WHat do you think, KAss?
Mmm. burrito sundaes.....
...And the verdict's in! You heard her. Mmmmmmm.
tHAT's all for now folks. check back in a few hours to see if we're still alive or sane. forecast looking not so good. byeeee.
p.s. i have decided on a tattoo design that i want to get, sort of to commemorate my trip, sort of as a reminder to myself, and if im lucky i will have it by the time i get home.
beat
bam