in august two of my dreams came true: i went to ireland and i became a singing telegram artist. remember when i was telling you about how i wanted to be one? then i just was one. i didn't even have to do anything to become one. randi just called me the other day and then i was one. we went to a doctor's house and wore a lot of zany fabric and sang sunrise sunset from fiddler on the roof and i had to sing dave matthews a little, which i messed up bc i don't know it that well. and i had to wear bright red lipstick. randi said this was the most important tool. here is what i look like as a singing telegram artist. don't laugh. i'm trying to look cool. i've never worn red lipstick before.

so. s and i got back from ireland and we've been exhausted. we keep sleeping weird and waking up at 3am and having frightening dreams. last night i dreamed that susan sarandon was floating through a brick wall.

we were, as you know, supposed to go to kiev. the travel agent sent us an updated itinerary before we left and it was fine. so. on monday morning we go to the airport at 4am to get on the plane and we can't find the airline so we ask this man and he says, "malev? they went bust in february." we didn't know what to say about that and went to a counter and the people said the airline didn't exist anymore. so then we were stuck in dublin but our flight back to denver was out of kiev. and it was 10pm in denver so we couldn't contact the travel agent.

but. we made it home. she got us tickets back.

ireland was magical. the music is the best thing about it. people play music until early in the morning. we listened to a lot of traditional music (trad, as they call it). my favorite song. it's scottish.

the food is very delicious. we ate many bowls of soup (carrot/corriander, vegetable, curried potato, etc)  and had curry/apricot and irish brown and sundried tomato breads. i had one of the best things i've ever eaten: an appetizer in a pub--a beet/onion/goat cheese souffle. also goat cheese spring rolls on a bed of caramelized onions and vegetable baps. i never hear about irish food. i don't know why.

we saw:

1.tall sea cliffs
2. cows in the street
3. a cave where two white trout haunt the waters
4. billy joel videos

we met a man who traveled across the world to tell his ex-girlfriend that he cheated on her. he had never cheated on a girl before. he wanted her to know because he loved her. when he told her, she smashed him in the face. they've been together ever since (12 years) and are very happy.

we got the island feeling.

we saw a famine graveyard.

we went to a place where a miracle occurred and s filled up bottles with holy water.

i put my heart on a ferry rail.

someone got a haircut

been seeing pont some and making her do photo shoots

j and i went back to the ocean (which i guess in oregon is called the coast) for a couple days and as you can imagine i was taking pictures of the water and the sky and guess what happened!

i dropped my camera in the sand and the pictures went from hazy to slits

i guess i'm going to look for another one today because s and i leave for ireland/kiev on monday! i'm getting very excited. booked a hostel in kiev. i was most worried about that but now feel better. here are some things i feel like doing:

number one

number two

number three

what else?

seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee it soooooooooooooon

sauvie island

on friday jesse, noel, hank and i tried to go camping at cape lookout. we found a campsite with this mysterious collection of mushrooms and a puddle where the tent goes, so we went for a wet hike (so wet our clothes didn't dry for 2 days) and then got a room. after hot showers, we ate ocean food (j/n had oyster shooters and chowder and clams and i had burnt pumpkin cannelloni) and slept at a motel where we could see the ocean. when i woke up the next day hank was looking at it. on saturday we walked on the cape lookout trail which was muddy and beautiful. i could take one thousand pictures of the sky here. 

j and i are in portland for the month. we had to drive through a fire to get here. we went to the ocean.

in these two weeks i have made tomato conditioner go in a sink (then did a taste test with it), saw a spinning pig, viewed good music and how packaging peanuts hang in a glass factory, saw a head on sticks, watched beasts of the southern wild (which is now coming and says everybody loses the thing that made them--you have to go see it), played and cheated at pool, saw my family, made a new plan for t.f. (team fingerbang), graduated, cried at seth landman, who is leaving denver (the worst idea yet--view portraits below), made a mix cd with this song, and packed up my apartment.