and then later it cleared up for like 5 minutes (it's been raining literally for 8 days straight now) so i took the refurbished bike out for a spin around oak lawn, which was unexpectedly awesome. when i had that bike at school, you know, it's from the 70s, i was always freaked out by it because the front wheel wobbled and the breaks didn't work...now both the iron pig and dad's bike are running like a charm. i took it down to walgreen's to get some pictures developed, and then after dinner, mom and i rode down to the katy trail (one of those rails to trails things that leads from our neighborhood to downtown dallas) and rode all the way down to victory plaza, where the w is and the new mandarin oriental next to it, and not far away from the koolhaas/foster construction sites. its only like a 2 mile ride, you can get there in like 10 minutes. we also found out that the parking lot of the theatre in turtle creek is a popular cruising spot! take notes. anyways i was gonna go back today with my camera to capture the progress on construction, but it fucking poured all day of course.
we went to the mall and i returned these bright blue jeans i bought, cuz it turns out they were just a little too crazy for dallas. that's typical. the color palette here is more subdued than up north, and i forgot that. dad, however, bought all these shirts and one of them is insane - like purple and green with these ferns which mom and i told him look like feathers. we told him to return it but he refuses. we'll see, i know mom won't let him wear it.
but anyways i have been sick for the last week, and ive been taking robotussin nighttime before bed, and its making me CRAZY. like i can't wake up at all during the day, and if i have to do anything within an hour of taking it i can't wake up from this really weird, crazy sleep. i mean people in highschool used to 'robotrip' or whatever, but i thought you had to drink like an entire bottle of the crap to feel any hallucinigenic effect? i'm taking a pretty normal amount, and last night i had a crazy waking dream about "the girls next door." wtf?????!!??!?!? im gonna go get some other kind of medicine if it stops raining ever.
in other news i finished "undaunted courage" and have started on "team of rivals" which is about abe lincoln and his cabinet. i mean honestly, its more of a sleep aide than anything, i read 2 pages and without fail i doze off... but it's really interesting, just really slow. obviously.
i want to go see the new 28 weeks later so bad but no one here will go with me and since my computer is broken my dad is refusing to let me download it on his since he could get in big trouble i guess.
my mom keeps saying if i want to go back to ny right now i can, but i dunno...i need to get a job and save some money before the fall and living in ny i can't see how that would help.
