- cutting my hair in the tiny bathroom
- putting in my two weeks notice at work, feeling the most free I have felt since long before I started
- heading home, having an extremely productive Saturday, washing my new car
- making pasta salad, picking apart the fresh mozzarella and the prosciutto with my fingers and eating some of the pieces
- getting an amazing deal on a Kate Spade tote
- arriving at the bar early and V being the only one there, smoking cigars and drinking Crown, talking about work and girls and diving
- later having Scott & Pedro join us, all of us making fun of Pedro's accent and bitching about work - "It's BUshit!"
- leaving work early, driving out listening to Gazpacho's "Death Room", feeling sort of free?? with my heart pounding
- getting a ton of errands done in those suddenly-free four hours (this is exciting considering all of my 48-hour work weeks)
- going to say hi to V in his office, him inviting me out for whisky, and us ending up at his place drinking extremely expensive aged scotches and cognac while smoking cigars
- him driving the IS F Sport like he stole it
- laying out on the beach for hours talking, plus him stopping an absolutely wasted guy from driving
- staying up until 5am, running on two hours of sleep
- waking up to juiced blackberries, strawberries, kale, spinach, pears followed by a lovely cup of piping hot Ethiopian coffee
- being a zombie at work all day with no regrets
- random dancing with Brad in his living room, him teaching me how to twerk
- salad with kale, spinach, tomato, shredded carrots, with a grilled brat and a glass of Pinot Grigio
- sitting on V's living room floor, reading excerpts from "Where The Red Fern Grows" together into the microphone, laughing at the reverb and white wine
- going to The Fresh Market for coffee and buying a fruit tart, sharing it at the table
- last day of work, dancing up in the filing room with terrible-awesome Korean pop on my headphones
- V taking me to the Clam Bake, two lobster dinners and crazy-strong drinks, fighting over who's paying
- trying to be serious, then hearing the lyrics "YOU THE HOTTEST BITCH IN THIS PLACE!" and cracking up
- signing up for summer classes
- a quick goodbye, but sadder than I imagined
- going to Brad's for consolation, dancing to Gangnam Style and Gentleman and Blurred Lines and Moskau on Just Dance
- remembering that I had a nightmare last summer in which V lined everyone up face-down in a ditch outside work and shot everyone with a rifle... except for me. and laughing about it with Brad
- watching Gravity with V late at night, poking fun at impossibilities in it
- waking up to sunlight through the windows
- V making me a giant breakfast of bacon, eggs and tomatoes, pancakes with real maple syrup (!), and coffee
- going to the annual book sale at the library, picking up 8 books for $10
- going to a guided meditation in which we rid ourselves of negative thoughts and self-doubt
- sketching Tristan
- going to Jen & Lee's, making a crown out of a bottle of Crown, karaoke to Katy Perry's "Peacock"
- waiting at Starbucks, sipping a black iced coffee
- slow dancing in V's kitchen
- stretching in morning sunlight while he did push-ups and weightlifting to wake up
- drinking Crown Reserve with V in the kitchen
- "I learned everything within two months and had nowhere to go and I got bored. And I hate being bored - I need to be challenged." "Hearing you say that is the sexiest thing to me."
mar 31 2014 ∞
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