i have taken a lot of bad photos of myself, but this has got to be the worst. at the same time, this is basically exactly how i felt this morning getting up for work, so i like it. i know i'm not always this pasty and unhappy looking, anyhow.the thing is i went to bed around midnight and woke up at four a.m. when i say "woke up" i mean "eyes-flying-open-awake-awake." my head was hurting, due to the mysterious forces of womanhood*. that's all fine and dandy; i'm perfectly okay with the way my body revolts and turns against me for a few days a month, i know that being mad about it doesn't help, but did it have to show up last night? you know, the night before i had to be at work at 8:30? i mean, it couldn't have waited a measley two or three hours to ambush me?
denver was interesting. as predicted i got insanely lost, ended up driving around the capitol building four hundred times, found the sleaziest part of town, and happened to stumble upon a great asian market. it was a total fluke, i'm telling you. i couldn't find my own ass in that town. on my way home, i stopped and bought one of those ridiculous laminated city maps so that next time i'll have something easy to reference while driving in circles. i had fun getting lost, and sort of looking around and finding miso soup packets (although no fresh hom bao, sadly), but next time i'll be better prepared. i always need one time in a new city to get lost, and feel sort of freaked out by the newness of it before i feel settled. next time i might try to rope my roommate into going down as well, since she knows the city better than i do and might have some fun places to go check out. i've also really liked boulder both times i've been there, i should go down there and get good and lost too. the weirdest thing about fort collins is that there aren't a whole lot of fun second-hand bookstores or even mixed bookstores; there just seem to be a lot of barnes and nobles. i like barnes and nobles well enough (i mainly love the magazine section), but what i like about a good used bookstore is the randomness of it; just wandering around and finding cool things that you've never even thought about. then again, i just might not be looking hard enough here.
i'm going to go watch a movie about shakers now and lie on my bed. whoo!
p.s.
oh my god! look what i found in denver! i will be going back sooner rather than later. i had no idea that place even existed until i poked through my new map.
*yeah, that's right, i get headachey before my period. it's actually fairly common for women who get migraines to get headaches around that time every month. we are so lucky!
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Cripe. I'm almost 50 and I'm STILL dealing with this curse. Dontcha think it's a curse? (You know, from eating the apple in Eden or whatever?) Of COURSE the women have to PAY. (Oh, and childbirth is no picnic, either!) (Except it has a pretty cool aftermath. Until they become teenagers). ~Tonya
I find getting lost is one of the best ways to learn a new place... except once it starts getting dark... and really seedy... then it just gets scary.
But I love living in a new state and being able to say things like "I went to Denver today" :) When I first moved to KY, when we would visit Nashville it just felt so... COOL to be like "yeah, we went to Nashville for the day, you know, NASHVILLE." hehe
The best used bookstore in town is Old Corner. It's near Connor O'Neils up in old town. It rocks. There had been another great one across the street from Cactus, but it closed and moved to Boulder. Sadly the better ones (other than Old Corner) have moved on. There is also The Book Rack near the DQ on College, just south of Prospect and that's pretty good as well though I think mostly good for fiction, though it has been a while since I was in there.
While I don't find Denver nearly as culture-filled as other cities it has some good points. DMNS is cook, as is DAM (art museum). There is also a decent zoo and a botanical gardens that are good and there are some really great ethnic restaurants - Brazil, and Domo to name two. You'll get the hang of it. Boulder is great to visit as well.
Definitely go see the Body Worlds exhibit. Saw it recently in Chicago and it's so creepily cool...a must-see for everyone!
o the curse with its migraines and all. i am so with you on that. if you find a cure would you please share???
p.s. i like your hair. i miss having dark hair and bangs, perhaps i should do it again sometime.
it's funny, but that picture makes my hair look a lot darker than it is, mainly because it's a bad photo and my hair was wet. i must like this haircut a lot too, though, because i've had it for quite a few years now.
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