I'm running on 3 hours of sleep for the past 2 days. I just took my first shower in days. I have never been so physically exhausted in my life. I believe I can safely say that this weekend was the best weekend of this summer.

Thursday- Tesla and I woke up around 7 to finish packing, get ready, and get to Allentown by 1-ish. Andrew and Anthony picked us up, then we picked up Brett and started the drive. we hung around the city for a while, just laying around, eating, etc. Amanda and Alex picked us up around 3 and we started driving towards Berea. We stopped driving around 8 to camp at a place called gaslight campgrounds. everyone was so hospitable and it was awesome. we got invited to eat a late dinner with the owners, which we had to unfortunately decline because of the dairy/meat involved. we got some free firewood so we started a fire, played a Pink Houses tape and layed around til we got tired enough to fall asleep. this was exactly when I knew that the next couple days were going to be great.

Friday- I woke up early and actually got to take a shower. once everyone was up, we packed up our things to finish the rest of the drive to Berea. once we finally made it, we set up their tent in the new camp ground and went to go explore Cleveland. unfortunately, they weren't as into the idea of wandering the streets until we found something interesting, so we never really got to see Cleveland for what it is. after, they dropped Tesla and me off at the fest. I saw a couple of good friends and some people I wasn't expecting to see including Jared, which was such a pleasant surprise. I also, of course, met a couple awesome people as well. Pat from tj finally said something about seeing me everywhere haha. strangely enough, of all the good music I got to see this day, the Sidekicks made the night for me. their set was so so so much fun. afterwards, we went back to the campsite and Brett came with us. we went to taco bell and ate in the grass. this was around the time that we met "naked guy" as well as Brian(t) and Luke from Indiana! we all sat by the fire with some beers and I honestly could not stop laughing the entire time. "Have you ever heard about the coyahoga river that burned in 1962?" "I do penis imprints.... in homeless people's faces." "I had sex with her.... no, I said bye." "I make the best sandwiches." "I'm std free.... no, I have chlamydia."

Saturday- once again, I woke up really early and didn't know what to do with myself. so I used Brett's water jug to wash my hair. I layed in the sun for wrote for a while til everyone else woke up. We then listened to some more tapes and decided to go to a river. the river was absolutely amazing, definitely one of the nicest places I've been outdoors in a while. day 2 of Berea wasn't as good as day 1 but it was still really good. we found Steph there and I spent basically the whole day with her and some other people from around here. Lemuria was amazing and probably my favorite set of day 2. the defiance "covers" also made my day as well as Good Luck. by this time, I was getting kind of desperate for a ride to the tj show in Cleveland. no one from the show was going, because everyone that was going already left. I found Brian(t) and Luke towards the end of Good Luck's set and asked them if they were interested in going. it took them a while to decide, but they finally decided they did. I watched Brian(t) the entire drive to Cleveland and decided I had a crush on him because he seemed so unbelievably uninterested in everything. I also realized that Luke was creepishly exactly like Damian from Mean Girls. once we finally got to Cleveland and found the venue, everyone was leaving.... it didn't take too long to realize that we missed the show. so we sat outside and I talked to Adam for a little. once Brian(t) and Luke decided they wanted to go, I went to say bye to everyone and Adam started asking me how I got to Berea, etc.. when I told him, he started joking around and questioning if I'd be willing to drive his car back to his apartment in Scranton. we realized it'd be doing both of us a favor because I'd be able to get home and he wouldn't have to drive the extra 14 hours before leaving for tour. he gave us some directions and we left. we drove straight through and got to Scranton at about 9 in the morning. we slept til 12 in the back of his car then explored Scranton for a while. everything is closed in Scranton on Sundays? so we settled for some chinese food which turned out to be really really good. we walked around a mall, took some photobooth pictures, then Andrew picked us up at Adam's apartment. the drive home took 5 hours because we went out of the way for a Sheetz trip and got stuck in a lot of traffic. towards the end of the drive, we went "car crazy" and I once again, could not stop laughing.


I realized how much I love the "coming home" feeling but I also realized how much I hate being here. now that I'm back, I'm spending my time sleeping and thinking way too much. I wrote a lot while I was away to document my emotions and it's crazy how much happier I am in an unfamiliar place with a lot of really friendly strangers. it's also crazy how incredibly cold I am being in an air conditioned house, I'm used to being really hot/sweaty all of the time. I think I'd trade it for that.