I'm Wide Awake and SO ALIVE!

Posting from: Tucson, AZ
Listening to: Matt Nathanson, Car Crash

I want to feel the car crash
I want to feel it capsize
I want to feel the bomb drop, the earth stop 'till I'm satisfied

I want to feel the car crash
'cause I'm dying on the inside
I want to let go and know that I'll be alright, alright

-Matt Nathanson, Car Crash

I am sitting here with my skinny iced caramel mocha with whipped cream to my right wondering if that is the cause of my newly developed case of restless leg syndrome. I could stop bouncing my leg if I wanted to. Yes, I could. I just do not want to.

I am so, so, so, SO CLOSE to getting the hell out of dodge, and while it hasn't been a cake walk, things have been going reasonably right on most counts. I feel like I could start running fast enough to take off. But I don't think it's the caffeine and sugar doing it.

I think it's that one of my favorite people and I just bought our tickets to the first annual San Francisco Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival in Golden Gate Park this summer. Two of my lifetime must-see-live musicians will be there- Tom Petty and Matt Nathanson- and I am so excited to get to see them play in this awesome location. Plus there will be lots of other musicians I would be thrilled to see as well.

Best of all, I will get to hang out with someone who I only get to see maybe once or twice a year and who is one of those people who would be wicked fun to have as company at this shindig. And as a bonus, she knows the city (having been a resident there not too terribly long ago) so I will not be a bumbling idiot trying to figure out the difference between Muni and the bus, BART and Caltrain, or how the fuck to get on a damned cable car. I really like vacations where I don't wind up sitting down in a piss-soaked gutter on a public street until I stop crying because I'm lost and don't know how to get home and I need the bleeding to stop up where I split my knee open when I tripped on the curb before I can at least figure out which way is north.