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hey guess what?

I’M GOING TO PARIS TOMORROW!!!

i know it’s crazy. but it’s true. i am seriously going to be in paris tomorrow with amber leigh garrison. HOLY COW!!!

i don’t know how i’m going to sleep. but i guess that’s ok cos amber
said i need to sleep on the plane as much as possible so i’m ready to
GO when i hit paris at 7:10 am. all i can say is, feed me some french
coffee and a chocolate croissant and i am miss adventure pants!!!

oh wow wow wow.

it’s a good thing that julie came to visit me this weekend, otherwise i
would have wasted the days by obsessively thinking about paris. it was
so WONDERFUL to see her. sigh. being with julie reminded me of why i
actually loved living with three other girls in two small wiess rooms
for two years (and then some). we stayed up every night talking, and i
realized how i lived on so little sleep in college… the energy of
kindred spirits.

i tried to show her austin, especially pieces of *my* austin. seth and i took her to the alamo drafthouse and mother’s cafe (she lurved the tofu lasagna, big surprise). on sunday i drove her down to one of my favorite small towns, gruene,
where we wandered through stalls of homemade crafts and kewpie’s jams
(yes, she was named after the doll– i bought pear jelly, yum). we ate
lunch at the gristmill (which rivals any french restaurant, i predict) and even caught some live music at gruene hall,
the oldest dance hall in texas. of course i took her to star seeds
while seth was working, and chris, the waiter, was shocked when julie
asked for some sausage gravy on top of her buttermilk pancakes (and let
me just say it takes a lot to shock a star seeds waiter). to show off a
bit of austin’s nature, we journeyed through the green belt;
the cold clear water of barton creek tickled our feet as we sat on
rocks and enjoyed just… being… together. it was perfect and natural
and easy, just like the company.

i am so thankful to be able to see such good friends, as though the
distance simply doesn’t exist (it really doesn’t). from california to
austin to paris and then back, it’s extraordinary. my friends are
extraordinary.

they make my life extraordinary.

so xanga, i’m off to paris! le adventure begins!