so even though I thought I would be here yesterday....(long story)

vegas is pretty cool. it's definitely got that fervor about it, that kind of catchy excitement that I felt when we landed and still feel sitting in a neutral palate of a front room trying to type on Marilyn's laptop. Someone is playing music somewhere that is faint enough but bass-filled that my heart wants to beat along to it, and every so often a car zooms by. we are at the end of the strip, and as I came in from the airport I could see Mandalay Bay and some other things that looked familar from television and what not.

the weird thing is I've always been places first and then seen them on tv, like when Amelie was all popular, I had just gotten back from my trip to Europe and I sat through it with an intense excitement, especially during one scene in which Amelie is outside in a stone park and there is a carousal, I kept freaking out thinking to myself, I was there! I was there! I stood right there!

so. Maybe this is what it'll feel like to go to New York someday, just that sense of familar-ness despite having never been there.

oh and, goggles called it "vague-ass" and when beth called me and said, "oh, you must already be in vague-ass (due to her adorably cute canadian accent)" I nearly lost my vocal cords laughing. seriously, almost swallowed whole. gulp.

In my head, I'm already back in Chicago and planning out the days between the 29th and the 5th of September and wondering how horrible it'll be to move into my new place and start school all in the same week. Can't be so bad, right? right? at least I'll finally be moving into my new place. we hope.

I will try to update at some point during my stay (maybe sunday or monday) since I have access to Marilyn's laptop.

oh, and don't worry, I definitely will not be doing anything that you wouldn't do, or anything you would do, or anything in between and yeah. I mean, listen, here's what I'm excited about: seafood buffet. come on, what kind of person comes to vegas and is thrilled beyond belief that there's such a thing as a seafood buffet? not someone who's going to be doing what you wouldn't do, or would do, whatever the case may be.

wow: my coworker is calling me to ask me to work his shift tomorrow/today, in a mere thirty minutes. I don't have the heart to answer and tell him I can't make it, because I'm in Vegas, baby!

stine!

p.s. (yes, I seem to have become happy enough with life to feel emboldened enough to use exclamation marks. don't worry, it'll pass. Not the happiness, just the effusive use of exclamation marks.)