Back again: I went down to Philly this past weekend for Sleater-Kinney's penultimate show (not their last-last, but probably the last one I'll see, since they're not coming any closer).
It was good, but not fantastic, mostly because of the heat.
It was really very funny, watching the hipster crowd melt into puddles on the floor because of the outrageous temperature and energy and still attempting to keep their hair nice.
some gems from this weeks travels:
A woman to her husband in a roadside fastfood place (a Wendy's I think) "Its been 24 hours. I think we're lost". After we heard that we kept trying to figure out where they could have been from that it had taken them 24 hours to get to Ct. (we decided somewhere in the vicinity of South Carolina, not taking the highways--since they were lost)
One hipster (quite fashionable, I thought he was gay at first glance) to another, less fashionable, more effeminate hipster: "and she wouldn't even come to this show with me, I don't think we have very much in common I think we might break up" (understand that this is at a grrrl rock show, which --generally--the mens are not all about to begin with: my little sister rolled her eyes and said 'who is he kidding?' and we laughed like loons)
All in all a pretty good trip. I didn't do much running: the first morning I did go to the little gym at the hotel and run for 20minutes and avail myself of the universal weights thingamagigy but after that we did hours and hours of walking around the city, which I decided was a fair substitution, for the time being.
I had the good intention of getting up and going this morning but it is so hot out that I decided against it in favor of laying still for a little while longer.
Obviously I am way off track, and need to jump back on it in a quick like fashion if I have any hope at all of finishing.
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