July 15, 2008
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Summertime and the livin’ is cheesy
Why is it mid-July? This summer is flying.I found a great apartment. Signed an August 1st lease. Still loving the job. Shaun got word that he’ll be teaching a writing course at a world-class Chicago art school this fall. He’ll teach and continue to rake in the freelance writing/editing gigs until he secures suitable full-time employment here (he is still in NYC, finishing up his current job. He moves here with me in 4 more weeks!).
There’s also been a lot of trips. My last blog chronicled the first few days of my trip back to NYC to see Shaun and our friends visiting from Scotland, Dan and Bryony. Pictures of us at the NYC Pride Parade and the Jersey Shore are below.
PRIDE!
Blades of Glory
Bunny!
Get on the bus!
Drag Queens in the rain…(I sang this to the tune of Strangers in the Night for most of Pride).
Pride Parade. Where Steryotypes Come True.
Its about time we realized that all parades are a little bit gay.
Happy friends!
Flaggots.
JERSEY SHORE
The day after Pride, we all took a little day trip out of the city, past the horrible death-stench of Newark, to the pretty (and probably polluted) Jersey Shore.
There were mole crabs galore in this sand. There was also a fat little boy nearby. His name was Jeremy. He demanded lemonaide and was sunburned and represented that certain slice of America that is so grotesque that it is beautiful.
Burial.
We also krumped a lot at the beach. This is me krumping.
Bryony tried to take a nice couple picture of Shaun and I, but I guess she just kept catching us at the wrong moments.
HA!
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We also went to a bar called Bum Rogers. This is a very funny name to Brittish people. Almost as bad as Fanny.
OHIO!
A few weekends later, I got to see Shaun again. This time it was in Ohio, to celebrate his step-dad’s 60th birthday with family at a cottage on Lake Erie.
Shaun with stepdad and twin sisters.
We’re all here, eatin’ chicken.
Little Luke looks small, but Uncle Shaun knows…he’s a mean slugger!
Noah is obsessed with baseball.
These people have kids, so everyone takes their picture all the time. They are very nice about it.
Ye Olde family dog, Zeus. He’s a good boy.
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Magic hour sunlight makes us cuter than usual!
That’s all folks. I should stop being such a slacker blogger. But life gets busy in the summer. I hope you’re all having a nice July! And if not: butter up some corn on the cob! Eat a slice of watermelon! Make a sandcastle, goddamn it. And make sure you get your sunblock on.
xo,
Chicagoartgirl23ps–sorry the photos are formatted all crazy in this post. Xanga is being weird about it and I’ve not the time to fart around with it to make it good. Hopefully its not too annoying. (Not more annoying than looking at someone’s summer vacation pictures in the first place anyway–ha!)
Comments (3)
Nice Krumping.Looks like your having a good summer! You and Shaun are adorable…too adorable…
Oh, I love these pics! July is consumed with work of all kinds for us – house renovations, budgets, grad courses… August will be when we get to chill and enjoy the season.I think you have had a very important insight about parades.
Some great pics! It was during the Pride parade that I figured out they w3ere on the bottom. Oh the little bow peepish! Yeah. Every parade is a little gay unless your 7-10 then it’s all business. 6 and below, thems parade lovers.I love your bathing suit. The dude you describe is probably a person I should meet one day to have a better grasp of humanity but really, that suit is awesome. I was trying to figure out where you were on this coast from the shot and I am not sure. There’s a gap after the structure so if it is not the islands then maybe the eastern shore?In any case, I am very excited for you and Shaun! (He reminds me of Kevin MacDonald from Kids in the Hall in two of those shots.) And you found a place! The summer has flown but you’ve made the best of the time!