Beaverton, OR. I'm really sucking
keeping this up. But here we are.
Since my last entry we've been to Seattle
again for a couple of days (where we actually came in via ferry--so cool!--and had a view of the Space Needle from our hotel window), and I flew down to Southern California to see one
of my best friend's starring in her University's opera, The Elixir of
Love. It was so fantastic, and she was so phenomenal. I'm glad I
flew down.
I have to say I like PDX (Portland International
Airport). On the little cubbies that you use to stash your stuff through
check-in/security says that it’s the #1 airport in the nation. I wonder
if that’s true. By the way, it always feel like a crowd of people all
changing after a one-night stand getting through the check-in point.
We’re taking off belts, taking off jackets, securing our valuables, only to
get it all together again so quickly.
Anyway, the other reason why I
like PDX is that there are bathrooms everywhere. And there is nothing
like a good dump. I've always wanted to write that somewhere and discuss this, because it's so true, am I right?! Anyone that says anything against that must have
never taken a good dump before. If anything, I’d like to be more
regulated! It’s a great feeling knowing you are getting rid of so
much! Especially on the road, and traveling overseas, where there is so
much potential of bowlels gone wrong. The big D and C.
It’s funny too because people are
so conservative when they are in the restroom. I mean, I do it too.
Honestly, who wants to hear a loud crash of the excrement hitting water?
Not to mention the grunts of effort and sighs of relief. But performance
anxiety, as I’ve heard it termed and like to use that phrase, I feel is like a
suppression of a good and natural state. Everyone’s got to go. You
know more often than not it’s not a quiet act. Social norms are funny.
The rest of the weekend
post-opera night was really nice and chill. Spent some time with some of
my favorite people, and it got me excited to come back. But I figured,
I'm moving back down to LA soon, might as well get as much of up here as I can.
