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Strangely I don't miss Guilford yet. Sure, I'd like to see all my friends from there, but I'm really just thrilled to be done. This past week I've just hung out with Katie every day and danced almost every night and Katie and I went on awesome long bike rides and runs. I'm quickly getting in shape which is good. I am soooooooooo sore, though, but I think in a good way.
The LEAF festival was really good. I don't remember a ton of it because every year really is much like the last, but it was pretty good. Slightly awkward seeing Aaron at first but it was cool getting to hang out with him a little bit. Somehow I've found myself lately a part of the awesome young-asheville-contradancer-musician crowd which has been great. Those people are wonderful. The contra dancing at LEAF was amazing, so much better than usual. Nightingale positively rocks my socks off. The swing dancing was not so great but i still had lots of fun. Really good bands- there were a lot of the young-musician-newgrass bands that were phenomenal. The jams were not quite so much fun, but were still ok. Lots of goofiness and fun stuff happened which i won't go into details about, but I shared my tent with random dancing girl which was fun, Lael and I carried Roan and I did lots of goofy jumping around. Too many couples at the festival though, enough to make even relationship-hating me feel a twinge of wanting to be with someone. Oh well, I'm sure the urge will pass.
OH, and I bought my ticket to europe! Fly to Sweden on June 23 and return from Ireland on December 14. Holy crap, that's a very long time. Now that I have to go I'm feeling sorta apprehensive and nervious. I'm sure I'll have a good time, though.
Related... so, I've been thinking of all these places I could move to after Ireland til I go to grad school. But, tonight after LEAF I went to Sloan's party and it was this amazing group of people; we played Taboo for hours and then sat by a campfire outside while poeple played old time music and danced. That is what i want with life. A community of people who are not too serious but can do real life, who role around in the dirt by a fire and play music and dance and drink homemade things. So, I think I should come back to Asheville for the second half of next year. Maybe this seems like the natural thing to do, but not for me. I basically swore to myself that I wasn't ever living in Asheville again, and I should discover the joys of other places. But when it comes down to it, I really just love it here. Sure, there are great communities in other places but I really like this one, and if I find something good, why try to find the same thing somewhere else that just isn't as cool to begin with? I still don't know what I will do, but I really love Asheville. Really really love it here.
I should go to sleep. I feel like my insides are coated with dirt, because they are.
The LEAF festival was really good. I don't remember a ton of it because every year really is much like the last, but it was pretty good. Slightly awkward seeing Aaron at first but it was cool getting to hang out with him a little bit. Somehow I've found myself lately a part of the awesome young-asheville-contradancer-musician crowd which has been great. Those people are wonderful. The contra dancing at LEAF was amazing, so much better than usual. Nightingale positively rocks my socks off. The swing dancing was not so great but i still had lots of fun. Really good bands- there were a lot of the young-musician-newgrass bands that were phenomenal. The jams were not quite so much fun, but were still ok. Lots of goofiness and fun stuff happened which i won't go into details about, but I shared my tent with random dancing girl which was fun, Lael and I carried Roan and I did lots of goofy jumping around. Too many couples at the festival though, enough to make even relationship-hating me feel a twinge of wanting to be with someone. Oh well, I'm sure the urge will pass.
OH, and I bought my ticket to europe! Fly to Sweden on June 23 and return from Ireland on December 14. Holy crap, that's a very long time. Now that I have to go I'm feeling sorta apprehensive and nervious. I'm sure I'll have a good time, though.
Related... so, I've been thinking of all these places I could move to after Ireland til I go to grad school. But, tonight after LEAF I went to Sloan's party and it was this amazing group of people; we played Taboo for hours and then sat by a campfire outside while poeple played old time music and danced. That is what i want with life. A community of people who are not too serious but can do real life, who role around in the dirt by a fire and play music and dance and drink homemade things. So, I think I should come back to Asheville for the second half of next year. Maybe this seems like the natural thing to do, but not for me. I basically swore to myself that I wasn't ever living in Asheville again, and I should discover the joys of other places. But when it comes down to it, I really just love it here. Sure, there are great communities in other places but I really like this one, and if I find something good, why try to find the same thing somewhere else that just isn't as cool to begin with? I still don't know what I will do, but I really love Asheville. Really really love it here.
I should go to sleep. I feel like my insides are coated with dirt, because they are.