can't frigging believe it's almost september. where the hell did august go? how about july? june? my calendar's still on may, with some picture of a spring-green field up above the month. summer's flown by so fast i ain't even had time to flip the page.
lately i've been listening to a lotta pearl jam. a lotta joan armatrading on the record player, turned up loud. with friends i can smile. but with a lover i can throw my head back & really laugh, really laugh.
thursday jeremy & me are going on up to small's falls again before it gets too cold to swim.
and tomorrow i'm gonna drive down to popham beach and bodysurf all day long, go to work at 7 sunburned, with my muscles aching from beach walking and swimming against the waves.
i am madly in love. with this sexy beast:
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it's a '99 subaru forester. only 98k miles and in damn near perfect condition inside and out. (i was showing off the clean & shiny engine to ellen today, all giddy. she looked at me like i was nuts. i didn't care.) runs smooth as hell and accelerates like crazy. i put down the couple thousand bucks i'd been saving in a hollowed out book, took out a loan for the rest, filled out the paperwork and drove 'er to work this past friday. parked where i could see her in the security cameras, and caught myself staring at the t.v. monitor every goddamn chance i got. megan and shawn laughed their asses off at me. i didn't care.
so now i'm flat broke til my next paycheck, but i got myself one hell of a car.
we have a garden full of tomatoes and i've been eating them one by one, sliced up with salt and pepper. and they're the sweetest i've ever had.
goddamn you, summer, why've you gotta be so short?