Louisiana...they're trying to wash us away...
i know i haven't updated in forever. so much shit has changed and i've been so incredibly busy. i've live in literally 7 different places in the past month. i'm exhausted. i'm lonely. i'm sad. but i'm having fun.
lisa is living with me and my family now in lafayette. but my parents should be moving to baton rouge soon so that will make it just me and lisa...fun fun!
sacred heart has set up a satellite "school" near the sacred heart school in grand coteau (half an hour from lafayette), and my school is now in an old abandoned physical therapy center that is literally smaller than the tiny house i live in now. 250 people in this satellite school. you do that math. but it's actually not as miserable as it seems. except for the fact that i have no personal space... no locker, nowhere to put my stuff that someone isn't gonna mess with it. and that part is annoying.
also, lisa and i were having a lot of fun here in lafayette cuz we had lots of friends here from home and what not. but literally every single one of our friends from home has moved back home (except for school people, of course). alex, bj, bg, roger, eric, and all of our other friends have left us. so it's sort of lonely. thank god for ryan (one of my best friends forever who actually lives in lafayette) and his friend billy. they are our new best friends and our saviors. without them we would have no one to hang out with and no lives. so thanks guys!!! i am so thankful for the two of you and love you sooooo much!!!
i miss all of you new orleans folk more than you will ever know. it's so lonely here. there are so many people around all the time: tiny house cramped with my family, tiny "school" building ripping at the seams with people, REALLY trafficky streets in lafayette due to the evacuees and what not...and yet i feel like i'm totally alone here. it's weird.
but i'm ok. in the end, i'm fine. i will be fine. we will all be fine.
my mom confronted me last night about discovering that i have sex and do drugs. that was fun. but now she's gonna start buying me birth control...so it's actually kinda a good thing. the cat is out of the bag, no more secrets and shit, and free birth control, and she's not gonna tell my dad !! what could be better?? but it will be kinda akward for a while, so that sucks. but it's cool i guess. i actually really don't care for some reason... which surprises me... but that's how it works i guess, so i'm cool with it all.
what else is there? - i don't know... i miss all of you. i hope everyone and their families are ok.
i'm coming to stay in new orleans just me and lisa without parents for this whole weekend, so anyone who is there please call or text me and let me know so i can come and visit you. i miss you more than words can possibly say. i can't wait to get back home, even though it's not the same, i know. last time i was there i got lost because nothing looks the same...for some indescribable reason...even in jefferson parish. but anyways...that's where i'll be.
so here's how to contact me if anyone's interested:
(504) 236 - 4199 - call or text my cell
(337) 504 - 4230 - or call my new house line in lafayette
The absolute, hands down, BEST song ever for this moment...this vastly extended moment...a song which, ironically, Jason Robert Brown sang to us as an encore at his concert at Le Chat Noir, which was one of my last outtings with my friends in New Orleans:
what has hapened down here is the winds have changed
clouds roll in from the north, and it started to rain
it rained real hard, and it rained for a real long time
six feet of water in the streets of evangeline
the river rose all day, the river rose all night
some people got lost in the flood, some people got away alright
the river had busted through clear down to plaquemines
six feet of water in the streets of evangeline
Louisiana, Louisiana
they're trying to wash us away
they're trying to wash us away
Oh, Louisiana, Louisiana
they're trying to wash us away
they're trying to wash us away
President Coolidge come down in a railroad train
with his little fat man with a notepad in his hand
President say, "little fat man, oh isn't it a shame,
what the river has done to this poor farmer's land."
Louisiana, Louisiana
they're trying to wash us away
they're trying to wash us away
Oh, Louisiana, Louisiana
they're trying to wash us away
they're trying to wash us away
Oh Lord, they're trying to wash us away
i need a cigarette