DAY ONE
Thursday, February 6thWoke up to a couple inches of snow as the sky began to sleet and then became snow again--an annoying reminder of one of the many reasons we were getting the fuck out of the northeast. I got up real early and shoveled before positioning the car in front of the camper so it’d be ready to hook up right away. I also tried ( Read more... )

Sunday, August 18th

So as many of you know by now, Alyssa and I have left the 518, with no intentions of ever coming back. At some point I'm sure I'll have to come get my car and the few belongings I've stored in it back my Aunt's house, but I'm otherwise very dedicated to never returning. We will once again be living in our car--a 2007 Hyundai ( Read more... )

I got silently unfriended a lot and it hurt my feelings more than it probably should have, but also always confused me. I would always have to wonder for the rest of my life what I did to upset them, if anything, and if it meant to definitely not say hi to them the next time I saw them. I'd usually reach out directly to ask them, but no one in the ( Read more... )

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When I'd met Alyssa, she was already planning on not renewing her lease in Albany and to instead try living out of her car, or at least that was what she told me. I too was deciding to no longer live and pay rent in the basement I'd been in for a while. Alyssa and I had really made a name for ourselves in the city as the couple who was everywhere, ( Read more... )

The constant shifts from Philadelphia to Schenectady felt like I was repeatedly teleporting from one universe to another, as my existence in those two worlds were so drastically different. In retrospect, I have no idea how I got so used to spending upwards of six hours between two disgusting, sketchy Chinatown buses so many times to and from, but I ( Read more... )

The first time I went to visit Sam after they moved to Philadelphia in April, I was obviously still very hopeful Tara would take me back, so I had no intentions of doing anything physically intimate or even affectionate with anyone else, not even for fun and not even with someone whose every Instagram post made me sigh involuntarily out of sexual ( Read more... )

DAY ONE
Friday, September 16thI woke up having gotten far less sleep than I should have, but the adrenaline got me going right away. I skipped taking what could have been my last shower for the foreseeable future and packed my bag. I did several inspections of the house to make sure we weren't forgetting anything, put the bikes on the rack, and ( Read more... )

Monday, February 8thIt was an hour-long walk to the Pico train station. I was able to get away with taking the Metro Blue Line for free. I had plans to meet up with a long-time Tumblr friend in Long Beach. Her name was Leticia, and the first time I met her, she showed up at the PETA tent, gave me a vegan cookie, and seriously asked if I would ( Read more... )

Friday, January 29thThe night was very cold, but the sunrise was blazing, as is customary for a legitimate desert. I woke up to a cacophony of different sounds: the bending of a singing saw being played by John, a live rooster crowing in the distance, dogs barking, someone yelling at another dog owner. I didn't know what time it was, but it was ( Read more... )