Party.

[icebluenothing]

Went to a party tonight. I haven't been doing well at parties lately for some reason.
This was a birthday party for my friend Mindy, whom I've had a great big crush on ever since college and whom I lost track of for years and whom I'm thrilled to have back in my life -- she's warm and bright and friendly and happy and simply fabulous.
The party

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[sorormystica]

So when I'd reached home and realized I wasn't tired of driving yet, I decided to test that. I took a wrong turn and kept going.

And while I did, eventually, end up back on familiar streets and easily found my way home, I spent a good long while in completely unfamiliar territory. There's something odd I really like about cruising down strange, winding residential streets in the middle of the night, 120+BPM techno pumping out of my speakers and into my blood, looking out at all the darkened houses and knowing all the Good People are asleep in their beds.

At one point, I saw a sign I've never seen before: "No Center Line." Sure enough, I found myself on a featureless wide black ribbon of road, black sky and blacker trees silhouetted against it. And I felt the exultant feeling I was looking for so hard back in November -- This is it. Here I am. I'm finally off the map.
I'm really glad to see someone else wrote down something like I've been trying to express the last few months. :) Means I can focus on other things to try to