Last night with Nicko down in Cruces. We were gonna play a big intense game of Risk with John but Nick & I split a pitcher of a porter at some local brewery, got kind of loopy & started arguing about the crappy paintings hung on the walls. Some artist thought it would be cool to blatantly rip off a Van Gogh starry night background and then, in the same style, have two sisters looming gigantic, piggybacking and laughing, in the foreground beside a cypress tree. The title of it was "Sisters." Barf. There was also an impressive sanctuary of velvet Elvis paintings in the back by the bathrooms.
John drove us home, then instead we just sat around laughing at Aquateen Hunger Force mostly, getting sleepier every minute. But Nick & I got a second wind and had a great conversation on into the night about how things are going for the both of us. Gonna miss him a lot...Nick is one of my closest buds.
I take my leave of the grandparents shortly. My bro Ed shows up tonight on a Greyhound to take my place. I will completely miss him. Bummer, big bummer, that we couldn't have road tripped down here together..."Al & Ed's Excellent Adventure" Mom was calling it until we found out our Spring Breaks were different weeks.
Now I'm gonna go visit Eric. Coincidentally he is in Los Alamos right now finishing up some research project or another. So tonight I will put a four hour leg on my return trip, and see a friend I haven't seen in over a year. Hi ho what a Spring Break it's been.
Posted by Alan at March 20, 2004 04:09 PM