madcap - bright lights, big city

can you say, "home, sweet home"?? it felt sooo good to be home again. and i'm not talking just my house. i mean the little things that just make me think 'home'. like when jon found me before school got out and gave me a huge hug. seeing tuey and brandon again. you know, for a minute i was almost even glad to go to work.
no worries, that feeling didn't last long. but, well, seattle made me homesick. it was this huge mass of people i didn't know, all around me, 24 hours a day. i liked the people i was sharing a room with well enough, but... it got tiring. my main obsession/joy trip the whole time was the huge window we had in our hotel, looking out over the freeway. i sat and watched the cars and the people go by for a few hours, doing homework and listening to music. i love that window. i want to live in an apartment with a window like that. also, walking around seattle again made me realize how much i love that city. of course, i know i love seattle, but it always sinks in again when i go there. i haven't been up there, walking around, since summer, so it was really nice. i had all these flashbacks to summertime, running around with elaina and jessika picking up fliers, following the monorail to westlake center. i was dying for tuey to be there, tuey and brandon and cole. this whole trip thing would've been ten million times better if the four of us could've been running around.
but i don't know why i keep talking about how it could've been better. it was still fun. the whole competition thing wasn't so bad as i thought, although i didn't do well enough to go to nationals. like i care, right? i still got a medal.
stupid tosha got a raise. $9.55. i want a raise, too! well, i'll get one soon, soon as my 300 hours are up. so there.