connecticon was pretty cool, though i was kind of dying without internet by that point.  :c  and my happy ovals were not prepared for me suddenly being in a crowd of hundreds of people at once, so for the first day and a half, i was a shaky pathetic mess.  oops, i am really bad at not being socially anxious!???!?!??!  but yeah.  the lack of internet was kind of a total killer.

seriously.   i'm wilting over here.  kind of like my bamboo that no one watered for the past week while i was out of state.  

though aside from that, i really didn't miss pennsylvania.  i mean, i was staying in middle of nowhere, connecticut for a week and i still think this place kind of sucks a little.  oh well.




........shit, i never have anything to say on this thing.

wait, no, have a story.  while in connecticut, i often saw billboards for this place called kaoud oriental rugs.  every time i see one, it reminds me of my great-grandmother's funeral a few years ago.  my great-uncle showed up drunk, and he sat next to my great-grandfather.  he was loud, he kept offering the widower candy and stuff, and i remember with some clarity how he commented at some point about the rug.  "it's a nice rug, i bet it's a kaoud rug."  i don't think most of the family's heard from him in some time.  

i'm sorry that it wasn't a better story, or a happy one.  it's almost funny now, but it's also kind of sad to think about at the same time.