oh you pretty things

late last night i got back from a half-weekend in washington following jake's band around. i mean, i wasn't just tagging along barking at their heels or anything, a bunch of people (three) who weren't in the band came along. that is pretty typical for their shows - i usually go, jordon's sister usually goes, and then one other person, often my roommate willie, but sometimes peter, usually goes. we all had fun. the first night was in olympia. olympia was pretty cold, and also full of lesbians. portland is supposed to have a lot of lesbians here, but we got nothin on the population of young, pretty and easy-to-talk-to lesbians that olympia has. this might be offensive, but being from san francisco you get pretty used to the short-gray-hair, large shirt birkenstocked lesbian. portland has slightly more variety, but not much. but i get the sense that as a town whose night life mildly revolves around the local college, the majority of olympia's lesbians are young and attractive, which was a pretty new thing to me and that is why i am writing about it even if it might be offensive. sometimes i'm just not sure.

at the show in olympia, this guy came that knows one of my roommates and i met for about five minutes over the summer. he made kind of a snotty impression in those five minutes, which was followed up by some pretty snotty impressions of him done by my roommate who likes to do impressions (they are usually impeccable). so when i saw him there, i started to talk about how i didn't like him. then i saw him sitting alone at the bar, looking really really alone, and i realized i didn't know him at all and i felt terrible. thankfully, i had time to go around to everyone i had said anything to and take it all back before we hung out with him after the show, because he turned out to be pretty nice with a good sense of humor and hilarious facial expressions.

then on sunday we drove up to seattle. seattle is a nice place, and it has a lot of cool-looking things. i get the sense that it's a lot like portland, except with fewer bridges, i don't know it at all, and the hipsters are fatter and slightly more masculine. the space needle is a great landmark for driving and a cool place to walk around. it was cold though - it snowed almost the entire time we were there. i wished i was warmer pretty much the entire trip, and at dinner on sunday i realized that i had been having fun but was probably being a drag because all i did the whole time was complain. then after dinner i threw a bunch of snowballs and tried to think of the snow as "magical" instead of "frozen rain" and it worked out pretty well.