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I've been thinking (and reading) about my past a lot recently. It makes me tired to remember all the ups and downs, and to recall my many mistakes. But measuring the difference between life then and life now really illustrates just how much has changed for me in the last six years or so. I am refreshed by that difference and the gifts that time has given me. Better decision-making, a surer sense-of-self, a deeper reserve of calm. I am less vulnerable and able to take myself less seriously. It's all progress.

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It was a whirlwind of a weekend. Little Jamie is back in West Virginia. Before he left, we swam together a bunch, watched The Spiderwick Chronicles one and a half times, and read five or six bedtime stories together. He was whisked back home early on Saturday, and after a quick recovery period (laundry, lounging, Top Chef marathon) I launched into the social half of my weekend. With some old and new friends, I went to Rehoboth Beach and managed to score some frolic time in the ocean, despite the weather, which was kind of drizzly and cool. A quartet of us roamed the boardwalk. I was tipsy and brazen. Later, we went to a drag show at one of the gayest establishments Rehoboth has to offer. One of our party performed; she was glorious and put every other queen to shame. One long and drowsy drive later (complete with a hilarious round of my favorite car game), I was home and sleeping like a rock.

Coundtown until next weekend: 75ish hours!

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What is your favorite car game?! I am always looking for new ones to refresh my repertoire.

My favorite has always been the one where you say "I'm going to [insert made up trip or activity here] and I'm bringing/going to see/going to eat [something that starts with A]." And then the next person says the A word and adds a B word. And you go like that through the end of the alphabet.

It can be pretty tame, sure, but with the right friends, it's always uproarious and often X-rated. The one last night was definitely off-the-wall, and turned into a long crazy narrative about, uh, insertables.

I would probably be really bad at that, but I should try it anyway! I mostly play the Celebrity Name Game, where someone says the name of a famous person (the definition of "famous" is pretty expansive) and the next player tries to name someone whose first name begins with the letter of that person's last name. So, like, R. Crumb-->Carly Simon-->Stephen Colbert etc etc. Play direction reverses when one person uses a name with the same first and last letter. If you come up with a first name that's the same as the previous turn's last name, you get a free pass for when you can't think of one.

Okay so probably everyone knows how to play that and I didn't need to explain. The only new one I've ever come up with was "whoever can name more of a band's songs wins", but that can get contentious unless you have an iPod for reference.

I've played that first one with movie titles before!

You'd think that the memory thing would be hard, but you just start associating the things together the more they are repeated. Especially if there's some kind of story threaded through.

i remember that we played that game. can you remember where we went and what we brought?

We went on a roadtrip! I know we brought queercore music and zines... and a bunch of literature. What else?