wonder woman

my friend jess was in town this past week from "boston." she's not actually in boston any more, but rather northhampton living as a college student at smith. gosh i miss that gal. she is so amazing and wonderful and just, well, awesome.

it's funny because, many years ago, we used to work at bose corp in this piddly little department they had called express music. it was bose's attempt at selling cd's and cassettes (this was the early 90's, yo!) to their acoustic wave and cd player customers. our claim to fame was we could get ANY piece of music as long as it was still in print. anyways, i worked in customer service and jess was a buyer and ne'er the two shall meet. suffice to say, we didn't really know each other when working there.

after we both left and went our seperate ways, we would run into each other at rockshows around town and then somehow we became friends. then later we were in a writing group and then we even drove across country together!

she is so smart and accepting and fun and hip and (did i mention?) smart. it was really nice to hang out with her and talk girl talk with someone who's known me since 1991 (eegads!) and in my various incantations, until now. she always has a great perspective on life, or my life anyway, and really makes me think about things. if it wasn't for her i'd be making a bigger fool of myself all over the place.

i was sad to see her go back to the east coast, but got to spend 3 glorious evenings with her at yummy restaurants (and well one evening at doc's clock that i won't mention partly because i don't remember it). apparently we got a great photo in front of the giant buddha on 22nd. yeah, don't remember that. dumb tequila.