Hollow Monday Morning

So hopefully I'll get in the habit of posting on this thing everyday, but since I clearly have not yet done that, I will now recount the events of the weekend...

Friday Night
Sarah and I didn't end up going to the dance party on the moving dancefloor. But we did make a really awesome dinner of chicken and veggies, accompanied by "500 Days of Summer," which I had been wanting to see for a while. As much as I would not like to admit this, I am a sucker for romantic comedies. And Joseph Gordon-Levitt is really cute, a mantra that Sarah and I repeated many times throughout the movie. :]

Saturday
Took a nice walk around downtown Portland, stopped in some stores, ran into Ted and his girlfriend, and spent a long time at Buffalo Exchange, an awesome vintage thrift store. I hadn't been clothes shopping in a while, so I binged a little bit. It was well worth it; I got some really interesting pieces... After chilling for a bit back at the apt. and making some grub, we headed to the NE for an event some kids we met were putting on. It was called Eclectic-Electric, sort of a small-scale electronic dance music show. It wasn't so happening, so we hitched a ride back downtown to check out another bar. As soon as we walked in, I looked at this kid, and he looked at me, and we looked at each other for a while, and then I very skeptically questioned, "Nathan???" His reply was, "Jenna???" We went to college together! He's a pianist and had been living in LA for a while but recently moved to Portland. I had no idea he was living out here, and he didn't know I was out here, so you can imagine our surprise and disbelief...such a small world, yet again! These kind of coincidences are so abundant in my life, and I am grateful for them. I like to think that serendipity follows me; it has shown itself many times. When we were in middle school, my friend Mariana and I would jokingly say things like, "There are no coincidences," and "Coincidences do not exist," which I only half believed then. Their frequent occurrence in my life makes me wonder about these things again...

[I don't think I mentioned this before: after further conversation with the kid I met on the plane (his name is Neehar), we established that I know one of his roommates from Cleveland because he has a small label called Banana Seat Girl, which did a tape release for (the) giants of gender. See what I mean??? Crazy stuff! I couldn't make it up if I wanted to!]

All the bars here close at 2am, which seems early to me after living in NYC, where everything is open until 4am. So when the bar closed, we took a walk to Voodoo Doughnut for obvious reasons...such good donuts!!!

Sunday
Overall a pretty lazy day...lots of lounging and eating and watching cartoons and internet T.V. But we did write a new song! We decided to write it as a response to a song that a couple of our New York friends wrote and posted on YouTube. Both songs are called "Sleepless Nights." We're going to try to make a video recording of it later today, so as soon as it's up I will post the link!