As Serious As Your Life

Yesterday was not so much an ordinary day... not that I'm complaining or anything. It started off with me playing "pretend" at work, aka the interns and I were given face masks so we pretended we were surgeons in a hospital when we were clearly just doing standard office work. In the evening, I chilled with Chelsea and Corey at Pier Village; the unordinary part being that there was a random free concert and random bonfires on the beach. All in all, I had a really good time just hanging out.

When I got home, I decided to lay on the grass in my backyard and stare at the stars. I really enjoy stargazing, and it's something I hope to do more frequently because it's so therepeutic. For me, stargazing always begins the same way - as soon as I begin staring, I start to think about "the cosmos" and what it all means. It's so crazy to think about.

Despite my mind being flooded with all these thoughts that I can barely wrap my head around, stargazing always makes me feel calm. It's strange how thinking about something so serious and hard to make sense of could be so calming, isn't it? Especially considering that when I think about several factors in my life that I can't make sense of, the end result is typically the complete opposite of calm.

But I think stargazing is calming because I eventually get so overwhelmed with such deep thoughts that I let them all go all at once, freeing my mind from philosophy overload and providing me with much-needed mental relief. It would be nice if I could apply this practice to other factors in my life too.

Maybe the cosmos are trying to tell me something?

Standing On The Shore

I just brainstormed a few ideas for things I'd be down for doing this summer, and all of them involve the beach:

Let's go to Monmouth Beach (it's free) during the weekend and get really drunk in the afternoon.

Let's go to Roosevelt Beach in Deal (it's also free) because its got a stream running into the ocean that's fun to jump over.

Let's take a roadtrip to Ocean City (NJ) for pizza because they seriously have the best boardwalk pizza I've ever eaten.

Let's get really dressed up on a sunny day and go to Pier Village for a photoshoot, and afterwards we can go to my house and have a formal-esque party.

Let's go to any beach at night and just lay in the sand.

Summer In The City

I've made a list of concerts in the city that I want to go to. Who's coming with me?

July 17 - "Sirens Festival": featuring Matt & Kim and Ted Leo (free)

July 22 - Dinosaur Feathers (free)

August 1 - "The Pool Parties: Block Party" (free)

August 8 - Memory Tapes & Restless People / The XX (free)

August 12 - White Rabbits (free)

August 13 - Something Corporate ($$$)

August 18 - Crystal Castles (in Philly, $$$)

September 24 - Stars ($$$)

October 22 - Four Tet ($$$)

Just thinking about this list makes me happy. I'm so excited!

Company I Keep

I woke up this morning and everything felt right.

Which is funny because quite a few things in my life have been out of place.

But I'm not going to question the dissonance. What I do know is that I've been in a really good mood ever since my graduation party this weekend when I got to spend it with all the people I wanted to see, all in the same place at the same time. I am certain of that.