76 degrees

"never, ever try to impress anybody. be the person you are right now, alone, reading this.
and then meet people.
and hold out until you meet someone who is utterly impressed.
because then? you will not have impressed them. they will have been impressed by you."
-Augusten Burroughs

"'Michael the Magnet has a magnetic personality. just watch how Sammy Steel and Ira Iron come running when Michael says hello.'
'say, Sammy and Ira. what do you say we make a connection? a MAGNETIC connection, that is.'
'sounds MAGnificent, Michael.'"
-Joshua Braff

48 hrs, 4 books, comical sunburn, a walk on the beach, wheat thins dragged through Greek yogurt, being looked up and down in startlingly un-Seattle-like directness, witnessing a lengthy verbal brawl across 4 lanes of aurora ave, listening to "dirty water" on my headphones in 70 degree darkness, night air soft against bare skin, leaves shadowed under yellow streetlights.
among other things.
this is going to be a fucking awesome summer.