when i got home tonight from the hospital and checked my email, i found these pictures in my mailbox. meet joshua mars robertson, certified flight instructor and pilot extraordinnaire, a.k.a. my best friend. leave it to josh to send me webcam photos that would take an otherwise exhausted cranky girl like me and instantly throw her into a laughing fit. god bless long-distance webcam best friends. god bless friends.



for those of you who don't know who josh is, he & i went to high school together, which means we've known each other for half our lives. josh & i were on the boy's swim team together. yes, that's right. i was on the boy's swim team. turns out a lot of my friends were on the team and i got hooked on the swim meets. since i was there for every single meet, the coach finally put me to work and i kept score. i didn't even know how to swim at the time, and i still got to take my yearbook photo w/ the entire boys swim team. josh was our star butterflier. i can't even describe to you what a thrill it was to see him do that event. anyways, josh & i actually became best friends over the course of the past year during which he trained in california to be a certified flight instructor. he's the one who hooked me up w/ olarn & connolly, two of the guys i hang out with the most these days.

josh moved a month ago to new york with his lovely girlfriend lielle. they just got an apartment and are experiencing the joys of cable internet access, hence josh's return to the webcam broadcast which i had been missing these past several months. it's strange...when josh was in cali, he was the one on dial-up and i was the one on cable internet. i was the one working and he was the one with no set schedule. now he's got a jampacked teaching schedule, and me...well, i better pray i stay employed.

anyways, this is the new york josh i refer to every now and then. my chicago josh is josh bearman, and you can read his blogger here. ok. now we're clear, eh? gotta go see bill mallonee of the vigilantes of love...

peace out--

today's soundtrack:
axxess & ace - songs: ohia
loaded - the velvet underground
naked - ricki lee jones
music for the morning after - pete yorn
the ghost of fashion - clem snide