mood: mysterious music: 'above the candystore' by paola

i was never very good at lazy sunday afternoons. i haven't a clue why not; they seem to be what i'm always asking for: a quiet day with no distractions. but there's something in me that wants something to happen. something wrong possibly. call it self-sabotage, a moth to a flame, whatever. maybe i just enjoy complaining. meh. goei is goei.

last night i took a quick road trip with my friend to riverside. the drive was a little over an hour going at least 80 the whole way, which is what i did. normally you wouldn't be able to go that fast; you see, the traffic is horrible because there's a huge outlet a few miles past riverside. but we started at around 9PM, so all the stores were closed and the only traffic was going opposite us on the freeway.

riverside is only on the map because there's a u.c. school there, aptly titled U.C. Riverside. The thing is, we spent about 2 hours driving around there, and not once did i see a river or any other body of water for that matter. false advertisment. i think i'll write a letter of complaint to the mayor of riverside. i can picture it now: 'dear mr. riverside...'

anyways, we were in riverside because it was the farthest norm's location in southern california. and in case you don't know, our plan is to visit every norm's on the south side of california. sounds wonderfully stupid doesn't it?

irony alert!: our quest for norm's is anything but normal.

once you boil it down, we drove an hour and used half a tank of gas to buy 2 cups of coffee and a hot chocolate in a town whose name is horrendously misleading. and the kicker: once we got the check, our waitress wrote us a cheerful little message... 'come again! '. oh i bet we got more than our fair share of sideways glances, because we couldn’t stop laughing after seeing that.

so, yesterday and the week before puts 2 locations down on our list and 15 more to go. if you asked me why we're doing this, i couldn't tell you and remain seemingly sane to the general public. that's ok though, life's more fun when people think you're crazy.

---Goei---