Perfect Shade of Dark Blue

"This flood (this flood) is slowly rising up swallowing the ground,
Beneath my feet, tell me how anybody thinks under this condition

So I'll swim, (I'll swim) as the water rises up,

The sun is sinking down.
And now all I can see are the planets in a row,
Suggesting it's best that I slow down...

This night's a perfect shade of dark blue (dark blue)
Have you ever been alone in a crowded room when I'm here with you?"

--Dark Blue, Jack's Mannequin

Had another hot friendship date with Matt Adams tonight.
And it was the best one yet.

From Primanti's to Wal-Mart to Eat N Park to cosmic bowling (no judgement, please), it was one of those nights that could have been completely lame... but became amazingly fun and memorable when you're with the right people. And I was definitely with the right person.

There are few parts of my life right now I'm happy about - but Matt Adams and our rekindled friendship is definitely one of them. I feel like he's understanding everything I'm going through right now... from the journalism/photography/lack-of-job situation, to the living with the parents and siblings drama, to the striving for something more in a life that feels endlessly incomplete right now. He knows when to joke about it and when to be sensitive towards it, which is overly needed in my life right now, yet unfair to expect of other people who aren't living it, therefore don't understand it. But he gets it. And I just need that so much right now.

I also need his sense of humor and his views on life. There are very few people who would have found the white trash fight as funny as I did ("Everyone get BACK to your lanes or you WILL be asked to LEAVE!") It's also funny that no matter how far we feel we've gone since high school, we're still surrounded by the same bullshit no matter where we go.

I guess high school never ends, but hey -
If I get Matt Adams out of it - then high school can last forever.