Seattleite Reunion Tour
14Aug2003 Filed under: Trip OutTomorrow I will be heading up to Seattle at an ungodly hour. The plan was to hang out with my godsister for the day, but she ran off on an unannounced road trip with her French luv-air and is not going to be in the Northwest at all. (What is it about French luv-airs that encourage this sort of flagrantly last minute, unplanned, but we must assume ultimately passionate, road tripping?)
This leaves me a day in Seattle with not a whole lot to do until the even-tide, when I’m having dinner with Susannah before our 10 year high school reunion. I can’t even have lunch with my father: he’s not working in the city tomorrow.
What is a former Seattleite to do but mournfully waft up and down the streets she used to call home, dragging her rolly suitcase and collapsable hoop behind her? Oh Seattle, she will moan, Do you not remember me? Why for must I be here with a rolly suitcase? Why for am I denied your Emerald Beauty? Why for do I live in an enormous beach-side strip-mall?
And why for did I slip into third person?
Anyhow, to fill my time I have decided treat myself to a nice girly day and many rides on the bus. I made an appointment with my favorite hair dresser. I will also being going to Hello Gorgeous, my favorite Capitol Hill boutique, and perhaps enjoying an overpriced pretentious but healthy lunch at the Gravity Bar. I am also pursuing coffee with a Yeti. After that, I may kick it with the homeless dudes at the library.
I will have much to report after the reunion. In fact, I’m ashamed to admit that I’m doing a little web project so that unfortunate classmates unable to make it to The Duchess Tavern (between University Village Mall, Ravenna Park, and a Cemetary! FUN!) or the Seahawks Stadium (paid for by unwilling Seattle taxpayers who said they didn’t want it!) will be able to partake in the mocking fun with all of us who were there! Be watching for that. Oh, the fun that will be had.
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Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, was published last year.
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yara
August 14th, 2003 at 10:52 pm
at our joint welcome/goodbye party, i whine to my friend chaya, “chaya, who am i going to get to cut my hair and do up the girliness when i move to LA?” and she says, not sloshing the mojito even a little, “i dunno, but you should ask Ariel.” i asked, “ariel who writes the stories?” and she says, “yeah. she moved to LA.” and then you turn up in Matt’s LiveJournal. and now here you are going to Vain, where for four years i made a monthly trip to get beauty-ized. then i mention all of this to my darling husband, ben sunshine and he says “oh yeah, i think i know ariel from back in the day.” so while i’ve never met you, everyone i know knows you and it’s weirding me out!
Ariel
August 15th, 2003 at 4:47 am
*gasp!* Mrs. Ben Sunshine! Yes, I know Ben. Very early on in my rave journalism career, I got he and Benji confused. It was criminal. I was so deeply ashamed that I printed up little correction cards and inserted them by hand, one by one, into all 400 issues of the magazine that I had to distribute in Seattle.
And yes, I can recommend an LA stylist. Not as good as Vain, but the folks at Paper Scissors Rock are prety good. Here’s the info, just so you have it handy when you need it:
1711 Pacific Ave Ste A,
Venice, CA 90291-4119
(310) 399-7625
kev
August 15th, 2003 at 9:23 am
doesn’t “whyfore” mean “where”?
Matthew
August 15th, 2003 at 1:23 pm
Other way around: “wherefore” means “why”. E.g., “Wherefore art thou Romeo?” means “Why — of all the people that I could have fallen in love with — do you have to be Romeo?”