Alyssa’s on her way to Fiji.

Actually, she’s on her way to the Portland airport at the moment, where she’ll sit around for another hour or two before her actual flight leaves for L.A., by way of San Francisco. Then from L.A. it’s a really effing long flight directly to Fiji. She’s going to meet Luke for the first time, despite the fact that they’ve written, talked on the phone, and fallen in love–or so it seems–for the last four months. It’s really the trip of a lifetime. And what an earth-shaking way to have a first meeting.

Kelly’s up in Seattle for the weekend, for her friend’s wedding. She went to college there, and she’s still got a lot of friends there, so it’s always a bit like a home-coming when she goes.

Last night’s Susie Blue gig was fun. It was just Susie singing and playing guitar, Skip on cello, Jen Bernard on backup vocals, and then I played accordion or acoustic guitar. I invited Kelly’s aunt and uncle to come to the show, and they did. Alyssa sat with them, and they seemed to get along and have a great time. Keith was at the show, and I got to talk to him for the first time in months. He told me that he’d quit Dirty Martini after the most recent show. He said that he really missed playing with me (DM couldn’t afford to bring me on their California tour in December), and that it isn’t the same band when I’m not there. Also, their show in Eugene last week was disappointing. It seems that a staggeringly boring reggae band opened up for DM. DM finally took the stage, and just as they had finished the first song and were starting into the second, a guy in the front yelled, “Show us your tits!”

But personal reasons aside, he said that the three songwriters who are the core of DM are making the band less and less of a priority. They all seem to be feeling the pull of their other projects and solo careers, rather than putting their energy into DM. So we’ll see what happens.

I’m going out to do some clothes shopping today. Gotta do something to get out of the house and take my mind off the disappointingness and lonelitude (wow. . .I just invented TWO new words!) of the day. The weather is extremely gloomy and rainy today too, which isn’t exactly helping my mood either.

BlahBlahMeMeMe. I should change the name of my blog to that.

I’m outta here. . .wish me luck in my search for some cool clothes.