Didn't really write a date

It's late and I'm out in the pain part of the room where alisha is playing a game on his phone, abel is asleep with a pillow over his eyes, and mayang is in our cut off part of the room with the lights off. I was trying to sleep 30 minutes ago, when I got the sudden urge to hear a Bob Dylan song (mr tambourine man) that I only have on my pink taped phone , so I listened to a few songs, and then decided to look thru all the video's... consisting of titles like "blowing up a gnome", "jonn waxing", "spork" and "Jordan rapes Chris" (not as bad as the title makes it sound). then I started flipping thru all the pictures on my phone. Even though these pictures aren’t a great documentary of my life from 2006 till now, it really brought back some memories. As I flipped thru the pictures, I would look at the date which it was taken at and think "what was going on in that part of my life? what was my greatest concern then? what was her name (yes the concern was usually a girl) ? what class was I in? wh0 would I meet in the following months?

I turned off the phone to go to sleep and then thought "hey I'm not quite done going down memory lane. I haven’t heard any of my ring tones since I was home. And the first ring tone I played brought back a very vivid, very recent memory of my half dome trip with Jordan.

Okay... here's the set up, Jordan and I decided to get lost in Yosemite on the way back from half dome, and had been walking aimlessly for like 4 or more hours, the whole time without water. Jordan was very focused on finding the trail or being found by the ranger we had called (on my pink phone). I was incredibly focused on getting water and didn't give a rats behind, whether or not the ranger found us, as long as we found some drinkable water.

so that's the set up, and here is my memory, we were waiting in one spot, and the ranger had told us to make some noise so someone might find us. and then it started POURING down rain. All of a sudden it was dark and really cold, and neither of us had anything warm or waterproof to wear so we were instantly freezing. Try to picture this, me... the hopelessly cold, hopelessly thirsty one with both arms inside of my t-shirt (making me look like "torso boy") sees a crater in a bolder that was filling up with rain water. With both arms still in the torso of my shirt, I run to the boulder and fall to me knees in the most melodramatic way and then onto my stomach lying face down on the boulder to drink the water. While I was making this spectacle of myself, Jordan, the one focused on getting the hell out of yosemite, picks up a fat tree branch and starts beating this tree stump with it, hollering ridiculously at the top of his lungs. So I have my face in the dirt, soaking and cold and I hear Jordan *Thump* "Yahh!!" *Thump* "HEEY!" *Thump* "Yahhh!" *Thump* "HEEY!". Eventually I got up, and he stopped beating the stump, and we both got under this tree to find shelter from the rain (in vein). We look at each other and start laughing at the ridiculousness of our situation, and our behavior... both of us shivering with the cold rain pouring thru the tree we were standing under, when someone calls my phone and we hear this stupid ringtone, as if to mock us "And though it's raining more than ever, know that we still have each other, you can stand under my umbrella, you can stand under my umbrella (ella ella ehh ehh...)"

After thinking about this I started laughing hysterically and had to leave the room... so that is why I'm not sleeping.

you might be frustrated that I'm not writing about anything new happening in my life, and I assure you, there is much that is going on with me, not much that I can explain or even verbalize. But I have accepted that a duty, and a hobby in my life is to search for indescribable beauty in the most unlikely places, and to be content with appreciating the inexpressible.