Tonight

Tonight we go to Carrows. My cousin, Tracie, my roommate and I. We laugh too loudly in a quiet restaurant and the hostess seats all patrons in the opposite section of the building. We laugh at that too.

I was supposed to pack for my move today... but I didn't. Instead I waited around for the delivery of my new digital camera which never came. FedEx blamed it on the weather, but only because I was home all day and so they couldn't blame it on my absence. At the restaurant I think of all the cool things I could've done with it today. Instead I cleaned the house. What a colossal waste of time.

On the way out I spot my other cousin, eating a late night dinner with his fiance. I sit next to him and he looks at me as if I am an unwanted guest. I laugh because he was seated on the other side of the restaurant. The hostesses failed attempt at keeping him away from us. The loud patrons. The loud family.

When I have refused to move from the booth I tell him of a response to an ad I posted that seemed to come from a Kuwait soldier. He says to respond. He would love to turn me in as a traitor. I think Kuwait is an ally, but I don't argue the point. Instead I tell him that he is not patriotic... he voted for Bush. He says, "Damn straight!" I ask why he hates America so much? We laugh. Well, I laugh and that's all that really matters to me.

In the parking lot we write, vote Kerry, on his mini.