Take my hand and take my heart, I shiver when you're near.

(i posted this on violently/shy on Thursday, July 29, 2010 3:34 pm, but removed because i'm afraid of who's reading that blog and wanted to remember this entry and repost it here.)

Jared is this boy I'd only known a bit when I lived in Olympia. He was friends with all my closest friends there, but we had never had many encounters. At my going away party, we ended up outside talking for quite a while. I had been a mess that night, because I had just broken up with Dylan a few days before, and we were moving back to California, together. But Jared's company took my mind off of that for a bit. Even then, I remember really enjoying talking to him. He was nice, personable, considerate, and seemed very genuine. I had always thought him very beautiful, as well. But he had a girlfriend and I remember feeling guilty that night for cultivating a slight crush on him.

But we never talked after I moved. Not that I would've expected it. Our conversation, though pleasant and not entirely superficial, was only brief and still somewhat formal. But in June, I went back to Olympia. Since he's friends with all the people I went to visit, I ran into him.

One night, a bunch of us were at a friend's cabin for the night. Incidentally, he and I both ended up staying up later than most everyone else. We ended up talking a lot and then talking about music and listening to music together at a friend's computer. And then we kissed and things happened.

For some reason, he actually liked me. And a few weeks ago, he flew all the way to Los Angeles to spend 2 weeks with me. And it was the best. And I like him a lot and I feel like a school girl fostering her very first crush. Oh jeez.

A night at the park

He's a climber!

Wearing the shoes he found for me

At a Hindu shrine in Vegas on his 23rd birthday! He wanted to meet my mom, since my parents live in Vegas. My dad was in Brazil, unfortunately. Anyway, that pose was unintentional! I think I was clapping and it looks like I'm praying.

We went to the Shark Reef aquarium at Mandalay Bay! Jellyfish!!!

Pretty glowing boy.

Drinking Sapporros in front of the MGM Lion.

We went to Circus Circus! I played that game in which you just insert a quarter into a machine with a shit load of quarters, trying to push the other quarters off the edge of this tray. I got super lucky. A ribbon of 76 tickets!

We also played a lot of Super Nintendo. Mostly Super Mario World and Yoshi's Island.

On his last night here, we went to the park again and walked around and he found himself a branch.

Before I took him to the airport, we went to Cue! and took Japanese photobooth pictures.

>_<
We took this at Cirus Circus. We were both drunk and just very delirious and happy and we had the best time. We laughed a lot and then went back to my mom's house (my parents live in Vegas) and swam in the warm pool.

I'm going back to Olympia on August 3rd for 10 days to see him, again. Oh, god. I'm smitten. I feel way too optimistic and motivated and just happy, lately. It's been a while.

(I found this comment today (9/22/10 around 1:00 am from Greg, who's been kind of stalking me for the past few months, I guess)