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[aprilstarchild]

I don't think there's any way I can make it to the Oregon Country Fair this year, even to day-trip it. I just don't have the money.

I grabbed the Peach Pit (aka the newspaper/schedule for OCF) at People's yesterday. Trillian Green isn't performing this year, unfortunately; but Nanda is.

It's their fortieth anniversary this year (the art for it is awesome). It'll also be the first year I've missed it since I started going in 1998.

Bleh.

In other news: the unemployment agency sucks and I'm way stressed out. Shawn has been awesome, though.

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Looking through the Peach Pit is just rubbing salt in the wound, I swear.

I can look at the huge map on the back and remember what almost every single section of it looks like/smells like/feels like.

No Patty's Fruit Pies, no Stage Left show, no Peachi The Dragon...waaah! I seriously might cry.

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[jenhowell.livejournal.com]

I'm totally not trying to condescend to you, April. Just trying to help you feel happier, maybe. I mean, it's okay to feel sad, too, and I'm not trying to say you're wrong or bad to feel sad about this, just trying to help you over the hump.

I do understand what it's like to miss something or not be a part of something that's important to you. Maybe OCF isn't the same thing for me, but not being in "The Vagina Monologues" this year hit me like a truck. I had been looking forward to being in the show again as soon as we left the stage the year before. So when I found out that I wouldn't have a part it was really hard.

I ended up coping in a similar way to what I mentioned above - I thought about things that were good and tried to find alternative ways to have fun while the VMs were going on. Cause it was a choice between that and being miserable. And that's all I was saying - you're my friend and I don't want you to be miserable.

As to the unemployment office - that both sucks and blows at the same time.

Would your family be able to help out a bit if the unemployment office doesn't come through?

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

I know you're just trying to help.

I don't know if my family would help out. I haven't talked to them about it. I was thinking of calling them anyway, though.