12:05am: bought gas, neuro sonic drink, four-pack 8oz sf red bull from rest stop. Mom called as I was pulling out. Nose has been progressively stuffier on drive, have headache. Mom said ‘oh you’ve got a stuffy nose too, the pollen is everywhere, it’s these fucking flowering trees, someone needs to cut them down.’ I said ‘on a species thing, it’s like they’re doing harm to us, they want to overcome us and take our place.’ mom said ‘they’re actually an alien species, this is an alien plot’ and chuckled. My nose has recovered from cocaine the other night, had felt worried about it getting hard to breathe again, allergies thing makes sense though. I’m in delaware. Mom said something about a funnyordie.com thing she wants to show me when it seemed clear that I wanted to drive and she wanted to sleep. I said ‘you’ll have to show it to me tomorrow.’ she said she would, heard a smile in her voice and ‘awareness of earlier silent agreement we had that conversation was over.’ she said ‘well you drive safe.’ I said ‘I will. You sleep good.’ she said ‘oh there are just these things we have to say to each other.’ I could picture her face and I liked it. I said ‘yeah, now we’re saying these things we say at the end of the phone call.’ She said ‘I know it’s all whatever, you know, but I really love you and I’m happy you’re coming home.’ I said ‘me too, I love you too, big.’

1:16am: almost at mom’s. Forgot about broken earphones, driving to 24-hour rite aid. Have been extra swervy, answering ask.fm questions while driving, have seen over ten cop cars. Tonight: a hot night for inattentive cops. Pigs looking elsewhere tonight. Hot sizzly inattentive bacon. Little hot bacon oil spurts doing all kinds of repelling off my swervy ass Honda. Bypassing the bacon bigtime.