To DC.
So here is one top ten list. I have two.
Top Ten Things I Found While Packing to Move to DC
10. Memorabilia. Cruise memorabilia, in particular. A magnet of a frog wearing swim trunks that say "Bermuda" across the crotch, lying on a lily pad, and sipping a beer.
9. My S Club 7 CDs. Both store-bought and self-mixed.
8. My book of ticket stubs. I have seen a lot of movies and gone to a lot of concerts. Some highlights included Lifehouse, Hanson, and The Village.
7. The amethysts and peridots I bought at Cambridge Beadworks for Mom and Bay.
6. A photograph of my old best friends before they started dating each other, Liam fast asleep on Courtney's shoulder, on the eighth grade trip.
5. The cropped gray sweater I was wearing the night I thought I was falling love. It was buried on my mom's work table. How it landed there I am not entirely sure, but it sort of brought some strange stuff flooding back.
4. The photocopied letter that JK Rowling sends to everyone who writes her fanmail. I got it in middle school and it felt joyous.
3. The lock of my hair that I insisted on saving after I shaved my head for the first time after the very silly boy told me he liked my hair.
2. A stale copy of Parade magazine with Jonathan Rhys Myers on the cover. I think this was shortly after I saw I'll Sleep When I'm Dead and was going through my Varied Brits phase. (Clive, Ewan, Chewi, Jonathan... etc)
1. This photo:
Top Ten Josh Ritter Lyrics For When You Become A RealDeal Adult (With a Job and Not Living With Your Parents Anymore)
10. Out in the desert now and feeling lost.
9. Saturday night in a town like this, I forget all my songs about trains. Bar with a juke box, you on my arm -- Heaven and Earth are pretty much the same.
8. Below me are the sailors; they're on this journey, too. And each of us must make our unknown way upon the blue.
7. Tell me I got here at the right time and if I did, it's probably the first time.
6. I'll hold it high for you cause I know you got, I'll hold it high for you, your own valley to walk. I'll hold it high for you, though it's dark as death, I'll hold it high for you, it gets darker yet. I'll hold it high for you though your path is blocked, I'll hold it high for you through the thieves and the rocks. I'll hold it high for you, keep you safe from harm; I'll hold it high for you until your back in my arms.
5. My wings are made of hay and corn husks, so I can't leave this world behind.
4. Out at sea for seven years, I got your letter in Tangiers. I thought that I'd been on a boat, until that single word you wrote. That single word it landlocked me.
3. Time is like this fast freight train; you gotta ride, you can't remain behind. And all your friends are on separate tracks and some of them, they won't look back to find the one place that we all have known, the one place we can call a home, the place where each of us began. Sure as that day rolls around, when the road back home is finally found, I know our paths will cross again.
2. Lying on your backs, sun going down, you know it's perfect cause you gotta leave.
1. It's only a change of time.
