1994: waiting, Oaxaca, Ohio, Longs, Jon, slivers

1994 started rather slow. I was working at Owens Family Restaurant, waiting tables and saving money to travel, I was not a good waitress...but since my rent was so low I managed to save a couple of thousand dollars...I took a short trip to Guadalajara and Mexico DF with Kym...stayed with her brother, Kevin and her friends Harley and (Serita?)...then a longer trip with Steve to Oaxaca and Chiapas...looking back those were possibly the happiest days...sleeping and eating and exploring...kittens on vacation...steve and I joined a ceramics class of kids at the community center in Oxacca...It was really beautiful there...El Maestro was wise...he made ceramic penises...we read One Hundred Years of Solitude...took a great ride down to the beach...met up with his mom...took a boat ride through a canyon...saw pyramids...Agua Azul...In June I had a family reunion to go to in Ohio...Steve got off the bus in Austin...I went to the reunion to see cousins play kazoos...I got a job in columbus...at Long's...Long's College Book Store...first a temp job as a rush cashier then Maria helped me get a full time spot downstairs in the art department with Sandy...that's where I met cinnamon cooper...petit...powerful...cinnamon cooper...if it's in stock we've got it! I also met Clair...and Dave and Dave and Dave and Ben and Tom and Brian...and Sarah Parmalee...Pia and Kathy Gluntz...Keri let me share her apartment on high st...before that I had been staying with my dad's parents...life was good, but I missed Steve...