it's june 2009 and nothing feels real. Pixar’s "Up" has just broken the box office.

school ended two weeks ago, and the liminal novelty-sock summer has already taken your perception of time.

the cicadas sound louder than they should be. sunlight hits your dresser, as you groggily

make your way out of the oversaturated mess of sheets.

toward the now-soggy bowl of cereal mom kindly placed before she left for work.

nothing to do. and you’ve already watched "Up". twice.

carrying your plastic cereal bowl,

you navigate to the family 2009 HP Pavilion.

the Windows Vista user interface is crackly and slow.

but it's summer, and you will be in your pajamas for 3 more hours,

until you are asked to see "Up" for a third time that afternoon. you will say yes.

your cereal sits and watches on the old cluttered table

as you make your way to gregtoad.neocities.org

mildly entertaining, his blog is followed by maybe 15 other internet users.

after wading through the turqoise sea of popped internet collages

you read

he's curled up on the floor in his friend’s mom’s apartment in barcelona.

maybe the reason you like it is because you could probably do it.

does it take a genius to go to the beach and write about it on the internet?

before you can answer yourself, Windows Vista crashes.

your little brother has been trying to download “Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason”

and it is kinda a david vs goliath thing when you try to run it on Windows Vista.

Windows Vista is david,

but in the world where david totally loses

you forget about the blog

later, you are picked up in sarah’s 2005 toyata corolla

the third viewing of "Up" is by far the best.

take me homeee (you feel a deep longing and nostalgia for the homepage and wish to spin back)