Aurora Miss Behaving Folk Life 2007

I was sitting on a bench next to Amanita during Folk Life when my sister ran up to us, talking a million miles an hour. I had the video camera. It was strange--she was neither drunk nor high, just manic. It reminded me of a time period when I was her age. Last year at this time, she was so depressed and even tried to commit suicide by eating all my medication with some alcohol. She was scared to move out on her own yet didn't like living at home. She moped around, lost her job as a barista at the Mandolin Cafe and didn't know what to do. She only had one class left to get an Associate Arts degree at Tacoma Community College, but the class was math; something she had been avoiding like the plague. She failed it once and felt dejected and sad. The fucked up thing was that she felt that when I became paralyzed, I had taken her place as the family baby. She was 20 years old, but had always been spoiled and my mom had turned her attention to me. This wasn't an undercurrent in her subconscious, she spoke about it openly, which confused many people. Well, once she got on her own and started spending her savings on rent, moving from house to house, she started to get scared because her $1500 was disappearing quickly. When she lost it all she had a revelation: It doesn't take money to survive and have a good time. Money was an illusive trap because there was never enough and instead of owning it; it owned her. Now that she has nothing and loses her license and cell phone almost every week, she feels so free and is completely manic. People follow her around with video cameras and have created websites like www.rorameadow.com or fremontaurora.com. She always speaks of people who want her to be in movies and will pay her thousands of dollars, but never has enough to take a bus. She moves from house to house--guy to guy and party to party. She's the most sporadic person I know, completely unreliable and laughs at the idea of personal responsibility. People have called the cops on her many times for flashing her boobs out in public... well, this little clip describes her, and I'll remind you once again... she's not putting on a show for the camera... this really is her!