Alas, my love, you do me wrong to cast me off so discourteously

I need to break this habit of only posting once a week or so. The feeling of having to "catch up" is annoying.

So.

Friday went okay. Well, not really. We'll get to that. Lilie came over and we tried to decide what to do with the evening. Janelle mentioned that she was going to play in the orchestra that night for a production of Romeo & Juliet, so we decided to go watch it. Lilie has a fondness for high school drama, having been in it herself, and I have a fondness for her. So we went and watched it. It was... interesting. Sterling's little sister was Juliet, opposite Nathaniel Thurman, the guy from The Complete Works of Shakespeare, Abridged. U g s bi usw U q a fiubf ri vew j yo qurg gwe k rwe rg r bufgr, It went okay. I guess. Lilie felt our drama department was sorely lacking, and I'm not inclined to argue that point. The musical, which is put on by the choir, should be a lot better. In fact, I think I'll be going to that - they're doing You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. I might even invite Lilie to watch it with me. We'll see.

So we came back here and chilled for a bit, then she had to go. That's when it happened.

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It was kind of weird, because the people across the street were packing up their car or something the whole time, and they eventually drove off. But anyway.

I was really miserable the next day - I had to work something like 12 - 5. Dave saw through my brilliant plan to get 50+ hours that week by having Adam come in for me 3 hours early on both Saturday and Sunday, which meant I got out at like 2, which was kinda cool. I just kinda hung around all day, then Lilie and I started talking on AIM that night.

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btq t,

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U si biq,

Don't really remember much of Sunday, except that it started raining.

It kept raining Monday, and I used that an excuse to not go to my Probability test. I told him I was rained in, so I'll be taking it next Monday. I looked kind of funny - I was wearing my traditional black shorts and cotton single color t-shirt, listening to music on my gigantic headphones, in the pouring rain. I had to walk from the water tower parking lot to the music building. I ended up getting soaked. I don't mind, though - I love the rain. And my headphones didn't have any problems, either. As I was walking by Alkek, I saw a short girl wearing a spaghetti strap pink top that barely covered her breasts start running through the rain without an umbrella or any other substantial protection from the rain.

Opened Tuesday. I'm sure I did something else, but I don't recall what... Oh wait, I do. Lilie and I went and watched The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement. The evening wasn't a total loss, though, as I did catch a major power nap during the movie. Before that, though, we ended up out at her house, so she could begin packing and on the off-chance that she was able to get the keys that evening and we could begin moving stuff in. I was supposed to get off at 2, but I had to stay late. They showed up, coincidentally, about 1:45 or so, and I told them to wait for me, 'cause I'd be getting off soon. They did, suprisingly enough. About 2:15, they left, which was suprising. Not that they left, but that they waited that long. Flattering, but suprising. Lilie did leave a note that they were going to sign the lease and what-not, so when I did get off, I joined them. From there, we went to her house. That whole narrative was a little backwards, but that's how I remembered it. Anyway, I finally saw her room, and met her mom, her step-father, and her son, Will. We played some with two little toys he had, both from The Incredibles.

Wednesday, I spent a good six hours or so helping Lilie move into her and Shelley's new apartment, on the south-bound access road north of Aquarena. We took one load from her house to the apartment, then went to the storage facility which was on RR12 just past my house, and took another load. After that, we took one final load, but without her car. We both kinda crashed for a bit after that, until Shelley, Shana, and Wayne showed up with Shelley's stuff. We got that up as well, then lay down for a while and watched The Princess Diaries. I had to leave before the end, though, to go to work.

There was a wasp or something on their window, and they both freaked out. I ended up having to kill it with a video cassette tape. It was... humorous.

Kukuw g a rgua gyfw xkiawrm bs qgwb qw qwew duear oyrrubf arydd ub urm agw ryebws bs juaaws nw, Rgwb agw riks nw rg r U fir rgw duear juaa ub rgw bwq o ernwbrm bs rg r Agwkkwt qiyks oeiv vkt fi ib rgubjubf rg r ur qiyks vw Xgeua, Ur kai x nw yo rg r qurg ya aowbsubf runw rifwrgwe ub rgw o ernwbrm bs bwurgwe id ya qukkubf ri fucw yo qg r qw g sm rg r Agwkkwt qiyks kw eb id ur r ibw runw ie birgwe,U rgubj U kai g cw b ubcur ruib ri xe ag rgwew ainwrunw, U n t hyar r jw rgwn yo ib rg r,

I was really tired, though. I had opened Tuesday, then taken that short nap during the movie. I actually went to sleep around 2 or so, but Luke called and we talked for a bit, then I went back to sleep. And Rose called - she was in major tears about some stuff going on with her roommate and their situation. I felt really bad, because I couldn't really offer any advice - this was completely beyond me and my experierence. I listened to her for over an hour or so, and she said that that did help. I finally went back to sleep, then Adam called at like 6:40 to ask me about opening the safe. He called again like an hour later to ask again. After that, I just stayed awake until 9:30 or so when Lilie and I got in communication about moving.

Thanksgiving was fun, but I'll get to that later - it's time for me to go to work.

You're easy-breezy, and I'm Japanesy; Soon you'll mean exactly nothing to me - Utada Hikaru

So that was Friday. Fun stuff.

I had to work 11 - 5 Saturday. Actually, it became 10:30 to 5, because we were going to have this manager's meeting Thursday morning, but no one showed up, so Dave moved it to Saturday morning. I got there and witnessed utter chaos. It was about 10:30, and the truck hadn't been moved. At all. Which isn't good. It also looked like a bomb had hit the place. Not literally.

We had our little manager meeting. Dave fed us a bunch of bullshit about Man-Hour Yields, and basically just reinforced our perceptions of him as a jerk-ass dipshit tightwad who really just wants to squeeze everyone he can for everything he can.

Rick managed to get the truck put up. Barely. At one point, there were like eight boxes of stuff just sitting in the back all strewn about. If Dave had gone back there, he would have had a fit. And been twice as big an ass as he normally is. The stuff in the walk-in freezer was not in neat stacks; they had to climb over all these boxes to get stuff.

So he eventually left, and things went okay. I think. I do hate Dave so much. So I finally left. Oh, one vital piece of background - Thursday morning, Sterling came by and gave me an invitation to his party on Saturday. It's (was) a birthday party for his fiancè, Alana. Not Rosenwasser. The weird one who hung out with Elizabeth Earles. I also asked Lilie if she'd like to go to this party with me, and surprisingly (not really) enough, she agreed.

So it starts at 8:00; I said I'd pick her up 'bout then, then we'd head over. But I was really, really bored, so I headed over to NexLevel to kill some time. She calls about 7:45 or so, wondering where I was. Slight miscommunication. She didn't believe I was about to leave, mainly because they have some nice metal pads there. But she did head over, 'cause she was really bored too.

I took some more pictures at NexLevel (to follow), though Josh took even more. Lilie eventually showed up. There was one humorous moment - I told Derrick that Lily was on her way over, and he said that no, she was at some church thing with her parents. He, of course, meant Lily, the Asian chick from the previous picture post.

Right.

So she shows up. She was dressed as an army brat (?). White tank top, army pants, army hat, and a dollar super-soaker. She also used some of my glitter. We hung around there a little bit while Janelle brought me a fresh shirt, so I wasn't all sweaty. Then we left and arrived at Sterling's a little bit later.

HAHA! Got you!!

There was a map on the flyer he'd given me, but it wasn't very good. In fact, we drove around the area (near Roland's house) for a while before pegging down two likely places. I went into the first one, and sure enough, there was a group of guys around a bonfire. I asked them if this was Sterling's party, and there were like, 'Nope.'

Oh, by the way, this was... over an hour into our quest.

I even stopped by the gas station and went the phone book, calling all the Marlows in there, to no avail. I tried getting ahold of Lauren to get ahold of Jeff, who'd have been able to help, but that didn't work. Nor did reaching Michael to find Lauren (he was at Renfest all weekend). I even talked to Rose, but she wasn't able to help either. Eventually, we found the right place. But they said the party had just been moved to where he did boy scout stuff. Which kinda made sense, 'cause he was like an Eagle Scout or something. Or used to be.

So I immediately thought 'VFW Hall'! Sure enough, there was a large party going on there.

Sigma Nu's party.

So I called Rose again, and talked to her, and Katie somehow came up with a second location for scout stuff - on McCartney Lane. We went over there, but somehow missed it. So we pulled over on the square and hung out there for a bit, then called Shelley. We were going to head over there, though Lilie could only be out for another hour or so, since she was kinda tired. Or had to work early. Probably both. We picked up some Jack in the Box for her and Chris, and while we were in the line, I finally talked to Jarrod. It was in the place Katie told us about, which we never found.

We headed over to Shelley's and caught the second half of 'Mean Girls'. Which was still funny. Then Lilie and I headed home. Well, that's not entirely true. I took Lilie back to her car, which was parked on the square, and she headed home. I didn't have to work Sunday morning - I was managing the 5 - C shift - so I went back to NexLevel and hung out for a while. Ran into Krysta of all people, who had an... interesting Halloween costume (you'll have to wait for the pictures to be up to see). I found out she had played some DDR, and we did so then. She's... all right, I guess, for a beginner. Played some Halo as well, but I got my butt kicked. I hadn't ever really played on the map in question, but that only covers so much ass-sucking. They were just better than me. Especially with me being so out of practice.

Then the whole thing kinda degenerated into standing around outside, talking amongst ourselves and commenting on people that walked past. Ray drove by, and some guys walking by shouted at him. I eventually decided to walk back to my truck and go home. On the way back, I swear I got a wolf-whistle. There was *no one* else around. I ran into Beverly as well, who's working at... some bar or something. Making decent money, which is good. Came home, and eventually crashed.

I just feel so bad for dragging Lilie around for so long with no actual results. I mean, she came *all the way* from her house, and got dressed up and everything, for what? Riding in my truck for two hours? We did stop by Sonic at one point, but she wouldn't go in, and Shelley was a little busy and couldn't come out - Rudy was in one of his moods as it was - so that was a total bust as well.

I mean, she's acting all cool about it, saying it's no big deal, but that doesn't really make me feel any better. It's another thing that mocks me late at night - I mean, sure, it's not nearly as bad as some of the blunders I've pulled - there've been a lot, and a lot of them have been really, really stupid - but this one still makes me angry at myself. Argh.

Finally

I paid my tuition today. Well, part of it at least - about twelve hundred dollars. For whatever reason, my loan isn't going to come through until Sept. 2nd, so I had to put up the money until it does. Which sucks - I'm not going to be able to get books until I get that or another paycheck. Argh. Class start a week from yesterday, so that's fun. I still need to have a copy of my high school transcript sent to clear my foriegn language requirement, and get my student ID and parking permit.

Had yesterday off, which was nice. Got a lot of sleep and played some Chrono Trigger. I've gotten two endings so far - the main one, and 'Successor of Guardia'. I'm going to get all 12 as I work my way through the game. I plan to play through the game a total of five times, to get six Prism Helms, three Prism Dresses, three suits of Moon Armor, some PrismSpecs, and assorted goodies. I'd also like to see how many different stats i can get to ** level. I've got a few right now, mainly Magic Defense due to the Prism Helms and Chrono's speed.

But the main activity yesterday was lunch/movie with David and Barbara/Nicky. I was playing Star Wars with some hispanic chick named 'drflaca' when he called and told me we're meeting at Mamacita's. Went and had lunch with David and Barbara. It was okay - David and I both had fajitas, though he had beef and I had chicken. We made small talk, but things were fairly awkward. I think it's mainly my fault - I'm a socially awkward person to begin with. At one point, Barbara asked 'So what are the three of you doing later?' That was an odd question - at best, I counted two of us that weren't Barbara. I gathered David hadn't told me something yet, and asked him about such. He told me that he was hanging out with Nicky later and that the only way Barbara'd be okay with it is if I went. Fair enough. We ended up going to see AvP. It was good to see Nicky again - it'd probably been a year or more. She's gotten a little bigger. I think she said something about it being related to her having back operations or something. I actually prefer her this way, with one exception - the lack of a well-defined chin. But anyway.

AvP was pretty good. The Aliens and Predators all looked really cool, and what little fighting there was was pretty cool. That's my main complaint with the movie - too much walking around dark places, not enough rough and tumble fighting between the aliens and predators. The ending was... interesting. The sequel teaser was really annoying, as it was arbitrary and didn't make sense in the context of the movie.

I took Nicky home, and that was awkward as well. I still feel really bad for what I did to her (but that's another post at another time). We ended up just sitting in my truck at her complex, not really talking. It was... awkward as hell (assuming hell is awkward, of course). We eventually exchanged numbers and she left.

Played some DDR at Le Fun and saw David and Barbara there again. Still can't do Exotic Ethnic on S/H or Max 300 on D/H. Their 5^th and 8^th Mix machines are out of order. That bites. Crashed at Rose and Katie's afterwards. Katie forgot that I was coming over, and got a little freaked out when I came in and what-not. It was all resolved, though. I woke up to Rose coming in, and we talked a little. That was nice. Then we both went back to sleep. I love sleeping with Rose. I feel so comfortable, so warm, so loved. We talked a little more before I left, and I came home. I have to work tonight 6 - C and tomorrow 5 - C. I have Saturday off, which is cool.

I apologize for the recent... lack of substance

Looking over my blog, I realize that I haven't made a substantial post in a while now. I'll try to review the past week so, in various formats. Try to keep up.

I'll just handle everything at work in one clump.

Work: Work's been... interesting lately. It's hard to organize it chronologically, so I'll experiment with some other methods.

Joel's last day was today. I am infinitely glad for that. He was an alright manager and got his stuff done, but he annoyed everybody. Not in a small stone in your shoe way, but in a large group of fire ants on your leg kind of way. He cooked for Mark M today - just him and me after 2, when Mark left. He made a few comments early on, so I kept quiet most of the shift. I did rip into him a few times, when I just couldn't take it anymore. He started talking about me being a "big, dumb animal" that "wasn't beaten often enough in school", which meant I "didn't know my place." That was about his only verbal remark - most of it was just making weird noises in a futile attempt to mock me. He does to a lot of poeple - mainly people that aren't afraid to speak up - JJ, Allison, myself, Krista, et al. I don't know if I already mentioned it, but the other day, he referred to me as a "bald faggot" several times. I feel that both times, he was crossing the line.

Ruben left as well - his last day was yesterday. He was actually fairly cool, if annoying at times.

I've been asserting myself as a blue shirt more, and have been meeting some resistance from some parties. One shift, I was fountaining, and Javi was taking inventory in the back. I noticed Kenny wasn't taking out the courtesy tray (Erin said, 'I know you don't care, but your timer went off', and I personally watched him not take it out through two cycles), so I asked him about it. He asked me, "Why? Why are you asking me?" I wasn't quite sure how to respond. He later went back to bitch to Javi about me.

Kenny: "Why's he asking me about this? He's not above me."
Javi: "Actually, yes he is."

So that was nice, to have Javi back me up. He didn't take it out any more often, though, except when Javi or I asked him about it.

lil' Dave: He's still being a smarmy little arrogant ass. One night shift (I think it's the same shift I had the issues with Kenny, come to think of it): He was filling up the ice, in preparation to go home; I pushed it back and asked him to get another. He got really pissed off. At several times during the evening, he was just standing around talking while there were orders to be made and what-not; I called him on it - "Dave, there's drinks to make." "Do you need something to do?" He wasn't too happy about that, either. Finally, he was putting up some sundae cups, and he looked at me, and said "Will, are you gonna be a manager (it might have been 'are they gonna make you a manager')?" "Yeah." "Good. I was going to quit and get a real job, but now I'm going to stick around for a while." Weird, indeed.

Krista: Apparently, I made a comment about her being annoying after I thought she had left, only to find she had come back in in the interim. So she's real pissed at me. Big whoop - she is annoying.

JJ: She's a triflin', shady bitch. She made the following comment to Freddie: "Why don't you just get in line to fuck Katie like everyone else?" That doesn't fly. She also tries to tell blue shirts (me) and assistant managers what to do. I don't like working with her, unless she's carhopping, and about to leave.

Katie: She's dating some guy who comes up here every day and orders a Dr. Pepper. Or something like that. He's on drug probation right now, which seems a little odd, considering her reply to Freddie.

Jenny: She's damn cute. Reminds me of a cute puppy with big, floppy ears. She said she'd marry me, or something like that. She likes guys with big noses. (?)

Jimmy: I hate this guy. He's really annoying, and sucks as a cook. He's complained about Larry telling what to do, and stated he doesn't have to listen to him. Except he does. We had an interesting debate about various things, mainly drugs and alcohol, Saturday night. I don't like Scott or Pedro, either. In fact, I basically just hate new cooks. Jason's back, and I don't care for him either.

Sunny: Patronizing bitch, as always.

I've noticed something - as I mature at Sonic and move up, the list of people I really don't like and would rather not work with grows. That's terrible. It's a combination of two things - first, we're getting in some new people that suck, and secondly, I'm more aware of how people are.

We had a meeting Saturday morning. Ray talked for a little about listening to managers and blue shirts, which is interesting, since I'm the only one right now. I'm finally getting my blue shirt raise, three months overdue. I'm also beginning assistant manager training.

We've had two customer service 'incidents'. This morning, I was taking orders, and some lady ordered three Rt. 44 slushes. She called back and clarified, she was supposed to have 4 slushes. I told her it'd be 6.88. She came in a few seconds later and demanded to know who took her order, because they called her an idiot. Which I DID NOT. I told her her total was 6.88; she must have misheard me. I've been taking orders for over 3 years; I know better than that. Secondly, some guy was being a total bitch last night. He ordered three steak toasters, a bacon toaster, and some sides and drinks. I didn't take the order, so I don't know how he phrased it, which might be an issue. He ordered it with the bacon on the side. He came back and said it wasn't in there - I bagged it, and it was. Unless he meant a breakfast toaster, which he probably did. He comes back a second time, complaining that the patty on his remade bacon toaster sucked - piece missing, old, etc. So Joel gives him a full refund and some more free food. He comes back a third time, saying that he got a bacon toaster, instead of a breakfast toaster. I can buy most of it, but if he noticed the patty sucked the previous times, how did he not notice it wasn't a breakfast toaster? Seriously.

And anyone that makes a comment about the importance of customer service or making people happy will be put on my idiot list, permanantly. I know that - I'm just venting and ranting.

I asked for this Friday and Saturday off, because I just want a few days off. I left a note that if it was any problem, I could work those days. So what does he do? Gives me them off, but a terrible schedule the rest of the week:

Mon: 8 - 5
Tue: 8 - 3
Wed: 8 - 2 (truck)
Thu: 6:30 - 2
Fri, Sat: off
SuN: 10 - 5

It's nice that I got a ton of hours and the weekend off, but it's annoying to have to go in so early repeatedly. I'll be sleeping during the day, which is going to dirve Mom nuts. She'll live.

That's it for work, I think.

School: Speech class is almost over - just the test tonight, and I'm done. I didn't do the persuasive speech because frankly, I don't need to - my grade will be high enough anyway. In retrospect, I would have done it on the benefits of pollution. School starts August..

STUDENT SCHEDULE FOR FALL 2004

INDEX CORE COURSE SCTN TIME DAYS LOCATION INSTRUCTOR
266092 MATH 2358 0011 900A- 950A -M-W-F- DERR 00336 Shen J
266124 MATH 3305 0071 200P- 315P -M-W--- DERR 00333 Snyder D F
269420 031 CHEM 1141 0029 1200N- 250P -----F- CHEM 00117 McVey W J
269445 030 CHEM 1341 0002 1000A-1050A -M-W-F- CENT 00157 Feakes D A
269678 CS 2308 0001 1230P- 145P -M-W--- DERR 00241 East
271272 050 MU 2313 0003 1100A-1150A -M-W-F- MUS 00236 Hall R D

Fun stuff. It comes out to something like:
MW 9 - 3:15
F 9 - 2:50

So that'll be fun. I guess if someone wants to stalk me now, they can. I'll still be working full time as well, so that'll be fun.

Personal: Ha. What life? Exactly. I went up to Blazer Tag and played DDR again. I played doubles, and afterwards, some wierd old guy brought me a bottled water. I gestured to my 1.5 liter bottle, and told him I was good. He told me to drink up, he wanted me to do that again for his kids (he was the chaperone for some church group that had come to Blazer Tag for some good Christian wargame simulation). I told him the other people there were mostly better than me, although I didn't know about doubles. Mike, the big guy, said he was better than me in general; I said well, you're a bar raper. (For those of you who don't follow the lingo, a bar raper is someone who has their hand on the bar the whole (or a significant portion of the) song, significantly lessening the challenge, as a lot of their weight isn't on their feet anymore. Some people use both arms, others just switch arms. It's an issue that divides DDR players into two camps - those who feel that it doesn't matter, do whatever, and those who feel that it makes the game a lot easier, and demonstartes a lower skill level than someone who does a song equally well without using the bar. I pissed them off. All of them. They all bar rape. Unabashedly. Except maybe the guy with the big hair; I don't recall seeing him play that often, so I don't know, but I don't think he does. I stand by my statement, and anyone who responds with something about everyine being free to have their own opinion or do things however they want to will be put on my idiot list permanently. So yeah, I don't know if I'll be going back there anytime soon. I'll probably just go back to playing at Le Fun. - it's cheaper, with more mixes. The only downside is less people.

Rose, Katie, and James stopped by my Sonic Saturday night. They ordered some food and I did get to go out and talk to Rose for a bit on 31. She told me about Ozzfest; they had a great time. I got them their drinks free, 'cause I'm cool like that. When I went out to my truck after closing, I found a note written on a napkin on my steering wheel - "We (heart) you Billy - KT, Rose, and James". Awesome. I also stopped by there Friday before going to play DDR. Rose assumed I'd be sleeping with her that night, but I was going back to play D&D afterwards, when Matt and Luke got out of work.

Brett invited all of us to his wedding, in December (?). I might go, but probably not. Michael's dating Lauren Wyatt now (sorta), who's in California visiting Matt and Chelsea. Yes, that Chelsea.

I haven't been up to too much else - playing Chrono Trigger a lot, since I picked up Final Fantasy Chronicls at Gamespot a week or so ago.

Fun times

Work yesterday sucked. I was incredibly tired. Wednesday night, I ended up going to Jarrod's for some six player Halo. That was actually a lot of fun. I don't like FPS's, but I do like Halo, especially with more players. I did okay, but constantly ranked in the bottom three, with only a few exceptions. Overall, a good time.

After that, Steve/Drew, Jarrod and I went to IHOP for an early morning breakfast. I returned home and hooked the router back up (we had used to connect the X-Box's) and re-networked our computers. Mom came home (she had spent the night at Jerry's), and I fell asleep about seven. I woke up about 7:45, since I had to be to work at 8. I worked 8 - 3, which was a weird shift to have on a Thursday, since the truck wasn't coming in or anything. Dora didn't come in, so we were kinda short one fountain, although Javi did come in for a while. Rudy showed up about 2, and I was supposed to get off at 3. They were hesitant about letting me go, since it was very busy, but I left. Took a four hour nap, and was restless. Stayed up all night Thursday, then went in to work Friday at noon. I watched the Patriot and Bring It On prior to heading in.

We were extremely busy Friday. Thankfully, Dave left by 1:30, and we had at it. The 5 o'clock crew was to consist of: Danielle, Katie, Javi, Rudy, Pedro, and Jimmy. Seriously. Needless to say, it was immensely busy at 5 - we got slammed majorly. I stayed around to help, not wanting to abandon them in the middle of a rush like that. Larry, who was supposed to be in at 6, called and let us know he wasn't going to be in 'til 7. I ended up staying until 6:50, just in time to see the reinforcements - David and Scott - pull up. Hughes came in about 6, and helped us re-establish control over the situation.

I got home and was dead tired. So naturally, I got ready to go to Austin for some DDR and to see Katie and Rose. As usual, I didn't leave until eight or so, and got there around 9. Rose called as I was exiting 35 at Riverside, and asked if I was still coming. I played it off - "Probably, although I'm kinda tired. I'll be leaving in a little while."

I showed up at her door five minutes later, and she had suspected that I was already en route. Katie answered the door, and she seemed somewhat.. downtrodden. I would later find out that she was having relationship issues, although Rose thought surely she'd have them first, especially given the nature of her and Michael. James came back over, and they started talking in Katie's room. I ended up taking Rose to work, which was fine - it's on the way anyway. I dropped her off, and headed to Blazer Tag to play some DDR. I wasn't sure why I headed to Blazer Tag as opposed to Le Fun, but went with it.

I'll have to continue the tale later, because I have to leave for work in about ten minutes.

Heh, new features

They finally added some new features.  That's... nice, I guess.  Nothing too revolutionary or ground-breaking, just little buttons you can press to have it automatically bold, italicize, underline, blockquote, and some other stuff. 
 
(But I'm having some issues with the keyboard shortcuts - I was trying to do some cut/pasting, and somehow managed to erase almost my entire post that I had written, everything after the italicized word "italicize" above).  So that's fun.  It does give me a chance to rewrite it and clarify things.  Which is good, because there were two separate incidents that I meant to write about, but I somehow combined them into one gigantic thing.
 
I worked Friday day and Saturday night, so I was planning on going up to Austin to play DDR Friday night.  I also talked to Rose, who was totally up on me hanging out there for a bit - even offering to let me crash there.  So I took her up on it.  While I was up there, I was going to give Rose a ride to work, since Katie was going to Enchanted Rock with her NEW BOYFRIEND, James "Bluebird" Bluebird.  More on that later, though.
 
So we got back to Rose's, and hung out there for a bit.  I mostly layed on the floor, 'cause I was *really* tired.  A few hours of that, and it was time for Rose to go to work.  I gave her a ride since I was there, then went to Blazer Tag to play DDR.  It was Friday night, and there was like seven or eight people there just playing as well.  Definitely different from Le Fun.  There was one key similiarity - I stuck out like, well, something that really, really sticks out.  All the people there were like a big group of friends.  So that was fun.  But I went in and, well, went for it, I guess.  Put my quarter on the thing, and when they were done, i went up to play doubles, and started grabbing my tokens.  Some girl came up and asked if she could lay too.  I was like, "I was gonna play doubles, but sure."
 
"I'm Tess."
 
We played.  I think I'm better than her, except for one key area - stamina.  But I'm working on it.  Stayed there for about two hours, 'til they closed at midnight.  Talked to her again at one point, asking her how long they normally waited if they were up but there was a quarter up there.
 
"We don't."
 
So that was fun.
 
After that, I went and played at Le Fun, but only a few games, since I was already dog tired.  Went back to Rose and Katie's place.  I played a litle FM4 (having dragged my PS2 up there as well, for whatever reason), and eventually fell asleep in the chair.  Rose got home around six or so; I was past gone.  I woke up 'bout 10, and climbed up to her room and crashed at the foot of her bed for a while, then woke up again, and she was a little awake, and I climbed into bed with her.  Not intimate in any way - as Rudy puts it, "[I'm] a good big sister."  Slept a little more, then went home.
 
I ended up going back up there Sunday night.  That's when stuff got fun.  Gave Rose and Michael a ride back to Austin when I went up there, since they were in town.  Got back to their place; went in, there were like 5 people (3 guys, 2 girls) hanging out in the living room, as well as Katie and Bluebird sitting in the two chairs.  Then I was treated to something fun - Katie got up and sat in Bluebird's chait.  He of course, was still occupying his chair.  Then she embraced him.  I mean, I wish them well, and i believe he's a good guy, because I have faith in her abilities and judgment.  That doesn't mean it was a good sight, though.  They eventually left, and it was just me and the girls.  So I left to go play DDR at Le Fun. 
 
I played hard. 

It's been a long day

A very, very long day.

First off, I got my truck back today. Three hundred and fifty-five dollars.

Yeah.

Not only that, but apparently, running at a high temperature can cause massive internal damage (duh), and it might die (completely) sometime - if so, probably in the next two weeks.

So that's fun. I'll be driving it to Austin tomorrow to see how it handles that. On the good (?) side, the possibility is fairly minute, since I didn't drive it hot for very long, and Randy didn't see any obvious damage.

Second, I've finally accepted that things aren't going to work with Katie, at all. However, I really do follow my heart, not the other way around, which means I still have deep feelings with her, and it's going to take me a while to get over her. The disparity between my heart and head hurts too.

(Side note: I talked to Rose a little bit ago, and her and Bluebird are going to Enchanted Rock tomorrow, probably spending the night there. Awesome.)

Krista was trying to get on me for never saying anything to her, for not giving it a chance. i came back with something good though - "Have you ever eaten dog shit?" "Um, no." "Why not?" "Because it tastes bad." "How do you know, if you've never eaten it?" For whatever reason, she really, really liked that.

Whatever.

Third, work was an absolute hell. I worked 12 - 10 (by choice; I needed some extra hours, so I picked up Katie's 5 - 10 fountain shift) and had to deal with Joel for like eight of those hours. At one point, I was on number one making burgers, and he was bagging, and he starts going off on how I'm worth less than dog shit, how trained monkeys would be better than me, and how I'm stupid and not intelligent and what-not. Now, I've been teased my whole life. Especially in sixth and seventh grade, when it involved Chelsea. That hurt. I still cry about it. They knew exactly how to hurt me. Comparitively, this doesn't bother me at all. Well, most of the time, it doesn't. But when you pile on top of a bunch of other stuff, it starts to get to you.

And finally, one bright spot: Carrie really, really likes me. I mean, really likes me. And given the oppurtunity, I'd definitely pursue a relationship with her.

Except she lives in KENTUCKY.

Katie, finalè

Just got off the phone with Rose, talked about what's been going on in our respective lives. It was an interesting conversation. Rose would spend ten to fifteen minutes talking about some happening with Robert - her new beau from work - or Wes, their neighbor, who likes Katie, or Bluebird (his last name, I forgot his first name) that likes Katie, that Katie likes - fun stuff - and the cooks at work, etc, etc. And my only response would be something like, "Yeah, I saw Spiderman 2 today." Or "Yeah, my truck's in the shop for a cracked radiator." Or "I talked to a friend earlier." How depressing. I mean, I'm really happy that she's moved out, on her own, in the real world. It's a great experience; she sounds like she's having a great time, and I hope it goes well for both her and Katie (who there'll be more to discuss later). It's still frustrating, though.

And with Katie...

I really, really need to accept that it was another meaningless crush. Although when I say meaningless, I don't meaningless to me. I mean to the world at large. She never knew, and probably never will (unless I get drunk one night while I'm over there), and those who I did tell, well, I think they just listen to and put up with me out of kindness. That's the only reason that comes to my mind when I ponder such a situation.

Carrie's Back, and Spider-Man 2 is awesome. And my speech professor is... okay, but not terribly intelligent.

Possible spoilers, I don't know yet.

So Carrie's finally back from NY. That's cool - Carrie's *so* awesome, like a bear. We met at the arcade the second time I went to go see Terri; didn't really talk that much while I was there, but I got her AIM sn, and we started talking when I got back. And we've talked a *lot*. We just kind of clicked. I mean, if we had been in the same area, and had this great connection, there's no doubt we would eventually hooked up. I mean, we just... I don't know. It's hard to explain.

But it's good to hear from her again. She's been gone like all summer, and it's been lonely without her or Rose to talk to online.

Except:

Heather and I have been talking online again. Which is weird - I had almost, almost written her off. In fact, I know her number isn't in my cell anymore, and she was off my buddy list for a while (spring cleaning). But we've more or less picked up right where we left off - well, sort of. I think basically just ignoring the, um, well, you see:

mrbinkyjackalope: :( Heather: ? mrbinkyjackalope: i trusted you mrbinkyjackalope: i liked you Heather: and? Heather: something has changed? mrbinkyjackalope: you fowareded me something mrbinkyjackalope: *fowarded Heather: hahaha mrbinkyjackalope: well, it almost makes it easy to get over you mrbinkyjackalope: well, it would, if i possessed whatever part it is that allows you just move on Heather: you do mrbinkyjackalope: hahahahahahhaahahahahaaha mrbinkyjackalope: i still like you mrbinkyjackalope: i mean like Heather: Im sorry mrbinkyjackalope: when there's really no reason to, as it's abudnantly clear we're always going to be just friends - and don't get me wrong, i'm not dissing that in the slightest - i love it

Don't ask why. I don't understand it myself. This was from October sixth, 2003.

Wait a second... That must have been like, a couple days before I met Suzie. Or she found me. Or whatever.

Weirdness.

Anyway....

So yeah, Spiderman 2 is really, really cool. Jarrod didn't like it, but he's an idiot. Not really. I thought it was great; better than the first. The villian wasn't some super-buff guy who got dosed with strength serum or whatever; he was a flabby, middle aged guy who just happened to have four super arms wielded to his back. He does end up with MJ, which wasn't completely unforeseen, but I think he should have explored other options first, like the chocolate cake chick. She was cute. King Arthur and Anchorman come out Friday, which I am definitely and possibly going to see, respectively.

Speaking of Friday...

I'm going up to play DDR Friday after work, and I will probably crash at Katie and Rose's that night. That'll be cool - I still haven't done that since they moved, and I've only been up there once since. They both still seem to want to talk to me, which is a good thing. Rose is already kinda hooking up with this guy from (her) work, which doesn't surprise me. I don't know what Katie's been up to, but I hope to find out Friday night. I'm going to bring some flowers - not a romantic bouquet, but a house-warming, colorful array. I think it'll work well.

My truck's back in the shop; this time, for a cracked radiator. Which, despite how bad it sounds, isn't that bad at all. I should have it back sometime tomorrow, ready and raring to go.

I'm enjoying my speech class, although the instructor is annoying me as he incessantly repeats himself. But I find that happening in most classes I've taken, which is just a function of my personality.

I've lost her

Went to speech class for the first time today. Technically, that's not true. I had to go to Speech Class in Kindergarten - I had a speech impediment due to my delayed acquisition of language skills (four years old). But I went to my first day of Intro to Speech Comm today. It went okay. I have to give two speeches - one informative, one persuasive. Nothing terribly hard, but I'm not terribly fond of public speaking. But it looks promising, which is good after the Philosophy disappointment.

I've lost Katie. There's no doubt about it. It's the same thing that plagues a lot of relationships that become long distance - of course, it's a little odd to be using this model to describe this scenario, since the relationship in question is only a friendship, which I haven't lost.

But bear with me, because you know what I mean, and I know you know, and so forth.

She's moved to a new place in a new town, and her time is full of new experiences and new people. I've nothing really to offer her. It just wouldn't make sense for us to hook up.

That doesn't mean I can just let her go, though. Knowing something in my mind and accepting it in my heart are, of course, two totally different things.

Maybe I'll tell her now, just for the hell of it.

It hurts.

Sometimes....

So I went and played DDR last night. It felt good - my feet hurt from the plastic pads. I haven't played long enough to get foot pain in a while. I had quite a sweat going as well. There were quite a bunch of new(er) people there as well, which made me feel pretty good - without growth, any organism soon dies. There was also another oddity - a guy playing doubles barefoot. Holy crap!! He was playing on the fifth mix machine; didn't seem too intent - two songs on standard, just kind of messing around, spinning and what-not. For his third song, he did Can't Stop Falling in Love (Speed Mix), and max-combo'ed it, with a hefty number of Perfects. Damn. I mean, I've max combo'ed it as well, but I gather this wasn't his first time or anything like that. That's probably the first time I've seen someone else better than me at doubles in person. Came home, only to find that Aunt Ann had left her laptop here for me to fix, by Monday morning if at all possible. Except I had to work Sunday, which meant the only real time I could do it was Sunday night, when I was supposed to be in Austin, watching movies all night with Katie.

ARGH.

I called Katie before heading into work today to let her know what's up. Haven't heard back from her, which is nothing new - she's called me, um, twice I think. I should just tell her and get it over with.

But I won't. We all know that.

One Day

One day, I'll grow to accept the realities of the situation, and drop the childish belief that I can change them. One day, I'll learn to stop wearing my heart on my sleeve, and not to offer it so openly and easily to others, only to have it ground to bits and returned. One day, I'll realize that dreams don't come true.

Unfortunately, that day isn't today.

And it hurts.

YE-YEAH!!!!

So I called her. We're gonna watch movies at her place tomorrow night.

Go me.

Man, that's funny

So Rose called last night (it was actually at 12:45 am this morning, but I've slept for more than four hours between then and now, so it's last night), and we talked. She complained that we hadn't talked in a while, and that her and Katie wanted to talk to me more often. And here I am, getting all insecure about my relationships with the two of them. That's kinda funny. I mean, it doesn't really have anything to do with me liking Katie, other than to let me know that she does, in fact, enjoy my company and talking to me. That's *really* good to know. I might head up there tonight after work, and see if she'd like to watch Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind with me - I don't know if it's out on video/dvd yet; however, they don't have a VCR. Rose, though, pointed something out - I have a PS2, and those are fairly portable. Which is right - I can just take it up there. And I think I will. If I do. I still don't know what I'm going to do about liking her, though. We'll have to see how that works. She did tell Rose that she prefers sitting, drinking, and listening to music over going to a club and dancing, which is good. I still don't know what to do.

Had a dream about Mindy last night. It was... weird. There was a knock on the door; I answered it, and she was just standing there, like nothing was weird. I stepped foward, shut the door, and we just started making out. Hard and passionately. It was... disturbing, to say the least. I certainly have no desire to even see her again, much less rekindle any aspect of our past relationship.

ACC sent me a check for seventy dollars. Under description, it just says "june mileage." Odd.

Deep cleaned my room last night - the only thing I didn't do was clean behind my dresser, desk, and tiny bookshelf/desk thing. It's nice to have a clean room again. It'll last a while, I think.

I've been avoiding the guys lately. Not because I don't want to hang out with them, nor because I don't want to play D&D. It's just... I've been in a phase lately, where I really, *really* don't want to be around groups of people. That's why I didn't go to Greg's birthday party as well. I sorta know why, but it still gets to me. No telling how long it'll take for me to get over it this time. So that's fun.

Gotta go to work in two hours or so. It's Fourth of July weekend, so we're going to be ass busy. What fun.

I did it... well, not really

So last night, I went to Jarrod's show with Michael and Myca. They did pretty good - everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves. I played a little DDR beforehand - Can't Stop Falling in Love (Speed Mix), Kick the Can, Afronova Primeval, Drop Out, Abyss, and Rhythm & Police (KOG3 Mix). After the concert, I stopped by to say 'hey' to Katie. She seemed sincerely happy to see me - we talked in the kitchen while she cleaned a blender. Nothing substantial - she told me about the various issues they have with their place at the moment, what she'd been up to, that kind of thing. We went outside eventually, as I was leaving; she saw Myca getting out of my truck, and freaked out momentarily - "Billy, there's someone getting out of your truck!!" It was kinda funny. She also mentioned about how she wasn't sure it was me when I knocked, 'cause I was turned around, and she could barely see me out of the peephole. "I don't trust peepholes." I, however, thought she said "I don't trust people." It was kinda funny.

Apparently, though, (according to Matt and Michael) she now knows I like her - because I stopped by to see her with two other people in the truck, and didn't have them with me. Or something like that. I don't know...

Should I call?

Jarrod's show is tonight, and I'm definitely going. I believe Michael is going as well. However, I don't know about Katie and/or Rose. I know Rose expressed some interest about going, but I haven't talked to Katie at all about it - though Rose says she'd like to go as well. I'm afraid to call, though - afraid that they're just humoring me, "putting up" with me, if you will. I know things are bad when I'm insecure about my relationship with Rose, who's probably the closest person I ha(d)ve. That's one of my greatest fears - that people I care about, that I sincerely want to be with, don't reciprocate, and are just humoring me. I think it stems from the Chelsea thing (just about everything does, really). So I'm still debating calling her; we'll see. I told Rose about it when I called her Friday night (which is one of the reasons I feel so weird right now - when I talked to her, she seemed like she just didn't want to talk to me. Which is fine - there's a ton of reasons why that'd be the case, especially considering that Mat was over there when I called. But knowing all of these things in my brain doesn't do a damn thing to change how I feel in my heart), but I don't know if she'll remember that whole thing all the way to now.

(For the next paragraph, Katie refers to Katie Wilkinson, the Katie at work)

I went and got my schedule from work last night. Katie was like, "Yeah, my throat hurts a lot. I think it's 'cause I've been kissing Nick too much. I've been hanging out with him every day (he lives in Arkanses; I take it he's down here for vacation or something) and kissing him every day." I was like, "That's great, Katie."

We're supposed to play tonight after the show, but I don't know if I'm up for it. My classes start next week, so Luke is going to run a game Monday nights, and we'll play my game whenever the oppurtunity arises. Which is cool, don't get me wrong - I don't feel like they're just trying to get out of my game, or just get rid of me (they were afraid I would). I won't be playing in this game, since I wouldn't be there 'til like 9:30; however, I might stop in occassionally just to see what another person DM'ing is like.

Heh. Time to shower and what-not. I still don't know what I'm going to do. I probably won't call, just like I didn't Saturday when I went to play DDR. It hurts more, but there's less chance of making myself look like an idiot.

Catching Up

Not too much stuff going on, but I feel like it's been a while since I've written.

Work: Work's been going okay. Had those two 14 1/2 hour shifts, which is fun. I've been blue shirting it up, and it's weird, because the new cooks are actually responding to me as a blue shirt.

Oh, yeah, we have a couple new cooks.

Pedro: This guy sucks. At least, he did the last time I worked with him. Freddie says he's getting better; it's a moot point, since I'm fountaining all week. He's so tiny, too. That causes some complications when we need him to get lettuce, cheese, or something else high up. He's really quiet too, which is annoying because when he speaks, I have to ask him to repeat himself several times, especially if we're in the kitchen and there's a lot of noise going on. There was one incident where it was me, Pedro, and Scott; Pedro was on Dresser; he just announced "I can't do this anymore, Will, I need you to take over." and walked to grill. Which is fine... except I was in the middle of a few things and was quite busy myself. I don't know about him overall.

Scott: He's the best of the new cooks so far. He's also been here the longest (except Pedro, of course). He's decent on swamp side, but still needs backup when it gets busy. He handles it okay, though, and is getting much better about understanding that you have to watch ahead and drop stuff right away. He's kind of a jerk, though, and I know he's talked bad about me under his breath. He does have a tendency to be lazy at times, though.

Jimmy: He kinda gets on my nerves. I can't really explain why. He's only done grill and dresser so far, and he's going to have to pick up the pace majorly on dresser - he's trying to do it Whataburger style. He'll learn, or he won't. Either way...

Caleb: This guy is kinda dopey looking. It's fairly humorous, I think. Anyhoo, he's another remnant from another fast food place. I'm not entirely sure it's advantageous - they try to do things the way they're used to, which is normal, except we do things fairly oddly. He calls me "sir", and when I made a comment about trying not to be too bossy, he said something like "It's your job" or "You're the boss" or something. Odd.

So we've got these four jokers. We've also got Jason returning from injured status... perhaps. I heard he'd be back by now. Maybe he got in trouble or something, or Dave just forgot. We'll see.

We've also got three new carhops - Jessica Flores, Jody, and Krysta. Krysta's okay, if a little annoying. Flores is alright, and I haven't really worked with Jody, but she definitely knows what she's doing.

I need to ask Dave about becoming an assistant soon. Other than that, nothing new, really. Katie came back from vacation; somehow, Dave and Mark both still work there. I'm fountaining all this week, which is sorta cool, except our daytime fountains SUCK ASS.

School: Not much to report on this front. I've got another week before Speech Comm starts. The refund from ACC *finally* came in, and I still have to go deposit it. SWT sent me my acceptance letter, and will give me a loan, so that's good. I'll be taking as much as I can, so I can hurry up and just get the fuck out of there.

Personal: Depressing news here. I've been severely bummed over Katie lately - Matt commented on it earlier. I haven't stopped by to see them since those two days of moving, and I don't really plan to unless they call and invite me over. I don't want to bother them or anything now that they've moved into their own place. I'm afraid to even call her. I really miss the times we hung out together at Red Roof Inn. Every once in a while, I get this funny idea of telling her how I feel. But I realize that that would accomplish nothing, and if anything, make things worse. It's funny - I'm only prone to encompassing daydreaming when I'm *really* tired (like I was this week), and twice now I've caught myself in one. First time was in the freezer at work, and the second was lying in bed. Odd, to say the least.

Gaming: Still playing DDR. My current goal is Afronova Primeval on Doubles/Heavy. I haven't really tried when I wasn't tired and beaten down; I look foward to trying it later this week, when I'm nice and refreshed. Still haven't done Max 300 either, for that matter. Playing Front Mission 4 right now, which si really, really cool. Thoroughly enjoying it.

Oh, one other thing: Dodgeball is quite possibly the greatest movie ever made.

I'm really tired

Well, after two 14 1/2 hour shifts and two days of moving, I'm *really* tired. I have to go to a meeting at work in like half an hour, then work 'til 5. But after that, I"ll be FREE!! Well, at least for a while. Don't work tonight or tomorrow; the only thing I have going on is that I have to take Mom and Janelle to the airport tomorrow morning. There is a small possibility that Rose will need some help moving some more stuff up, but I called her last night, and it doesn't feel like she'll need any help. Or something like that.

So yeah, they're basically all moved in. Katie has all her stuff there, with the notable exception of all of her art stuff, which couldn't go in my truck and never had room for in her car. Her dad will be bringing it up sometime later (if I understand things correctly). She's got her room basically set up (until she decides to start rearranging things, of course). I called Rose last night to see how the hot water and downstairs carpet issues were going - neither has been resolved - and she tells me she's finally got her room looking like a room. So it sounds like things are going well. I'm probably going to go up and play DDR tonight, and I may or may not stop by and say 'hey'. We'll just see how things are going. I'd also like to go see Dodgeball, but I don't have anybody to go see it with. That's going to be that much harder to find someone to see it with, now that Rose and Katie are in Austin. Drat.

There's also some other stuff with that (and her) that I need to write down, if just to get it out, but I have to to a carhop/fountain meeting before my shift. That'll be fun.

She Didn't Call Back (She = Katie)

I'm not surprised. That would be too good, and thus, isn't allowed to happen. True, she could have just been tired or not have gotten home 'til later or something like that.

Yeah, right.

I Actually Called Katie

I worked 12:30 to 5 today (I'll talk about it later). I called Katie afterwards; she was still in Austin; I asked her if she'd like to hang out later, she said sure, she'd call me when she got back in town if it wasn't too late.

Awesome.

How will this one get screwed up?