Part 1

So we had an uneventful drive to Austin. Come to think of it, being in Austin was fairly uneventful as well. I didn't really play that much DDR - I intended to, but the lingering effects of the death flu made themselves known after I started trying to play. I mainly stuck to Crazy Taxi and Raiden Fighters. It was kinda weird, too - there were these two girls hanging out near the 5th Mix. They played a few times - on Light, but passing everything, but mainly, one of them sat on a stool and the other one stood right next to her. I'm still not sure as to their ages, but Cullen and I are guessing somewhere in the 14 - 18 range. I mean, it was like 11:00 in an arcade on Guadalupe. We're not sure if they were lesbians or just *really* close friends. They were hugging a great deal, and it sort of looked like one of them was comforting the other. But there were a few moments where their faces ended up a few inches apart, like they were about to kiss or something, and I swear I saw them do so out of the corner of my eye at one point. Cullen thinks he saw the two girls from last time kiss once as well, but he might have been mistaken. So that's all about DDR and lesbians.

Anyway.

Came home. My phone rang as I was taking Cullen home; it was Lilie. She said something weird along the lines of:

"I take it by the fact that you're answering your phone that you're awake?"
"Yeah."
"Are you in town?"
"Well, I'm giving Cullen a ride home, but otherwise, yeah."

Long story short, she wanted me to go buy her some cigarettes since her car was broken down and in the shop. I refused.

I'm pretty sure this is the first time (other than the time at Kenny's party when she tried to get me to drink, but that was somewhat jokingly and/or playful) she's encountered me being stubborn. I offered to come get her and take her where she needed to go, but she didn't seem to happy about that prospect. She told me to just come over after I took Cullen home, and we'd figure something out.

Lesbians

Man, I'm tired. Worked 10 - 5 Saturday. It was both 50's day (99 cent burgers) and SWT Graduation. It wouldn't have been nearly as bad, but David and Sunny were fountaining. Both really suck. Even with both of them making drinks, they just can't keep up. David especially just atrocious. He'll make one drink at a time. Bullshit. And when I'm making drinks, doing fine, he'll come up and start to make a fountain drink. He's just getting in the way. It's really annoying when there's something else he could be doing if he wanted to help - making a sluah, some ice cream, et al. Or like, there was an order on eight that needed some drinks. But he wasn't sure about it, so instead of trying to find out what was going on with it, he just skipped it and kept going. He was wrapped completely around before I realized what was going on and stepped in. It caused a major problem, since the two orders got mixed up - which was due entirely to him leaving the order up and not dealing with it. He did it again today bagging. I called him on it, and he started mouthing off - "Shut up, motherfucker. Why don't you come up here and start talking that shit?" I wanted to reach out and pop him. And I have to fountain again with him Saturday day. Fun stuff. Oh yeah.

But it was okay, because after that, I went skating at The Zone with Caleb and my little sister. We had fun. Caleb hadn't been skating in... oh, 15 years or so. He was flailing around all willy-nilly, and just being crazy. I've gotten a little better with the more free style I practiced while skating with Katie (W). We played one game at one point in which everybody started on one wall and skated towards the other wall. At some point, the guy just dumped this gigantic amount of change all over the floor. Some people tripped over it, some rushed around trying to pick it up. It really just made no sense.

After skating, we went to Sonic to get Caleb some food and give Freddie a ride home. We then picked up Cullen and went to Austin to play DDR at Le Fun. Caleb went as well to hang out at the arcade. I max comboed "Can't Stop Falling in Love" (Speed Mix) on doubles/heavy, but I screwed up the pad a little bit (left pad, up arrow). I feel really bad. Later, I saw a pair of lesbians, but they were the spiky/pierced/tatooed variety. Not a big fan of that. Later, however, there was a pair sitting in the Metro, just petting each other. They were pretty.

So yeah, I'm still fairly sore from a few hours of skating followed by some DDR, with six hours of work before and after. Oddly enough, that then goes into a D&D/work/D&D pattern. It's a lot of fun, though, and I guess that's what counts.