The last two days' activities have been pretty darn cool.
Thursday:
-Lunch at Ton's Mongolian Grill. Holy moly, what good food. That's being added to my exception list of Asian foods. I found it surprising that everyone else I was with compared it to Chinese while I found it so close to Japanese (still my fave for its consistency). Maybe I just haven't been exposed to *good* Chinese. Oh, and soy sauce is among the foods of the gods. That stuff + fried rice = quite nice. The extraordinarily long lunch convo was absolutely enlightening, too. Apparently everyone's expectation is that I become a long-haired hippy pot-smoker. Gotta play the doubt card, sorry kids. In recent times, my hair's gotten shorter, my dress a little closer to prep, and I'm getting a little less militant about my slight liberalism. I know that college is all about change, but I'm really betting I've already done most of my mellowing so college will end up as mostly smooth sailing. Besides, I'd rather engage in the vice of women at UT rather than mind-bending substances - my mind's bent enough. Ashlye says she smokes to mellow - I'm already mellow. It's made me start to think that all my releases (games / writing / music) really are healthy for me, because I don't need mind-bending substances at all. -Evening with Soph. Picked the chick up at 7:00, did lots of aimless driving and a long stop at Sonic for drinks. Talked about life, the universe, everything, and the opposite sex. Was probably the first time I've been drilled on the topic of the ex-girlfriend and not felt a weird sort of discomfort thinking about the whole thing. I'm getting ever closer to just looking back on all that and laughing. The evening also reinforced my love for long drives and witty convos. Hanging out with her made me wonder why so many things went wrong before - why we got into the fight, why I thought she was leading me on, all of those things. That's all behind as if it never happened - so how in the hell did I let it happen in the first place? Really, hanging out with her made me wonder why I've been stupid enough to not spend more time hanging out with her up to this point. That kind of regret is what makes me feel like it's the end of senior year - just as things fall into place, it's all over and life starts over. Friday:
-Evening at Apex. I was bored and hyper and no one was around, so I suddenly remembered it was my plan to just go hang out at Apex the next time that happened, since I had seen so many people just hanging out up there, friends with the owners, forming their own little community of people who know each other. So I showed up around 7:00 and was quickly assimilated into the group. I spent three hours watching people play Soul Calibur II (the Japanese import, it's pretty damn sweet) and talking with people who came in and out of the store. I walked out of the store with a few new friends as I made my way to... -Greg's house. Much mellowness. By that point I had forgotten it had been a slow night, but in retrospect it was still a slow night at Greg's. Laughing and joking with Aroon's biatches (*stifles laughter*), pool, Crank Yankers, and then Alex and I awkwardly left as Greg's Steph nearly fell asleep curled up with him. Interestingly, the overwhelming majority of people there spoke Spanish in some capacity, and more than half of those Spanish-speakers were native speakers. And for once, I was able to communicate! with these wonderful people in Spanish. God bless AP Spanish. -Home. Now writing and mellowing and talking to my guardian angel. Life is good, amigos.
-Lunch at Ton's Mongolian Grill. Holy moly, what good food. That's being added to my exception list of Asian foods. I found it surprising that everyone else I was with compared it to Chinese while I found it so close to Japanese (still my fave for its consistency). Maybe I just haven't been exposed to *good* Chinese. Oh, and soy sauce is among the foods of the gods. That stuff + fried rice = quite nice. The extraordinarily long lunch convo was absolutely enlightening, too. Apparently everyone's expectation is that I become a long-haired hippy pot-smoker. Gotta play the doubt card, sorry kids. In recent times, my hair's gotten shorter, my dress a little closer to prep, and I'm getting a little less militant about my slight liberalism. I know that college is all about change, but I'm really betting I've already done most of my mellowing so college will end up as mostly smooth sailing. Besides, I'd rather engage in the vice of women at UT rather than mind-bending substances - my mind's bent enough. Ashlye says she smokes to mellow - I'm already mellow. It's made me start to think that all my releases (games / writing / music) really are healthy for me, because I don't need mind-bending substances at all. -Evening with Soph. Picked the chick up at 7:00, did lots of aimless driving and a long stop at Sonic for drinks. Talked about life, the universe, everything, and the opposite sex. Was probably the first time I've been drilled on the topic of the ex-girlfriend and not felt a weird sort of discomfort thinking about the whole thing. I'm getting ever closer to just looking back on all that and laughing. The evening also reinforced my love for long drives and witty convos. Hanging out with her made me wonder why so many things went wrong before - why we got into the fight, why I thought she was leading me on, all of those things. That's all behind as if it never happened - so how in the hell did I let it happen in the first place? Really, hanging out with her made me wonder why I've been stupid enough to not spend more time hanging out with her up to this point. That kind of regret is what makes me feel like it's the end of senior year - just as things fall into place, it's all over and life starts over. Friday:
-Evening at Apex. I was bored and hyper and no one was around, so I suddenly remembered it was my plan to just go hang out at Apex the next time that happened, since I had seen so many people just hanging out up there, friends with the owners, forming their own little community of people who know each other. So I showed up around 7:00 and was quickly assimilated into the group. I spent three hours watching people play Soul Calibur II (the Japanese import, it's pretty damn sweet) and talking with people who came in and out of the store. I walked out of the store with a few new friends as I made my way to... -Greg's house. Much mellowness. By that point I had forgotten it had been a slow night, but in retrospect it was still a slow night at Greg's. Laughing and joking with Aroon's biatches (*stifles laughter*), pool, Crank Yankers, and then Alex and I awkwardly left as Greg's Steph nearly fell asleep curled up with him. Interestingly, the overwhelming majority of people there spoke Spanish in some capacity, and more than half of those Spanish-speakers were native speakers. And for once, I was able to communicate! with these wonderful people in Spanish. God bless AP Spanish. -Home. Now writing and mellowing and talking to my guardian angel. Life is good, amigos.