The Evening...

Ended up going from having nothing to do at 6PM, to being occupied the last 5 hours with Nikki, TJ, and Kris. Ended up seeing The Incredible Hulk with all three...first time hanging out with Kris.

Kris: *whispers to Nikki*
Nikki: *punches Kris*
Kris: Haha...heeeeey!
Me: *punches Kris*
Kris: Ow!
Me: ...why are we punching him?

He seems alright...I guess... ^_^

Hulk was seriously badass, especially with Edward Norton...the only actual reason I went to see it (minus $2 popcorn, of course...).

After the movie got over, TJ and I hung out at my house, listened to music, and I made him a CD of the music I liked that I acquired from Mike Lindsay. Some good stuff there...

We walked outside my house and ended up talking for about an hour. Not normal TJ conversation, though; TJ talks a lot, but he never really says anything, y'know? We, in one of our few moments, actually talked on a personal level, something I've rarely gotten out of him...minus him being drunk and making confessions...

I guess we had our little "Guy's Night"...and well needed.

Unfortunately, I gotta write a paper for class tomorrow. FSCK!

Simon

For the Record...

1) Leaving me home alone for two days is a bad thing. Two get-togethers both nights and two bad feelings the next mornings...

2) TJ is waaaaay too apologetic when he's drunk. I like him better slightly buzzed. Less annoying that way...

3) When clothes are on the line, I fail at pool...

4) The Mighty Boosh is a stupid show, but it's a DAMN GOOD STUPID SHOW!

5) I'm not a gay Russian Liberal Democrat who attends Wesboro Baptist Church and enjoys fapping in Moscow. That's reserved for my side of the bed...SO TAKE THAT!

6) TJ and Nikki are both pains in my ass, but I wouldn't ask for anything less. ^_^

Simon

Term Paper...

For my English course, my term paper is on an issue based on what our career choice is (i.e. Video Game Programmer would write about Video Game Violence).

Since I have no idea what I want to do with my life, I'm choosing from my majors: Statistics and Mathematics. Since writing forever on criticisms in the statistics field seems virtually impossible, I'll just have to write about the subject most people complain about in school!

So, I'll be writing 8-10 pages on the importance of math being taught in education. Woo...

Simon

After a bit of thinking...

I like me. A lot. My quirky, stupid, random sense of humor pleases me so!

^_^

Simon

The Waterford Experience (Saturday and Sunday)...

*continuing from previous post*

So, I finally fell asleep on Mike Lindsay's couch about 3 in the morning. I had to lay on my side, just in case I'd end up leaving Earth like a rockstar by choking on my own vomit. I got a good night's rest...

That is, until 7 in the morning, when Mike's parents, sister, and dog ALL WOKE ME UP! They are some of the noisiest morning people EVER! I managed to not attract attention, slept until 9, sat up, felt dizzy, and went back to sleep until 11, when Mike got up and we watched The Replacements. Soon after, we headed to Panera to play Apples to Apples with Alan, Sam, and Sam's boyfriend, Greg.

Greg was....interesting? He was really nice and quiet, but seemed like one of those kids who smoked himself stupid back in high school. I found myself questioning here and there where exactly his mind was...

Anyways, I was hungover terribly at Panera. I was a zombie throughout most of the game. Ended up throwing up in the bathroom, trying to get it out of my system. No dice. Finished Apples, then left for the video store. Picked up Amelie and decided to watch it at Mike's house.

Before we left Family Video, we got a call from Sam's mom. We were standing in the parking lot waiting for her to finish. Sam then put her hand on the speaker of her phone and asked us, "So, my mom's planning on buying drinks for us if one of us blows into her PBT."

...so, we ended up getting Captain Morgan and Parrot Bay. I didn't have any, though. Still feeling it, even later in the day. We watch Amelie before going to Sam's house. FSCKING AMAZING FILM!!! The French are actually pretty cool.........kinda...

Anyways, off to Sam's we go. We hang out with Sam's mom, who provides alcohol and burnt bratwursts. They were actually kinda tasty. The mom was sloshed, but it didn't really matter. She ended up drinking with us for a bit.

More people started to show up randomly: Sam's friend, Sam's brother, Sam's cousin, and some 25 year old black guy who nobody really knew at all. The black guy was a bit weird, but this didn't really stop Mike from having a drunken conversation with him about the guy's background. I still have no idea what he was talking about, AND I WAS SOBER!

Alan and I thought it may be best to leave, considering how the party was winding down a bit there. So Alan decides it'd be best to go walk to this kid, Jeff's house. Alan, Sam, Mike, Greg, and I all left the house and walked there. Unfortunately, Mike was playing leader, which took us an hour and ten minutes to get there. Having to put up with a drunken Mike for that long is a bit much to handle, especially when he talks about surviving in the wilderness with potatoes and beans.

We get to Jeff's house, even though he has no clue we are coming. We just chill with his dad while we wait for Jeff to get home from work. Alan and Mike were quite acquainted with the dad, though, having smoked pot with him and his son the week before (I've learned that families in Waterford are quite different from those I know back in Greenville...). When Jeff did get home, we all eventually migrated into his basement with some other friends Jeff brought home. The smoky basement is pretty much what you'd expect from the person-to-person camera shots from That 70's Show. It was my first time really being around a bunch of people smoking pot. Still won't try it, but Mike was toasted by the time we left.

Alan stayed back, so it was just Mike, Sam, Greg, and I when we left. Sam took lead, knowing an actual shortcut that cut the walking distance to a half hour. Mike was even more ridiculous than usual, which was to be expected. We got to Sam's house, and Mike and I left to this place called "Village Place". It was about midnight at the time.

Village Place is this diner that's open 24 hours. It's one of these late-night hotspots for people in Waterford. Anyways, we find a friend of Mike's who I've actually talked on the phone with before (I told him my parents were dead and I was coping with the loss by selling coke to the underprivileged), so we all had a good time reflecting on those better days. We poke fun at Mike for a while, then go back to Mike's house for sleep.

Sunday rolls around, I get up -STILL SICK-, I leave, pick up Brittney, and share to her the story I just told you.

And that, my friends, was the Waterford Experience.

The Waterford Experience (Friday)...

This weekend, I took a trip down to Waterford, down near Detroit, to see my friends from college, Alan, Sam, and Mike Lindsay.

MOST RANDOM. WEEKEND. EVER. (note: may be going slightly overboard with that...but it was still pretty random)

I didn't take this journey alone. Oh, no. I got five hours of company round-trip from Brittney, a girl I graduated with/ dated my peer mentor at school, Chris, for the last three years. The random part is that I've barely said a word to Brittney since MIDDLE SCHOOL. I talked to her one of the first times in forever last week, told her I was going Detroit-way, and before I knew it I had a passenger. She was going to hang out with a guy from college for the weekend. Brittney's a cool person, definitely someone I would've hung out with more if we had classes together. We managed to find stuff to talk about the way there and back, so I was happy that it wasn't an awkward car ride.

Got to Waterford about 2pm Friday afternoon. Mike has me meet a group of people at a Panera in town. So, I find my way through Waterford, which is a bit bigger than I expected, and get to their regular hangout spot. It was Mike, Alan, and a bunch of other guys playing a board game. I got myself a blueberry bagel...and was disappointed in that:

1) Bagels cost 99 cents/Cream Cheese costs $1.19 (BULLSHIT!)
2) The bagel sucked. Panera is overrated!

Mike buys a whole French baguette and all of us take off for a open soccer field. We end up playing Ultimate Frisbee, which I had never played before. We all decided to play in our boxers, also. Why? Dunno. We just did. It was a hell of a lot of fun, though!

Afterwards, we end up eating dinner at Alan's, pick up Sam, and head out to Royal Oak. Now, Royal Oak is a city by Waterford where these young hooligan friends of mine go to get drunk and enjoy myself. If you took all the fun elements of Grand Rapids and put them on one single street, you'd basically have Royal Oak.

We start off drinking from water bottles filled with vodka and whiskey in a hardware store back parking lot, like all classy people do. The next thing to do was visit The Aquarium Shop, an exotic fish pet store. We browsed inside for a while, looking at all the cool, colorful fishies and whatnot. After that: Barnes and Noble. The store was gigantic! We ended up drinking a bit more, going into the philosophy section, picking out books, sitting down, reading said books, and then discussing why that particular philosopher was a total badass.

We ended up going to a Hot Topic-type location. They had a bunch of leather coats that looked really good. I really want a black one. I'm feeling it's about time I retire my brown coat. It's getting pretty worn out and--- uh oh...that's right; this is the point when stuff gets...

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I really didn't drink all that much, but it ended up hitting me hard as hell. From here, we met up with a friend of ours from Central who lived nearby, and we eventually ran into more of Mike and Alan's friends. For about an hour, shit is nonexistent in my mind. I don't even remember 10pm - 11pm AT ALL. We somehow wound up at a Sushi restaurant. I feel sick at this point, and just lie on the table while everyone eats and watches the Pistons play. Mike makes me walk to my car to stay active. We sing merry songs and talk about things like girls and our sophomore year to keep me alive. We reach my car and just listen to music. I kinda...sorta...throw up in YET ANOTHER parking lot (adds to list).

After a while, we head out to the movie theater nearby and watch a midnight showing of This Is Spinal Tap. It was a really fun time.

---(I just remembered what happened between 10 and 11. haha...nothing important, though)---

After that, we headed to a Coney restaurant, then back to Waterford and crashed at Mike Lindsay's.

*too tired to finish; will complete tomorrow*