DEATH!!!!!!!!!!!! DEATH TO WIRELESS NETWORKS!!!!!!!!!!!!! DIE MOTHER FUCKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have been trying to load this page since 9:30. And you know what time it is now? 2:15!!!!!! GODDAMNIT!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok . . . rage is being suppressed . . . my eyes are struggling to stay open so I can type. I had another one of those eventful weekends that make it a bitch to remember everything to talk about when I finally get to a place I can blog. GRR!!
I like boys. Boys are fun. Friday, I got a message on AIM to call a number. I didn't recognize the screename, nor the number. But I called anyway, and it ended up being a guy named Tony who I had e-mailed a few days earlier (see blog where I looked at other guys' profiles due to being pissed at Nick). And we actually had a really cool conversation for a couple hours before I had to go to chorale. We're gonna have to hang out some time. It ought to be easy b/c he lives only a floor below Alan in the same hall.
Tried to go see Underworld Friday. I organized a huge group of people to go. But play practice ran late. Then it took everyone forever to gather at my room and get into cars, etc. But even with all these delays, we would have made it on time. But noooooooo. About 3 miles out of Blair, there was a head-on collision and traffic was stopped so far that the crash wasn't visible from where we were stuck. So, we sat there . . . and sat there . . . and sat there some more. And instead of doing anything, Todd wandered from car to car asking people what they wanted to do. So we sat there some more. Finally I got Todd to turn around and go back to Blair, so we could get on the other road to Omaha. By the time we got to the theater it was 11:00. The movie started at 10:20. We didn't feel like missing 30-40 minutes of the movie, so we hung out at IHOP for a while before they dropped me off at home. So, it wasn't a total waste, but it sure fucked up my weekend plans. Todd and I agreed to try seeing the movie Saturday night.
So I go home, an hour earlier than I anticipated, and got online. There, I get another random IM from someone I don't recognize. This tunred out to be Ira, another guy that I had e-mailed that Sunday. So we chatted a little and he asked if I wanted to talk on the phone. Sure. So he called, and we talked, and got along fairly well and made plans to hang out Saturday evening after I got off work.
Oh, and it turns out Ira knows Nick. Yeah, so I found out that the number of lies Nick told me more than tripled. He's not my favorite person in the world. Frankly, I pity him more than ever. But, yeah, Ira's not a big fan of him either.
Anyway, Saturday morning I went to work (and was actually on time!). There, Jill, the district manager yelled at me about my beard. Granted, I'm not a fan of it myself . . . but is it really that big of a deal? She said she'd have to talk to the Vice-President to see if I could be allowed to continue working . . . bitch. But, technically, she is following company policy. Fucking company. It's ridiculous. Mike Simmons ought to be beaten silly. SILLY I TELL YOU!!!!!
Yeah, I'm a dork. I'm tired. I'm allowed.
But yeah, this beard thing . . . I'm really self conscious about it, but at the same time . . . glad, I guess. I mean, I've always been curious as to what I would look like with facial hair. And now I have an excuse. So, if it looks bad, or at least until it looks good, I can just blame it on someone else and I don't look nearly as stupid. Yay for excuses to experiment. If only striaght boys could do the same . . . .
Anyway, Ira came and picked me up around 5:00 and we drove out to Valley to see his cop friend. We hung out, and it was a good time. Ira kept putting himself in handcuffs just to see if he could get out of them. He wasn't terribly successful. And then he and the cop guy wrestled and stuff. It was entertaining to watch. Afterward we went to see his friends Amber and Anthony, and some other girl who was a friend of Amber's that he hadn't met before. Boy did this girl rub him the wrong way. Oh. My. God. It was getting really tense at one point.
You see, one of the first thigns Ira said about himself was that fact that he has a really short temper and doesn't take people's shit. Well, is was quite a bit shorter than I ever imagined it would be. That boy is full of rage. I think he needs someone to calm him down . . . maybe that'll be me. I dunno. But he's definitely an interesting person and seems to be worth getting to know.
But, yeah . . . so ever since the shit with Nick, I've been very . . . skeptical of what boys tell me. At least I noticed it when talking to Tony and Ira for the first time. I was silently questioning whether they were telling me the truth or telling me bullshit they thought I wanted to hear, or were trying to impress me or what. I just had this constant doubt in the back of my head. It made me feel bad. It's not like they did anything to make me suspicious. I just can't trust my instincts about people anymore. It's kinda sad, really.
Anyway, around 8:30, I told Ira I ought to be getting me home, so he dropped me off and said he'd see my next weekend. It made me feel good, even though it kinda surprised me. I mean, I didn't think I made that good of an impression on him. I thought we were going to be hanging out one-on-one. But we hung out with a bunch of his friends. So, I'm already a shy person when meeting someone for the first time, but when I'm surrounded competely by people I don't know, I'm even shyer. So I was constantly worrying that I was boring him or whatever. But, well, his friends were around, so it wasn't like he was concentrating only on me.
Wait, that makes him sound bad. I didn't mean it that way. I mean I think he realized that and understood. I think. Once again, I can't trust my instincts.
Fuck. Wireless just went dead again. At least I can still type. I'll post when I can finally get connected again.
Anyway, I went home and Tabby and Emily showed up almost right after Ira dissappeared. Talk about perfect/lucky timing. Then I got on the phone with Steve and Todd and arranged the movie trip again and set to work convincing Tabby and Emily to come because I would've felt bad leaving them at my house. But I really wanted to see the movie, and this was the last chance for a while and Todd and Steve were already counting on going, so I finally convinced Emily and Tabby to come by agreeing to pay for their tickets and by refraining from going to the club that evening (which wasn't horrible since I would've felt odd going with facial hair, but Ira said if I was going to give him a call later, sooo . . .)
Emily insisted on driving and proceeded to drive me nuts with her horrendous sense of direction. Seriously, the girl has been going to school here for four years and she still doesn't know how to get to Omaha's largest theater from dodge? It would've been sooooooo much easier and sooooo much faster if my brother or I had driven. But noooooo, Emily had to drive . . .
Then we get to the theater and Emily and Tabby try and go to another movie . . . I told them that if they didn't see underworld, they were going to pay for their own tickets. They backed down and I bought the tickets. When Todd arrived he gave me money to help pay for Emily and Tabby's tickets (he had offered to help earlier over the phone as we brainstormed methods of convincing them to come along) whereupon Emily and Tabby flipped out and got pissed at me. Why!? You're getting free tickets? What does it matter who pays for them? You don't and that's what's important! Jeeeeeez! Women!
Greatest unintended pun ever: Where's Steve?---- Eric
He's still at the ATM. ----- Todd
Why's he taking so long? ---- Eric
Maybe the ATM is being a dick and he's beating it. ----Todd
Ohhhhh, Todd. You are an entertaining lad.
The Resident Evil 2 preview was awesome despite the fact that it showed absolutely no footage of the movie. Which is impressive in itself.
Underworld was a pretty damn good movie. Although I completely agree with Jason's opinion and several reviews I red. Underworld was good, but I think that it could've been much better. I mean, this could've been the most awesomest movie ever. It was still pretty good, but not amazing. It didn't have as much . . . supernatural as I thought there would be. I expected more supernatural vampire and werewolf powers, but there were very few, if any. I also ecpected some vampire/werewolf brawls. The number of brawls could be counted on one finger. Most of the combat was fire fights. Very well done firefights, though. Probably the best I've seen. Also, I completely agree with the IGN review that said there were so many ideas crammed into the movie that there wasn't time to completely flesh them all out. Ohhhh, I agree with that sooo much.
But there were also a lot of really cool things, too. They portrayed the vampires' conniving, plotting, selfish, and back-stabbing nature very, very well. They also showed the animalistic tribal relationship of the lykens exellently. And the history/background on the war was absolutely fascinating. There were tons of cool ideas, and if the movie could've been extended an hour to fully develop them all, the movie would've been the greatest of all time.
But it looks like there'll be a sequel, so I'm sure it will only get better. Looks like I may have a new favorite movie franchise . . .
