we can split Germany right down the middle

Ennui — A. @ 11:29 am

Christen and I woke up an hour or two ago, we’ve been surfing Digg and GodsGirls all morning.

She’s going to see Allen today to talk about things (they broke up yesterday). I didn’t go to my class, we hung out at True Love for a little bit and then met Annie and walked to Capitol Park. After that, we walked to Old Sac and hung out at the river for a while. It was surreal and beautiful.

Afterwards, Annie biked home and Christen and I walked all the way back to True Love where we had parked (24 or so blocks). It was an epic journey, but quite fun.

I met Christen at the West Sac Blockbuster, and we got a bunch of movies and went back to her place to watch them. The one she popped in was this psychedelic “documentary” of sorts of the Manson family and all the killings…we really just couldn’t see his whole message.

And basically, all we could say after watching it was “God, that is exactly the kind of life the HorseCow people want to live” and “Fuck the sixties and fuck hippies.”

Everybody sold out.

But I guess that’s just how it goes. That whole thing could never happen again…Christen was saying that Charles Manson was on parole but he like won’t leave. I thought about it for a bit, and realized that the whole world he knew was gone, swept away by technology and the whole 21st century mindset. There’s no free love, there’s just AIDS. Weird.

Oh, the cool news is I just bought a copy of Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8. It had better not be a pirated copy. It was only like $9 though, so who knows. I could have sprung for 9, the most recent version, but the speech engine isn’t better, it just requires less training. And I’ve already gone through the training thing and added all my custom vocabulary, so I might as well just get 8. I’d been using version seven for years with no problems, so 8 might be better.

I did go on the Dragon site and it said that the headset I have (my Plantronics DSP-500) is like the best one you can get. So all my research paid off :)

Drew and I are going to get together tonight and talk about important things, the logistics of a relationship, the emotionalness of it, everything. I couldn’t sleep last night, mostly because I was hungry, but also because I had a bit of anxiety about the next day. I mean, how often does one meet a cool, down-to-earth guy that isn’t a drug addict or a club slut. Or both. *cringe*

I used to think things like having compatible interests was more important than having compatible personalities. Adrian and I had nearly identical interests, but he had this roller coaster manic depressive personality that was fueled mostly by how many pills he’d taken that afternoon.

Having compatible lifestyles and personalities I think is more important than interests, although I’m not saying that Drew and I have incompatible interests at all. I love his taste in movies, and I’m still blown away by that Korean horror movie we watched. I don’t know him very well, and as I’m realizing, I haven’t met his friends. I think I’m going to invite him over to meet Christen and the housemates. As he and I talked about, seeing how well a possible significant other meshes with your friends is an invaluable canary in the coal mine.

My friend Chris from Davis says that I’m trying to explain emotional situations logically, and that it’s self-destructive. But I really have no framework other than logic to try to understand my life. I know that relationships aren’t as cut-and-dried as a cost/benefit analysis, but I want a relationship to make both of our lives richer and to have great experiences.

Hm. Well, enough pontificating. I think I’m going to try to find some breakfast. I need to drive back to the Carmichael area today, and as usual, I’m dreading it (Christen now lives about an hour away by scooter).

grr.

Ennui — A. @ 1:03 am

I just wrote a whole post on my phone and the damn thing deleted it. Fuck you, phone.

I’m hungry and tired and can’t sleep.

Fuck this phone. And I can’t write on my computer until I buy Dragon NaturallySpeaking. $99 down the fucking toilet.

Fuck the world and fuck this phone.

time out from the world

Ennui — A. @ 11:02 am

Yesterday was hectic. Work, then school. However, I did discover this organic food co-op right near my work that I picked up a delicious breakfast at for only like $3.

My class went well, she passed out a sheet of all the different positions we’ve been doing, so I’ll actually be able to practice at home. I keep losing my balance during the balance poses, and I need to work on that.

After class I went over to Christen’s and we cleaned up her room a bit, hooked up her TV, and watched The City of Lost Children. It’s one of my favorites, it was her first time seeing it. She liked it.

I was IMing Drew before we started the movie and he said that he’d just recently seen it. I just love those directors, Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet. We also talked about some more serious things, which was good. I was thinking about him all day, for some odd reason. It wouldn’t be completely conscious, just in the back of my mind I’d see his face and it would make me smile.

I really expected him to blow me off (I have no self-esteem) but we actually started talking about possibly starting a relationship…which I’m excited about. There are some practical hurdles though (as neither of us have our own place).

I’m still at Christen’s house, she’s getting ready for work, and I should be getting ready to drive back to my house, but I’m still kind of tired. We did get up at like 11 a.m. (very early for me).

Well, I should get going.

movie night

Ennui — A. @ 2:00 am

I just had the movie night with Drew that we’d been planning all week. It was SO fun! We watched:

Blue (of the Three Colors trilogy)

eXistenZ (David Cronenburg. Classic.)

A Tale of Two Sisters (this awesome Korean horror movie)

and half of Shaun of the Dead. The first two I’d brought over, number two was Drew’s recommendation, and Shaun of the Dead was just on TV.

He’s really fun. We went to Chipotle (my first time going there) right when we woke up (three or four-ish), then went to his place for movies. His house is hyper-modern…I was in love. His mom paints too, which is awesome.

We snuggled in fear during A Tale of Two Sisters, and I played with his hair a lot. He’s really cute. There’s a big difference in people who are hot and they know they’re hot and people who are really cute but they don’t know it. I love shy guys.

But yeah, it’s 3 a.m. and I have to work tomorrow. It’s light meal then sleep time, ’cause I’m starving.

I am so into Drew and I can’t put into words why.

Also, commenting is not working and I can’t figure out why. I’ll work on it tomorrow, but I did figure out a big culprit today. Hopefully a more detailed analysis will root out the problem.

I really like this theme though. Do you see that little slider at the top? You can just slide that and look at anything that’s ever been posted on here, fast-forwarding and rewinding as you like. It’s like instant replay for my friends.

iLove

Ennui — A. @ 3:06 pm

I watched that twenty-minute long or so video demo of the iPhone that Apple posted today, and I must say, if the touch technology actually works I am going to want one SO damn bad.

Another incentive to finish college and get a real job.

I’ve been working more and more hours because I’m so poor.

No more data plans. I’m hating life.

I’m supposed to go meet Annie at Crepeville after work. I don’t know what to say to her.

Eh, about the iPhone, Apple always screws early adopters. I’m going to get one of the ones after they fix all the bugs, bump the storage capacity to 16GB, and add 3G. I have 2G mobile Internet on my Dash, and it is just not fast enough.

Cingular has a 3G network, too…I don’t know why they chose to use EDGE (2G).

« Previous PageNext Page »
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
(c) 2008 The Diary of Antoine Roquentin | powered by WordPress with Barecity