we can split Germany right down the middle
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).
