Great Two Days

Despite the fact that between Monday and Wednesday, I only had a total of maybe 7 hours of sleep, I know I had a fantastic two days (Tuesday ad Wednesday... Monday was great fun too, actually - did The Slaughtered Lamb, had potato skins and a reese's choclate peanut butter pie, and some Original Sin cider... really good time too).


Tuesday, at the crack of 8 am, my mom and I went to Snug Hrbor, after buying bagels and the newspapers, to line up to get tickets for Hair. We were about 20th in line, by 9am, which shocked the hell out of me because, in my head, Hamlet should have brought more a crowd... afterall, it's fucking Hamlet. But Hair is clearly the bigger draw... having never seen Hair (my mother wouldn't met me see the movie the few occaisons it was on TV when I was younger, and so I never had an interest in pursuing it) I didn't get it.


So, got the tickets, went to the city, and had yummy food at Pong Sri, and went to meet Pixy at MSG. We killed some time at the Borders, where I bought East of Eden (my favorite book, which I had lent out years ago and never got back), and we picked up PIxy, and went to Central Park to meet Kay.


It was fantastic fun to just sit up there in the castle-thiny, look at the algea lake, and just talk. It's been a while since we've all been together, and we thought there'd be a million things to say to each other, but Kay was right when she said that she thought it'd be lie "OMG, I haven't seen you in forever" but it felt like we just saw eachother yesterday.


So, we went to wwatch Hair, and it was the first night of previews (which is exciting, because that's when you see it in it's rawest form, before they finalize everything for the actual run).


The vocals were amazing. Absolutely amazing. I have the recording of the OBC for Hair, and it's ok, but man... THIS group? I want THIS recording. The actors' excitment and energy was amazing and it just infected the audience, as I think it's supposed to.


At the end, me and Kay went onstage to dance with the cast after bows. Pixy was encouraged by my mom to go to, but we weren't able to meet up on stage. It was almost a spiritual experience, and I'm so glad I did it, because I would have regretted it forever if I didn't. I will definitely be getting tickets to see it again, so let me know if you want to go and we'll go together. It's absoutelly electic. And then yesterday was awesome. Got up early and got breakfast at the diner, had an awesoem waitress who was like a grandmother, Pixy bought games from Blockbuster with a gift card, and then bought an XBox 360 at Best Buy for our apartment (oh, our apartment is going to be awesome and full of video games). We then caught a bus with a broken metrocard thingy, and went to Tottenville so I could get a hald hour's worth of trainign from Erin because I'm working at BiscuitMagoo all day Saturday, and have never worked in the morning or afternoon, so I needed some basic idea of what to do.


Then we went to the city to meet up with Kay in Union Square Park, where we then went to Max Brenner where we had a really great waiter, had the most delicious martinis, a cheese tasting appetizer, dinner type stuff, and some fantastic desserts. We came before the dinner crowd, so we got seated right away, by the time we left, the dinner crowd was coming in and there was at least a half hour wait.


We were going to go bowling at this place Kay had found, but when we got there, there was bouncer with a clip board, and a velvet rope. So we were like TF? Trendy bowling place? That's so lame. And we walked around for a while, and found a movie theater on W 23rd. It was a bit more expensive than usual, but it was very clean, and kind of swanky, and the seats were really comfortable - more comfy than the ones in the theater on Forest.


We saw Mamma Mia. Shut up. Me and Pixy wanted to see it because it looked horrible, and Kaydidn't want to see it because it looked horrible. But... but we were soooo surprised. At first we were like "Eh? Are they taking themseles seriosuly?" it took about 10 minutes to realize that no, they weren't. It's like everyone in the movie had a lot of food, and that they went for it being a bit campy and goofy, and then you could tell the whole audience, by that point, was with them. By the way, Colin Firth? Fricken adorable! Everything he does in it is amazing adorable.


It was very funny, on purpose.


And that was the end of the First Official Girls' Night as Autonomous Adults. It was a blast. And now I had Abba in my head.

Flipping Through My Journal

So, I have this journal that I tak with me everywhere. Much of it is full of the mundane, day-to-day, neurotic ramblings of a person whose bain never seems to shut off (this makes sleeping difficult). Sometimes I look back in it to remind myself of a n amzing night, or to simply remember a night. Sometimes I will write a short narrative, or continue a story I started elsewhere. Sometimes I'll have random lines of poetry written. So, since I am at work right now, and my job consists solely of sitting around and making sure that the dogs here go to sleep... which involves quite a lot of sitting and not a lot of much else... I decided to have a look through my journal, and pull out some of the "best" parts:

June 5th, 2008, 11.29pm

I have half a mind to go across the street to those highschoolers aand tell them they're partying wrong.

June 6th, 2008

it's nearly 4.30am... "I see Ghosts" has a suspicious lack of ghosts.

8.46pm

"Why do people think I'm so interesting?"

You're not; shut up; I hate you 16 year old.

June 7th, 2008 2.43 am

...I just want to tell one of them that I think they're fantastic... I also want to go see them not surrounded by 16 year olds.

6.31pm

...I'm a reverse-psychic... on the bright side, I won't have a bad time, I won't get raped... but I'll probably get lost.

Drunk O'clock (11.30-ish)

A man in front of me has a tattoo of an eye on the back of his neck. It really freaks me out....

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(Much of the rest of this entry is pretty illegible, though one word repeats throughout: DOOOOOOOOOOOMED!!!!!)

June 8th, 2008 4.14pm

...though to be honest, for 2 people to live on Staten Island, that's lmore like saying "We live in the ame small village" than "same city...

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...Also? I wholeheartedly approve of songs about robots and aliens w/o them being metaphors.

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...so he started dancing, all sexy-sexy (like, I dunno, a snake, slithering? Not "Damn! He's a sexy dancer!" but "That's a sexy-sexy dance! Also he's damn sexy)...

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(...but, again, these are not things I pay attention to)...

June12th, 2008 7pmish

I really need to clean my room. Like Woah... ...I guesswhen I'm done procrastinating, I'll do it.

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...and the lead singer of a band, a great band, a great band with a strong following, a great band with a strong followng of nubile 16 year old girls...

June 16th, 12.44am

...who remembered me, which always amazes me.

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...so I gave him the angry shaking fist, which I haven't used in years! I love that gesture! Why did I ever stpo usingit to connote false anger?

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...though the Culture Shock explaination was so that I would remember why I couldn't remember what happened that weekend...

June 18th, 10.22pm

...if I did, then he (wisely) chose to ignore it. If I didn't, then I am thankful for my internet being as Orgeon Trail as it is...

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...[about Jonesy, a Rottweiler at the kennel] It really sucks, but I know he's just crying for attention right now and going in there is just going to rile him up (according to the boss). It sucks cause I can hear him cry (this is crossed out) throwing up....

June 20th 6.22pm

...my eyes itch a lot right now

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...who, in real life, slips on a banana pel? No one. That's who.... well, xcept that guy on the street.

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...Fuck it. One more drink.

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"I'm sorry, I don't mean to stare at your crotch"

Yes you do!

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Adventures in Jill needs to learn how to fucking drive:

1.41am if a train doesn't come NOW I will not get home until 4am. I am hungry.

June 21st, 5.30 pm

...I really only remember the Wishbone, but I think I'd remember if there was a dinosaur in that episode.

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...why does my brain fold in on itself like a... like a souffle?

June 24th, 2008 9.04pm

...Plus, you don't give crazy pepole hugs.

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...I changed the playlist on my iPod and now it reads like a Who's Who of Purchase bands [from when I went]. All I'm missing are tracks from O'Death and The Woes... but I can fix that... eventually.

11.47pm

...and when reality enters, all you can hear is the dream-egg shatter.

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...I realize that I should not be hld responsible for anything I say or do when over-tired.