it's 2:00 on a sunday afternoon, i've gotten nothing accomplished all weekend, and i have an econ exam tomorrow, not to mention a leadership midterm and dhs paper later in the week. so naturally i'm writing in my diary. c'mon, i haven't written in two days.. this is obviously a priority.

yet another fun and exciting weekend by our skewed definition. friday afternoon dr. o' came down to the speech lab at the end of my shift with graded speeches and thought i should call my friends and have them come in and watch them now. wanted to put their minds at ease because they are all worried and hyper-critical and all that stuff. we talked for 15 minutes about how great josh would be at forensics, and she genuinely loves all of you guys. so i called lani and told her to im the boys; she and shawn ended up coming in. after the excruciating tape-watching, we went up to talk to dr. o' and ended up hanging out there for over an hour, because we're cool like that. dr. o' said more sweet things to people and we explained the prosthetic foreheads to her. we got roped into listening to johanna's recycled salt speech and had to pretend it was the most brilliant thing we've ever seen. sat there for a while, went downtown, back to lani's, invented a joke that josh does not appreciate, played some pool, ate dinner.

that night we played pool for a while because the play was sold out. lani and i are inventing a new version of pool which we could actually win, where at least half the points are awarded as style points. we are incredibly stylistic pool players. scratching every turn, hitting no balls whatsoever, and aiming for an opponent's 'bad spot' earn you some mad style points. then we had a movie marathon consisting of shawshank redemption - absolutely amazing, touching, heavy.. - dogma - i think i'm starting to freak people out with my alan rickman obsession - and clue - back in my room at 4am with just josh and lani. lani slept through most of that one and i was in and out of consciousness but what i saw was terrific - but with madeline kahn, tim curry, christopher lloyd and michael mckean what else would you expect? at 6am we decided to just crash in my room, but josh - too hot and wanting to be naked ;) - left before we woke up. lani and i got up around noon and talked for a while and then decided to start our day.

by 'start our day' i obviously mean sit on our respective computers for hours. it was then that i discovered, through my aimversation with cheryl, that a fun little diarywar had been started overnight. not talking about it is the smart - not to mention mature - thing to do, but i have no restraint, and i really don't think dej reads this anyway. i just think this whole thing is completely irrational and stupid. some people just like to start petty fights for no real reason, and i think this is a pretty good example... i think the only reason i'm still at all affected by this, 24 hours later, is that somehow most of this crap is being aimed toward lani, which makes absolutely no sense to me at all. completely irrational. i just think it's hilarious how deja insists that if people have a problem with her they say it to her face, but she has no problem bad-mouthing people in her diary. interesting. talk about hypocrisy, dej.

so moving on. that afternoon, while i was sitting here at my computer minding my own business, this little kid, maybe two, who was here visiting one of my floormates with the rest of her family, pushed my door open and tried to run in here. okay, that was adorable. but half an hour later while i was standing in the shower waiting for the water to get warm, the kid was not so adorable. tears through the bathroom, screaming and laughing, and rips open the shower curtain, leaving my stark naked body entirely exposed to the whole world. luckily none of the world was present in the bathroom at the time, but needless to say i was freaked out and pissed. remind me again why i hate children?

lani, josh, cheryl, nicole and i went to tampico's for dinner, which, as it was not gilman, was very yummy. most of the conversation ended up revolving around blessing pretty much every object on the face of the earth. yep. after that we lost nicole and gained shawn and went to the play, bash. really disturbing, amazing performance. in a nutshell, as there are people reading this that haven't seen all of it yet, (though nutshell doesn't really matter since i already told this "people" just about the whole play.. but yeah) it was a series of monologues/duologues in which the characters told the stories of murders they committed in a very smiley, unremorseful, rationalizing way. powerful, bothersome stuff. after it was over, cheryl wanted to go to bed and josh wanted to go forth and be contemplative, so i rejoined lani and shawn at the midnight jams thing (which starts at 10) by myself. it was a pretty big flop, but we stayed there a while having nothing better to do, and left a while later still having nothing better to do. an hour and a half of sitting around trying to think up a way to amuse ourselves, we finally settled on chess. so you see what i mean by our skewed definition of fun. :)

we played in the dw lobby and looked for josh every time the door opened. eventually it was him, and to our relief he had a smile on his face. melissa, thomas and stephanie also joined our group, and we discovered what the ancient books on the shelves there were.. a series of informative reproduction books from 1928. so thomas gave us a little sex-ed lesson. i learned oh so much: alcohol is a racial poison, which somewhat resembles gonorrhea; vaginal parasites are really quite superficial; abortion is an interruption of life; it is up to women to save the world. we were quite amused. josh and i had foot sex. we pelted lani with rocks. determined lani is my stomach, as she is haggis and i am a sheep. the best part of the whole conversation, i think, was when stephanie said something unbearably inane for the 500th time and lani and i caught each other's eye and just broke out laughing. lani, you are so awesome. :) one by one our group went off to bed until it was 5 am and only thomas, lani and myself were left. that was the first time i've really talked to thomas, and it was nice. really amazing kid. very glad for the chance.

3 in the afternoon now, still with the not accomplishing things. gotta take a shower, eat something, and cram for econ like no tomorrow. but if there's no tomorrow, there's really no point in studying the econ. hmm. anyway, i'm off to be productive - enjoy your day :)

It is the friends that you can call at 4 A.M. that matter.