Like Stev, nothing much happened this week. Todd was in town for Calvin's SB so we hung out on Friday night. Actually, we had a pretty good time, set up a BP table in my basement, neither of us had played in a while. Then we went out to Muldoon's and as usual, we ran into some old HS classmates. This time it was some of the guys who stayed in town and went to Wheaton College to play football. I asked one of them about why he thinks so many of the kids from the Christian schools get married so early. First thing he said was something like how he went to 8 weddings in the past year, just for football teammates alone. These are all kids my age, if not younger. Ridiculous. He told me that he believes they get married so young because they're relationships are formed around their faith, so it is a marriage of 3: Him, her and God. This marriage of 3, or "Three way marriage" as Dre puts it, seems like it would be the ideal, cookie cutter response to these kids getting married so young.
What doesn't make sense to me about this is, why can't the relationship be "three way" when they are just dating? Aside from the joint bank accounts/assets, status, rings and ceremonies (all of which aren't THAT important in the long run) the only difference I can see between going out and being married is the sex, at least for these couples who believe in abstinence, which happens to be most that go to these Christian schools. Now, I would be hard pressed to get any of the 3 couples I know who got engaged last week to admit that sex was a factor for marriage. Granted, it would be a too much information kind of statement, but I dare one of these couples to admit it to me. The other problem I see with getting married this young is that you are limiting yourself to something. Example, Nicole's fiancé lives out in Colorado. She's effectively limiting her professional career to something/someplace in his area. I'm sure she will be happy, but could she have been happier if she could have searched the entire nation/world for a job.
I think Anderson is doing it right. He is still dating Jackie and they are both cool with that. Also, they love each other but they are realistically in love. None of this puppy love crap. They know that their careers and financial situations transcend their feelings for each other. Anderson just got a job with Piedmont Airlines as a pilot for them. Congratulations to that man again. He will be in Charlotte, NC for training while Jackie will be in the Chicagoland area looking into getting into financial things. In the end though, their situation won't be clouded by "Well, we're married, so we NEED to make this work"...It's more, "Well, we're dating, so we WANT to make this work"...I think that by staying dating, they put less strain on they're relationship and it will be better for them in the long run when they finally do find themselves in a situation where they can get married.
I'm probably just bitter about it, for good reason though.
On a different note, my sister will be moving to a bigger apartment next weekend. It's also closer to the bar scene downtown, so we'll have a good place to crash while downtown.
Also, I think that if it's cool with Wheeler and the rest of 1502, I would like to eventually have a reunion in Pescadero, CA, where Wheeler's mom has a summer home. It's gorgeous, on a bluff, tons a land we could bring the dirt bikes out and its in wine country. Just a thought. Until then, I will take 3 or 4 of us meeting up in the midwest. I can't wait until Easter weekend, the only time I went to Dominik's was awesome.
Here's to one month from now,
Chin
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Sunday, March 20, 2011
The Adjustment Bureau
It's been a pretty uneventful week. The regular work schedule, except I'm starting to work later on some days, until 7 or so. It's pretty unfortunate that I've started working later days because it's starting to get lighter out for longer. So I thought, "Great, I can get home and run before the sun goes down". As of last week, I only made it out on Monday, even then the sun was down before I finished the run because I got home late from work.
Drabik and I have been hanging out a lot lately, going to the local coffee shop, going to the bars or seeing movies. We went and saw The Adjustment Bureau on Wednesday, good film, I would definitely recommend it. I expect that with the warm weather we will start doing more stuff outdoors, frisbee and basketball, things like that. I've come to realize that I am definitely a warm weather kind of guy. I don't mind the cold, but I am always in a better mood when the sun is shining and I don't have to put on tons of layers.
St. Patty's was relatively uneventful for me, I met up with some buddies at Caliendo's, had some green beer and then went to Muldoon's for another beer with Drabik.
Perhaps the most exciting news this week was that Anderson got a job for a regional airline. He will be flying for Piedmont Airlines all across the east coast. He'll have to move out to Charlotte pretty soon to start training. I'm really happy for him, he get's tons of sweet perks. He can fly anywhere he wants to for free, as long as there is an open seat on the plane. That means he could just go to the airport, check the departures board and hop on any plane going anywhere in the world for free. Then family members get 25 free flights a year, too bad Anderson doesn't have a sister. He gets to have a travel partner, which will be Jackie, at least until they get married. Then he also gets 8 travel buddy things where we can fly for free as long as he is on the plane with us, nice! So we are planning a weekend to South America or something.
Nothing else much happened this weekend, I woke up this morning to see that I got a text from Nicole last night that read, "I'm engaged!" So that's the end of that chapter, can't say I'm happy with the ending, I did like her but I think that this last month has really nixed any chance of us becoming just friends in the long run. Since she started dating this guy, maybe 3 months ago, I stopped liking her, gradually. Then, just as I would be pretty much over her, it seemed there would be a text from her that stirred it all up again. I'm just saying, when/if I get engaged, the first people I am telling will not be people who I've had a somewhat romantic past with.
My lack of going out this weekend has led me to look forward to what Stev did in Wake Forest, so I'll wait patiently until A Family Affair, Part 2. Haha.
Here's to the outdoor season,
Chin
Drabik and I have been hanging out a lot lately, going to the local coffee shop, going to the bars or seeing movies. We went and saw The Adjustment Bureau on Wednesday, good film, I would definitely recommend it. I expect that with the warm weather we will start doing more stuff outdoors, frisbee and basketball, things like that. I've come to realize that I am definitely a warm weather kind of guy. I don't mind the cold, but I am always in a better mood when the sun is shining and I don't have to put on tons of layers.
St. Patty's was relatively uneventful for me, I met up with some buddies at Caliendo's, had some green beer and then went to Muldoon's for another beer with Drabik.
Perhaps the most exciting news this week was that Anderson got a job for a regional airline. He will be flying for Piedmont Airlines all across the east coast. He'll have to move out to Charlotte pretty soon to start training. I'm really happy for him, he get's tons of sweet perks. He can fly anywhere he wants to for free, as long as there is an open seat on the plane. That means he could just go to the airport, check the departures board and hop on any plane going anywhere in the world for free. Then family members get 25 free flights a year, too bad Anderson doesn't have a sister. He gets to have a travel partner, which will be Jackie, at least until they get married. Then he also gets 8 travel buddy things where we can fly for free as long as he is on the plane with us, nice! So we are planning a weekend to South America or something.
Nothing else much happened this weekend, I woke up this morning to see that I got a text from Nicole last night that read, "I'm engaged!" So that's the end of that chapter, can't say I'm happy with the ending, I did like her but I think that this last month has really nixed any chance of us becoming just friends in the long run. Since she started dating this guy, maybe 3 months ago, I stopped liking her, gradually. Then, just as I would be pretty much over her, it seemed there would be a text from her that stirred it all up again. I'm just saying, when/if I get engaged, the first people I am telling will not be people who I've had a somewhat romantic past with.
My lack of going out this weekend has led me to look forward to what Stev did in Wake Forest, so I'll wait patiently until A Family Affair, Part 2. Haha.
Here's to the outdoor season,
Chin
Sunday, March 13, 2011
The Fab 5
Of course that's the title after watching that documentary. Except our Fab 5, being the 1502 house, doesn't have anyone doing basketball analysis for ESPN.
No notes in my phone. I decided to do this really stupid thing where I don't tell people certain things about my life, they can only find out this stuff if they read my blog. It's really a stupid idea, so I'm not going to do it. But the one thing I haven't told anyone in real life is that I got into an accident on Friday morning going to work. I was behind this SUV, trying to go right on red. There were no cars coming, so she lets off her brakes and I thought she was going to go out. So I start looking to see if I'm clear to go, turns out the woman stopped for no reason, so I gave her a little love tap. We get out of our cars, there is absolutely NO DAMAGE to her car, none. In fact, I took off some dirt is all, so I actually cleaned her car a little for her, son of a...My car has a little scratch on the fender thats all. Still, she insisted that I give her my insurance information because she wants to take her car into the shop, just to make sure...Eff it, so now my rates will probably go up because she reported the accident, not to the cops, just to her insurance. To top it all off, she was Asian. Really? Most people who know me know how I feel about Asians, and that's just so typical, "Oh well, I'd like to get you're insurance information just in case...because I don't care if I screw you over, I just want to make sure my car is ok"..Woman, your car is fine, there is nothing wrong with your car...but please, feel free to screw me over..and why did you stop again, there was nooooo oncoming traffic, oh my gosh , so pissed....
The way I figured it, since my Friday's are usually really good, something great had to happen to me to off balance the accident. Nothing too cool really happened, in fact, I ended up working until 7:30 that night, then Dre and I just watched the bulls game and nothing else really.
I guess the "great" thing that happened is that it's getting warmer out. Also, with daylight savings now, I will be getting home when the sun is still up. That means I can start running outside after work, which I've been looking forward to for awhile. For some reason my knees don't like the treadmill, usually they're supposed to be better for your legs than running outside or whatever. Also with the warm weather comes longer days, I'm hoping to join some sand vball leagues and a softball league this year. Then outdoor basketball with Dre, bike rides with Squires, runs with Callie...Warm weather is awesome.
Last night, Dre and I went to Muldoon's, local Wheaton bar, to watch the Bulls vs. Jazz game. Mike wanted to get some coffee from La Spiaza, local Wheaton coffee shop, so we went there first. Squires joined us at Muldoon's, great special on Sam Adam's. We all talked, had a good time. So when we decided to leave it was only around 10:45, I guess we started a little early. I was in bed earlier than the nights I have work the next day...
Lizzie was at the Bulls game. We were talking earlier in the week about meeting up for lunch in the city. She never called so I just didn't go downtown. I would've really liked to go downtown this weekend, St. Patty's day parade, Barnes texted me that he wanted to hang out and getting lunch with Lizzie would've all been fun. As it is, I didn't go downtown...could've been a great time. After the Jazz lost, Lizzie texted me that she wanted to go out...Had I gone downtown I would've been in favor of that, but I wasn't.
On the other side, I have been spending way too much money. Chicago with Ike and Uz was expensive and then Ann Arbor last weekend. I had a $15 charge to Quik-E burger that I do not even remember. Kind of funny, but I'm disappointed that I was that reckless with my spending. I figure that it must have been when Zach, Chelsea and I were walking back...
I think I'll do my best Stev and slow down until Ann Arbor in April, easy to say at the end of the weekend. We'll see how I feel next Friday...
Here's to Spring,
Chin
No notes in my phone. I decided to do this really stupid thing where I don't tell people certain things about my life, they can only find out this stuff if they read my blog. It's really a stupid idea, so I'm not going to do it. But the one thing I haven't told anyone in real life is that I got into an accident on Friday morning going to work. I was behind this SUV, trying to go right on red. There were no cars coming, so she lets off her brakes and I thought she was going to go out. So I start looking to see if I'm clear to go, turns out the woman stopped for no reason, so I gave her a little love tap. We get out of our cars, there is absolutely NO DAMAGE to her car, none. In fact, I took off some dirt is all, so I actually cleaned her car a little for her, son of a...My car has a little scratch on the fender thats all. Still, she insisted that I give her my insurance information because she wants to take her car into the shop, just to make sure...Eff it, so now my rates will probably go up because she reported the accident, not to the cops, just to her insurance. To top it all off, she was Asian. Really? Most people who know me know how I feel about Asians, and that's just so typical, "Oh well, I'd like to get you're insurance information just in case...because I don't care if I screw you over, I just want to make sure my car is ok"..Woman, your car is fine, there is nothing wrong with your car...but please, feel free to screw me over..and why did you stop again, there was nooooo oncoming traffic, oh my gosh , so pissed....
The way I figured it, since my Friday's are usually really good, something great had to happen to me to off balance the accident. Nothing too cool really happened, in fact, I ended up working until 7:30 that night, then Dre and I just watched the bulls game and nothing else really.
I guess the "great" thing that happened is that it's getting warmer out. Also, with daylight savings now, I will be getting home when the sun is still up. That means I can start running outside after work, which I've been looking forward to for awhile. For some reason my knees don't like the treadmill, usually they're supposed to be better for your legs than running outside or whatever. Also with the warm weather comes longer days, I'm hoping to join some sand vball leagues and a softball league this year. Then outdoor basketball with Dre, bike rides with Squires, runs with Callie...Warm weather is awesome.
Last night, Dre and I went to Muldoon's, local Wheaton bar, to watch the Bulls vs. Jazz game. Mike wanted to get some coffee from La Spiaza, local Wheaton coffee shop, so we went there first. Squires joined us at Muldoon's, great special on Sam Adam's. We all talked, had a good time. So when we decided to leave it was only around 10:45, I guess we started a little early. I was in bed earlier than the nights I have work the next day...
Lizzie was at the Bulls game. We were talking earlier in the week about meeting up for lunch in the city. She never called so I just didn't go downtown. I would've really liked to go downtown this weekend, St. Patty's day parade, Barnes texted me that he wanted to hang out and getting lunch with Lizzie would've all been fun. As it is, I didn't go downtown...could've been a great time. After the Jazz lost, Lizzie texted me that she wanted to go out...Had I gone downtown I would've been in favor of that, but I wasn't.
On the other side, I have been spending way too much money. Chicago with Ike and Uz was expensive and then Ann Arbor last weekend. I had a $15 charge to Quik-E burger that I do not even remember. Kind of funny, but I'm disappointed that I was that reckless with my spending. I figure that it must have been when Zach, Chelsea and I were walking back...
I think I'll do my best Stev and slow down until Ann Arbor in April, easy to say at the end of the weekend. We'll see how I feel next Friday...
Here's to Spring,
Chin
Thursday, March 10, 2011
"You're yester, I'm to-day"
What do you think when you see an attractive girl/guy walk into a room?
I think I usually like to think that they've at least noticed me, too. A cocky mentality, and probably one that prevents things from happening...So a poor mentality to have nonetheless. I get this feeling of, "Well, they should approach me then...". Ah whatever, in this Wheaton area the girls are usually complicated, see Nicole. I think earlier in life I would think that they don't even notice me and still not do anything about it.
I guess thats why there's the Stevs and Stanns in the world, they are the ones who actually do something about a cute girl in a room. Like its a missed opportunity should they just walk out with no words/numbers exchanged. I suppose I should give him a call soon, get a pep talk. Stev, next time we hang that's what I think the goal should be. With the suits, I'll be feeling pretty confident. We need to make sure Mike O can be out there then.
I'm talking about this because some Wheaton College girls just walked into the coffee shop Dre and I are in. He Facebook chat's me, "You see those girls who just walked in? That one is gorgeous". I've developed this terrible habit of not looking at girls when they walk into places, kind of just catching them in the corner of my eye. Buy her an espresso shot, send it over. I know that Cassie would love that. Why are Wheaton girls so "high maintenance"? I think its just because they were raised comfortably in most cases, that combined with the piety of the town, they usually have pretty high standards. Even when I was talking to my ex ex about why her and I never did more physically she just went, "Oh Wheaton girls..." like its something they're just born into and can't control.
Here's to the Wheaton girl,
Chin
I think I usually like to think that they've at least noticed me, too. A cocky mentality, and probably one that prevents things from happening...So a poor mentality to have nonetheless. I get this feeling of, "Well, they should approach me then...". Ah whatever, in this Wheaton area the girls are usually complicated, see Nicole. I think earlier in life I would think that they don't even notice me and still not do anything about it.
I guess thats why there's the Stevs and Stanns in the world, they are the ones who actually do something about a cute girl in a room. Like its a missed opportunity should they just walk out with no words/numbers exchanged. I suppose I should give him a call soon, get a pep talk. Stev, next time we hang that's what I think the goal should be. With the suits, I'll be feeling pretty confident. We need to make sure Mike O can be out there then.
I'm talking about this because some Wheaton College girls just walked into the coffee shop Dre and I are in. He Facebook chat's me, "You see those girls who just walked in? That one is gorgeous". I've developed this terrible habit of not looking at girls when they walk into places, kind of just catching them in the corner of my eye. Buy her an espresso shot, send it over. I know that Cassie would love that. Why are Wheaton girls so "high maintenance"? I think its just because they were raised comfortably in most cases, that combined with the piety of the town, they usually have pretty high standards. Even when I was talking to my ex ex about why her and I never did more physically she just went, "Oh Wheaton girls..." like its something they're just born into and can't control.
Here's to the Wheaton girl,
Chin
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Fresh for the club, just took a half an hour nap
I'm about to write this before watching last Monday's HIMYM, if it's got a good theme I might have to post again later. I figure that there's a lot of events that I have to cover though so I didn't want this post to be too long.
I should have written about last weekend before this one, my brain is overloaded and I will probably forget some of the details in last weekend. On last Saturday with Uzi and Ike we got downtown via the train sometime before dinner. We went to Mich ave to do some shopping. The only thing we bought was 3 pairs of socks for me because I had a huge blister from my shoes and had to cover the blood. Before I forget I have to tell this story about Ike. He fell asleep in my car for about 20 seconds and when he woke up he was like, "Just thought you guys should know, I just passed out" It turned into this running joke for the weekend, ah, I guess you had to be there. Back to last Saturday, we got some deep dish pizza, Ike got hit on by some cougars, they thought he was 19. I guess they failed to see that he had a long island iced tea and we were sitting at the bar, I guess it was just an in line. We went to Ike's friend's apt, Britney, where we pregamed. She knew Stev, Wheeler and Mike O because of the phi psi date party they went to. That whole Carly/Kim/Helga(?) fiasco. Needless to say, Britney was pretty cold to me when she found out I knew them, especially Stev haha. Barnes and his buddy, Larry, came by had some more drinks and Britney told us she had some cute friends coming over. This led to the first note in my phone.
"The promise of good times (Britney said that her friends were coming over) and how is makes a pregame a lot more positive(?)"
I don't know why I have these deep thoughts when I should be out socializing and what not. Barnes was hungry so him and I went and got burgers from this small place. They were known for being rude and all so they swore at us and called Barnes a bunch of bad things when he only wanted lettuce and ketchup. Anyways, we go back to the pregame and keep waiting for Britney's friends. They showed up not too much later and their appearance led to the next note on my phone.
"Then it's baddd"
It was a note that added to my first thought. These girls were not worth waiting for 2 hours. Yeah that sounds shallow, but we felt like Britney manipulated us haha. There were only 4 girls and Britney had mentioned that she had 6-7 cute friends coming. So Ike asks me jokingly, "Where are the other 3 girls?" I replied, "Where are the other 7 girls?"...that was mean too.
We made our way to this bar called Rockit, expensive, $9 for a single rum and coke. Uzi's friends from the night before, Jen, met up with us and we went to Crossing, one of the bars that was closed the night before because we got there too late. It was pretty cool, really big and it had dancing or chilling, I liked it. Ike got into a dance off for some reason. This guy did this stupid flip, like using his hands and all and accidentally kicked Ike in the mouth haha. Then the guys other dance move was to lay on the floor, on his stomach. Uzis like, "I thought he was going to start doing the worm or something, but he just laid there, on a dirty a** floor". So funny haha.
At some point in the night some guys pulled up in a car and the passenger told Uzi that he looked familiar. Uzi responded, "Yea, you look familiar too...like Owen Wilson." Then I chimed in, "Yea! but add 40 years!" The guy was upset apparently, but they pulled away before anything happened, good thing. It's bad, I'm starting to get rowdy when I drink, but I think its just because we had liquor and almost always only drink beer.
The other thing that happened that night was getting pizza. They had a pizza called "Popeye Pizza". Ike thought that it was going to have buffalo chicken on it, like Popeye's chicken, but it turned out to be a spinach pizza with tomato slices. Ike was pissed so he spit most of it out, it was gross how he did it, food everywhere out of his mouth. Overall the pizza sucked, so we all cracked up when a guy leaving the place, by himself goes, "That's some good a** pizza" haha.
Uzi and I crashed at Jen's place, I slept on a couch in their living room. I woke up at around 4:30 and there was some other dude crawling under my covers. He was facing the other way on the couch so we just made eye contact and I was like, "Yo" kind of questioning him what the heck are you doing. He ignored me and we both fell back to sleep. Throughout the night we fought over my blanket and kicked each other for room. I have no idea why I didn't just tell him to get off or whatever. Around 8 am on Sunday, one of Jen's roommates comes out and she sees the 2 of us sleeping there. Turns out he was her boyfriend and he is used to sleeping on a couch so in his drunken stupor he got up from her bed and came to the couch I was on, even though...I was on it.
So that was the weekend with Uzi and Ike. Then Sunday night was David Gray with Squires. Understandably, I guess, she asked if I wanted to drink on the train ride. We did. About half a fifth of some Bacardi. Drop Kick Murphy's was playing downtown that night also so we made some friends on the train. they were pretty rowdy and Squires said she saw one of the girl's vaginas because she had a short skirt and apparently, no underwear. We got into the city pretty early so we went and got some drinks at the bar around the corner from the Chicago Theater, cool place, I can't remember the name of it though. The concert was awesome, it was a small venue and there was really no bad seat, except for Squires' seat, because she sat behind this guy with a huge head, huge. We had to run/hop a cab to make it back to the train in time, our driver even made some illegal turns to help get us there in time. It was also raining, so we were pretty wet.
One thing I noticed while watching the concert is how much we can be controlled by our environments. DG is a very romantic light rock kind of artist and I guess to put it one way, it would have been weird to go with a guy friend.
It took me all day Monday at work to recover. I got very little sleep over that weekend. It didn't help that I had to get up at 6 to take my grandma's trash out. The two things I wrote on my phone that night were:
"An interesting juxtapose" (No idea why I wrote that)
"Drunk me makes good decisions and drunk me makes bad decisions (6 am for popo)"
I leave extra notes because I've really been forgetting why I write some things.
The last thing I wrote that weekend was "Stupid people", don't know why I wrote that.
On thursday I went to see Grand Rapids with Drabik, it was pretty funny, like an indie 40 year old virgin. "NTS-not too shabby", I've got to start saying that.
This weekend I went to Ann Arbor. Stayed at hotel arch, obviously. Great hosts as usual. I picked Sweeny, Saint and Terp up from DT Chicago, they were visiting for SB. We had a really foggy ride out to MI, Saint actually drove because I had to eat my McDonald's. We just stayed in on Friday night because it was already 12:30 when we got in. We talked with Joe's parents for a long time and had some boxed wine. Woke up Saturday morning and watched Selena, kind of. Sweeney fed me a 22 oz. IPA from his favorite brewery in San Diego, or his fav brewery period. The most expensive beer I've had, Ruination, and probably the best IPA I've ever had, which says a lot because thats my favorite type of beer. Then I had some one of his other beers from the same brewery called Arrogant Bastard. Cassie came by for a little. Sweeney almost Naked Manned her but his chickened out and left his boxers on. My buddy, Zach, from Mexico came by, he knows Dobs too. Then Dobs, Sweeney, Forys, Zach, Saint and I went to Ashley's for Guinness floats, thanks for the ride Cassthighs! I never had a Guinness float before, good stuff. Midway through, Chelsea, another Mexico friend came by and joined us. Zach, Chelsea, Dobs and I all went to BTB Cantina to meet another Mex friend, Samantha. There was a black frat there or something so it was pretty packed. Zach and I Samantha Sandwiched with her on the stage, I was cracking up the whole time. Saint joined up with us and eventually him and Dobs left. Chelsea, Zach and I went to Rick's and danced a little. We left and I walked Chelsea home. We sat and talked in her living room for a little and eventually gave her a friendly 1502 hello. More of just a 1502 wave, nothing much too it at all. I guess she just recently broke up with her bf so she was a little emotionally unsteady. I offered to leave and she let me leave, meh, aside from the fact that it was 4 am, I was kind of glad to leave because I didn't want any confusion. The other thing, I think I totally stole Zach's kill. Actually I know I did, jerk move by me. I know I did because he texted her something like "Hey, if you want to still hang we should" or something like that. I'm not trying to step on any toes on my weekends in A2. Oh, the other reason it would have been nice to have stayed over at her place is because I want to be like Stev and not actually sleep at Hotel Arch when I have a reservation there anyway. Benny's for breakfast this morning, he was dressed in that nice stuff as usual. I visited Lizzie for a little bit, found out she actually bought a dress for Austin's wedding, well, used that as more of a reason to buy a new dress. However, now it looks like she might not be able to come, I guess we'll see. Squires, you may be able to come to this wedding after all haha. Driving home I realized that I forgot to sign the guest book, again. So here's my entry that I forgot to write:
"Comfortably established as the premier place to lodge at for me, Hotel Arch will be sorely missed when I can't stay there anymore. So I will keep coming here as many times as possible. Joe and Dobs were great roommates and David flexed his culinary prowess once again, even though spiral ham makes you real gassy. Can't wait until the backyard opens up again!"
So now I enter a solid month of workdays and weekends. Maybe some Chicago trips every now and then with this weather warming up.
Here's to Hotel Arch (again),
Chin
I should have written about last weekend before this one, my brain is overloaded and I will probably forget some of the details in last weekend. On last Saturday with Uzi and Ike we got downtown via the train sometime before dinner. We went to Mich ave to do some shopping. The only thing we bought was 3 pairs of socks for me because I had a huge blister from my shoes and had to cover the blood. Before I forget I have to tell this story about Ike. He fell asleep in my car for about 20 seconds and when he woke up he was like, "Just thought you guys should know, I just passed out" It turned into this running joke for the weekend, ah, I guess you had to be there. Back to last Saturday, we got some deep dish pizza, Ike got hit on by some cougars, they thought he was 19. I guess they failed to see that he had a long island iced tea and we were sitting at the bar, I guess it was just an in line. We went to Ike's friend's apt, Britney, where we pregamed. She knew Stev, Wheeler and Mike O because of the phi psi date party they went to. That whole Carly/Kim/Helga(?) fiasco. Needless to say, Britney was pretty cold to me when she found out I knew them, especially Stev haha. Barnes and his buddy, Larry, came by had some more drinks and Britney told us she had some cute friends coming over. This led to the first note in my phone.
"The promise of good times (Britney said that her friends were coming over) and how is makes a pregame a lot more positive(?)"
I don't know why I have these deep thoughts when I should be out socializing and what not. Barnes was hungry so him and I went and got burgers from this small place. They were known for being rude and all so they swore at us and called Barnes a bunch of bad things when he only wanted lettuce and ketchup. Anyways, we go back to the pregame and keep waiting for Britney's friends. They showed up not too much later and their appearance led to the next note on my phone.
"Then it's baddd"
It was a note that added to my first thought. These girls were not worth waiting for 2 hours. Yeah that sounds shallow, but we felt like Britney manipulated us haha. There were only 4 girls and Britney had mentioned that she had 6-7 cute friends coming. So Ike asks me jokingly, "Where are the other 3 girls?" I replied, "Where are the other 7 girls?"...that was mean too.
We made our way to this bar called Rockit, expensive, $9 for a single rum and coke. Uzi's friends from the night before, Jen, met up with us and we went to Crossing, one of the bars that was closed the night before because we got there too late. It was pretty cool, really big and it had dancing or chilling, I liked it. Ike got into a dance off for some reason. This guy did this stupid flip, like using his hands and all and accidentally kicked Ike in the mouth haha. Then the guys other dance move was to lay on the floor, on his stomach. Uzis like, "I thought he was going to start doing the worm or something, but he just laid there, on a dirty a** floor". So funny haha.
At some point in the night some guys pulled up in a car and the passenger told Uzi that he looked familiar. Uzi responded, "Yea, you look familiar too...like Owen Wilson." Then I chimed in, "Yea! but add 40 years!" The guy was upset apparently, but they pulled away before anything happened, good thing. It's bad, I'm starting to get rowdy when I drink, but I think its just because we had liquor and almost always only drink beer.
The other thing that happened that night was getting pizza. They had a pizza called "Popeye Pizza". Ike thought that it was going to have buffalo chicken on it, like Popeye's chicken, but it turned out to be a spinach pizza with tomato slices. Ike was pissed so he spit most of it out, it was gross how he did it, food everywhere out of his mouth. Overall the pizza sucked, so we all cracked up when a guy leaving the place, by himself goes, "That's some good a** pizza" haha.
Uzi and I crashed at Jen's place, I slept on a couch in their living room. I woke up at around 4:30 and there was some other dude crawling under my covers. He was facing the other way on the couch so we just made eye contact and I was like, "Yo" kind of questioning him what the heck are you doing. He ignored me and we both fell back to sleep. Throughout the night we fought over my blanket and kicked each other for room. I have no idea why I didn't just tell him to get off or whatever. Around 8 am on Sunday, one of Jen's roommates comes out and she sees the 2 of us sleeping there. Turns out he was her boyfriend and he is used to sleeping on a couch so in his drunken stupor he got up from her bed and came to the couch I was on, even though...I was on it.
So that was the weekend with Uzi and Ike. Then Sunday night was David Gray with Squires. Understandably, I guess, she asked if I wanted to drink on the train ride. We did. About half a fifth of some Bacardi. Drop Kick Murphy's was playing downtown that night also so we made some friends on the train. they were pretty rowdy and Squires said she saw one of the girl's vaginas because she had a short skirt and apparently, no underwear. We got into the city pretty early so we went and got some drinks at the bar around the corner from the Chicago Theater, cool place, I can't remember the name of it though. The concert was awesome, it was a small venue and there was really no bad seat, except for Squires' seat, because she sat behind this guy with a huge head, huge. We had to run/hop a cab to make it back to the train in time, our driver even made some illegal turns to help get us there in time. It was also raining, so we were pretty wet.
One thing I noticed while watching the concert is how much we can be controlled by our environments. DG is a very romantic light rock kind of artist and I guess to put it one way, it would have been weird to go with a guy friend.
It took me all day Monday at work to recover. I got very little sleep over that weekend. It didn't help that I had to get up at 6 to take my grandma's trash out. The two things I wrote on my phone that night were:
"An interesting juxtapose" (No idea why I wrote that)
"Drunk me makes good decisions and drunk me makes bad decisions (6 am for popo)"
I leave extra notes because I've really been forgetting why I write some things.
The last thing I wrote that weekend was "Stupid people", don't know why I wrote that.
On thursday I went to see Grand Rapids with Drabik, it was pretty funny, like an indie 40 year old virgin. "NTS-not too shabby", I've got to start saying that.
This weekend I went to Ann Arbor. Stayed at hotel arch, obviously. Great hosts as usual. I picked Sweeny, Saint and Terp up from DT Chicago, they were visiting for SB. We had a really foggy ride out to MI, Saint actually drove because I had to eat my McDonald's. We just stayed in on Friday night because it was already 12:30 when we got in. We talked with Joe's parents for a long time and had some boxed wine. Woke up Saturday morning and watched Selena, kind of. Sweeney fed me a 22 oz. IPA from his favorite brewery in San Diego, or his fav brewery period. The most expensive beer I've had, Ruination, and probably the best IPA I've ever had, which says a lot because thats my favorite type of beer. Then I had some one of his other beers from the same brewery called Arrogant Bastard. Cassie came by for a little. Sweeney almost Naked Manned her but his chickened out and left his boxers on. My buddy, Zach, from Mexico came by, he knows Dobs too. Then Dobs, Sweeney, Forys, Zach, Saint and I went to Ashley's for Guinness floats, thanks for the ride Cassthighs! I never had a Guinness float before, good stuff. Midway through, Chelsea, another Mexico friend came by and joined us. Zach, Chelsea, Dobs and I all went to BTB Cantina to meet another Mex friend, Samantha. There was a black frat there or something so it was pretty packed. Zach and I Samantha Sandwiched with her on the stage, I was cracking up the whole time. Saint joined up with us and eventually him and Dobs left. Chelsea, Zach and I went to Rick's and danced a little. We left and I walked Chelsea home. We sat and talked in her living room for a little and eventually gave her a friendly 1502 hello. More of just a 1502 wave, nothing much too it at all. I guess she just recently broke up with her bf so she was a little emotionally unsteady. I offered to leave and she let me leave, meh, aside from the fact that it was 4 am, I was kind of glad to leave because I didn't want any confusion. The other thing, I think I totally stole Zach's kill. Actually I know I did, jerk move by me. I know I did because he texted her something like "Hey, if you want to still hang we should" or something like that. I'm not trying to step on any toes on my weekends in A2. Oh, the other reason it would have been nice to have stayed over at her place is because I want to be like Stev and not actually sleep at Hotel Arch when I have a reservation there anyway. Benny's for breakfast this morning, he was dressed in that nice stuff as usual. I visited Lizzie for a little bit, found out she actually bought a dress for Austin's wedding, well, used that as more of a reason to buy a new dress. However, now it looks like she might not be able to come, I guess we'll see. Squires, you may be able to come to this wedding after all haha. Driving home I realized that I forgot to sign the guest book, again. So here's my entry that I forgot to write:
"Comfortably established as the premier place to lodge at for me, Hotel Arch will be sorely missed when I can't stay there anymore. So I will keep coming here as many times as possible. Joe and Dobs were great roommates and David flexed his culinary prowess once again, even though spiral ham makes you real gassy. Can't wait until the backyard opens up again!"
So now I enter a solid month of workdays and weekends. Maybe some Chicago trips every now and then with this weather warming up.
Here's to Hotel Arch (again),
Chin
Sunday, February 27, 2011
"That's some good a** pizza"
Gotta catch my breath. What a weekend, 2 trips to Chicago down, 1 to go. Uzi and Ike came out for the first weekend of Mich's SB. They got lost on the way into Wheaton and didn't get to my house until 10. We drove to the city, in some pretty bad snow, and got to my sister's apartment at 11:30. Of course AT&T sucked and I couldn't get a hold of her so we were standing in the little entry room trying to get in. For some reason I brought a pillow, so I felt foolish just standing there with my little overnight bag and pillow. I never bring a pillow, weird.
Finally we got in and headed out to the bars around midnight. We wanted to get some drinks before we went to the planned final destination, John Barleycorn, but we had nowhere to pregame. So we did a mini barcrawl on Broadway, heading south, so away from boys town, great choice! The first bar was this little irish dive. It was like the beginning of a joke. "An Asian and two Africans walk into an irish bar..." I think I got the first round of shots, SoCo and lime, then a PBR to clean it off. We got some strange looks in that bar. Onto the next one. Friar Tuck's, my dad's old favorite bar downtown, was second. Ike got us a round of these weird jagerbomb kind of shots, they tasted like root beer tho. Then 3 IPA beers, of course Uz and Ike hated theirs'...they like those fruity drinks I guess. It was someone's birthday there and they had to take a shot from the anus of this blow of sheep, then kiss the sheep so it didn't feel used...Last bar before Barleycorn was this MSU bar, Uzi tried to get a discount saying that he went there, didn't work. He then ordered us a pitcher of margarita. So we were pretty good after that, so we hailed a cab and headed North. We got to Barleycorn and they were closing so we didn't get to go in. We ran into one of Uzi's friends, Jennifer, in line though and she suggested this new bar called Crossing. Ok. The four of us piled into a cab. I was surprised that she just ditched her other friends to come with us because she barely knows Uzi, they had only hung out once or twice before that. Crossing was also closing, demn! Got another cab (Cassie you'd have been in heaven with all these cab rides) and went to The City Tap, dubbed the shi**y crap because I guess its pretty dirty or whatever.
We got some drinks and just kind of posted up. Ike was hilarious, doing all these weird dances, making fun of people. There was this one guy checking out Uzi from behind. I guess I was supposed to tell Uzi because eventually the guy approached Uz and they talked a little. It was funny to watch. The best part of that bar was when this really drunk nerdy looking kind of guy started aggressively groping his girlfriend while dancing, then they fell over. So the dance floor cleared a little and Ike jumped in the middle of the floor and did this weird dance that involved this clawing motion. He looked retarded, literally. People were coming up to him and telling him he was doing a great job. Oh, then there were these Asian chicks, they were looking in our general direction for awhile. Ike went over there and talked to them and then came back. He comes up to us and he's like, "Yo, so they're Filipino" We looked at him and were like, "We don't care, we didn't want to know that". This one guy called Ike Kanye West, Ike was pissed haha. We left City Tap around 3:30. Got some subway, went to my sister's apt, ate then went to bed. Uzi and I had to share a blow up matress, we were packed like sardines.
Well, I want to write more but I have to start getting ready to go downtown for the 3rd time for a David Gray concert with Squires. We're taking the train, Squires "assumed" that I wanted to drink on the train, bad reputation I suppose haha.
I'll finish the rest of the weekend post soon hopefully, which will include an explanation for the title of this blog post.
Here's to Filipino's with fake bosoms,
Chin
Finally we got in and headed out to the bars around midnight. We wanted to get some drinks before we went to the planned final destination, John Barleycorn, but we had nowhere to pregame. So we did a mini barcrawl on Broadway, heading south, so away from boys town, great choice! The first bar was this little irish dive. It was like the beginning of a joke. "An Asian and two Africans walk into an irish bar..." I think I got the first round of shots, SoCo and lime, then a PBR to clean it off. We got some strange looks in that bar. Onto the next one. Friar Tuck's, my dad's old favorite bar downtown, was second. Ike got us a round of these weird jagerbomb kind of shots, they tasted like root beer tho. Then 3 IPA beers, of course Uz and Ike hated theirs'...they like those fruity drinks I guess. It was someone's birthday there and they had to take a shot from the anus of this blow of sheep, then kiss the sheep so it didn't feel used...Last bar before Barleycorn was this MSU bar, Uzi tried to get a discount saying that he went there, didn't work. He then ordered us a pitcher of margarita. So we were pretty good after that, so we hailed a cab and headed North. We got to Barleycorn and they were closing so we didn't get to go in. We ran into one of Uzi's friends, Jennifer, in line though and she suggested this new bar called Crossing. Ok. The four of us piled into a cab. I was surprised that she just ditched her other friends to come with us because she barely knows Uzi, they had only hung out once or twice before that. Crossing was also closing, demn! Got another cab (Cassie you'd have been in heaven with all these cab rides) and went to The City Tap, dubbed the shi**y crap because I guess its pretty dirty or whatever.
We got some drinks and just kind of posted up. Ike was hilarious, doing all these weird dances, making fun of people. There was this one guy checking out Uzi from behind. I guess I was supposed to tell Uzi because eventually the guy approached Uz and they talked a little. It was funny to watch. The best part of that bar was when this really drunk nerdy looking kind of guy started aggressively groping his girlfriend while dancing, then they fell over. So the dance floor cleared a little and Ike jumped in the middle of the floor and did this weird dance that involved this clawing motion. He looked retarded, literally. People were coming up to him and telling him he was doing a great job. Oh, then there were these Asian chicks, they were looking in our general direction for awhile. Ike went over there and talked to them and then came back. He comes up to us and he's like, "Yo, so they're Filipino" We looked at him and were like, "We don't care, we didn't want to know that". This one guy called Ike Kanye West, Ike was pissed haha. We left City Tap around 3:30. Got some subway, went to my sister's apt, ate then went to bed. Uzi and I had to share a blow up matress, we were packed like sardines.
Well, I want to write more but I have to start getting ready to go downtown for the 3rd time for a David Gray concert with Squires. We're taking the train, Squires "assumed" that I wanted to drink on the train, bad reputation I suppose haha.
I'll finish the rest of the weekend post soon hopefully, which will include an explanation for the title of this blog post.
Here's to Filipino's with fake bosoms,
Chin
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Without Bias
Dre and I checked out a new bar in downtown Wheaton last night. It's across the train tracks, so it's farther away from the other bars. Its a different kind of place, they play the music really loud and it seems like the kind of place people would dance at, but theres no dance floor really so I don't know what they're going for. After one drink there we left for Muldoon's.
Tonight we hung out with a couple of old HS friends. To me, they were more just classmates in high school, but Drabik grew up with. We went out to dinner, a bunch of places were packed so we ended up going to b dubs. Shay, from last summer, was working there so we got to talk for awhile. After, Mike and I came back to my place and watched another 30 for 30. This one was called "Without Bias", Stev, there's a chance you might know what this one was going to be about.
As for the notes left on my phone.
"The end of the world would be fun, aside from the actual ending"
I think it wouldn't be the end of the world scenario, more just a situation where you had to evacuate a city at all costs. I think about the movie "I am Legend" for the set-up I guess. Imagine just driving to get out of your town, only to find yourself stuck in bumper to bumper traffic, moving nowhere. At that point, you would get out of your car and just start running. That's where I think it would be fun. Think about running through traffic, leaving all possessions behind, no matter how valuable. You just have to run, dodging other people opening their car doors to do the same. On what is usually a 70 mph highway, everything would be just so out of place like "Why am I running on this highway, what are all these cars, where am I running to? I guess the chaos and everything would just be overwhelming, I think I would be in this surreal state, immune to feeling, emotional or physical. The only concern would be "Run".
I found myself writing that in my phone when I was stuck in traffic going to my mom's last night. I thought that it would be so much faster to get out of my car and walk/run there. Rarely would we find ourselves in a situation where it would be appropriate to leave our cars behind. In fact, the only situation I think I would leave my car is if I was running from something life threatening, even then I think I would find it hard to get out. Look at all the people who get run over by trains or drown, all because they refused to give up their cars. Just a though, albeit a morbid one, but the thrill of leaving your possessions would be so nuts.
"Without Bias"
The 30 for 30 we watched tonight was about the death of Len Bias. This parts for Cassie:
Len Bias was a really good basketball player at U of Maryland in the mid 80's. He got drafted in '86 by the Celtics. Within a week after he was drafted he was back at the Maryland campus getting ready to party with some buddies. Long story short, they did some coke which led to Len having seizures, going into cardiac arrest, and ultimately dieing. Messed up. One of the people they interviewed put it perfectly, he said something along the lines of "Len was the perfect example of how high we can fly and how quickly we can fall". I mean, he just got drafted, that's like walking into 1502 after your last day of exams senior year. Then he just died.
As I write this blog, I'm wondering why its so depressing sounding. I don't think its some metaphor for why I want to move out of my house and all, I think it's just coincidence that both these thoughts were about the end of the world and death.
On a separate note, Nicole was in town this weekend. We didn't hang out at all, she suggested getting Jamba tonight but I declined, deciding it best not to...not to hang out(?). She's dating this Colorado boy, they seem very serious, she indicated they are planning on taking the next step after she graduates. I keep thinking about this conversation we had at Shane's before. It was that whole platonic talk, about how guys can never think of girls on a platonic level. I have changed my opinion on thats though. Anyways, Nicole said that she almost agreed, but she thinks that on rare occasions it can happen. I now agree with that, but it was something else she said to me that stuck out. she said that she believes that when a couple get married, that both individuals should be willing and should stop socializing with the opposite sex. So I know that it may sound like I'm twisting this, but I know that she said that. So basically, she thought that when she gets married, she should cut out or at least be willing to cut out friendships with all other guys besides her husband, citing that we should do anything for love.
I didn't mull it over that much until now, but I am realizing that to have accepted her invite to Jamba would have given her the impression that I was cool with being friends. Once she gets married, there is no way, if she is true to her opinions, that we can ever be friends again. No way. Nicole and I are not that "rare" case of completely platonic. I'm interested to see if she really gets engaged even if they've only been going out for a few months. Them Taylor girls...
I have to mention that Dre and I have been playing a lot of basketball. I've developed a decent shot. I had a great stretch of time starting on Thursday night when Mike and I played at the Sports Center. I played really well, even made a game winning 3. Then, on Friday I got all greens on the way to work. At work, I talked with my boss about my performance this first month. She said that she thinks the things I have done are great and that this report I wrote was very well composed. It was a good stretch of about 24 hours. Actually, this whole weekend has been pretty good. I hope the good fortune just keeps rolling. Ideally, I would win some sort of sweepstakes that gets me 2 tickets to NYC next weekend but that probably won't happen. I'll take no world endings or deaths, I'll consider that good enough.
Here's to Livin' on a Prayer (just texted to me by Stev),
Chin
Tonight we hung out with a couple of old HS friends. To me, they were more just classmates in high school, but Drabik grew up with. We went out to dinner, a bunch of places were packed so we ended up going to b dubs. Shay, from last summer, was working there so we got to talk for awhile. After, Mike and I came back to my place and watched another 30 for 30. This one was called "Without Bias", Stev, there's a chance you might know what this one was going to be about.
As for the notes left on my phone.
"The end of the world would be fun, aside from the actual ending"
I think it wouldn't be the end of the world scenario, more just a situation where you had to evacuate a city at all costs. I think about the movie "I am Legend" for the set-up I guess. Imagine just driving to get out of your town, only to find yourself stuck in bumper to bumper traffic, moving nowhere. At that point, you would get out of your car and just start running. That's where I think it would be fun. Think about running through traffic, leaving all possessions behind, no matter how valuable. You just have to run, dodging other people opening their car doors to do the same. On what is usually a 70 mph highway, everything would be just so out of place like "Why am I running on this highway, what are all these cars, where am I running to? I guess the chaos and everything would just be overwhelming, I think I would be in this surreal state, immune to feeling, emotional or physical. The only concern would be "Run".
I found myself writing that in my phone when I was stuck in traffic going to my mom's last night. I thought that it would be so much faster to get out of my car and walk/run there. Rarely would we find ourselves in a situation where it would be appropriate to leave our cars behind. In fact, the only situation I think I would leave my car is if I was running from something life threatening, even then I think I would find it hard to get out. Look at all the people who get run over by trains or drown, all because they refused to give up their cars. Just a though, albeit a morbid one, but the thrill of leaving your possessions would be so nuts.
"Without Bias"
The 30 for 30 we watched tonight was about the death of Len Bias. This parts for Cassie:
Len Bias was a really good basketball player at U of Maryland in the mid 80's. He got drafted in '86 by the Celtics. Within a week after he was drafted he was back at the Maryland campus getting ready to party with some buddies. Long story short, they did some coke which led to Len having seizures, going into cardiac arrest, and ultimately dieing. Messed up. One of the people they interviewed put it perfectly, he said something along the lines of "Len was the perfect example of how high we can fly and how quickly we can fall". I mean, he just got drafted, that's like walking into 1502 after your last day of exams senior year. Then he just died.
As I write this blog, I'm wondering why its so depressing sounding. I don't think its some metaphor for why I want to move out of my house and all, I think it's just coincidence that both these thoughts were about the end of the world and death.
On a separate note, Nicole was in town this weekend. We didn't hang out at all, she suggested getting Jamba tonight but I declined, deciding it best not to...not to hang out(?). She's dating this Colorado boy, they seem very serious, she indicated they are planning on taking the next step after she graduates. I keep thinking about this conversation we had at Shane's before. It was that whole platonic talk, about how guys can never think of girls on a platonic level. I have changed my opinion on thats though. Anyways, Nicole said that she almost agreed, but she thinks that on rare occasions it can happen. I now agree with that, but it was something else she said to me that stuck out. she said that she believes that when a couple get married, that both individuals should be willing and should stop socializing with the opposite sex. So I know that it may sound like I'm twisting this, but I know that she said that. So basically, she thought that when she gets married, she should cut out or at least be willing to cut out friendships with all other guys besides her husband, citing that we should do anything for love.
I didn't mull it over that much until now, but I am realizing that to have accepted her invite to Jamba would have given her the impression that I was cool with being friends. Once she gets married, there is no way, if she is true to her opinions, that we can ever be friends again. No way. Nicole and I are not that "rare" case of completely platonic. I'm interested to see if she really gets engaged even if they've only been going out for a few months. Them Taylor girls...
I have to mention that Dre and I have been playing a lot of basketball. I've developed a decent shot. I had a great stretch of time starting on Thursday night when Mike and I played at the Sports Center. I played really well, even made a game winning 3. Then, on Friday I got all greens on the way to work. At work, I talked with my boss about my performance this first month. She said that she thinks the things I have done are great and that this report I wrote was very well composed. It was a good stretch of about 24 hours. Actually, this whole weekend has been pretty good. I hope the good fortune just keeps rolling. Ideally, I would win some sort of sweepstakes that gets me 2 tickets to NYC next weekend but that probably won't happen. I'll take no world endings or deaths, I'll consider that good enough.
Here's to Livin' on a Prayer (just texted to me by Stev),
Chin
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