aegiswings

I had such a surreal night last night. I was planning on painting the kitchen ceiling and going to bed early as I had an electrician coming in at 7:30am to install a ceiling fan in my living room. Everything was going well and it was about 11pm and I was about half way done with the ceiling when I got a call from guess who... Sarah(2) (yah, I know you all guessed Sid but it wasn't her this time). She asked me if I could come and pick her up. I thought it was a little strange because she has a car, but she told me that her sister was in town and she was borrowing it. Also, when I asked her where she was, the location she told me was only 6 blocks from her apartment! Apparently she didn't feel safe walking through the projects in west Slumerville, and she had he laptop with her and didn't want it to get stolen. So, I put down my paintbrush, threw on some clothes and went to go get her.

I found her walking down the sidewalk near the grocery store. So was ever so grateful to see me and kept on thanking me and giving me hugs. She was coming from a beer and cheese event at a restaurant in Harvard Square but she didn't appear to be intoxicated at all. She wanted to repay me somehow and offered to buy me a beer and who am I to turn down a free beer from a lady, especially since I had exactly $21 dollars to my name at that time (I'm not joking, I'm broke), so we went to the nearest bar - a nice place in Teele Sq whose name I don't recall. The place was almost completely empty but it didn't matter. We sat at the bar and she got me a beer. As we were finishing our first beer, guess who walks in (no, not Sid) but Julia, my friend Don's gf! Julia is totally awesome and super hot. Don is awesome too, though, and they are one of my favorite couples. She was there with her friend Justine who I had met a few times before. They joined us and we got a table and drank two or three more beers. As unexpected as it all was, it was a fun time. I don't see Julia much and she is always fun to hang out with. And of course it's always a blast to hang with Sarah. Justine seems pretty cool too. We were there until after the bar closed (at 1am). Sarah and I were beginning to get a little tipsy, especially her, I'm guess since she didn't eat dinner that night.

We left the bar, said goodbye to Julia and Justine and went to my car. I started to drive Sarah home, but she said she just wanted to drive around for a while, so we did. We drove through the quiet (and boring) streets of Arlington, listening to Smashing Pumpkins and stopping once to chase a stray cat. (Wow, that cat ran *fast*!) Eventually I took her back to her apartment. She invited me inside to meet her sister. When we got inside she pointed to a lump on her bed and said, "That's my sister". Of course she was asleep, it was 2am!

Now I know what you are all thinking. Seemingly lame excuse to have me pick her up. Then takes me to a bar, gets me drunk. Doesn't want to go home. Invites me into her apartment. Talks about how lonely she is. Sounds like a booty call, right? I can assure you that it was not that though. I'm fairly certain that we established that she was not interested in me last Thursday. And if in some freaky way, she is, she does a *really bad* job of it. So I'll let you know now that nothing happened between us last night, although there were times when perhaps maybe something could of. Sarah isn't exactly "cuddly" though. She seems to prefer kicking, punching, scratching, pinching, and blowing onion in one's face (don't ask), and I was the victim of all of the above last night. I dunno - maybe that is how she shows affection in her own extrememly fucked up way.

Back at her apartment we drank some more beer and some wine too and I helped make a salad. That was actually quite a big undertaking. It was a pretty fancy salad (I helped her chop vegetables). Her sister woke up, presumably from all the noise, and came in and chatted with us. I've decided that Sarah should have a drunken cooking show. She is actually a decent cook and somehow manages not to cut herself while drunk. It would also be hilariously funny. After the salad was done we watched Arrested Develoment Season 1 Disc 1 on DVD and drank and drank some more. I was too drunk to actually drive home at this point and normally I would have just slept in her bed with her, but unfortunately her sister was sleeping in it. Sarah, while having a very nice apartment has absolutely *no furniture*. So we made a make-shift bed out of some sheets and pillows and slept on the floor. It wasn't exactly comfortable, but we didn't exactly sleep much either. We watched all of the Arrested Development DVD which pretty much consisted of me explaining every little thing that was going on to Sarah and her replying with, "I don't understand why this is funny" (duh! It's because you are totally wasted.) After that was over, we put on some Spike Jonze DVD which seemed to have a bunch of his early music videos on it. There was some really good videos I hadn't sene in a long time like: Beastie Boys - Sabotage, Daft Punk - Da Funk, Fatboy Slim - Praise You, MC 900ft Jesus - If I only had a brain. Sometime during that DVD we fell asleep. I was guess it was about 5:30am or so. I had set my cell phone alarm for 7am cause I had to get home for the electrician by 7:30am (ugh). I got back just in time and I found the paint out sitting right where I left it. Thankfully the cats didn't walk in it this time and leave paw marks everywhere (they've done that).

What an unexpectidly fun night. Now I know what some of you are saying. Why didn't I try to make out with her or something? Of course, I have tons of excuses. First, I think we've established that she doesn't like me in that way and me attempting something would make things weird and awkward and could even get me physically assaulted. Next, its probably not the right thing to do when she is pretty drunk. And recall that I've decided I'm not going after Sarah anymore, right? Because she has all those messed-up feelings about relationships and men in general. Also, if she went along with it, I think she'd only be doing it because she was drunk and lonely and I'd probably end up getting hurt (again, maybe even physically, lol). I'm not really looking for that. And probably the biggest reason is that I am a complete and total WUSS! One trend I've noticed though, is that on the third I sleep with a female friend platonically, I always end up fooling around with them or having sex. This was Sarah and my second time sleeping together... I have a case study of two other women which I've used to form this theory, lol.

ok, so understandably, I'm really tired at work today. Also there is huge news from my old company. They just laid off almost half of the company including every friend that I had there (of the ones that were still left around) including two of my closest. They were informed this morning and told to pack up their stuff and go home. They get paid for their accrued vacation time, if they have any, but they get NO SEVERANCE whatsoever. Just a "free day" if you count getting to go home a few hours early a free day. I'm really pissed at them, but I'm also happy I left that disaster months ago, because I'd surely be gone too.

This evening I'm supposed to meet up with Sid in Harvard Square. She's getting another tattoo. Maybe Kwizzle will be there too. I'm so tired though, I'll probably be pretty spacey. And I haven't shaved in like, a week.