valie

through all the unexpected twists and turns...
i think i made it out okay.

life is like a box of chocolates you never know what you're gonna get.

everything's been hectic as hell the past 48 hours and its been a strange trip.

emily's back from scotland... my lovely. i missed her so for the past 6 months. she's phenominal and gorgeous as she should be.

i went into BK today to go visit alex and see a couple good 'ol school faces... it was entertaining. I havent seen these people in like a bajillion years it seems...

i met some dude that just left a bachelor party at the train station in manhattan... it was intense.

all i did was ask for a cigarette and then we became bros... i never expected to just meet someone off the street.

he didnt have a way to get home so he ended up taking the same train as me... strange, yes. oddly i felt i could trust him. I didnt find this out until after we sat down on the train and were on our way. turns out the direct train to his town stopped running at 1155 and well i met him and it was like 1/4 after 12.

just some crazy 26 year old bachelor high up in a software company... i never thought it'd end up the way it did.

this guy was hilarious.. he was waking people up on the train and talking to them about how he lost his virginity to a "good girl" and then proceeded to explain how she was a pretentious bitch psycho.. but he was still good friends with her.

he got off at the stop before mine and was going to try and find a cab service to pick him up from there... he thanked me for getting him as far as i could and shook my hand and left the train. and that was the end of jeff...

i was so impressed by his respect towards this young lady he had met at the train station... we just clicked... it was wierd.

i got off the train and called josh to tell him i was on my way home and then i called alex and told her of my adventure in the trainstation... i couldnt help but feel bad though... he seemed like such a nice guy and he was probably still stuck at the trainstation trying to find that non-existing cab at 2 in the morning in NJ. he was about a highways half hour from home and no way to get there.

i decided out of the kindness of my heart to swing by the station he got off at and there he was... standing there like a lost boy... i pulled up and looked at him from through the window... the look on this dude's face was amazing. I asked him if he wanted a ride since he apperently hadnt found one. He was dumbfounded.

the whole way to his house all he did was thank me and tell me what an amazingly good person i was and how it was brave of me to just take some random dude home that i just met 2 hours ago.

for some reason in my head it made sense. we'd become friends on that trip home. i knew him. i knew him as well as i know people when i first meet them. i just got a good vibe.

i pull into his drive way to drop him off and he tells me i need to stay and at least have a drink.. i agree... i wisely choose an unopened can of beer. We sit and we talk and he give me a tour of the house... he keeps going on and on about how he needs to get me a gift for what i did for him... he wouldve been stranded had he not bumped into me at the trainstation.

what i dont understand is why people feel the need to give you reimbersment for the things you did only out of the genuone kindness of your heart. I was happy to do something like that for someone... i don't want anything in return.

i told him to just pass it on to someone else.

needless to say i met someone completely new and different today and it felt good to be myself.

things have been wierd... i feel strangely content.

hopefully i'll talk to jeff some time in the not so distant future.

he was a cool guy.

and a great friend.