KNOCKED UP!.........i did it! slept with a girl! her name's khola. khola! what a NICE name! how cool is that?! she was moody at first, but i guess that was new to me cuz i've never had a girl before. i will tell more. but not right now.................RIDE TO INDY.....................didn't take an atlas, just internet directions. sang to avril and john mayor. it was really neat when a car sped by us going 80-something and then pulled into our lane and then a cop followed and pulled him over right in front of us. it got us off laughing really good......................SWIMMING.....................................the iu natatorium is big! session tickets cost $10. i didn't mind the tab because i was impressed! there was so much going on, it was hard not to soak it all in. there were a lot of girls in swim suits. nice. noticed how lots of them have broad shoulders and are buff like aric, but not nearly all. JQ was the first to make eyes with us when we walked in. i nudged aric and told him to look straight ahead. she hadn't expected us - not at all. when i was just a figment or a bystander to aric and her, i totally understood. major brownie points coming aric's way. lol.............................................DRIVE TO BLOOMINGTON...................riding high, we turned the radio on and must've tuned out the rest in finding out that 465 makes a circle around indy! yeah, we drove in a f$^#$%@$ing circle! we were ten minutes behind where we started off! it was a cruel, cruel joke on us. yelled profanities and laughed and screamed, "YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS!" then the weather turned vicious and hail covered the roads and we nearly slid into a ditch. i got out to check if aric could gun it out, and he gunned mud all over my leg. i leaped into the car and remarked how the hail was brutal. what a dumba$$ i am! stopped at the golden arches and witnessed their golden lights going out for the night. sweet. felt really grand when we finally spotted the Flying J truck stop. it was the highlight of the night! what a strange landmark to be searching for. hit harding st. (37) and rode on into college ave. and then waldorf! we made it!..............................MATT'S HOUSE...........................the first room is the "blue" room. oyer's bedroom has a purple door and his bed has curtains. he assured aric he isn't gay. i asked if that purple towel in the bathroom was his, too, hehe. the house is really spiffy and tidied up! i had thought it might reek and joked aric wouldn't be able to smell it anyway because of his handicap. it didn't at all!...........................JUSTIN C....................justin c (jesus christ! he has the same initials as jesus christ!) is one cool dude. he has the amish beard going on, and he likes to cook. he made alfredo that is much better than fazoli's. he reigns from columbus, where that school is a whole nother school than central. a school where the teachers are hipper and such. when he was kinda fuzzy near the end of the night, he brought a picture of his sister julia (she's our age) into matt's room to show me and we found it after he'd gone already. it was really weird and really kinda inspiring he wanted to show her off. she's pretty. and justin's a pretty transfixing guy with stories to tell. he made me feel at home. his girlfriend kate didn't hang out with us, but she seemed very with it and really nice. aric sacked out on a couch.................HEART-TO-HEART..................in the role-model cousin role, matt decided he needed to talk to me about some things, responsibly. it was hard for him to get across what he felt he wanted to, but i got more from it than both of us could tell. he stressed being my own man and doing my own thing and what works for me over and over and over. lol. he said 99% of the ppl in bloomington don't do that, and that he's tried to find what works for him, and had done all right with it, but still it has only raised more questions. it was a good talk till 5 in the morning with the coolest guy i know. listened to the psychedelic furs, the cure, zwan, and pumpkins b-sides.........................KHOLA RETURNS, PART 2...................slept in one of the beds with you-know-who. i don't know if it was her bed or who's it was. anyway, i lost my mind over her but won't divulge info about it till later. it leaves me still wondering how i can make writing about the moment into a simplification. writing a story can never be like living the event again. and, as hard as it may be to really get a reader off, it will always be more difficult for one to adequately express one's love to its recipient. i was intoxicated with her. life is filled with its own falls, anyway. writing this reminds me of the time a girl's father told me trustingly, "if you knocked her up, i wouldn't tell no one."........................BRUNCH..................ate at the ren------ spoon cafe with matt and aric. aric and i had tasty pancakes with maple syrup. the waitress forgot my orange juice so i tried to remind her and she knocked her head and said, "OMG! orange juice! i'm so sorry!" her reaction to orange juice was so dramatic, jeesh! matt told us that, yeah, waitresses are great and keep him going in life. he told stories in an impressionable voice. one of the things he said was how, if a girl says, "definitely!" you've just hit a double. if she makes excuses not to do something with you, how you've fouled out. baseball terminology and expressions apply to all of it..................COOLEST BATHROOM EVER.................upon leaving the cafe we checked out the bathroom because it was recently shown on the Travel Channel. went inside and the tub was full of gold fish! you don't see that too often in a john.............IU'S CAMPUS.............toured campus pretty generally. it was too cold for a walk, but we did it anyway. went into the 2nd largest university union building in the world (the largest is in japan). talked about how squirrels don't hybernate. it took me 18 years to be clear on that rather alluring truth. matt informed us that the original manuscripts to On the Road by jack kerouac are at the library and also that it sinks an inch every year....................BYE-BYE BLOOMINGTON...................i regretted having to leave town at 1:30 but it was probably for the best. the plan was to make swim finals but the blizzard in indy was unreal and the tires on the celica couldn't handle it. the way aric puts it, "Angelina doesn't like the cold." hahahaha. we elected to go straight through. it was rough for a while there, but the roads cleared after kokomo and aric was mesmerized on the road in all his drowsiness and i kept awake. i now know all the words to avril's "complicated." sang some bbmak and other stuff. at one point we were on an oddball station and aric asks, "have you heard this one?" i say no and he says, "me neither," and changes stations. it was hilariously subtle humor. he's into the "pop." i also learned that meredith brooks sang a song i used to like........."i'm a bitch, i'm a lover..."................i will download it tomorrow. at dinnertime, at burger king got 3 more simpsons watches for $3! we bonded during the car ride but that was inevitable. some things will never leave that car. just kidding, lol............................TONIGHT, TONIGHT AT ERIN'S.....................what a dandy night! tonight was time for cheer! went to luter's. marz, so-and-so, jason from bsu, rogers, lindsay, aric, shawn, seevs, bennett, nick, and adamson were hanging about. scored the last piece of pizza, and then the last can of a&w cream soda! nice. bsu called marzotto names and i laughed and she picked a flirty fight and is like, "you know i want to," (i don't remember what that pertained to, but it's funny that never-the-less...) i agreed, "yes, i know you want to." i think i can take her. lol........most ppl left after awhile and it was just aric, so-and-so, lindsay, erin, seevs and me. erin recounted how, years ago, i told her how it wasn't fair that she is an only child and has 3 bathrooms, and my house only has 1. that was pretty cool to be reminded of. lindsay left with her neighbor josh, who played at the daily grind with his jazz group tonite. he looked older than he was, and he was pretty full of himself. i had contempt for him after he didn't appreciate my singer-audition for his band, singing "american pie." he didn't even recognize it!! he tried to ask me if i knew any jazz standards. f--- yeah i do! i used to be a musician, trumpet player who did improv at the f---ing elkhart jazz fest two times! but i played the "oh, really? no kidding?" game with the dude. ...some ppl, though.....after they towed out, tamara, ashley, and k.c. dropped in. tidbit from aric's journal, "Tamara and KC were a little under the influence. Nate confessed his true love for Tamara, but I have a feeling that she won't remember." i remember it like a movie. and i couldn't stop watching. they were gone as fast as they came. around midnight erin's parents got home and we went our own ways......................NICK'S TEA PARTY................................i was planning on going to so-and-so's, but just then i realized my gas tank's E was glowing so i did what i wanted to anyway and checked out the scene at nick's parent-less house. partie! partie! partie! ddrMAX, drugs, sex, and booz were present. lol. so were some worthy participants. bennett was clothed in solemnity. nick hit on each girl in jest. mike found a way to be happy. seevers couldn't have asked for more hugs (me neither). tamara told me she likes me (i won't let her forget it), k.c. was pretty loosened up, and i saw ashley d. in a new light possibly and she also cuddled my wool sweater and draped it over my shoulders before curfew. ooooh, ahhhh..................................THE KHOLA FLING, PART 3................................did i miss anything? oh yes, about khola sleeping with me. i realized we were together sometime during the night in at oyer's. felt someone rubbing my toes and she was there at the foot of the bed. ooooh-ahhhh. she's australian. and she may be a sheep dog, but at least i slept with someone on valentine's! funny, huh. anyway, on the half, night kiddo. sleep tight. :)
