talking shit about a pretty sunset

cemetery day 1, season 2

this morning at 7:20 i biked to work at rice cemetery. the guys saw me and it took them a sec, but really saw me. tony wire pointed and went, "hey look it's gowdy!" and all of them looked back and yelled, "heyyyyiii gowdy!"

today the crew dug foundations. after the first break we split up (for efficiency), half of us at rice the others at prairie st. jerry the foreman picked his men at prairie to be jim, scholfield, me and dave.

jim's first words to me were, "gowdy, get any pussy yet? his most famous line is, "did you turn her upsidedown and lick her like a lollypop?" and he still likes to prove he's a better worker than lonnie. jim's motivational quote of the day: "[superintendent kristy] don't tell you how to carry yourself, she just wants you to go on."

dave helped a lot with showing me the way.. when it comes to digging and things. "what'd your dad raise you for?" he asked, and jerry goes, "he didn't raise him for digging." i thought it was funny when dave asked me, "what'd you learn at college?" and i didn't know what to say.

jerry kept rehearsing to the guys how i was too preoccupied with a worm tied up in a knot.. two knots.. tied in a ball in fact. "have you ever seen a worm tied in a knot?" i put it to him, and he said no, he hadn't, and no, he wouldn't care if he did. at one point i ran over to something and away from jim bending over using the auger, and jim asks what i was doing and i told him just looking at something, and he goes, "oh, i thought jim had farted or something."

randall did wear khakis to work - matt was right. he's a university of michigander, and he likes it up there. and he is a liberal, too. i agreed to disagree with power conservatives ryan and geoff.

lonnie's word of the day: horseshit. prairie st is his post, and a granny rode in on her scooter tody and weedwhacked around her husband's plot like i seen her done last year. jim said, "that's what happens. grannies come out in their wheelchairs to whack when lonzo gets behind."

goeff rambow took off for the day with a hangover.

mike thomas (paul thomas' gson) wasn't back because he applied too late. ryan peterson wore a safety vest and is the new "team leader" (the safety vest says so in marker), as kristy so christened him when she was telling how it's his responsibility to set a good example after spying, acting all up like she was rearranging her office. we talked about how last year on my first day of work, we played homerun derby in the cemetery and got in trouble. he also said how i was going about college all wrong, when you hold parties you have to tell the ladies on the way inside - "panties in the plastic baggy." and me and stubbs are to host white t-shirt and "golf pros and (something?) hoes" parties.

ant starts on tomorrow.

going back to work it was like picking up where last summer left off. same old routine. these guys keep a plot to things. only diff is this year part-timers aren't allowed to drive the trucks - new rules because of city-wide ones.

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this evening was AWESOME

lauren's track meet against discovery was fun. ant came and watched it with me and lauren wanted me to let him know after he had gone that it meant a whole helluva lot to her. so the good news...she finally broke six in the mile and beat the fast discovery girl - 5:58!! but...she sucked in the 800 today; got 2nd. i got to see all her friends, including jenny who hates running and lizzy of course. random comment - mr robinson their coach is great, he's always the greatest guy to get to see again.

there was an 8th grade obnoxious black kid there who i talked with for awhile. he was glazing a pot for art in the bleachers because he didn't want to fail. anyways, Dad used a word for a girl's high jump, it was hippety hop. definitely not a cool comment by my dad, but after coersion by me the kid finally told me how he thought it was a gay thing for the old man (my dad) to say. he went on about how he was a homophobe (he didn't use that term) and being from jackson ny and being in a gang, the gd's, and at one point he left he asked me to hold onto his swiss-army knife for him, one he keeps on him because he lives in a sketchy neighborhood. and he kept saying, "AW SNAPS!" hahah wow.

i'd ridden out to pierre moran so on the way back i passed the girls NIC track meet at central. first i saw mrs crain and then coach baker and hugged, and before heading back to his post on the opposite side of the track to cheer on the girls, he told me to come over sometime and see his home improvements lol. picked up lo at home and we went back (in Dad's truck) to see the girls run. i had a really really good time...

walked in with deepak (who btw has a dirty sanchez mustache, ha!) and sat with the sophomore and juniors i know, and frp, what i could tell, the only student fans really at the meet. i felt welcome and cool being the college guy i guess. got a hug from malee before i knew it and we talked about thiiiinnnggss haha. i love her, and she is going for the record of a prom every year of high school, dating josh crain (they are both going to be juniors i guess, heh), and...what a great girl.

that paragrah was going to get long. new one:

i also watched brittany booth get 2nd in the 2-mile and caroline the frosh placed 6th i think. i told him he should and evidently he has - deepak asked her to homecoming and got shot down. he's a go-getter. also hung out with lindsey huang and i think it's the most we've talked and it was cool, and i wanted to tell her hers is probably the most consistent diary i think i read if only to see what's new and it's "2 lines." thru the vagueness i was mentioned WOO! i was thanked for being friendly after "no offense, nate, but you were never especially nice to me when you went to central (it was more like ... "ughh theres little huang, do i HAVE to talk to her?")" and i was surprised i'd come off that way. i used to always be, "don't know what to say" with her and even tho i liked her i guess the way she felt i felt reversed, ha...hmm funny how that stuff works. hmm now this paragraph is getting too long...

at one point three cute penn girls sat behind me and i'm pretty sure it was a hit on and run. they assumed i went to central and i didn't deny it. i asked what they run and then they asked what i do i said, "umm choir...and i did run, but i'm injured." they asked what happened, and after answering i got injured three times after they asked what happened three times, i caught on: "um, ohh hurt my knee."

before leaving, saw booths, talked to xc boys kyle and spencer, and pants'd kyle morton in front of mrs huang and lindsay (he's her bf i think) because having his shirt tucked-in was dorky. this was after i talked to beth habegger and her dad for a long time...mr habegger has to be one of my favorite grown-ups to talk to. beth's been having as much fun as i had at college, and when she said dan is a figi i ran with that (i don't that frat). she thought it was neat ant and me are good friends. her dad likes going to the track meets and i asked if he'd be at the boys NIC meet on thursday and then realized ohh trish (beth's mom) is having the pops recital thursday, too. he said he'd probly make sectionals. then, after talking until lauren was nagging us to stop, chris (beth's dad's name, heh - so i don't always have to call him beth's dad) said, "i'll see you thursday," and i'm like, "nooo, the recital's thursday. you can't come, remember!" hahah oh it was funny to me.

while talking, malee rolled up in her new black mustang and did her "hey i'm cool hi bye" and as she was pulling coolly away almost ran into a van. hahahha!! DRIVE SAFELY, MALEE!!!!! *don't go the wrong way either!* then long story short i thought i'd lost my dad's truck keys and lauren and i hitched a ride home from my pre-algebra teacher mr rossi only to find out later that i'd left the truck unlocked with the keys on the dash hmmmm. call me a dingbat or something.

got home tony and stubbs came then did ant and katie r, and we listened to modest mouse's "this is a long time for someone with nothing to think about" and then went to the riverview elementary playground and shot hoops, merry-go-round'd, did the obstacle course, and swinged in the dark. fun night. i got home and have been currently writing for too long.

this is one of the best days i've had in a long time and it isn't supposed to be. it happens.

GRABES I LOVE YOU MAN, BUT QUIT IT!!!!! DELETE THE GIRL-SAD TALK!!!!!! HAVE FUN SMOKE SOME CUBANS OR SOMETHING!!!!! PAISE OUTTIE!!!

--nate

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