Dinhternet

I’ve been see­ing a lot of mar­ket­ing for I Love You, Man lately, and I think that if I were to sud­denly get mar­ried, I would be in the same posi­tion as Paul Rudd’s character.

Well, I have male friends, but I don’t know if any of them par­tic­u­larly stands out as a best friend. I just would not know who to pick. Maybe I’ll be like Bao N and have mul­ti­ple “best men.” (He had two, and appar­ently Jane P had two maids of honor.)

If you were to get mar­ried right now, would best man/maid of honor be an easy choice for you? What do you think of these labels as applied to the wed­ding party or as a “best friend” among friends in general?

So hun­gry… and arms so sore… but must keep post­ing… You guys don’t know the sac­ri­fices I make for you.

Thurs­day… the start of the fun! Woke up early and con­tin­ued the laun­dry. Wanted to have a Steve McQueen marathon, but Mag­nif­i­cent Seven didn’t work, so I could only watch Bul­litt. It’s a good movie, but it’s no Get­away or Papil­lon. There was also some more Literati. I was very excited to get seventy-one points for “crankily,” it was my first bingo bonus in what seems like forever.

Got hun­gry and started mak­ing noo­dles and the kim chi dumplings that Sophia C gave me when Kitty K called me up and told me to come over for lunch, so I brought the noo­dles with me. She had made rice and a Chi­nese tomato soup, which we had first, then we split the noo­dles. Kitty K and Jane P tell me I made instant food look good.

Back home and chilled for a bit, and then James S called me up and told me he was swim­ming over at the freshmen’s, so I went over, too. But first I stopped at Safe­way to get two Rock Stars (for the drive down to Santa Cruz and back) and two Gatorades (because it’s hot as hell in town.) James S and Mike T actu­ally swam laps for days. I just sat in the water and enjoyed the coolness.

Soon enough, it was 6:30, and I went home to shower and get ready for Alice C’s din­ner at Sud­w­erks. I was the first one there, and Will O spot­ted me and he was like, “It’s a thing? I thought it was just going to be me and her…” Soon enough, every­one got there. We got a table on the patio even though there were per­fectly good empty tables inside. Those bastards.

Din­ner was fun. aBB was dirty. Quote comes from when Will F showed up.

But he did. Boy did he. Will F had a shaved head, and many com­par­isons were made. Per­son­ally, I think he resem­bles Ham­mer­head from Dick Tracy now. We chilled there until a lit­tle before 9:30, when most of them decided to go to Wal­mart. Thu H and I still had to go home and pack.

I had to drop off every­one who didn’t want to go to Wal­mart, so it was around 9:45 when I got home. Packed up by 10, then waited for Thu H and Haley to get ready. Then we filled up on gas, and finally left town around 10:30. The drive was unevent­ful for the most part. I did take 17 at higher speeds than I did last time I went down there. It was so fun! Oh, and we beat Peggy S to Aaron L’s house because she acci­den­tally went the wrong way on the freeway.

When we got to Aaron L’s, played some games on the XBOX, then Peggy S got there and we played some more. Then Peggy S was hun­gry, so we went to Safe­way, and she got some potato salad, and Thu H got crois­sants. Back to Aaron L’s, and we ate and talked, and then passed out. Oh, and Peggy S never lis­tens to me. Thu H knows what I’m talk­ing about; she laughed at my frustrations.

OK, back to a week of back­log to cover. I had hoped to get more done before I left for Santa Cruz, but that didn’t hap­pen. Then I was going to update yes­ter­day, when I got back, but it was so hot I couldn’t think. And Jan­ice went to sleep early, so I didn’t want to use the com­puter at night.

But enough excuses… here’s last Mon­day. Woke up and tried to go online, but inter­net wasn’t work­ing. Took Peggy to class so she could have a lit­tle extra time to study for her midterm and ran some errands on cam­pus and down­town. They didn’t take as long as I expected, so went home and called up Com­cast and bitched at them to fix my inter­net, which they did. Went online and almost imme­di­ately got sucked into Literati. The games have been get­ting harder and harder as peo­ple get bet­ter at word placement.

After a while, I got hun­gry and tired of using my brain dur­ing the hottest part of the day, so I chat­ted with Peggy for a bit. Guilted her into split­ting her lunch with me. I felt really bad about it because I jok­ingly loaded a com­ment with max guilt, and she seemed to take it very seri­ously, and I tried to turn her down, but then she came up with bil­lions of excuses, so I ended up going over there.

Lunch was very good… it was kim chi and SPAM fried rice that Sophia C had made for her. Then Peggy, Po, and I went around town for some of their errands. I got to play with brainy toys in the base­ment of the Life Sci­ence Addi­tion. I didn’t know it was there, but they are fun. And air-conditioned. I would def­i­nitely spend all my time there between classes if I had sum­mer school.

After that, Peggy and Sophia C were going to go to Wal­mart, but I was tired, so I went home for a nap. But as soon as I got home, Kitty called me up and asked me to come over and fix her com­puter. Her desk­top kept restart­ing itself in the mid­dle of load­ing up Win­dows, and I told her a sys­tem file prob­a­bly got cor­rupted, and she would prob­a­bly have to refor­mat. Quote comes from when Kitty was study­ing as I was check­ing out her box and we were dis­cussing Poli Sci/IR stuff.

And then she moved on to her next flash­card. Jane P made din­ner and they asked if I would eat with them, so I did. After that, Kitty went back to study­ing, so I went back to my place.

Peggy and Sophia C called me up, and they were going to have din­ner and watch movies, so they asked me to come over. Oh, and to bring movies. And an onion. So I went to Safe­way to get an onion (and some juice, because I was freak­ing thirsty), and got Drew from his place, since he wanted to watch movies, too. When we got there, I told the girls I had just eaten at Kitty’s, and didn’t want any, but they shoved a bowl of rice in my face any­ways.

We watched 50 First Dates, because Sophia C hadn’t seen it yet. She also hasn’t seen The Sixth Sense, which 50 First Dates ruins. (But it had already been ruined for her.) Then we watched some Fam­ily Guy, and Sophia C got tired, so I took every­one home.

Wasn’t tired when I got home, so I watched The Twelve Tasks of Asterix. Great movie; those old-school Frenchies knew what they were doing. I haven’t seen it since I was a kid, and it made a lot more sense to me now that I have a bet­ter grasp of the Eng­lish lan­guage. Passed out after that, because it was still so hot upstairs, I had to go downstairs.