Yes­ter­day was a very driving-​intensive day for me.

Woke up and went online for a while. The blogs were in pretty much the same shape I left them the night before, so not much to catch up on. Chat­ted with some folks. Cathy said I was a weirdo for being up so early when I didn’t have to do any­thing until 4. I can’t help it, though… I can’t sleep in to save the life of me. Gave Peggy a wake-​up call at 9. Talked some more online, and both Cathy and Peggy asked for rides to cam­pus because they missed their buses.

Back home and watched a cou­ple episodes of GTO with Will. He’s been blaz­ing through them… I think he fin­ished re-​watching the whole series in the last two days. Went to Nugget to try their deli for lunch because Michelle J told me last week it was really good.

Will got bored and rented one of the Devil May Cry series. I’m not sure which one. Watched him play that for a bit, then Drew called and asked for a ride to Paint Chip because he missed his bus.

Home again and back online. Checked up on my usual web­comics, but only one out of three was updated. Looked for new manga chap­ters, and there was only a new One Piece out of the dozen or so series I read. No new animé or any­thing to get. Just checked blogs as they got updated for the most part. Also chat­ted a bit.

Then it was time for the project. Picked up Wei-​Li, Drew, and James R, and after a cou­ple of delays, we were off. Got to the Bingo Palace late, but they didn’t mind. Most peo­ple hadn’t shown up yet. They had us start with the usual… two flash­card games. James R and I had Money Maker, and we owned Drew and Wei-Li’s Four Sea­son­ings. Actu­ally, the first game was pretty even. Smok­ing sec­tion wasn’t that bad this time… maybe because we didn’t stay as long into the night as the first time I did this project. For the sec­ond round, we really did own Drew and Wei-​Li at the sell­ing. Mostly because our game, Light­ning Poker, had maybe a quar­ter of the cards that theirs, Jack­pot Jew­els, did. After we fin­ished sell­ing out games and got our money counted out, the coör­di­na­tor sent us home. I guess she doesn’t want us to be call­ing win­ner sheets and stuff like they had us do before.

Dropped off every­one, took a shower, and called up Peggy because we were sup­posed to hang out and watch MPD Psy­cho. When I called her, though, she passed the phone to Joe M imme­di­ately, who told me every­one was hang­ing out at his house, so I should come over, which I said I would. Then he hung up. Peggy called back a minute later, and was like, “Why did you call me again?” I guess she didn’t remem­ber our plans. I reminded her, and she was like, “Oh, OK, see you later.” I start dri­ving to Joe M’s place when I see Peggy com­ing from his place to mine. I told her to go park at my place, and we’ll go back to Joe M’s, since I told him I’d hang out with him for a bit.

Get there, and it turns out that peo­ple aren’t hang­ing out. They’re study­ing. So I was like… “Eh… I’m gonna go now.” After tak­ing a quick look at Joe M’s com­puter, any­way. While I was fix­ing it, Peggy chat­ted with Mommy Van online, and we decided to make a pit stop at Chap­ar­ral on the way to my place. Went to A4 first. Mommy Tang, Esther, and Dorothea were hang­ing out there. Mommy Tang gave Peggy some match­ing shoes and pretty much cemented her “Num­ber one daugh­ter” sta­tus. Which must have been a bit awk­ward for Esther. Quote came as we were leaving.

“All these peo­ple” mean­ing three other kids of her’s. So then Peggy took her by the hand and dragged her to a dark cor­ner of the apart­ment. Weird suck­ing and slurp­ing sounds com­mence, and Mommy Tang stag­gers back into the liv­ing room look­ing like she had just been drained by a vampire.

We were going to stop by Mommy Van’s apart­ment after that, but Mommy Tang needed to return a video to 49er by mid­night, which was only min­utes away, so I offered to do it for her, since it was on the way back to my place.

Back to my place, and we popped in MPD Psy­cho. I was look­ing for­ward to it, because it’s by Miike Takashi and the manga was really good. Unfor­tu­nately, the show was slow, the story was changed, and all the gory stuff had been dig­i­tally blurred. (I guess Japan­ese TV is pretty cen­sored.) Peggy fell asleep, and I decided to stop it after the first episode.

She went home after that, sup­pos­edly to go to sleep. But we ended up chat­ting online until the wee hours before pass­ing out from exhaus­tion again.

Oh, and this post isn’t longer because you threat­ened me, Peggy. It’s longer because I had a full day. If you — this goes to every­one who reads the Din­hter­net — want my posts to be longer, take a moment or two and make sure I’m get­ting prop­erly enter­tained.