Catching up...
Shit damn does time go by! It's been almost 2 years since I even looked at this shit. I kept thinking I should but just never did. Ok so I guess a quick review since my last post...
Grace and I broke up summer of '08. Now she's dating the retard she was dating before me. He found out a few months into our relationship she had a new BF and suddenly wanted to be her friend again. He successfully changed her and ruined a pretty good thing we had going. Well played, other Dave. No one likes him.
I graduated from college with a BS in BMET. I had some money saved up so I chilled a while without a job. Eric Steele's brother, affectionately known to most as "Brother," and I helped Perdie make a film for a 21-day festival. Brother as it turns out is far cooler than his older sibling. I won’t really go into why, I’ll just say Eric suddenly turned on me and I now consider Brother one of my best friends. We mad e a film called 8:18. We had much better assets on this one than we’d ever had on another film and it was pretty bitchin’. It’s probably on youtube or vimeo somewhere.
I started hooking up with this girl Denise, with no intention of any relationship since she’s often boring as a brick. I feel guilty since I’ve never done the whole meaningless casual sex thing before but she just always makes it too easy. I mean, who turns down a free dick suckin? Not this guy apparently.
I moved in with Isaac and Azn Joe, after a short stint squatting at Adam and DJ’s place. After a few months, Alex moved in with us as well which made things much more awesome. I realized, more than before, that Joe is a lazy shit that doesn’t give a fuck about the apartment or his room. We’ve gotten in numerous fights where I ask him to clean up after himself and he flips out and says I’m acting like a dick. I think he just has trouble taking orders from a white guy…
I got a job at Circuit City for a month cuz I really started running out of cash. After that, I reluctantly accepted a job at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP). It was much better money that at CC obviously but it was still a drag. I had to park in a lot a few miles from the hospital because the parking at the hospital was reserved for patients. I worked in the basement doing the same shit constantly. I worked mostly on Alaris infusion pumps. A few of the guys there were pretty cool. Josh, Dave Smith, Gary refreshingly, after a while I realized my supervisor Ralph was a really cool guy. Scott, my boss, was a douche though. The whole time there I was constantly looking for other jobs.
After a few months there I met this girl who worked next door at CHOP, Eva. She was fucking gorgeous and we started dating in February. We really rushed into things though without knowing much about one another because it soon became evident that we weren’t too compatible. Sucks too. I really wish that could have worked out. She loved to argue though and her mom was a crazy Greek who hated me for no reason and would yell at Eva about it, in Greek, whenever I was around. Thart lasted a mobnth before I ended it.
I only worked at HUP for 6 months before finally finding another, better job. I now work at a company called DiaSorin as a field service engineer. Finally. They make chemical diagnostic equipment for testing like blood and urine tests. I went to Italy for two weeks for training, which was really cool. My facebook has a ton of pictures from that trip.
A few months ago, Isaac pretty much started living with Kiersten, his girlfriend since last year. I know, Isaac with a steady GF? WTF? But she’s pretty cool and he’s really happy. So in his stead, High School friend Larry moved in. He’d lived around the area for a few years, but he moved like a mile away in December ’08 and I cosigned on his lease, under the stipulation that we hang out constantly. He moved in right next door to Andrew and Charlotte. Which brings me to something else amazing that came of all this. Andrew and I are friends again. I can’t express the kind of relief and ecstaticism (I made a word!) with which I type that, but it was actually Charlotte’s idea. BTW Charlotte is a lot cooler now. I guess after living with Andrew for so long, you can’t help but chill out and get less lame. Andrew and I talked a bit, went bowling and all was cool. No one has mentioned the uncomfortable bullshit that split us up since.
That’s pretty much as brief as I can really keep it. Oh yeah, Kelly and I kinda started talking again. We went white water rafting last year. That was kind of awkward, but I was happy to hang out with her again. Afterwards she said she might call me to chill later on that day so I hung around just on the off chance that she would but se didn’t. It was pretty fucking pathetic though. I waited at my mom’s house, alone watching my phone for a few hours until it got dark and I headed back to Philly. I cried a bit like a pussy. I don’t know why I thought she missed me like I missed her but it was certainly eye opening.
Later that year, I went Christmas shopping with her. That was less awkward and much more fun. I found out she had a new BF, named Jon so I didn’t bother getting hung up on her. I was pretty good on that till recently when she told me they broke up cuz he was a drunken asshole. So, as of now, I’m invited to her B-Day party in a few weeks and I plan to go. To be honest, and I don’t know why it’s taken so long, but as much as I think it might be cool to be back with her, I don’t much care either way. I’m going to do some classic dollar store b-day shopping for her and I’m also making her a mixed tape. Not a CD, which would make sense, but a tape… Not sure why. Who knows? Maybe she’ll think I’m a cool dude again and we’ll start dating. That might be nice.
Main reason I decided to update though was just because of yesterday. It was pretty sweet. I didn’t have anything to do for work so I was just “Available for phone support” all day. Around 9:30 I went to the bank to deposit $60 in Noelle’s account cuz I owed her for phone bill and she was about to be overdrawn by like 20 bucks.
Then I went to Advance Auto. I had replaced my brakes the day before because they were squealing like crazy. The new brakes, ceramics, don’t stop as well but less dust and noise is cool. I ordered a CV boot since I apparently didn’t the day before when I realized I needed it. Then I went to my mechanic to ask him about the uneven wear on my pads.
Then I went to Dunkin’ Donuts for some breakfast. While there, a 93-year-old man approached me with some reading about being a Jehovah’s Witness. More junk in the back seat of my car… I headed back to Advance Auto but my CV boot still wasn’t in.
While waiting, this cute girl walked in and we started talking about paint and other stuff. Her name was Ray-Anne. I’m sure that’s misspelled though. I got my CV boot and offered her a ride to Keswick since it was just a few blocks away and she didn’t want her foster parents seeing her walking on Easton since she told them she was at work. She’s a pretty interesting kid. Dad’s in jail, her brother and she are taggers, She’s had at least two sets of foster parents and she’s only 17. I truly hope she doesn’t turn into a loser for the rest of her life. I gave her my number and she said she might call me next week to chill because she has nothing to do. We’ll see.
I returned home and for some reason suddenly felt like uber-cleaning our apt. I disassembled the disgusting beer pong table and put it on the balcony. I also put the annoying spinny chairs on the balcony. I flipped Larry’s air hockey table and tightened all the hardware because it was wobbling like an old dude. Then I just started moving shit. Alex picked up on the cleaning kick too and did the dishes. Then we tried vacuuming but the vacuum was sucking a dick. Pissed that this was standing in our way I decided to go to Wal-Mart and buy a new one. While there I also stole some multivitamins and got keys made for Larry.
We returned and vacuumed the living and dining rooms. We arranged the furniture nicely and finally after a few hours of toil we pretty much done and sat down to relax. Right then Joe came home. Having done nothing… ever to make the apartment look nice, he suddenly went into interior decorator mode and started telling us where everything should be moved to fill up the empty space. Alex and I just kept saying we liked the way it was for now and enjoyed the empty space. Joe cleaned some shit out of the one fridge, and I guess that made him feel enough like he helped so he returned to his room to get back to playing WOW on his lappy and being a general waste of life.
Shortly after, Isaac called to see if I wanted to hang out. I told him he had to come see the apt. He came up and was very happy and impressed with how everything looked. He, Alex and I went to the 7-11 in Ft Washington and I bought everyone some food and drinks since everyone but me is poor right now. We chilled in the parking lot for a wile talking about stuff like the good and bad of legalizing weed, and someone using a payphone as their cell phone and going to a Verizon store for a case for it.
Then we went to DeVry for no reason and found Eric in his car waiting for Amber to get off of work. Alex rolled out of Isaac's back seat and into Eric's front bumper. I got in the car with Eric and showed him my panda shirt. I also told him that Amber was a total bitch to Isaac for no reason because he said hi to her a few times in the span of like 2 days and she never once acknowledged him. Then Alex ran across the parking lot followed by Isaac in his car, and climbed atop a DeVry shuttle van. Then Isaac yelled for me to come take a picture of it so I ran across the parking lot after them and did so.
Then Amber came out and Isaac commented that he hated that bitch. I said, "You want me to go hump her?" and Isaac said yes. So, I ran back over to Eric's car where Amber was about to get in and humped the shit out of her for a few seconds. Eric obviously hated it but could only muster "Uh, less of that." Then I basically just said bye and ran back to Isaac's car.
We hung out at 7D for a while and played some air hockey. Isaac left after a while ad went back to Kiersten’s. Sometime in there, Erica texted me, and asked if I wanted to play a board game. I asked where she was and she said DE, so I said no. She asked if I’d change my mind if she was in PA and I said yes. So she and her friend Bobbi headed up.
I think we watched some shitty TV for a while and then they arrived. They brought board games but they did not happen. When they got here Larry wanted to wrestle me for some reason so I jumped on his back and he picked me up and ran through the apt with me all the while I was slapping his ass repeatedly with both hands. Upon exiting the kitchen, he rocked my ass off the doorframe accidentally. I commented that was the worst beating my ass had taken for days and he said his hurt as well. I didn’t think I was hitting that hard, but I was definitely doing it a lot.
We hung out in Larry’s room for a while dancing in the strobe light and fucking around. We threw this ball around a lot and at one point Erica chased Larry with it or a pillow, I forget, and Larry made the mistake of running onto the balcony barefoot. He got broken glass in his foot and the fun stopped for a while.
Then we decided to play Hide and Seek. After a quick “no nose goes” Alex was chosen to be "it" first. He went in the bathroom and we turned off all the lights. I don’t know where the girls hid but Larry just stood on top of a coffee table and was somehow one of the last to be found. Then everyone went looking for me. After passing me by multiple times, someone finally realized the couch looked kinda lumpy and they finally found me underneath the couch cushion.
Next round, Bobbi was it since she got found first. She found Erica by kicking her in the head on the floor next to the love seat. I don’t know where Alex hid but he was soon found and Larry was eventually found as well, perched atop the fridge in the living room. Once again a search ensued to locate me. And once again after passing right by me multiple times, Erica noticed Alex’s bedroom door seemed further out into the hallway than normal. I was finally found holding a detached closet door in front of myself at the end of the hallway. Win again.
After that, Alex was tired and went to bed and the rest of us went to Michael’s diner. After not looking at the menu at all, the waitress came back. I pointed at pancakes or something randomly on the breakfast menu and ordered a milkshake and cheesecake. I made fun of Erica for missing her mouth while trying to eat and dropping her food and she commented that she should have just started chewing anyway to make it seem like she didn't fail so hard. She's a funny bitch.
We returned home and pretty much all went to bed. I kinda wanted Erica to go to bed with Larry instead of me cuz I thought it would be cool to have them as couple, but I guess she didn’t want to. WTF? I don’t get it. Larry’s awesome. I think I heard Bobbi in Larry’s room hanging out a bit after we went to bed but who knows what became of that. As per usual, though, Erica and I didn’t do anything but sleep.
Today my ass still hurts and I need to change into big boy pants to go out and help Isaac clean his car.
Also I really need to update this far more often, which I hope to start doing…