1/20/2009

Good moring! Weird night...

Wanna tell you about my weird night at The Pub [PATEOTU] last night.

First of all, i wasn't even sure i wanted to go out at all, due to the uneasy nature of my stomach earlier that day. But i decided the virus had come and gone, and a few glasses of beer would be rather refreshing. So Josh and Drew come to pick me up, and the night begins.

We arrive at The Pub. While ordering the pitcher of Mirror Pond, we notice it's open mic night. Drew jots something down on the sign-up list. A nearby patron takes notice, and starts talking to us. Strikes up a convo about open mic night, exchanges introductions, whatever. We go sit down. Josh brings up the fact that Drew wrote his name on the sign-up sheet. What are you gunna do when they call your name, we ask. Drew says he'll improvise. Hehe, that should be good...

Smoke break. We all go outside to keep each other company, and Drew leaves his camera and phone on the table. Josh decides to pocket them, then see how long it takes Drew to notice. I smile and forget about it.

Once inside again, we decide to grab an open pool table. Turns out i was on FIRE! Won several games of cutthroat. Go me!! Anyway, the dude from earlier, at the bar, is sitting in our area. He notices there are only three of us at the table, and tries to get in on a game of doubles. We tell him, if I win the next game, we'll play doubles with him. If not, we keep going with cutthroat. Without him. So a few more games go by... I was wining a bit, but we sort of kept that fact from Extra Dude. See, he was sort of a creeper. Maybe he was just drunk, who knows. But we were perfectly happy without him.

Some guy walks in that i recognize. Ohh man, it's the guy who dropped me on my head, onto a bench, a few weeks ago. Never let a drunk guy try to dip you while dancing. He takes a seat close to our table. I didn't expect he would recognize me, if i ever did see him again. Well, tonight's the night, and i'm pretty sure he doesn't. Hah, fine with me.

Meanwhile, Drew lets me in on the secret that he actually put Josh's name on the sign-up list, not his own. Hehe. I laugh, a lot, and forget about it.

Finally Creeper gets us to let him play a game of doubles. Guess what, he's on my team. Hooray.

By this time, a performer has gotten up to stage that Drew and i happen to be fans of. We saw him by accident a few weeks ago, when we also happened to go on a Monday night (which is the regular night for open-mic acts). When we'd seen him a few weeks ago, he could barely stand. Seriously, he was pinballing off of everything near his path due to what appeared to be vast alcohol consumption. To our surprise, however, he took the stage, and won over the crowd. This guy has a really unique voice, lots of soul, and can pelt it out so the whole place has no choice but to pay attention. Awesome.

So anyway, he's up playing again. It's good to hear him. :)

Back at our pool game, Creeper is getting touchy-feely. Apparently with everyone. Rubs on the back, grabs on the side... Ugh. I try to keep my distance. I step up to line up a shot that would give me a good leave. He comes over to point out an obvious and easy shot. I'm already completely annoyed that he's been throwing compliments at me left and right all night, over every mundane move i make. I try to be nice, but thankfully Drew calls out that i know how to play the game. Creeper walks away. I guess that's when he told the guys that he was attracted to my strong will, since i didn't take his advice. Ew.

Just as the game was ending, Fumbles tries to strike up a conversation with me. "We've met," i tell him. "Are you sure about that? What's my name?" I tell him his name. You can see the "oh shit" look materialize on his face. "Yeah, it was a few weeks ago. You dropped me on my head. I had a knot there for days." At least three. "Oh shit, that was you?! Didn't you have a friend with you? Have you known it was me the whole night, or did you just recognize me?? Oh, hey man." Just then his friend walks in, the same friend that witnessed my head injury a few weeks ago. "Hey! Do you remember me?," i ask, thinking it was perfect timing that he should show up. He was pretty much sober that night, i knew he'd recognize me. Turns out he even remembered my name.

The game ends. I think Drew and Josh won, 'cause i couldn't concentrate on a single shot i tried to take. They pretty much swept the table.

I go sit down to sip on my beer some more. Just as i'm relazing, some dreadlocked-girl comes over to our table. "Hey girl! Will you come outside with me? 'Cause you're a girl?" I decide to go, thinking she's probably not a nutcase. I was wrong, turns out she was. Schitzophrenic, to be exact. I don't know why she wanted to go outside with a girl, she never really struck up a meaningful conversation with me. Or even a convo with any semblance of a purpose... Oh well. I snuck away when she turned her interests to someone else. The three of us left asap, went home and watched a movie.

Weird night. Guess that's what Mondays are for...

1/16/2009

The beginning

Just watched the beginning that I had missed. Bawled SO much more. Ohh man. If you're in the mood for a good cry ever... Reservation Road.
Good actors + good story = gooood stuff.

Reservation Road

Bawling my eyes out right now. The movie just ended, and it was so good. I didn't even see the first half hour of the movie, but I was still emotionally invested in, and had full empathy with, each of the characters. And with the good storytelling, I was easily able to figure out that it was Mark Ruffalo's character that had killed the boy in the beginning of the movie. Oh man, so good.

Also, never ever thought Joaquin Phoenix looked like Ryan until now. Probably because I don't see his face anymore.

Anyway, good movie. Don't know why I avoided it for so long... guess I had to be in the right mood.

1/13/2009

Lip locks

When it comes to kissing, there have been very few mouths that I'd consider were well-suited to kiss mine. I'd say three, maybe four, ever, although I still love kissing and snuggling sometimes more than coitis (what can I say, I'm a girl). However, there are a few moves that I just really can't handle. And many more that I tolerate, but don't fully enjoy.

One of the strange-yet-tolerable instances is the "swirling round and round tongue." I really don't enjoy that, but sometimes it seems like more people dig it than don't, so I guess I can put up with it. But throw in the hard-as-a-rock pointy tongue, and I'm outta there. Nothing says romance like giving your tongue a swirley in my mouth... Ew.

Another fascinatingly-disgusting tongue trick is the whole "lapping like dogs do" bit. Just thinking about this one literally makes me sick to my stomach. This is a kiss, hi. Not a feeding frenzy for a baby bird. Excuse me while I go vomit...

Anyway, this is what was on my mind this morning. Thought I'd share. Now go out there and wow 'em with your non-gross tongue moves, you crazy kissers.

12/19/2008

I'm making a name for myself...

And it isn't pretty.

I need to put on the brakes. Fast.

12/17/2008

Things and stuff

Not exactly sure how or what I'm feeling... General exhaustion, maybe.
Fatigue. I'm happy to be out of re house right now, but looking at all
the awesome things I can't buy for my friends doesn't exactly
constitute a good time.

On another note, I feel like I'm burning a few too many bridges, and
quickly. Pretty soon I'll be burnt right into isolation.

And finally, on a happier note, I'm really looking forward to the LAN
party this year. It's gonna be awesome to see everyone.

I feel like there's a lot more to say, but I can't really put a point
on any of it. Blah. Later.

11/01/2008

and then... (aka how i spent my seattle vacation)

Tom: Tell me a REAL STORY!
Callie: haha, kay.
got there thursday night, lucas and drew picked me up, then we went over to drew's bro's house (tyler) where he and his gf made us enchiladas. then we watched the office.
drove up to bellingham that night and went to bed. friday... well, i don't really remember what happened friday morning. but friday evening drew and i went to a restaurant where they have the grill and cook your food in front of you
that was fun
and tasty!
then we went to a martini bar with bobbi, drew's roommie
i had a really tasty martini, and i decided that i need to go out for martinis more often
oh wait! hah, i remember the rest of that day
i went to work and school with drew
even got to go to a class and listen to a few of his peers give lectures on technology-related subjects.
then we went to the mall, where drew bought me a pretty dress for the wedding we were going to.
then saturday was the wedding. in the morning we went to... somewhere? then to a park on the water where we walked the boardwalk for a little while
then went home to get ready for weddingness
the wedding was in seattle on a boat. it was really pretty, and pretty fun! open bar, really tasty dinner, music and dancing and lots of cool people
i made a few friends! i like when cool girls think i'm cool.
Tom: rad
Callie: then sunday, well, i can skip sunday right?
since it's all detailed elsewhere
Tom: sure if sunday had no details
Callie: what? i told all about sunday. i could copy and paste, if you want :P
Tom: why'd you say just now that you'd skip sunday then?
Callie: that day we went to ihop for breakfast, then lucas got into town and we went to a play, "And Then There Was One" (comedy/satire/murder-mystery). After that we went frolfing (aka disc golfing), then to an ice cream parlor where i tried rose-flavored ice cream, and i managed to wear about half of the treat. apparently i've forgotten how to eat fun things. by this point it was dinner time, so we went to some bar/restaurant place and had taaaasssty burgers. then back to drew's place, watched iron man, then lucas drove me down to seattle. i promptly passed out.
Tom: very nice
Callie: the rose ice cream was pretty good!
they had other cool/weird flavors too
Tom: sounds really interesting
Callie: like vanilla black pepper
Tom: huh
Callie: k, then monday i was in seattle again. me n lucas went to his school and he gave me a tour of the campus. it's beautiful. it made me want to go back to school.
in the common square they had sidewalk chalk, so we colored for a lil while on the bricks
i made a dragon
2 dragons
a bigger one, and a cooler one
Tom: nice
Callie: then we happened upon a pretty cool art gallery. it claimed to be the coolest art gallery in seattle, so of course we had to stop in.
and yeah, it was pretty cool. i wanted lots of the pieces in there.
then went to a chocolate factory, where i had an earl grey truffle, and a burnt sugar truffle. both were tremendously delicious!
Tom: wow
Callie: then we walked down to the canal where we ate our chocolates.
Tom: Earl Grey truffles are delicious
Callie: talked of renting a canoe
they really are!
ended up going to a couple of parks instead. the first one was overlooking the water, with downtown in the distance
oh, that's where the picture i sent you was from, btw
Tom: oh okay
Callie: then we went to a park in the middle of the city, but it's in a valley with lots of trees, so it feels like you're in the wilderness since you can't see or hear the city
then i caught my train home!
the end

so did i effectively bore you to death with my seattle story? 'cause that's why i don't tell stories. i'm not the greatest at making them sound interesting. i have a more simplistic view on storylines.