Fun Times
Today was really, really fun. Last night, as a result of various airline snafus, Charlie ended up staying and hanging out into the afternoon. Charlie is really interesting and has a great deal of knowledge and number of ideas about music, art, and politics. It was fun sitting in the kitchen and talking with him and Jason about all of these things. After dropping him at the airport for his flight to Arizona, Kyle, Becca, and I headed for the oval where we caught up with Erin and Jason and hung out and read for classes. The weather has been beautiful, save for the occasional rain drop or thunder cloud, these past few days and I cannot think of any way I would rather spend it than lounging about outside with my friends. Surprisingly, we were able to resist each other’s company and accomplish a substantial amount of work. After that, I got ahold of Varu and we went grocery shopping. She said that I was being negative, or low energy, and exhibited a general malaise towards me. I don’t get it. It makes me very uncomfortable. I hate making people feel unhappy, but the manner in which she voiced her disapproval of my attitude reminded me a bit too much of my ex-girlfriend for my tastes. Its hard. Varu is one of the few friends that I have here who is a close enough friend to actually have conflict with. Hopefully the minor akwardness will be resolved tomorrow. After dinner/the Simpsons, we went out on our porch roof to chill. Kyle had tried to climb a tree to get on the top roof, but realized he would have no way to get back down. As he was climbing the tree, Jason shined a flashlight on him and it was a scene straight out of COPS. We even did the silly commentary that the police always give in that silly show. “This is the Columbus Police department. Come down from that tree … ” When we were out on the porch roof, someone had the amazing idea of lighting the window sill on fire with rubbing alcohol. It was a trick I had not been exposed too, and it looked really cool. We proceeded to light other parts of the house’s exterior on fire. This all culminated with lighting the sidewalk on fire and having me ollie over the flames. We skated for a bit before we all went inside. I played guitar with Kyle and later Jason. It was rather fun. Jason played bass to one of my songs and it was starting to sound pretty good. He plays bass remarkably well for someone who doesn’t do it often. I’d love to have his talent. Erin was over practicing her guitar playing, so the house was full of music. I finally got Erin to put her name on the Board of Correctness *. I knew she’d cave is. The truth is though, the board really hasn’t caused any major conflict. Overwhelmingly, its been fun and civil. So tonight was a really good night. The whole feel of the house has changed since Josh got a girlfriend and Kyle moved in. I think its just that Kyle is more like me than Josh and whereas I was the odd man out before, Jason and Kyle tend to do more of the stuff I like doing like skating or lighting stuff on fire or listening to records. But yeah, its been fun, somewhat reminiscent of crazy, innocent times in high school. I’m having second thoughts about leaving, but its hard because I know stuff like this can be so fleeting.
* The Board of Correctness was this idea I had because I like to argue, and I’m overly competitive. Basically, its this posterboard with our names on it. When there is an argument about some trivial fact (for instance, whether pigs have cork-screw phalluses or whether gyro meat is lamb or a lamb-beef hybrid) the winner gets a star by his or her name. The person with the most stars or who gets to 5 or 10 stars first gets a prize or maybe a trophy.