Saturday, April 10, 2004

So this Spring Break was not a total waste. My dad bought me a CD today when we were out because my sister wanted a certain CD or something. As much as I hate having to choose such things when I had no idea I was going to getting one, I tried to make my decision quickly. At first I was going to select Bowie's "Daimond Dogs," but after a bit I thought of the Pixies. I did not own any of their albums but I had liked what I had heard. So I looked for them, and at first looked for "Trompe le Monde," because I remember Tony reccomending that one, but they did not have it. So I settled for "Doolittle." I must say I have very pleased with it. ^_^ I have also made some significant progress (just today) in playing Viewtiful Joe in Adult(hard) mode, since I had recently beat it on Kids(easy). At first I had a lot of trouble and I was only halfway through the first level. However, after taking some advice from Tony, and trying a couple more times, I got past the part I was stuck in (this was yesterday, actually) and moved on a bit after that. Today, however, I find myself on the sixth level. I find it odd how I only lost a life two or three times, yet it took me many tries to get past the first half of level one ... o_O I have decided that Adult mode is a lot more about strategy than it is beating things senseless with your superhero abilities, lol. Once you figure out a decent plan to defeat a foe, the game is more or less a piece of cake. I stopped before starting level six, title "The Magnificent Five." Basically, I have to re-beat the four main "bosses" I have faced and then take down this final guy, who I can only imagine will give me a bit of trouble. His pattern is pretty basic, but there are a lot of distractions. Anyway, yesterday evening/night/early, early this morning was a blast, lol, but let us rewind a bit before that. Thursday evening I received a call. It was the girl who my friend from the yearbook staff was trying to hook me up with ... her name is Kelsey (so I can stop calling her "the girl"). I was half-surprised that she called. I had been somewhat expecting it sometime during break, but I had heard nothing and it was getting late in the break. I was a bit downhearted about not hearing from her, but I figured she has her own life to worry about. She did call me though. I was half-expecting because I had written her a letter last Friday before break and given it to her. It was mostly just senseless babble about my day and such, and what plans I had for break (being none). However, I did put in there if she cared to hang out, she could give me a call and I left my number. Okay, back to her call. She said that she was free all day Friday, which was yesterday. I responded that I was a little busy in the morning, because I had to go up to school and work with the journalism department for a bit, but I would give her a call when I was done. And that was that. Come Friday, I wake up fifteen minutes late. My ride to school was still at my house, luckily. The only reason I woke up, however, is because my dog was barking at her (as he does with any person he sees outside that is not one of our household). So we got to school shortly after eight and we spent some time making posters to advertise our journalism departments visual/literary arts magazine. We were there until about noon, which was a lot later then we all thought it was, but when we finshed, the three of us who were there went to Godfather's Pizza for lunch and had their $5 all-you-can-eat buffet. I think that is becoming a bit of a tradition, lol. When we finished there I was taken home, and I arrived shortly before two o'clock. I called Kelsey as soon as I had settled. Her phone was busy at first, so I just played Viewtiful Joe for a few minutes (not actually trying to get anywhere) and then called back. She answered and I told her I was done with my work at school. After talking for a little bit, we decided we would just go walk around downtown in an area here known as the Old Market. At the time, her mother was out with the car, and I have no car to drive. So she said she would call when her mother got back, and that was that. She called back shortly after five o'clock, I was playing Viewtiful Joe some more (it is such an awesome game, lol). I gave her the directions to my house, and then I waited for her arrival ... playing Viewtiful Joe. It was about this time that I finally got past the first half of the first level, actually. My mom had made me some grilled cheese, so I ate some of that, and I receive another call from Kelsey. She was just checking to make sure she had found the right house (she was actually a bit down the street). I had her come in because my mom wanted to meet her so she knew who I was hanging out with, and then we left for the Old Market. We finally began our trek after taking a while to find a parking spot. We had no real plan on what to do, but that was all right. We just walked and talked, she pretty much led the way for the most part. We stopped at a local store that sells used CD's, records, tapes and movies for rather cheap. She bought a record. I looked to see if there were any CD's that I thought might be genuinely worth my money, but I did not find anything. By "genuinely worth my money," I mean something I would probably never find again. I remember I found a Japanese punk band there once, lol. After more walking around in random stores and visiting her cousin who worked in one of them, we ended up at an ice cream place because she was in the mood for ice cream. I was not hungry at all. I could eat if I wanted, but I was not actually hungry. She insisted, however, and treated me to some. It was kind of funny, because she just ordered a little bowl of ice cream, yet I had a banana split ... >.> I did not eat it all by myself though, she helped herself to it when she finished, and I had no problem with it at all, lol. After that we just walked around the downtown area. We did not visit any stores, we just walked around and talked. By this time, she had said she was going to follow me wherever I went (since she had been leading the way ever since). I was a little reluctant at first, but I just started wandering around, lol. The sun was down by this time, and there was a pretty strong wind at times. Despite how cold I could tell she was, she refused to take my coat, lol. After a while, her feet were hurting so we went and sat down by a pair of slides that are downtown and just made fun of a bunch of drunk people who were down there to ourselves, and just talking about whatever came to mind. At one point some guy mistaked me for someone he knows named "Matt," lol. That was pretty funny, he did not even realize I was not Matt until he was right in front of me. Then there was also this smoker who was going down the slide, stopped halfway down, took a drag of his cigarette, and then went down the rest of the way. It was rather amusing in that sad, pathetic sort of way, lol. Eventually she said she wanted to go some place warm (still would not take my coat, however), so we walked around looking for some place decent. While we were walking she apparently became hungry again, and she led us to a restaurant called Old Chicago. I was not hungry at all, again, but she just ordered some mozarella sticks. She did however insist that I have some, lol. She said she was not going to be able to finish them all, so I just had a couple. Finally we just walked back to her car, and found that it was 1 a.m., lol. At this point we decided to go home, and that was the end of that. I was most definitely satisfied with the night, and she said she was as well. Had I not been so physically worn out from all the walking, I imagine I would not have slept for at least another few hours, but I went to bed shortly after I came home. So that had pretty much been my past few days. ^_^

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