Starting a Fire with Damp Wood

I know I always say that I'm tired, but I must assure you that those other times shy in comparison to how tired I am right now. I should be in bed, but there's a lot going on in my head and writing... well, it seems to be such a wonderful means by which to deal with mental fragmentation, I thus have no choice but to comply with my yearning desire to express.

Let me adress why I'm so tired. Well... when the party at the house last night started getting a little crazy, Catherine and Natalie were gracious enough to let us go with them back to their apartment to escape the chaos. I know a lot of people had a great time, but I just feel weird about those kinds of environments when alcohol really starts to take its hold. But anyways, we decided to go to the store and pick up a few ingredients for this little dessert that the girls knew how to make. They're called pumpkin rolls, and we helped make some (starting at what must have been 1 o'clock in the morning). While they were baking we decided to watch "A Beautiful Mind" which is when I fell asleep on their floor and didn't really wake up till the movie was almost over. It was a funny realization once the movie had ended that THEY in fact drove us instead of us driving ourselves... so they were gracious enough to drive us back to our house at four in the morning. It was good fun and I really enjoy their company. They remind me of what it's like to have good clean adventurous fun, which I now realize that I've been missing out on for a while.

When we got to the house it was destroyed. There were beer bottles everywhere, and the house smelled of stale perfume, flat beer, and a little bit of vomit. The sight reminded me of why I'm not completely down with the whole party scene.

I slept

I woke up

Matt and I headed to RCA B to record "Don't Stop Believin" by Journey. Matt was playing drums and I was singing. It was a hard song to sing because it's freakishly high in pitch. During this one part, I kept messing up and messing up because my voice kept squeeking on the high screams, well... there are these tour groups that run through RCA all day, and they get to watch us record. While I was messing up, the tour group stopped and listened and was anxiously waiting for me to pull it out. Well, finaly I did. I got this perfect rock screem out onto tape and everyone in the control room started jumping up and down and the tour group started taking pictures of me. It was really funny. Viking took me back to the house before the session was over though... cuz I had to go to work.

I went to work

It wasn't very busy today. In fact, it was rediculously slow. But to top off everything, we had an incident today in which the police had to get involved. A drunk woman came down and started threatening us and yelling explatives at us because one of the guys wouldn't give her her car keys because she was so staggering drunk. Funny think is, I'm not exactly sure what company policy on that is. He was noble enough to lay the smack down to company policy though and do what any decent human would do which is keep a crazy drunk like that off of the street. Well... again, she didn't appreciate that too much so she was taking our names, inserting random explatives in the middle of her sentences, and staggering around. It was really quite sad. I wonder if she will even remember anything when she wakes up. Any way you look at it, she's going to feel pretty crappy in the morning.

I came home

I decided that I wanted some time to sit and think about my future and my past. This is a new and interesting time in my life and I want to make sure that I cherish it. Nothing does me quite better than sitting outside infront of a fire too. No one wanted to join me because sleep made a higher priority to them, but as for me, I went to it. It was a bit challenging because all of the wood was wet and there was a puddle in the pit itself, but if you can get a steady flame up, you'll eventually be able to dry out any amount of moisture, which is what I did. I love staring at fire. I could do it all day if I were allowed. It's so beautiful to me. A very interesting and enchanting element. It is soft looking in texture and in light. It is very unpredictable, beautiful, and warm.

I sleep.

Peace and love.