Wednesday 25 February 2009

Haven't Posted in a While

February 13, 2009
While walking to meet up the guys, I get a call from Danielle. Two days ago, she told me on Stickam that she’s running away from home to Michigan and she’s only 17. I tell Atron that she’s going to do that because he’s known her better than I do for a while. Earlier today, I get a call from Atron that his mother and the police called him about it. He ends up giving my number because he thinks that I know more.
I miss the police’s call and call them back. I give information that I don’t really know anything. He asked for some personal info like last name, address, and DOB. I didn’t really care since I wasn’t involved and I’ve never even met her. Anyway, the call from Danielle. She says that she’s home and that everything’s better/okay. She apologizes that I had to get involved or what not.
I meet CNF, Josh, and Evan at San Loco. We walk to a nearby bar where Stefan is with friends. I suddenly realize that there is a bunch of Prague people there. I say Hi to them. We depart quickly because Stefan is meeting his new girlfriend. Yes, surprised and great for him!
It’s interesting that a few of the people don’t even notice me. I guess it’s a bit of a compliment towards the new DWeez 2.0. Josh and Evan decide to bitch out for the night. CNF and I go to the crowded Ace Bar that we’ve never been to. It’s crowded, but they have Miller High Life for $3. We stand around for a bit and CNF me a bit about familial restraints on dating and stuff. Though I tell it to him straight that he should worry about getting relationship first and that it’s not an issue until that occurs.
We then go back an unnamed bar on the same block that we’ve been to a few times to sit around and grab a Yuengling. CNF is hungry and we go to vegetarian Indian place where he gets two dosas. He then goes home and I go home for a bit more drinking before I go to McDonald’s for the second night a row. I get a Big Mac meal, but drop a large portion of the fries. I then get another hamburger and small fries. You gotta put those fries INTO the sandwich.

February 14, 2009
Jonah and CNF get dinner and they end up heading to Josh’s at 11:00ish. I go too. Before I leave, I’m pretty shitfaced from pregaming. By the time I get to Josh’s, drinking has pretty much halted to a stop. You gotta check yourself before you wreck yourself.
Josh has two small joints that Jonah surprisingly joins in on. I planned on only taking 1 hit, but I end up taking 2-3. The drunk is really easy to control if you have experience like me. Even at the most shitfaced, I’m quite the eloquent orator. However, the weed just throws it into overdrive and I just slump into a mess. I have my head down for most of the night and end up leaving with CNF.
By the time I get back, I’m not too bad, but I’m hungry again so I go to get a $5 footlong. I go for a refill and after I get one, I find out that it costs $.50. Wow, I never knew fountain drinks could charge on refills. That’s so bullshit.

February 19, 2009
CNF says that he’s going to cook dinner for people. I suggest a lot of stuff to add to it, but he doesn’t say much about it. I go over to his place at 5:00ish and Atron’s older sister, Ellyse, and Stefan are there. I help CNF cook the chili. It turns out fine with brown rice.
Then again, that personally as one person takes me an hour to make with prep. I would’ve way more crazy with things. We also grab a few beers with dinner. Stefan and Ellyse leave by 9:00-10:00. Candice and her b/f then come and Josh, CNF, and them two smoke some weed. I’m fine and only take a small puff. Josh and I then go to get beer. Jonah by then shows up. I then have to look for cigarettes which is a real bitch and I eventually find a Duane Reade that takes too long because them Brooklyn peoples cause issues.
When I get back, it turns out that CNF is throwing up in the bathroom. He comes out in a bit and talks to us for a bit then runs back into the bathroom. He literally onto had three beers and some chili, so I guess it was eating too much and the weed. It sucks and I feel bad for him. We eventually leave before 12:00 because I do have class tomorrow at 9:30.

February 20, 2009
CNF comes in. We go to this very dim lit, datey place for coffee. I guess that’s a bit awkward, it’s near NYU campus. There are other couples there and then there’s him and me at a table. What the fuck…We then have nothing to do and go to Fat Cat again, grab a few beers. We there a bit, then go back home.

February 21, 2009
There’s an NYU Facebook event thingy. It’s at Sidebar, which is near Union Square, only a 10ish minute walk. I go myself because no one else wants to go. I’ve done this before. Am I going to be an idiot and just sit home myself? Nah, fuck it, I go. Last night I went, it was pretty awkward, but it’s still good to see people and such. It’s way crowded and the “ratio” is amazing. I see Courtney and Danielle from Prague. I also speak to Liz from Prague for a bit. She notices that I look different because I guess from the dress and the contacts. I guess I take it as a compliment.
I then run into a girl from my Spanish class who’s drunk and too happy to see me. A lot of the night is walking through the crowd and trying to find people that I have some contact with so I can say Hi. There’s an awkward gay situation where I’m trying to walk through this area and a guy from behind grabs my waist for a second. I’m too bored and non-confrontational to do or say anything. How weird. I run through three beers through the night for $15.
There’s another strange situation that girl grabs my arm while she’s walking through the crowd. I guess it’s my amazing confidence that I pull my hand away, assume she was trying to bring her friend through the crowd, and just walk away. I also recognize this girl from two semesters ago when my roommate had a party. My roommate, his friend, and I all mentioned her that day as “hot Hispanic dress girl.”
The last time I did something like this I left pretty quickly, but I ended up staying till 2-3:00ish.

February 22, 2009
Evan wants to do stuff tonight. He says that people might be at Sidebar again tonight. Back to back. However, we don’t really know people there so we end up leaving. We go to the store and get a cider and Magic Hat Raspberry beer. The cider is really delicious. It really tastes like actual apple juice, but it’s 5.5% (high) alcohol. The magic Hat smells really strong of raspberry and it’s great. We go to his place to have it while watching some YouTube basketball highlights. I end up leaving by 2:00ish.

Sunday 15 February 2009

Part of a Week

February 6, 2009
I find out that Evan’s going to be around tonight. Jenn takes a train into the city. I meet up with Jenn and we go to Evan’s by 11:00ish. Jonah comes over too and we end up meeting CNF and Josh outside. By now, there’s been drinking flowing. Jenn starts talking about all these guys she’s texting and stuff, but wouldn’t do anything about it. A tease, horrible. We go to Ace Bar, which is in the East Village. We went there last time people were in the city. You don’t need ID to get in and it’s $4 Black and Tans.
We stay there for a while until we find out that Jenn missed her 3:19 train. We sit around at Evan’s common room for a while. There, I interrogate Jenn about her being a friend to CNF. I actually don’t get much out of her that she wouldn’t say Yes to if she asked him out. Evan and Jonah get furious at me for being an amazing interviewer, but that’s their loss. She takes the 5:00 something train, we all depart. A good night.

February 7, 2009
I find out in the afternoon Bolanos and Tim are coming down to Brooklyn because there’s a tribute show for J-Dilla. I start pre-gaming at 8:00ish. I leave by 9:00ish. I take the subway uptown so I can take the L down to Williamsburg. My pregame was really good and I meet them by 10:00ish. It’s only $5 to get in and my ID clears. Perfect record so far.
I grab a beer for $5. Then I get one of the deals, bourbon and a Bud for $7. It’s not really a concert really, but more of a bar/club/venue thingy. They play his music and a few guys on stage just rep the stage to keep it entertaining. I get well drunk. Tim decides to get back to Binghamton instead of staying in Staten Island like they planned. I get dropped off blocks away from me, which is good because then I don’t need to take an hour subway ride back. I speak to Spamps for a while on the phone. I end up sleeping by 5:00 AM I think.

February 12, 2009
CNF and I are bored so he comes into the city. We meet up at my place and go to Fat Cat. We both have a couple beers and decide to leave. He goes to Tuck Shop and he ends up leaving early. It’s a good night going out since I don’t have class on Friday.
I end up walking to McDonald’s late at night because I’m starved. Starved + drinking = Fiending.
I’m eating fast and I realized that I should’ve gotten a drink too. I go to get a drink, then I turn around and find out that the person there had thrown out the rest of my food. Fuckin hell. I walk out in a storm and email McDonalds. I’m too drunk to complain to the guy.

Tuesday 3 February 2009

Superbowl Weekend

January 24, 2009
While, I looked forward to my Con Law; Age of Terror class, I could tell that it isn’t heading the right direction by the first class. The entire class is taken up by a silly exercise of asking people what they personally feel about torture. Obviously, people have to have their own little opinions and it just become a mess of nothingness. An appropriate question would be, “What is the international/federal law on torture? How has it changed throughout time? How has it been applied recently in this age of terrorism?” Asking, “What do you personally feel about torture?” is absolute Bullwinkle.
The next class involves another one of these questions, “What if hypothetically, Guiliani dccided to shut off all of Manhattan right after 9/11?” We do touch a bit on the issues of federalism and constitutional rights about this issue, but then it goes onto another guessing fest. Then the class after goes into personal opinions on war, whether people supported aggression, pacifism, whatever rules of law, etc. So far, this class really has had little objective learning and almost all useless heresy of people’s opinions that I could care less about.

January 30, 2009
I’m told that people are going to Josh’s early, which is good. I get there by 9:00ish to start an early night. I’ve pregamed and work on a bit of vodka and ice water there. We sit around hang out with CNF, Josh, Jonah, and Stefan. Jonah tells me about the almost $600 meal he had with Stefan at Momofuku.
Stefan ends up leaving early because he’s tired. We watch an episode of Flight of the Concords, which is decent, but not something I really want to do when hanging out with people. We then go out for a food/beer run. Only beer for me please.
I get a large bottle of Sam Adams.

January 31, 2009
I wake up by 11:00ish to get some Magic business done. I randomly see two good Magic friends that I know from Flushing there. It’s not far, only in the 20s Ave. I get back home, slack off and starting drinking. I call around and nothing really is happening, so it’s a night by myself. At 1:00ish, I end up going to Slainte across the block because I want some beer. I get a Bud Lite for $5. I then try to class it up with a Yuengling, turns out that’s also $5. Why the fuck did I get a Bud? And why are they priced the same?
I then go back to the apartment and sit around a bit. Near 4:00, I get a call from Stefan that he’s in the East Village. I go out to meet with him. We find out that nothing’s open by now. We then go to the store to get some tallboys. We get back and speak for a while with the beers. He leaves after an hour or so. I realize by 5:30 that I need to stop drinking. I sleep by 7:00.

February 1, 2009
Wake up in the afternoon. Don’t want the Superbowl. Don’t do anything all day.