so this weekend was fun and this next week should be interesting.
i woke up friday and said, “da fuq?” and emailed my boss that i wasn’t coming in. just didn’t want to. and really, who takes sick days when they are actually sick. no fun. there are times where i was legitimately sick, but oh well.
sat around most of friday and napped and whatnot. mostly just feeling run down. both emotionally and physically. i think i went back to bed and slept until noonish. watched tv and whatnot. got a call from a number at the office. i could tell because it was the same area code and same first three numbers. the person left a message. it was from the department where i had applied to be an administrator with. the message asked me to call back, just saying they wanted to talk to me. called back and left a message. then later, the lady called me back and invited to interview on tuesday (tomorrow) in the morning. so there’s that. we shall see how it goes. for the most part, i think i know most of the information, but i tend to get nervous during interviews.
thursday night (i think) i had texted y and l about going to get shrimp. may sound odd, but it’s a seafood joint where they boil the shrimp with different spices and you can specify the spiciness. then friday i get a fb message to go that night. i let them know i stayed home and about half an hour later we were on our way. we got to the place about 7:30 and put our names in. not sure if it was the three day weekend, v day, or just a random mad rush, but they quoted the wait at an hour fifteen to and hour forty five. so we decide to wait because we all wanted shrimp. after about an hour and a half, they said it’d be about another 45. at this point we were all starving and got an ice cream we all shared. the shrimp place closed at 10 and by this time it was 9:15 and we were seriously pondering whether to stay. we finally find out that we are guaranteed to get a table. apparently there is a guaranteed list and non guaranteed list and since we were on the former we were going to get regardless of what time it was. they informed us when we sat down that we had to order everything then because they were about to close the kitchen. all three of us already knew what we wanted. i ordered one pound of shrimp medium with two corn and one pound spicy with two corn. the waitress wrote down the order wrong and i got a mild instead of a medium and since the kitchen was already closed they couldn’t fix it so i just took it and dumped them in the back with the spicy so they all got mixed. by the time we were done, it looked like a shrimp massacre and we were all stuffed.
the next day was v day proper and i don’t actually recall what i did that day. being single will do that to you. had to look at fb. sad, but true. about 5 my friend l, the same one i got shrimp with, texted me to go to dinner. she’s married and has 2 kids. but her husband is sick and she was hungry so we went to this place to get huaraches. they are basically pupusas with meat and cheese on top. i got the chipotle, beef cooked with chipotle peppers and spices. pretty good, but it was late and relatively heavy.
sunday we went on a hike down at griffith park. about 5 miles or so. it was a nice hike and i could definitely tell that i was in better shape than before. really moreso in my legs due to doing the stairs. a good majority of it is uphill so having more muscle in my calves and thighs really made a difference. we even jogged part of the way going down. so that was good. took about 3 hrs.
got home about noon. took a shower and had just sat down with a beer. my friend eric calls and asks what’s going on. these are always interesting phone calls because i never know what he has in mind and we tend to get up to random things. apparently his wife was/is sick and he wanted to hang out. so we decide to go frisbee golfing and then figure it out.
i drive down to his place and he called as i was parking. missed the call, but i was there already so didn’t worry about it. then i got a text from him asking how i felt about going to palm springs. i get inside and we talk a little to his wife and her sister. i said sure why not. we had tomorrow (today, monday) off so as long as we get back in time, everything is cool. we took off about 2 and got over there about 4. his buddy lives out there so we already had a place to stay. we sit around for a little and then we go to this hotel where we grab some food and then head out back to the hot tub. it’s not a house sized hot tub, but pretty large. so we grab some drinks at the bar and chill out there with another friend mike. we probably chilled there until about 8:30 and then head out. one thing was that i got a whiskey there and they charged me two bucks for ice. fuckers.
after that we went to this bar. now i don’t think it’s a gay bar, but being palm springs, i think eric i were two of the only straight men there. eric’s friend, justin, and his friend, mike, are gay. it’s all good, but it was packed in there. they had some drag queens lip syncing, but it was strange since one of them later made some announcements. he had a deep voice and it was quite different from what i expected since i had just listened to some song sung by a woman and him lip syncing to it. we had a drink and then went to another, less crowded, bar.
i had to go to the bathroom, so eric ordered me a drink. not exactly sure what he got me, but it was clear with no carbonation. thinking it was probably vodka something. after we chilled and chatted there for a while, we wen to dennys around 10:30. had a good (when you’re not sober, the quality sky rockets) meal and then we went home and i passed out.
today, i got up about 7:30 and had some tea with eric and justin. then we met up with mike and went on a hike in the hills around palm springs. probably about a 4 mile hike, a little more. there were some switchbacks initially that were pretty tough. didn’t help that my legs were tired from hiking yesterday. but we finally made it and there were some pretty nice views of the city.
after, we got lunch and then eric and i headed home. i got home and started watching the snl 40th special, but fell asleep. finally finished washing it, did some laundry, had a small bite, and now it’s just about time for bed.
not sure if i wrote about it or not. the week rachel had texted me saying she was seeing john again, we had plans do go to a chocolate festival in long beach. i texted her back friday (she originally texted me thursday) that it wasn’t a good idea. there’s been no communication since and i’ve been pretty quiet at work. i’ll be cordial and answer questions, but not going out of my way to talk to her.
i am texting with another girl now, nancy. so there’s that. she’s two years older than me and from taiwan (i think). funny since my sister is also two years older than me from taiwan. but, we shall see how this plays out.
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