Nothing all that notable happenned today. I still feel like I have the need to fixate on someone, and I'm still mad at myself for feeling like this. I won't do it. Not with Julian. Not with Kevin. (I find myself staring at him in Latin, as Molly confessed that she did last year. He does have some sort of... quality about him...) And certainly not with Dave, although I'm afraid we are going through another awkward, him-having-a-crush-on-me stage. I do not by any means NEED a romantic interest. I know this. I can't for the life of me understand why my emotions don't agree with me. Anyway, today I did my homework after school in the band room, so I got home and didn't know what to do with myself. (Certainly not start that essay that's due Tuesday! What a preposterous idea!) Now I am really bored, so I think I'll just write about Molly's bananas/sex metaphore. She told us about it during lunch.
"So somebody gave me this pamphlet... I forget exactly where it came from, but it was some Christian thing about why you shouldn't have sex before marriage. And as a metaphore, they used... bananas. So it's like, having sex is like 'peeling your banana,' and you don't want to peel you banana before it's ripe." Dave and I exploded laughing. "Oh wait, there's more. There's much more. So, doing things that aren't sex but are still kind of... riskÈ, like kissing - can't do that before marriage -" she raised her eyebrows. "- that is known as 'sqeezing your banana.'" She made little air quotes. We all laughed again. "Wait," I said, still laughing. "That doesn't even make any sense. Why would you want to squeeze a banana?" "Well that's the point they're trying to make, isn't it? Why would you want to squeeze your banana? Then it'll be all mushy when you peel it." She continued. "But, if you do have sex before marriage, you can still be forgiven. And that's like your banana going bad and you making banana bread. So forgiveness is like banana bread." You know, sometimes when Molly talks about the whole Christianity thing, it sounds like she realizes how irrational it is. But then you talk to her about something else, and you can tell she buys into it fully. I don't understand it. "Yeah, the kissing thing IS a little unreasonable," she said. "Yeah Molly," I said. "Just a tad."
I mentioned something to Dave today about getting a ska band together, possibly with Julian or Eric and definately with a new bass player. I think he realizes now too that the old band is dead. He even said "We need to find a new drummer too. I don't want Greg as the drummer. Greg pisses me off." "What, as a musician, or just in general?" "No, just in general." I hope the band works out. I like ska. And like I said, Adam is really no musical loss.
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