What Did You Do Today?

The same thing we try to do every day... TRY AND TAKE OVER THE WORLD!~~ Pinky and the Brain

For the first time in months, I got to use the computer all day without any inturuptions.

Soooo....

I was walking to the bar last night. Approaching the bar, I was almost about to toss my cigarette when I see this 'couple' arguing on the street. I say/do nothing and keep walking past them but my ears prick up. My gut told me something wasn't right. So instead of going in, I decided to hang out. I pretend to fish for my lighter as I lit another cigarette and just stood outside the bar.

The arugment is getting louder and louder - actually by now I can tell that it's a very one sided argument. The girl isn't saying anything at all but the guy is getting more and more foul and louder by the minute. Finally, I think she said that she was just leaving but the guy kinda grabbed her and told her to wait till he could pick up the tab from the bar.

Normally, I'm not one to poke my silly nose where it don't belong. But by now my suspicions were kinda confirmed - so as this dude walks past me into the bar (I'm standing right at the door smoking. We can't smoke indoors in establishments in NY State), I just lean into the door and quietly signal one of my buddies inside to come out. He was in the Navy and I just wanted company incase something stupid happened.

As it turned out, that was a smart thing to do.

He came outside and asked what was up as I wasn't acting 'normal'. I quitely told him to shut up and light up and just stick around. As he's lighting his cigarette, the dude walks past us. I quickly tell my buddy my suspicions and he raises his eyebrows, says nothing and just observes with me.

By this time, the girl has decided that she's had enough and has already crossed the road heading towards the dorms. Dude runs to catch up with her and blocks her path. Argument resumes - it is so loud, I can hear it over traffic!

It is plain by now that the girl wants nothing to do with him and tries to walk away but dude won't let her go.

And then it starts. He grabs her. She tries to break free. He is shaking her. She kinda screamed out and I could hear the word "... GO!".

And then she slapped him - hard. Maybe surprised him or not but he lets her go for a minute and she makes a break for it across the vast empty parking lot. He almost starts running after her but then I yell "Hey! You! STOP!" and before I can think, I'm out crossing the road at a full run, dodging traffic.

He takes one look at me, turns around and races behind her. I can hear footsteps behind me as my buddy tries to catch up. The girl has gone a good distance but dude is catching up to her but I'm catching up to the dude as well.

My buddy is more observant than I and spots a cop cruiser - takes off in that direction and hails him down. By this time I've almost caught up with the dude - am hurling epithets at him, telling him to stop chasing the girl and let her go. He either can't hear me, is too drunk to understand or couldn't care less.

Before I could say or do anything - I hear this HUGE squeal of tires as the cop cruiser screeches to a halt almost right behind us. I'm running comepletely on instinct now and I hit the deck, roll and come up crounched on my knees just as the police officer jumps out and screams "FREEZE! This is the POLICE!". The officer takes off at a run and in 6 steps collars the guy.

By this time, backup from campus police has arrived and stuff has quitened down somewhat. I didn't stay to find out what happened - the officer asked why I was chasing the dude, I told him why, my buddy backed me up. Officer nodded his head, thanked me for the call and let me go.

We both walk back, me gulping huge lungfulls of air as my heart rate is probably beating at a 120, trying to dust off my jacket from the parking lot crud I got from my dive-and-roll.

That beer sure tasted good that night

You frighten me.

I woke up at around 12 PM. Made coffee. Went to the computer, while the coffee was being made. Played the computer for about an hour. Went and got a cup of coffee. Went to my room. Played Final Fantasy 9, while listening to A Momentary Lapse of Reason. Got to On the Turning Away, brother made food, wanted to play chess. Played chess, then half way into the game, he got called, friend wanted to go hiking. He left, I went back to the computer, and now writing what I did today on pinkfloydfan.net, as well as listening to The Wall. Am at Goodbye Blue Sky, now.

I went to rehearse with my brother. He's now putting together a play by Catalan poet Pere Calders and he wanted me to put some guitar "noises" in two fragments of it. I figured out two chord progressions tied together using lots of delay and I switched to echo in the end creating a loop and using some flanger and chorus alternatively to create some weird effects. That was fun but it needs polishing.

After that I went to Barcelona to have lunch with some of my best friends. I ended up having a nice long conversation with one of them in which we spoke about a lot of things...

...A really nice day.

today I woke up at 4 am, started work at 5, went back home at 7 pm...do I need to say that I'm really tired? I'm never ever working double shift again...hell no

Besides the casual sitting here and doing the usual I actually did something today. I went to the end of the road to see the night pharmacist, got what I needed and went back home. Went to sit on my sacred chair again, this is my favourite place in my entire garage. Because ''this is where the magic happens'' like they say in Cribs.

I got strep throat from my best friend.

Then I had to explain to her boyfriend why she managed to give it to me and not to him. (For the record, we shared a soda between classes - she didn't know she was ill at the time).

Today, I've been loafing around reading and watching my favorite movies -Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, and The Wall (of course!). Now I'm watching Shaun of the Dead and posting. I hope I recover soon. I'm running out of movies.

At any rate, that's how I passed an extremely productive day - one filled with more kinds of tea and chicken soup than should, by rights, exist.

I woke up, talked to a girl online, had something to eat, went to Sam Ash with my brother and Jon to buy a PA speaker, came home, sat around, talked to said girl for a while, had a gigantic nap, talked to said girl again, hung out with my brother and Jon while they were making dinner, ate dinner (pork chops), watched some TV, came back online, got coffee, came back online again, and I've been sitting here for something like five hours.

I thought your favourite place was the toilet.

Nah, gotta stay realistic. tt also has the burden of cleaning that I do not enjoy at all. And right now, it's out of toilet paper.

So today I will be making sure it gets new toilet paper, or should I post that afterwards?