Recap for the week

I'm going "home" for the weekend. It's strange to call my hometown "home" because DC feels more like home than anywhere else. It's a little depressing there these days. Most of my friends have left town so a weekend in the burbs is as exciting as a few days at a nursing home. The weather won't even be warm enough to go to the beach.

I'm going to grab a bite to eat and maybe a movie with Beads tonight. I'll probably stay at her house then hit the road early in the morning so I don't get struck in traffic. I'll feel her out and see if she's still acting like a Class-V clinger. If she is I'm cutting her loose Monday. That should go really well.

I finally got an email back from Stella. She apologized for taking so long to respond to my email. She claims to have been working double shifts the past week (sis confirmed) and that she is pretty bad about email correspondence (sis also confirmed, which obviously makes me wonder why the fuck she would give me her email address instead of a phone number...). She told me what nights she is free next week and that she would like to get together. She works on the weekends so it will have to be a weeknight, which is fine with me. Something in her email led me to believe that she lives with her parents. I haven't come across that in a very long time. Should make for some very interesting stories.

I was talking to this dude Cameron in my office last night and he mentioned that he got drinks a few times with Trouble. He said she was a cool chick and that they hung out a bunch of times, but that she needed to "tone up" and he "passed on her". Funny thing, because when I went to happy hour with Trouble that one time she said that she had gone out for drinks with Cameron and he slammed five beers to her one and got waisted, so she ditched him. Always fun to get the "he said she said" point of views on a story. Anyway, Cameron said that Trouble is recently single, decent to hang out with, and kind of on the prowl. There was a little strain in his voice, so I can tell that he is angling to get in there despite "passing on her". He's a tool. If Trouble fell for his nonsense-game I would lose all respect for her.

I was walking my dog in Lincoln Park last night and this girl was walking towards me while talking on the phone. I saw her but was focused on other things so I didn't look directly at her until she was three feet away from me. I heard her say "Finally" then "Hello" right as she was next to me, and she lowered the phone away from her face. I said "Hey" as I would to anyone I passed on the street. The girl then paused like I was supposed to recognize her, but I just kept walking. It all happened very quickly and I was in deep thought about other things. I wasn't being rude, I just wasn't paying attention. As I walked away she resumed her phone conversation, which sounded like Portuguese. I don't think I've ever met her before. I'm admittedly bad with names, but pretty good at remembering faces. She was cute, I certainly would have remembered her. I probably should have stopped and chatted with her, but like I said, I was thinking about something else and not paying attention.

On Monday night I was talking to my buddy C-roc. It was kind of a non-sequitur, but I said "You know, your sister-in-law is really hot, it's too bad she's so fucking crazy". She had posted something on Facebook that day, and I saw a picture of her for the first time in a long while. He laughed really hard and said "Oh yeah, forgot to tell you, she's moving to DC in September".

This girl is just flat out fucking loony toons. I'll call her Toons. About five years ago C-roc, his wife, Toons, and I met a bunch of other people in Miami for NYE. The four of us stayed at my sister's apartment there while she was away. I think we were in Miami for 3-4 nights. One night C-roc and his wife went home from the bars early. Toons and I closed the bars then walked home. On the way we passed a really nice apartment complex and decided to go for a 4am dip in the pool wearing nothing but our birthday suits. After being chased out of the pool we ran home and made out in the stairwell for a while. Nothing more than that ever happened.

Why is she so loony, you ask? Lots of reasons. She dated this complete loser for 5 years. He was one of those skinny white kids with the douche-bag-pencil-thin-beard who thought he was a rapper. After dealing with him for that long she decided to start banging his roommate. Douche bag was OK with this seemingly impossible arrangement, and the three of them were all friends until she went back to douche-bag. At that point the other guy split, and shortly after douche-bag hit the road too.

This is just one example of how crazy she is. She is nice, but she has no job, no ambition, and no direction in life. It's ironic because C-roc's wife is the polar opposite. Anyway, I need to give that one a wide birth.