Lenticular_J

Haha, I love living in a college town. I don't love living in Lubbock, I just love the Texas Tech part. This story is really long, because me and a friend in Amarillo give each other "field reports" via e-mail. I edited it a little, but it's still basically me entering myself in a circle-jerk. With myself. Just a warning. [hide] Texas Tech and Texas A&M are playing today, and I went to the tailgate with my brother, his friends, and parents. My friends, of course, all said it sounded boring. I'm pretty sure a lot of them sat around their house playing videogames today, while I got such a massive confidence boost I'll probably be happy for a month. So, went around, hanging out around the parking lot. A couple of my friends that went to A&M after high school were there, and I was talking some [cabbage] with them. Then, they said they wanted to run and get something. I figured I'd go with them, (By the way, Texas Tech has had a reputation for having the hottest girls, and A&M wasn't ranked too far down on that list either) because it seemed like the best-looking girls were just showing up. I was dressed pretty casually, because I was expecting a lot of people to be drinking and playing football, and that doesn't spell well for you if you're nicely dressed. I had a little bit of peacocking though; I was wearing a Tech shirt and jeans and regular school clothes, but I also had my favorite aviators and one of my fedoras (with, what else? a peacock feather). I'd been getting looks from people all day, but I never judged them as worth following - I was having a good time with friends, you know? Well, when we were walking back (through alliteration village), this group of stunning girls wearing Aggie shirts were walking towards the stadium (there are a lot of big fields on the Tech campus, we were walking through one). Two of them really caught my eye, probably because they looked a little younger. There were I think 7 of them, and I was walking with four other guys I'd known. Here's the picture for you, though: I'm relatively tall, but I'm not extremely fit. I'm pretty thin really, seeing as I'm 6"1 and 148 pounds, and I'm walking with guys that are on their college wrestling and track teams. We were all around the same height, which I guess was good. And all of us were wearing a hat, although I was the only one with a cool one. Anyways, picture painted. We were walking, and the girls were pointing to us and giggling. We were just being all cool and tough-guyish. The girls start walking through our little group, and they take our hats! They just walk away wearing them. I'm pretty sure we were all about to freak out and grab them, but something kept us from doing that, and we just kept walking while the girls laughed. Then, they started slowing down, because they realized that we didn't notice. Anyways, some regular flirting and stuff, all good, we convince them to walk back to the truck my friends from A&M came in, and we turn on the radio and just sit there in the middle of a parking field talking. Of course, what they'd left in the trunk was a couple cases of beer. So we're all just sitting there, talking and junk, when at some point someone suggested playing the truth game (have to truthfully answer any question people ask for like 5 minutes). Now, everyone here is (supposedly) in college. My friends are all freshman, but as you may know, I'm a sophomore in high school. So we're doing the game, having fun, some of the girls are getting a little buzzed. Naturally, sex questions come up. One of my friends has decided it is his job to ask every girl which guy they would like to sleep with the most, just judging from the night. My score - three of them, including the two I was most attracted to (and one was a sophomore in college!). Hahahaha. Goes to show you. Now, you go do it! [/hide] I thought it was worth posting. It's really me showing off to my friend, and I realize how much it makes me sound like a total [bleep], like deloriagod or something, but, hey. Sometimes I am a [bleep]. It really does show you what confidence can do for you. Especially since this has kind of been a really bad week. I've been doing sorta badly in school, and for some reason people have been kind of standoffish with me (some freshman girl started a rumor that I slept with her. I'm a virgin and I never met her. I don't really understand it and I only found out today :/ ). Just be confident, guys. And now, back to disappearing for a week. Damn internet.

My parents surprised me with Chili's. Had a small steak, some french fries and corn on the cob. First steak I've had since it started getting cold. Before that, even. Wait, I think this is the first steak I've had since school started. OH GOD. They also got some molten chocolate cake thing that I found amazing. Pretty much pure chocolate. Great.

Wow, you guys are pretty slow on the uptake aren't you?

I have a couple friends who got it and say it's amazing. One guy's already level 20 in it.

I also like to start screaming for no reason in real life. Best I can do here is GO INTO ALL [bleep]ING CAPS DAMN IT! Conversations with me that are going well should be expected to end in shouting. I'm a loud [bleep]. I say naughty words a lot too, when I feel it is appropriate.

I "speak" more intelligently on the internet. And make less jokes, because puns are harder. But apart from that, not really. At times I can be MORE OUTRAAAAAAAAAAAGEOUS in real life. Yeah, I went there. I also "talk" a good deal less all up in this.

Mostly my influence. I'm a real crowd pleaser. It amazes me that 16-year olds can make a big deal of an on-stage kiss in a play. At least it's with a friend, and we decided to play it up as much as possible. Should be HILarious.

I really want it. I heard of this game a long time ago, but I thought it was coming out in December. I'd buy it, but I've already pre-ordered Modern Warfare 2 because I figure more of my friends will have it. Borderlands is definitely the next game I plan on purchasing, though.

I read you. I'm an adrenaline-junkie in the making, and I already love anything that freaks me right the [bleep] out. Yet, in a way, our meaning of adventure has just shifted. Really, doing the opposite of many people's vision of a "perfect life" - settling down with a family, living a long life filled with saving for your golden years - is adventurous. Personally, I think just wandering the world would be fine with me. Perhaps if I got a job with National Geographic I could even get paid for it. It seems like a lot of our generation feels the same way, though, and I'm not sure what's going to happen. Many people I know are tired of the idyllic (and boring) lifestyle that seems glorified as the "American Way" over here. I bet many people would be happy wandering around aimlessly. I don't really know what point I'm trying to make, though. Or why everything's gone. Perhaps it's money. Plenty of people in the West have all the money they'd need to simply live (or, really, just too little money to live for fun), so they don't live on the edge. We watch people imagine what living on the edge would be like - on television. I don't know where my rambling went, but I'd love to go on a true honest-to-God adventure. I also see what Doom means, and believe it's true. Either way, though, I want some damn adventures.

I dunno, sometimes it sucks not being in a real relationship. My friends all have girlfriends and always wanna do stuff that generally ends up with them going off and cuddling, which I won't do with a girl I just called up to go hang out so I wouldn't be some kind of fifth wheel (I'm not anyways, unless my friends are completely alone with a girl they need me to make them look anti-dull). It's kind of lame. Makes life a lot easier for me, but it can be annoying. Plus, having a girlfriend in high school is a lot like a rite of passage. Even if you go out with a different girl(ish) every week(ish) and have way more fun than the people who've been dating for two months (but have had sex like three times), you're looked down on a little. I think you should try and make it work. Honestly, if she confronts her parents (not you, in fact, you shouldn't be there if she does), it will make her life better period. Parents that overbearing can mess up a kid's whole life. But, anyways. Fun is fun, relationships can make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Of course, I carry around my flask of whiskey, so that warm fuzzy feeling is only a gulp away anyways. EDIT: Harrdyharrinator, it's about 50% luck and 50% me telling them that I'm not really looking for a relationship. Plus, I try and find girls I don't go to high school with, and more often than not, are in different grades. Girls, even girls are age, are surprisingly open to just having some fun if you're up front about it. Most guys ask a girl out and expect to be called a couple; not only does it make it easier on you, but it makes you seem like more of a prize if you make it seem like a girl has to work to earn the girlfriend title. That's how I see it, anyways. Nothing wrong with a little hard work - for anyone. Plus, I don't think I've hung out with more than 8 different girls since school started, you know. That isn't really a whole lot.

Apparently some kid at my school hung himself. I have no idea who he was, and nobody I've asked does, either. I guess he was a freshman, one of my friend's girlfriend's younger brother told us about it (that was confusing). Bummer.

I am ridiculously socially arrogant. For no good reason, to be honest. It's great fun.

Steak sauce ruins a truly perfect steak. It's impossible to make a 5-star restaurant tasting steak because those perfect cuts of meat are not even sold in stores. Restaurants and private buyers get the first pick of the cow so it's actually not really up to how good the chef is. Depends on where you live and who you know. The same way people who know kind fishermen might have the best fish at home, people who have ranching families get great beef. Gotta love our family reunions. Though, we really only have brisket there, but everybody usually ends up getting a steak. Lucky one of my greatuncles has a great business and really his ranch is just for feeding everyone.

Pretty sure most of the people on the internet are as pessimistic as possible. Brings to mind an XKCD comic... Sorry if someone already posted it. I like people.

Yeah, I think they're cool-looking. I almost expect that one of the winners will unwrap one and inside will be the best chocolate known to the universe. That would be a prize.

All common sense except for fines and restrictions. Look over those.

Past half hour I've been listening to the entire Where the Wild Things Are original soundtrack on YouTube. I'm gonna buy the vinyl now, because this soundtrack is just plain lovely. It makes me feel so happy ...

The Where the Wild Things Are original soundtrack, by Karen O and the Kids. It is beautiful. It's like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs when they were 7. Amazing. I am so buying this record off of Amazon.

Well, it's Saturday, so I hope you have the day off.

Test Drive Unlimited. If nobody has said that, I'm ashamed. Amazing driving game. More like a simulator. Grand Theft Auto is pretty fun, too, just because it's good for [cabbage]s and giggles if you get bored and start killing people.

Not a ton. Farm chores, but I've always liked manual labor. If I'm feeling particularly lazy or bummed, I'll dread doing anything with my hands besides moving a controller, but once I start, there's just something about it. Especially digging, or fence-mending. Shovels were invented to turn little girly boys into MEN. My calluses usually impress people I just meet, because I don't really look a lot like a farm kid. That's about it, though. My dad's always persuaded me to read, which has ended up helping me a lot school-wise (not as much socially, but I've turned it around), plus I enjoy it. My parents are pretty laid-back, really. Never really went to church, but my family generally has no views on anything Church or Crown. Gotta say, they did their best by doing ... not a lot. I've never had a curfew or anything, but I'm not really into drugs, way less into drinking than my friends, completely off smoking (that's more because they're smokers, though, and it's nasty), whole bunch of stuff. And they've always encouraged me in school, although my mom dropped out and my dad went into the Marines right after high school.

I'm great at making steaks. My dad taught me how to make a sauce sorta like Paula Deen's, only a little bit spicier, and I grill steaks just right with it on one side and some various spices and some lemon juice on the other side (lemon juice totally makes it). Then, plop the other side in A-1. Oh god it's an orgy. But I love it without steak sauce, too. A-1 is just great. It makes an amazing steak heavenly, and a terrible steak pretty good. But you must be an idiot to get steak totally wrong.

Nailed the [cabbage] out of a play audition. I know I got the lead. Enjoyable day. Tons of homework, though. And I'm getting a cold sore. Both bummers. And I don't know what I'm doing this weekend. Well, scratch that. I have a half day tomorrow, and I know at night me and some other people are hitting up a haunted-house-party-scary thing, and I have tons of friends that are working it this weekend. I realized how nice it is to know people today. Some friends I knew last year that went to college were eating at the same place I got lunch today. Had a fun time catching up. Wanna see Where the Wild Things Are on ... maybe Saturday.

Ahhh I'm so ready. I'll probably just wear my suit. It sucks to be old, half the people we go to turn us down :/ Gonna be fun, though. Probably go trick or treating with some new people. Ooo, that's a great idea for a date ... Hmm, I'll have to think about that one. Then, either a party if we know of any good ones, or we'll trade and eat ourselves into a coma.

I hear girls like a guy that finishes last, actually. Dan, I've skimmed the brad p thing, my brother has it. I wouldn't pay 70 dollars for it though. I have a little audio book from the Queer Eye for the Straight Guy guys, it has some great fashion stuff in there. It's delivered in more of a "Oh sweetie wear this!" attitude than a "Quit being a little [bleep] and look good" tone, but it still works. Totally true that women have already decided what's sexy, normal, and creepy by the time they're 18. Hell, they probably have by the time they're 15 now.