The Moon

Seriously, is it full? Yesterday was just weird. And I'm not even referring to the fact that my TiVo decided not to record ER, even though it was clearly a new episode. (I'm not too upset though. The kid who played Chip on Kate and Allie was in it, and it's just plain creepy to see him all grown up.) Instead, I had plans to go to a concert put on by some school friends.

(Blogger just deleted a majority of this massive post. It must be a sign to be more brief. Here goes...Nope, it's still long. Deal.)

6:00 HR professor says "You all just want to leave and go to the concert, don't you?" There's an obvious answer to that.

7:25 HR professor dismisses us in an unprecedented regard for our boredom. We all leave for the concert.

7:55 Arrive at the pre-party and pay our $9. There are five minutes left of open bar. Bartender decides to stall by talking to two chicks in the corner who already have drinks.

8:01 Bartender comes up to us and tells us that open bar is over. We do not feel like arguing.

8:18 It has become clear that there is no food to be had, because the restaurant did not make enough. This should have been a clue. Our $9 was wasted. Stupid charity.

8:22 Why does that chick have her jeans tucked into her boots.

8:23 Go upstairs and pay for food and drink, because we were hungry. And hot.

8:35 Order food.

8:50 Everyone gets their food. Except Rebecca and I. We want pizzas.

(What follows is a display that would chill you to your very core. I'll try not to make it too scary.)

8:55 22-year-old manager apologizes for delay in pizza. They'll be done "in seconds" apparently.

9:00 Rebecca complains to 22-year-old manager. She apologizes. There is nothing more she can do.

9:05 Rebecca again complains to 22-year-old manager. She apologizes again. She doesn't know what else she can do.

9:10 Pizzas have still not arrived. Everyone is has finished eating. Waiter takes their plates. Rebecca complains once more. 22-year-old manager gets flustered and tries to hide between two tall women at the bar.

9:15 Pizzas arrive. Manager is still hiding.

9:25 Waiter brings check. Rebecca complains once more. We are not paying for pizza. Manager says that pizzas only take seven minutes to cook, so she does not know why they took so long.

9:30 Everyone has left their money. We have enough for full check, exactly (including gratuity). Rebecca goes to manager again.

9:40 Rebecca wins. Our pizzas are comped. Good. Mine was only OK. Definitely not worth all this.

(A large part of me just wanted to pull the manager aside and say, "You know, if you'd just bought us a couple of drinks or sent over a free dessert, none of this would have happened." But I didn't. Rebecca was on fire.)

9:45 We enter club.

9:46 Vanilla Ice look-alike tells us we have to enter through a different door. Perhaps you should lock that door, eh?

9:55 Kegan is playing with the band. Except not playing so much as sitting there and smoking.

9:58 Kegan plays the cowbell. Much cheering ensues.

10:27 Girl in Charge stumbles into our area. She is wasted. She proceeds to start a fight with one of the marketing chicks. They are separated.

10:29 They find each other and start again. They are separated.

10:34 They find each other and start again. Girl in Charge is removed from the bar. Marketing Chick complains for the rest of the night.

10:45 Some dude in a tight blue shirt is talking to the Crazy Romanian. He says that he likes the music. CR says that she does not. "Oh yeah, me neither, not really." asserts Tight Blue Shirt.

10:46 CR calls out TBS for changing his opinion in mere seconds. She comes over to us.

11:00 A former friend comes up and hugs me and says he's sorry that he's been a jerk for the last year. He's gone through a lot of changes. To which I want to reply, "You mean Yoko has told you to stop being friends with all of us. Right." I actually say, "That's OK, man."

11:01 Everyone around us is gaping after Yoko's BF has hugged me and given me a free drink token.

11:38 Why do the kids have to play this noisy punk rock stuff? It's just too loud. Everyone else is gone.

12:00 We are only staying to see if we win the iPod or the $800 Fender guitar. I would like $800.

12:20 We do not win. Anything. Jerks. More wasted money for the kids.

12:25 Some dude comes up to Rebecca and gives her a note. I know it said something about "What should I name my band?" but it might as well have said "Will you go with me? Circle one: Yes or No". The man is definitely not in third grade. Or else he's really tall.

12:27 Tall Third Grader tells Rebecca that he has seen her at the Brown Line stop and has always wanted to talk to her.

12:30 I do not want my free drink token. I take it to the Second in Command (who is not pleased to now be in charge after GIC was removed). He asks where I got it. I tell him about Yoko's BF. He begins to yell at me. YB told him there were no tokens.

12:32 I take back the token, while SIC is still yelling. I tell him not to go yell at YBF and just let it go. He will not. I tell him to leave me out of it, since YBF was trying to be nice. SIC ignores me.

12:35 I give the token to some dude at the bar. His friends want one too. I tell them I only have one. They all feel the need to introduce themselves to me. OK then. See ya.

12:40 Sweet oxygen. We look up at the moon.

12:41 We see only clouds.