| 10 May 7.00am |
eatin': chicken noodle soup, toast, and a big cuppa milk listenin': to old Madonna songs readin': old journals and diaries, and realizing what a vacuous little kid I was. There was a while there when I was eleven, and I used hearts instead of dots for my i's and periods, and yes, I was even addicted to semicolons way back then, and have commas with little hearts over them, which made me laugh out loud. I haven't really been busy at all; that's not the reason I haven't updated, I've just been very
interested in just hanging out. I have done serious hanging out over the past couple of days.
I played frisbee in the ocean with Elena and Sam and
Karl out on Tybee, and went to the Crab Shack, which is the ultimate hanging out locale, if
only because of the fact that it takes so damn long to get at the crab meat, you've gotta
keep up the conversation. I've seen Almost Famous and The World According to
Garp on DVDs, since everyone loves those DVDs, lately. I finally got to go to da Palace,
and had to hold inebriated Kevin's arm
the whole time to keep him from falling out of the booth when I would hit him for the silly
things he'd say. Oh, good, yes, I'm going to tell stories now about stupid things that people say: A few nights ago, at George's house, which had his freshman Tech books strewn about... (picks up the 1311 book and starts reading aloud:) Suede-o-code can be used for many purposes... THE ROOM (interrupts with peals of laughter) KUNK (looks up in bewilderment) KARL (looks at him, shakes his head) Kunk! It's obviously pee-suede-o-code! How did you not know that? KUNK Oh. Really? THE ROOM (More laughter) Later, people have congregated within an Applebee's... KARL AND GEORGE (still laughing at/with Kunk, but somehow, without him realizing that pee-suede-o-code is bizarre and asinine) KUNK (assuming they're still gagging with laughter over the fact that he originally pronounced the word without a "pee") Okay, fine, guys, let's see how the waitress would pronounce the word, okay? It's not the easiest word, I bet she'll mess it up too! I mean, she could pronounce it any number of ways, you know. Puh-suede-o-code? Soo-do-code? GEORGE (almost falls out of the booth laughing) KARL I cannot wait to tell people about this friend I have that first thought pee-suede-o-code was pronounced suede-o-code, and thought that it was possible that it could be pronounced soo-do-code! KUNK Hey! Hold on one second there-- I never said I thought it was soo-do-code! KARL (spits all the water in his mouth out onto the table) Hee. My friends are funny. Later, they almost convinced him that it was psuede-o-code, with a
barely pronounced p, but I don't think he ever quite bought that. Ben tried to claim that
they wouldn't still be laughing so hard once he realized the proper pronunciation if he really
was right about it, and I'm sure he threw him for a second there, but now they have a larger
mission. Kunk claims that he couldn't be convinced of anything completely asinine.
The degree to which completely asinine was defined was: "Like convincing me that my hair was
on fire when it wasn't actually on fire." Also on the proposed list of things to attempt:
I do hope we don't attempt that last one, because if someone seriously and sombrely tells him about Sam's death, and if I did it, I could pull some fake tears I imagine (thinking about Sam dying! which would be horrendous!), what's Kunk gonna do? Be like, "Oh, no, hahaha, he's not, really! Stop playin'!" It really wouldn't be a fair trick. I was going to tell another Kunk story, but I can't without dying laughing. And not because
I think you're stupid, Brandon! I promise! You almost kicked my ass in Trivial Pursuit
tonight, and maybe would've if George didn't get the easiest question in the world to win
it with. I just like there existing other people in the world that say things as silly as
I do! And also because tuberculosis rots people's brains out! Of course it does!
Because people have to go to camps, when they find out that they have tuberculosis, and they
just sit around until their brains rot out! It's not a lung disease at all! Oh, well, then, look at that. I guess I did let it out. I think I'm going to go to sleep now. I'll be dreaming of you, you-know-who! |