Well, my 24th birthday came and went.  Birthdays are a lot more fun conceptually than they really are.  Anyway, PFC Caryn stopped by work yesterday, so I didn't get any work done. But I managed to make it through today. Work, however, was the least of my problems...

*didja catch that foreshadowing?  I'm trying to throw in some literary devices.  it's the hallmark of qualitiy literature.*

    So... i left work and headed back to brooklyn, more specifically the bar called Great Lakes.  There I found Jen, her roommate Kelly, Jed, and PFC Kathy.  Jen got me a nice little birthday card, and Kathy was nice enough to put together a nice little grab bag of assorted treats, some of which were edible.  Anyway, i had all sorts of work to do, so the plan was to have a quick beer, thank everyone for coming, and get back to work.  I don't even know what I bother wasting the mental energy thinking up such a stupid plan.

    So after my quick beer, I had another quick beer. than some extra-large shots of vodka.  The bartender bought us a few beers on account of the b-day. He's a ncie guy, who's bought us beers before.  Anyway, we were having a gay old time.  We found ourselves asking "Why don't we sit around and drink more often?"   Of course, when I woke up this morning, my first thought was "Oh yeah, that's why."  It was that situation where all you want in the whole world is a big glass of water, but you feel too shitty to crawl outta bed and get it. I had a four-alarm headache going this morning. I don't know why I bothered to get up at all, since I spent the next two hours stumbling around like a fucking zombie.  But i did.

    Oh yeah, some interesting tidbits on the events that happened before I got home.  PFC Katey showed up after a while.  She and Kathy both live about 30 feet away, on opposite sides of Great Lakes.  Which is convenient.  Anyhow, after Katey, Jen, and Kelly left, I found myself making many superflous trips to the bathroom, as Kathy and Jed got a wee bit friendly.  I'm not sure why, but I found this development hilarious. Not hilarious, exactly, but I found myself laughing uproariously to myself in the bathroom, which almost never happens.  I had kind of been trying to steer things in that direction last night.  I'm not exactly sure when it all went down. Probably when I was in the bathroom.  So I laid on the bar with my head down, cupping my ear and trying to make out their making out.  instead, i just heard intermittent conversation.  It was really quite interesting though.  A true meeting of my two social worlds. Still, it was an odd site to see. I'm not really sure what either of them thinks about it. I saw Kathy for a little bit today, but didn't get to ask her about it.  And Jed is kind of vague as well.  Personally, i don't know what I think about it either.  I'm glad for jed, but my gut tells me it's trouble.  But there's a definite possibility that it's a one time thing.

    You know, it's come to my attention that I don't do a lot in the way of character development, particularly of people not on the list of Frequently Used Nouns.  The PFCs thus far are fairly flat characters.  ah well.

    So yeah, I paid the price for last night.  I dind't get home till about 3:30 I think. called Rodzilla, but I can't quite recall what we talked about, which I hate.  i should really just wait till I'm in my right mind. I'm sure I told her about the jed/kathy thing.  So i woke up, and freaked out over my work. I did receive a good mark on a paper I got back today, a 10 out of 10.  My Professor wrote "I love this paper," on it.  That's two papers in a row to feature teacher comments with the word "love" in it.  How nice.

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