On TV, it's raining in New York.  Here where I'm sitting, though, it's just kind of cloudy.  Weird.

    Last night, a friend of Jed's, and an acquaintence of mine, Mark McDanald came over.  He was a year ahead of us at Washington and Lee.  He just started film school at NYU.  I also gave PFC Caryn a call, and she came over as well.  Mark informed me of some interesting news.  My old girlfriend Rebecca is engaged.  My first ex-girlfriend to be getting married.  I think.  There aren't that many though. Anyway, this was doubly interesting, because Mark had in fact dated Rebecca as well, a year after I did.  He still has some contact with her.  Apparently, Rebecca and her beau met at Middlebury last summer.  She's back teaching in the midwest, in Wisconsin I think, and he's been in Baltimore this whole time. So it's been a long distance affair I guess.  And now they're engaged. So of course my first question was "So they've never lived in the same place together, huh?"

    Anyhow, after that, roomate Dylan came home, and the five of us went down Great Lakes on 5th Ave.  Unfortunately, the place was kind of packed, and Jed's "no sit, no stay" policy rules, so we had to go over to the Gate, another bar down 5th Ave.  So we sat there for a while, chatting it up, and then Caryn's friend Nicholas showed up. I guess she worked with him at Entertainment Weekly.  So I sat there, downing vodka tonics and white russians.  I' ve been drinking a lot of white russians lately. And vodka tonics, for that matter.  So we were sitting inside, and I saw this girl Susanna walk by, and Jed confirmed her ID.  Another Washington and Lee person.  Jed and I had acting class with her junior year.  So upon further inspection, it turned out that she was sitting with yet another Washington and Lee person, this dude Neil.  This was also interesting to me, because not only were there now five people from our college in some random Brooklyn bar, but with Neil, there were now three people there who had also dated Rebecca.  Actually, I don't think Neil technically dated her. It was more of a short affair, which left her emotionally wrecked for a few days. Or weeks.  But there are other things to hold against him, so I don't really dwell on that. He's a nice guy, but just kind of a pretentious fuck.  And we weren't really sure how much of what he was telling us was total bullshit.  These actually aren't really all my own observations, but the opinions of those around me. Still, it was a pleasant time.  I never really talked to Susanna at all during college, and I probably talked to her more last night than I did in the 3 years we went to the same school.  I was always impressed with her in acting class and the shows I saw her in, but at the same time that makes me really not want to trust a person, being that they're so good at acting.  Not everyone, mind you, but certain people.  She's super-nice, I just can't tell how genuine it is.  But I suppose I'll revise my opinion of her a bit after actually talking to her.  She seems friendly enough, and was nothing but pleasant.  And it's just always nice to have a variety of experience.  I've been going to bars all week, and for the most part it's been pretty varied.  One night, i went with Matt. Another night with Jen and James.  One night all by myself, and tone night with the whole gang.  And last night with 4 or 5 people I'd never been out with, like roommate Dylan, who's turned out to be a really cool guy.  So it's just nice to do different things. Yesterday, I was sort of mourning the passing of my one week off before I start work, because I would've loved to have driven out to the beach and do touristy things and whatever, but just writing about now, even though it seemed fairly standard at the time, it was a pretty good week.  The Blue Man Group, the trip to AC, the crazy Wednesday night out with jen, were all interesting and exciting, and it was all in 5 days too.  Super.  And tomorrow's Labor Day.  But I feel like a need a day's rest, after 6 straight days.  Maybe I'll just eat some fruit, have a warm glass of milk, and go to bed.
 

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Here's a song I can't get out of my head. It goes:

"Life is like a hurricane/
Here in, Duckberg/
Racecar, lasers, airaplane,
It's a / Duckblur

Might solve a myster/
Or rewite history/

Ducktales-ooOOoo
Everyday they're out there making Ducktales
oo-ooo-ooo"
etc.

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