Tuesday, December 28, 2004
shitty parties
my friend edith and I drove to a couple of parties tonight - they were awful. these were the two of the least fun parties that i have ever been to.
the first one was being thrown by a friend from high school. he's a really nice guy who we liked a lot, so we figured it would be fun. instead, it was a living room half-full of people that we only vaguely remembered from high school who all had obviously been drinking for about an hour too long. after about an hour and a half of painful conversation (and catching up a little with the host, which was nice - he was one of my best friends in middle school!) we decided to cut our losses and run. besides, we had a plan...
edith's little brother, frank, and my little brother are the same age and our families are great friends, so the four of us know each other fairly well. he's back for the holidays from rensallier or however its spelled, that institute of technology out in upstate new york. anyhow, i've been hearing stories from my brother that frank now drinks - which is kind of weird because he's one of those people who will always be ten years old in my mind. so edith corroborated these stories tonight and told me that, in fact, he was out partying too. since the first party sucked, we decided to go watch frank in action (i was secretly hoping that gio would be there too). unfortunately, we were downtown and franks thing was in orange county. party 1 still sucked though, and we weren't ready to give up on the night yet, so we figured the drive would be worth it. we stopped by in-n-out on the way to get the kids some snacks as a sort of "we come in peace" deal.
ok, i'm getting tired, but basically this party sucked too. it was a bunch of freshmen sitting around listening to shitty music and drinking nasty looking drinks. half of them were passed out, and the other half were collectively angsting about how they were unfulfilled by freshman life. also, gio wasn't there and frank wasn't even drinking! it was unbearable! we seriously only stayed about 20 mins at the party before we realized it would be more fun to just go home.
oh, and it was raining most of the night. i'm glad i was dd, though - these were the sorts of parties where the state that everybody around you is in just makes you feel bad about drinking anything at all.
so, ummmmm, ed, i promise that we won't go to bad parties like these on thursday. ¶ 4:14 AM
the first one was being thrown by a friend from high school. he's a really nice guy who we liked a lot, so we figured it would be fun. instead, it was a living room half-full of people that we only vaguely remembered from high school who all had obviously been drinking for about an hour too long. after about an hour and a half of painful conversation (and catching up a little with the host, which was nice - he was one of my best friends in middle school!) we decided to cut our losses and run. besides, we had a plan...
edith's little brother, frank, and my little brother are the same age and our families are great friends, so the four of us know each other fairly well. he's back for the holidays from rensallier or however its spelled, that institute of technology out in upstate new york. anyhow, i've been hearing stories from my brother that frank now drinks - which is kind of weird because he's one of those people who will always be ten years old in my mind. so edith corroborated these stories tonight and told me that, in fact, he was out partying too. since the first party sucked, we decided to go watch frank in action (i was secretly hoping that gio would be there too). unfortunately, we were downtown and franks thing was in orange county. party 1 still sucked though, and we weren't ready to give up on the night yet, so we figured the drive would be worth it. we stopped by in-n-out on the way to get the kids some snacks as a sort of "we come in peace" deal.
ok, i'm getting tired, but basically this party sucked too. it was a bunch of freshmen sitting around listening to shitty music and drinking nasty looking drinks. half of them were passed out, and the other half were collectively angsting about how they were unfulfilled by freshman life. also, gio wasn't there and frank wasn't even drinking! it was unbearable! we seriously only stayed about 20 mins at the party before we realized it would be more fun to just go home.
oh, and it was raining most of the night. i'm glad i was dd, though - these were the sorts of parties where the state that everybody around you is in just makes you feel bad about drinking anything at all.
so, ummmmm, ed, i promise that we won't go to bad parties like these on thursday. ¶ 4:14 AM