Good Morning

[josh]: Good morning, snook'ems.
[me]: That bitch has been playing Sade all morning and the floor in the living room is vibrating.
[josh]: I'm surprised you know who this is.
[me]: Fuck you.
[josh]: Um, can you get my pants. And some cantelope.

I turn in my chair to get up and go to the living room and stub my toe on the chair. Fall on my face. Good morning.

Apparently the kids had decided to build a fort out of the couch and various parts of the living room while he was sleeping on it so he crawled into my room and passed out. It's one thing to wake up with a stranger in your room, but it's another thing entirely to wake up with someone you know in your room when you know you went to sleep alone.

Last night is a bit blurry.




Not only do I see dead people, I eat them.

Temperance, Shawn, Josh and myself went to Twisted Metal for Cody Bik's art show. Cody is Shawn and Justin's old roommate. It was just warehouse space, so it was about 30 degrees. I ate all the grapes, cheese, and crackers that I could find. Had some not so great wine and moved on to the beer.


From start to finish?

Eventually, we left and went to one of Temperance's friends parties. At first she made us stay outside while she went in, which sort of started the whole night off wierd. I still don't know why. When we were given the clear to go in we headed back to the food and basically stayed their the whole time.



Shawn was disappointed that there were no games on my phone and changed all my ringtones.

A woman named Lisa befriended Josh and seemed to be trying to get him drunk. She made a cosmo for him in a gigantic christmas coffee mug that was all vodka and no crananything. She made one for me too, but gave me some 'splash' which I specifically didn't want because it has mangos in it. I drank it anyway.

At some point we decided to go try and find Alex. Her phone has been busy all day long. We drive over to Old Tavern and of course don't find her.





We are standing outside on the patio when a guy comes stumbling up to me and introduces himself as George.

George is really drunk.

[george] to josh: Is that your girl?
[josh] laughing: No, she ain't my girl.
[george]: ah that's cool man
Cheers all around.

[george] to shawn: Who are you to Stephanie?
[shawn]: I'm Stephanie's friend.
[george]: who?
[shawn]: her friend?!
Cheers again.

[george] to josh: So, is she like your sister or something, man? Cuz you look at her like you care, you know?
[josh] laughingly: Yeah, she's my sister. I'd kill people for her. I'd die for her.

George got into a fight a few minutes later and was thrown out of the bar.

We go back to the party, no Alex in sight, of course. Later Shawn and Temperance dropped Josh and I off at our car, we went home and at this point inspiration struck Josh.

"I've got two packages of Black Cats in my backpack!"





We ended up lighting these off on top of the fence across the street. I live in Oak Park, so not only did no one notice a thousand firecrackers going off at 3:30 am, but no one would have cared anyway. We hid behind my fence on the off chance that someone was going to come out and shoot us, but nothing happened.

Rather anti-climatic.

We tried to stay up longer watching Aeon Flux but I only last about 5 minutes before I started passing out and he woke me up and told me to go to bed. (I was infringing on his couch space?! It's my fucking couch!)

I supposed I should get dressed so I can take him home and clean the house back up again. I don't know how we manage to trash it in 2 hours, but we do.