sour apple martinis

that and some mike's.

hung out with jill and brian after i got away from my family (freaking crazy people). met brian's friend, rich...his replacement for john (another exuberant gay guy). cool guy. lots of fun. very straighforward.

sometimes i scare myself, but i always seem to get home ok. remembering all the times this summer definitely scares me. it made no sense. we were so worried about people being ok to drive home when, really, none of us were ok to drive. but we always did. we've been lucky. i hope we don't press our luck too much.

ben really is alive. it was good to see him and bob-o today. although, bob was stressed out and i could tell (it probably didn't help that i sort of made fun of his sweater vest...oops). i played horrendously except for my tee shots. i was cranking the ball whenever i used my driver (save one or two tee shots). dr. cullen, who i joined up with on number four because the pace was so incredibly slow, was angry with me because i was out-driving him on nearly every hole and said that i shouldn't be playing the four cone. he can deal with it as far as i'm concerned...especially since i hadn't played golf for over two months. i played off the fairway decently. i chipped like crap (as usual) and putted terribly (which is usually the strongest part of my game). i played 12 holes and then stopped for a few reasons (dr. cullen was pissing me off, i was playing so bad, and i had a very large pulsating blister on my right thumb). it was fun though. and i think lara and i are going to play on saturday. i won't hold my breath though.

i had hoped to see ben tonight, but that didn't happen because he didn't go downtown and ended up still having nicky out when i talked to him at 10:30ish. i'll see him at pinehurst tomorrow at the least, but perhaps again before i leave if i'm lucky.

now, its time for bed because instead of snowboarding tomorrow (a-basin decided the weather has been too warm the last few days, so now they're going to open on saturday or sunday), we're doing crappy family-type stuff. ooh, i can't wait. all i know at this point is that we'll be taking "family pictures" at some point. they'll be horrible, but oh well. and apparently the goal is to spend some time with joan, steven, andrew, and grace...but that usually means that weend up with andrew and grace while joan and steven go off and do their own stuff. we'll see what happens tomorrow though.

fall break is coming to an end and i haven't gotten anything accomplished yet. i still need to...
do homework (required: NAS, ethics, some world lit, and some physics)
get my halloween costume (perhaps i'll get it back in omaha though...we'll see)
get golf clubs from pinehurst (didn't happen today because bob was in a meeting with matt when i was leaving the club)
jamba juice

that may be it, but i doubt it.

good night and good luck.