Tuesday went with my mom and Kelley to see Phantom of the Opera. Very cool for my first broadway type show, but some of the lyrics and/or dialogue were hard to make out from where we were sitting (I just don't have a trained ear for it yet). Had a nice applebee's meal afterwards, yada yada yada.
Monday through Thursday morning is kind of a blur, just spent time with Kel. I am seriously going to start counting the days till she graduates and can move in. I'm so tired of long distance and not being there every time I should be. One more year...we made it through 2 and a half...we can do one more. And when I go visit her she has her own apartment. Thank you Jesus. Not being able to take a shower (at least most of the time I avoided it) and living in absurdly small quarters done with for her. I'll be happy to see her new place when she moves in early next month. Her loan money and financial aid is not slated to come to her till end of September though, so that seriously sucks for her first month unless something changes. But it was OK spending time together...I just wish we hadn't fought again during and right after the last week we got to pend significant time together. As I said in my other entry though, I'm happier that we are trying to fix all of our problems now instead of letting them become even worse.
Thursday had the choice between poker and XA as I mentioned in my only entry this week. Well I went over to Gateway apartments to play poker because XA is just going to have to take a backseat to my social life in law school. Yeah sorry Jesus see you in 3 years - well you know what I mean. On a sidenote, half our 1L class lives in the Gateway buildings which are brand new this year after 4 years of nothing being there (which stretches back to when even I lived down there for 2 years!). Really nice joints, but absurd on prices. Like 300 more a month than what I spend. I live on the cheap but seriously.... So poker was fun and we had 16 players and quite a few other local Gateway resdents drop by to say hello. Decided to do top 3 payout. I got fourth, seems appropriate. The guys who took 1st and 2nd were decent players, maybe even as good as me but it takes time to read that. 3rd place was a noob, but poker does involve luck :-) It was a nice time chatting over cards and then we went to 4 Kegs. As you might remember the last time I went to 4 Kegs we all got super messed up. Well I had some liquid dope, but it was dollar draft night and I would just rather save money. Besides, there were about 20 law students there and 1 med student (who knows why but whatever Jason is a nice guy) and I wanted to meet all of them appropriately. It is such a blast and I really think I'll have some great friends through these 3 years by the looks of it. We were out until 2 when they kicked us out and then we went back to Gateway to Laura's apartment and watched some TV over some rum and coke. And by rum and coke, I mean rum and rum and rum and coke. Like what my future stepfather-in-law gave my fiancee's best friend for her 21st birthday ;-) Good rum though, and we all finally broke it off around 3:30.
Friday I woke up late surprise surprise, rode the bus downtown to pick up my truck (amen to the foresight of parking on Summit Thursday night where the parking was free and not city permit). Played some xbox and got ready for Friday Night Magic. Now I had been bringing home some subpar performances in these easy tournaments whenever we played standard back in April May, so I decided to run a different deck and just build it right before I left. Well top 3 got prizes and I got 4th on tiebreakers. Seems like a pattern. We drafted afterwards and had fun, I got smashed but everyone agreed I had the best deck and just got unlucky. I don't care as long as I have fun.
Saturday was relaxing. And then I started calling people. 3 hours later...well anyways, Berens and I had not caught up on summer stuff like his new job in NC and my frustrations with my parents (and his with his). Called him and Jon and Heather to tell all my future and past roommates what they owe me by the end of the month when the new lease starts and Tom and Heather move in. Tom decided to stay 4 more days until this Friday instead of coming back Monday. Is this guy made of money...honestly his parents have got to stop paying his rent. And who knows if he's complicated the situation with the girl out there or dropped it, I hope for his sake he dropped it like he said he had to do. It's not like they had anything other than drinks and conversation, they did not do anything stupid. But Tom is prone to this. Oh well not my problem yet. Jon is living it up with his parents and friends down south, so whatever. He is bringing up friends and a pickup or two to take all his big stuff, but not until the 26th (leaving the 27th AKA the last day of our lease). And he said a friend is interestedin the couch, so I cannot get rid of it this week sometime. I'm not hauling it anywhere but outside on the 27th and his friend better come pick that crap up or it's going to the dumpster. I got new furniture coming in the form of Tom and Heather, and his crap is not being stored or moved by me. Unless I have time (which I don't that weekend) and got paid handsomely...we're talking gas AND time invested. No free rides here in Fitzville. Then to top my day off I called Patrice and got ahold of her to fix the caulking around my tub. Tired of water coming off the kitchen ceiling from a shoddy caulking job. So she said they would fix it sometime in the next 2 weeks...get on it. So now you understand 3 hours later.
Mom called that night, got to chat for a while. Then Kelley called and we talked for darn near 2 hours, but we had a lot to discuss. Then Sunday came and I tried to sort out the mess that my Magic cards become over every PTQ season and did not get it all done. Then off to the statehouse for kickball. Yeah the Ohio Statehouse lawn on high street. We played kickball on it, and 60 people showed up. I did stellar just like my childhood. Dropped the only catch I had a chance at and only got on base one out of 3 times I kicked (and got stranded on second of course). We lost the game but not by much, seems like athletic talent in games like kickball is pretty even and bad overall. After an hour we had had our fill and the 2L's running these social events got about half of us to go to Panini's on campus. Nice bar on south but had never been in there (did not care about that scene before I was 21 and that wasn't that long ago). They bought us all kinds of appetizers and I had a buffalo chicken sandwich which was amazing. So much better than BK, hard to believe. Watched the Reds choke a tied game in the eighth to the Brew Crew ending their big win streak, but had many mroe good conversations and starting to gel with the social group a little better. We broke it off around 5:30 after deciding about 7 of us were going to a movie at 7. Well 2 in the group hadn't seen Wedding Crashers and everyone seemed to want to go see it except one guy who wanted to see 4 Brothers. I actually did not really want to see Wedding Crashers again either (great movie but if I'm payin premium price I want to see new stuff) so I joined him for 4 Brothers. Great guy flick, a fair amount of gunfights, violence, and Detroit life. Oh and lots of revenge and murder mystery...good stuff for guys. Mark (the guy who went with me) told me he was really grateful I had came along because he hates going to movies alone...I completely understand because that usually sucks. No brainer, did not want him to feel left out and wanted to see that movie. Then I'm back here just about to call Kelley and catch her up on all this jazz.
Orientation tomorrow...and just like first day of class don't really know what I should wear. Oh well. I'll let you know how it all goes down hopefully tomorrow night after we go out bowling. That's a little more natural social event for me.
On a completely unrelated side note, got offered 2 positions to write a weekly or bi-weekly article this week. One for a major Magic website and another for a college sports site I frequent a lot. turned them both down (only Magic one would've paid well) just because I'd rather focus on something else. Nice to know people would hire me on as a writer, guess I don't suck too badly :-)
Have a great Monday...whatever that means!
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