Another Magical Day of Skipping Work ft. Isela
Days when work is skipped are generally 'good' days. If I spend the day doing nothing at all it defaults to 'good' and won't drop down to lower levels of 'ok' or 'bad' unless something negative happens during it, like work. But when your day is filled with things like making fun of NASA speakers, inventing new words that no one could have ever thought of, watching a friend become all grown up!, etc. then the day may be good enough to bump up the status to 'good enough' or 'pretty good'.
I'm not going to start my day at the beginning, 12am, because then you'd wonder what happened just before then and I'd rather explain that a little later. So instead I'll start at the time I woke up.
5:55am - I wake up, call in sick, go back to sleep. Great start!
8:00am - I wake up again. I called in sick because I was invited to attend a graduation ceremony of none other than(except for the other graduates that day)
lizardkween. Graduating with a Bachelor's in Rocking Out (Til The Break Of Dawn). So, I called up friends Danny and Luis and away we went. We listened to Mmm Bop a few times on the way there because it was on a Mix Tape Isela burned me(onto a CD) that ended up being listened to several times throughout the day because I neglected to bring any other CD albums or even any other Mix Tape CDs.
Traffic, Parking Issues, No Helium Balloons.
We got there and seated next to The Wind Symphony Orchestra playing a seemingly endless loop of Pomp and Circumstance and we cheered and hooted for them in Rock Concert fashion. Then an old lady began speaking and forcing the graduates and faculty to stand up and sit down at her whim based on whether they were parents or whether or not they worked during college or whether or based how long they worked for UTEP. This went on until the thrill of her commanding power faded and then a speaker from NASA came out who brought up how awkward it was for an introvert to be speaking in front of 10,000 people was. She was pretty proud of her introversion, I guess. The rest of her speech was pretty inspiring though. She told everyone to "never give up" and "always believe in your heart and dreams" and probably to "reach for the stars" because she does work for NASA. I didn't hear it all because we were busy imagining her exit on a rocket pack.
Then they started graduation the graduates. They announced Isela and Danny and I cheered so loud we woke up Luis. Then we decided to go eat breakfast instead of watching all the unimportant people get graduated. So we went to Village Inn for the second time in less than 10 hours.
The night before we had also eaten there after watching Sugarcult. Watching Sugarcult not because I love their music, in fact I didn't know what songs they performed until that day, but because we(The Carlos Experience Project [sometimes referred to as Alphabetter]) opened up for them! One of their touring openers had their bus explode or something else not as interesting as my performance and an hour-an-a-half before the show we were asked to perform. It went off without a hitch. Ask anyone!
After the performance we went to Village Inn and less than 12 hours later we went back to the same Village Inn because it was the closest eatery to where we were at the time.
After we went to congratulate the graduate and it probably looked as if we were the there the whole time. This was around the time I came up with that new word that I'm sure has already spread across the internet by now so that if you searched for it you might get upwards of 12,000 hits whereas if you had searched for the word just 2 days ago you would have had exactly ZERO hits. The word being "Congraduations".
Then I drove Luis home so he could continue sleeping, then drove back about half the distance so Danny could run an errand and then turned around again and drove about half that distance I just drove(1/4 * total distance) to arrive at the graduates house. Before that I bought Sunchips because the looks of the workers at the Quiznos pressured me to do so since I was using their restroom. Danny bought a graduation gift because he likes to make me look bad.
3:20ish?pm. We arrived at the house for the get together. There I met several interesting characters, had nachos, and conversations evolved from music to ghost dogs to floods to foods flavored like other foods. We probably overstayed our welcome by a bit because I guess I don't know how to interrupt conversations to say goodbye. Sorry! Then we parted ways and made an extremely polite exit when saying goodbye to the hosts Mother.
Maybe around 5, I don't know. We left and went to Starbucks to sit on their chairs and do nothing for a while because we didn't really want to go home. Then we waited for over there and at the nearby Gamestop for over an hour until more people arrived. There we decided we didn't know what to do so we went to Israel's for pizza and video games and then to the movies theatre cinema.
11:15pm The movie "The Ex" Started. All we knew about the movie we learned form the poster. Starring Zack Braff, Jason Bateman, and Amanda Peet! It was funny but not good enough to keep me from talking through it. I loved the surprise ending though where Amanda Peet ends up not showing her breasts in a movie. No one saw that coming!!
I finally arrived home again after 1am and went to sleep.
The movie reminded me that at the graduation Danny yelled out "Cripple!". Luis and I were aghast! I looked and saw the person graduating was on crutches and so he was just a temporary gimp and I was relieved it was not someone in a wheelchair. So I guess there was no harm in yelling that, whatsoever.
Today, I go to a photo shoot for the Illustrious 'What's Up' magazine. Printed in over 1* city!
*estimate
I'm not going to start my day at the beginning, 12am, because then you'd wonder what happened just before then and I'd rather explain that a little later. So instead I'll start at the time I woke up.
5:55am - I wake up, call in sick, go back to sleep. Great start!
8:00am - I wake up again. I called in sick because I was invited to attend a graduation ceremony of none other than(except for the other graduates that day)
lizardkween. Graduating with a Bachelor's in Rocking Out (Til The Break Of Dawn). So, I called up friends Danny and Luis and away we went. We listened to Mmm Bop a few times on the way there because it was on a Mix Tape Isela burned me(onto a CD) that ended up being listened to several times throughout the day because I neglected to bring any other CD albums or even any other Mix Tape CDs.
Traffic, Parking Issues, No Helium Balloons.
We got there and seated next to The Wind Symphony Orchestra playing a seemingly endless loop of Pomp and Circumstance and we cheered and hooted for them in Rock Concert fashion. Then an old lady began speaking and forcing the graduates and faculty to stand up and sit down at her whim based on whether they were parents or whether or not they worked during college or whether or based how long they worked for UTEP. This went on until the thrill of her commanding power faded and then a speaker from NASA came out who brought up how awkward it was for an introvert to be speaking in front of 10,000 people was. She was pretty proud of her introversion, I guess. The rest of her speech was pretty inspiring though. She told everyone to "never give up" and "always believe in your heart and dreams" and probably to "reach for the stars" because she does work for NASA. I didn't hear it all because we were busy imagining her exit on a rocket pack.
Then they started graduation the graduates. They announced Isela and Danny and I cheered so loud we woke up Luis. Then we decided to go eat breakfast instead of watching all the unimportant people get graduated. So we went to Village Inn for the second time in less than 10 hours.
The night before we had also eaten there after watching Sugarcult. Watching Sugarcult not because I love their music, in fact I didn't know what songs they performed until that day, but because we(The Carlos Experience Project [sometimes referred to as Alphabetter]) opened up for them! One of their touring openers had their bus explode or something else not as interesting as my performance and an hour-an-a-half before the show we were asked to perform. It went off without a hitch. Ask anyone!
After the performance we went to Village Inn and less than 12 hours later we went back to the same Village Inn because it was the closest eatery to where we were at the time.
After we went to congratulate the graduate and it probably looked as if we were the there the whole time. This was around the time I came up with that new word that I'm sure has already spread across the internet by now so that if you searched for it you might get upwards of 12,000 hits whereas if you had searched for the word just 2 days ago you would have had exactly ZERO hits. The word being "Congraduations".
Then I drove Luis home so he could continue sleeping, then drove back about half the distance so Danny could run an errand and then turned around again and drove about half that distance I just drove(1/4 * total distance) to arrive at the graduates house. Before that I bought Sunchips because the looks of the workers at the Quiznos pressured me to do so since I was using their restroom. Danny bought a graduation gift because he likes to make me look bad.
3:20ish?pm. We arrived at the house for the get together. There I met several interesting characters, had nachos, and conversations evolved from music to ghost dogs to floods to foods flavored like other foods. We probably overstayed our welcome by a bit because I guess I don't know how to interrupt conversations to say goodbye. Sorry! Then we parted ways and made an extremely polite exit when saying goodbye to the hosts Mother.
Maybe around 5, I don't know. We left and went to Starbucks to sit on their chairs and do nothing for a while because we didn't really want to go home. Then we waited for over there and at the nearby Gamestop for over an hour until more people arrived. There we decided we didn't know what to do so we went to Israel's for pizza and video games and then to the movies theatre cinema.
11:15pm The movie "The Ex" Started. All we knew about the movie we learned form the poster. Starring Zack Braff, Jason Bateman, and Amanda Peet! It was funny but not good enough to keep me from talking through it. I loved the surprise ending though where Amanda Peet ends up not showing her breasts in a movie. No one saw that coming!!
I finally arrived home again after 1am and went to sleep.
The movie reminded me that at the graduation Danny yelled out "Cripple!". Luis and I were aghast! I looked and saw the person graduating was on crutches and so he was just a temporary gimp and I was relieved it was not someone in a wheelchair. So I guess there was no harm in yelling that, whatsoever.
Today, I go to a photo shoot for the Illustrious 'What's Up' magazine. Printed in over 1* city!
*estimate