Heaven Ain't Close In a Place Like This
I hung out with my friend from the navy again and another friend I hadn't seen in awhile. Well, I'll omit the details (you can use your imagination), but we just did guy stuff the whole night and chilled at Denny's for a few hours after the bars closed. It was a good night and we had a conversation about more guy stuff. Navy friend told us how he had proposed to a girl a few months ago. It was at a bus stop, and he just asked the girl if she would marry him. Unfortunately for him, she was already married and had plans totally unfitting with his, so their engagement didn't last long. That didn't surprise me really... I don't mean to sound offensive, but he's not really marriage material and he won't be marriage material until he can stop flirting with every pretty girl he sees.
My other friend surprised me the most though. I hear about people meeting over the internet and dating afterwards all the time even though I've never actually met people like this who have really clicked. Well, of all places my friend apparently met a really great girl playing an internet MMORPG (Final Fantasy XI). He's even traveled all the way to Vancouver where she lives to see her and she's been to Michigan just to see him. He was talking about when they would meet and it sounded so romantic, even up to the emotional goodbyes before airplane rides back home. I've never heard him speak so greatly of somebody of the opposite sex. They sound so well together I'm actually jealous of them. I mean, how many people would buy airplane tickets just to meet somebody they have never seen before except maybe a few pictures and a few conversations within a computer game of all places? It's like a modern love story -- in fact, I should patent this idea and try to write a script for it and sell it to some producer in Hollywood or something. It would probably look pretty sweet in my resume and I do have experience playwriting.
There were only two girls I would've ever considered visiting at comparably long distances. One lived in Georgia the last time I chatted with her about five years ago. I never even seen a picture of her, but whenever we talked, it was from like 10 PM to 4 AM the next day. To this day I've never met somebody I could talk to as easily as her. I guess we were both graduating high school at the same time and all... but she was so sweet and nice. I even went to that old chatroom everyday just waiting for her to show up. Lame, ain't it? And I was too young and naive to sort out my feelings back then. So much time has passed that we are probably two totally different people now, but at least I'll know what to look for when I start searching for a girlfriend. There was a lot of drama in that chatroom.
The second girl was just a really good friend of mine and we were pretty close about three years ago. She was working as a model in Hawaii at the time and I've seen her picture. Besides really wanting to go to Hawaii, I also really wanted to meet her. She named her cat Doro after me. As beautiful as she is -- and famous according to her friends I've talked to -- we just didn't have the same kinds of long conversations I had with the other girl. Our relationship would never go beyond a close friendship.
Yet another song I can't get out of my head by The Killers. What's up with all these surprising retro songs like "Take Me Out" and "Somebody Told Me". My friend is right, most of the radio songs sound like shitty rehashes of popular songs over the last ten years, but these songs sound more like they belong in the 70's than the 00's.
Isn't it annoying how I don't actually use names in my lj? I should probably at least address people by aliases like A, B, and C or something. I've got so many emails today that I'm afraid to open them right now. I guess I can wait until tomorrow. It's almost 6 AM here. I need to get some sleep. Till later!
My other friend surprised me the most though. I hear about people meeting over the internet and dating afterwards all the time even though I've never actually met people like this who have really clicked. Well, of all places my friend apparently met a really great girl playing an internet MMORPG (Final Fantasy XI). He's even traveled all the way to Vancouver where she lives to see her and she's been to Michigan just to see him. He was talking about when they would meet and it sounded so romantic, even up to the emotional goodbyes before airplane rides back home. I've never heard him speak so greatly of somebody of the opposite sex. They sound so well together I'm actually jealous of them. I mean, how many people would buy airplane tickets just to meet somebody they have never seen before except maybe a few pictures and a few conversations within a computer game of all places? It's like a modern love story -- in fact, I should patent this idea and try to write a script for it and sell it to some producer in Hollywood or something. It would probably look pretty sweet in my resume and I do have experience playwriting.
There were only two girls I would've ever considered visiting at comparably long distances. One lived in Georgia the last time I chatted with her about five years ago. I never even seen a picture of her, but whenever we talked, it was from like 10 PM to 4 AM the next day. To this day I've never met somebody I could talk to as easily as her. I guess we were both graduating high school at the same time and all... but she was so sweet and nice. I even went to that old chatroom everyday just waiting for her to show up. Lame, ain't it? And I was too young and naive to sort out my feelings back then. So much time has passed that we are probably two totally different people now, but at least I'll know what to look for when I start searching for a girlfriend. There was a lot of drama in that chatroom.
The second girl was just a really good friend of mine and we were pretty close about three years ago. She was working as a model in Hawaii at the time and I've seen her picture. Besides really wanting to go to Hawaii, I also really wanted to meet her. She named her cat Doro after me. As beautiful as she is -- and famous according to her friends I've talked to -- we just didn't have the same kinds of long conversations I had with the other girl. Our relationship would never go beyond a close friendship.
Yet another song I can't get out of my head by The Killers. What's up with all these surprising retro songs like "Take Me Out" and "Somebody Told Me". My friend is right, most of the radio songs sound like shitty rehashes of popular songs over the last ten years, but these songs sound more like they belong in the 70's than the 00's.
Isn't it annoying how I don't actually use names in my lj? I should probably at least address people by aliases like A, B, and C or something. I've got so many emails today that I'm afraid to open them right now. I guess I can wait until tomorrow. It's almost 6 AM here. I need to get some sleep. Till later!