the wonder twins get diplomas
so, got to see chloe and amber graduate. that was cool. chloes dad took us out to dinner. that was very cool. and just for teh record, i tried to leave a tip, but her grandfather was like, no, no, its taken care of. and it turns out, i become very suggestible when full of free food, so i was like "yes sir" and put the money back in my wallet. or more accurately, the checkbook holder which currently has al my shit in it. grandpa joe is actually pretty cool. a little on the philosophical side. wanted to know why i hadn't asked ellie out. he apparently hadnt noticed she's like a foot taller than me. plus she's a year below the minimum age for datage. not sure which one of those should be more important. probably the age thing. though really, age is subjective. biological age is useful as a general guideline, nothing more. anyway. the cynical bastard in me is tempted to think that amber has begun exploiting the fact that I abhor the idea of her driving drunk by adding "so I won't have to drive drunk" to the end of requests that she think I am going to deny. like, for instance, when she called me up at five thirty asking if she and three of her drunk friends could crash at my place. its like she has begun holding herself hostage in the interest of convenience, threatening to endanger her own safety in order to ply me. if she'd asked me that on any night other than her graduation night i would have told her to fuck off. im afraid im going to have to tell her to fuck off sometime soon. as much as i love amber, she has no concept of when to stop, when she is beginning to impose...the only thing she understands is an extremely emphatic "no". and by "an" i mean five to ten, depending on how badly she wants whatever it is and how long it takes the person being asked to hang up the phone. but, she graduated high school. go amber. we're all very proud. and by we i mean me and mike. but anyway. got woken up at five thirty. couldn't get back to sleep (they never did show up). took some clariten. then i took some cold and sinus stuff. then i took some cough syrup. still couldn't sleep, so i drank some of chloe's graduation present in the hopes it would join forces with some of the other things workign their way through my system and cause some interesting reaction...preferably sleep. that didn't work. the sun was coming up and the light was in my eyes. so i took my sleeping bag into the bathroom and shut the door. slept for about three hours until i got woken up by someone hammering something somewhere in the building. then i felt really ba dfor drinking chloe's present so i went out and bought a fresh one and kept the other one for myself. now i have 750 milliliters of coconut flavored joy sitting on my desk. people need to come over so i don't have to drink it by myself.