No, Really, I Am an American

I can’t say that I’ve been really productive. I mean, in some ways I have. When the announcement was made, I was busy with Mike and Anna’s wedding thing; and in truth, I’d taken vacation days thereafter, so I would have always had this week off from work as it is. (Of course now I wonder if this means I lost the payment for these vacation days…)

I’ve been keeping busy, or perhaps the more appropriate term is “social” during this time. Since we did not get paid on the 15th (or the 19th, or the 24th) like we were supposed to, Clint and Laura took that as a sign to move on. Both of them had re-signed their contracts, but after Clint got evicted, they both just kinda threw in the towel. Like I’d said before, I can’t blame ‘em…but like with a lot of this, it doesn’t mean I’m sad to see them go any less. Knowing that they were going to be gone soon, I tried to schedule time to see them before, well, today actually (they flew out this afternoon).

I went to Kiyomizu with Laura last Wednesday before the wedding, and then on Monday we spent some time in Star’s Hollow. There’d also been this thing with going to Tennoji to see the parakeets; and then that night, Steve, Clint, Laura, and I went to Outback for our “last supper”, as Steve tagged it in facebook (which, yes, I did get suckered into joining).

Tuesday there was hanging out with Gunthar involved, closely followed by kidnapping Kat. Wednesday was Scottish Lou and her boyfriend Ryan’s Halloween/Sayonara party at their house, so I went to that (for like five seconds and then promptly left ‘cuz we all know how I feel about people); thereafter Fight Club went to Mike and Anna’s for an all-night movie thing. We watched Ghostbusters, The Omen (the original), and the first Treehouse of Horror. Most of us dropped off after that, since it was 4 A.M.

The next morning (Thursday), Mike and Anna made pancakes, bacon, eggs, and toast. We watched the Buffy episodes Hush and Halloween while we ate, and then we put in this crappy movie Death Burger (but the American title is Drive Thru, I think). Oh man, the hilarity of the movie. So. Bad. But then we watched The Frighteners, which was actually much better than I expected. Then again, maybe any movie following that craptacular slasher flick would have been amazing.

I ended up going over to Katrina’s apato later that evening to watch some Season 1 of Alias.

So yeah, I’ve spent most of this time keeping social.