No, Angela's not bitter at all....

But we'll start with happy stuff first.

Friday

Eee! Fun day!

Picked up Rebecca around 11:00 and gave her her birthday "gift" (a card saying she could pick the date and I'd take her out to dinner), then we went over to Emily's house to pick her up to go to a meeting of the Holland GSA.

Hoo boy.

I called Emily earlier that morning and got her brother. I said I'd be coming by to pick her up later, and got her address from him. I'd told Emily on Thursday that I'd be by around 11. Well, when Rebecca and I got to her house, we stood on the front step for about ten minutes, ringing the doorbell and knocking. Apparently, no one was home. But the front door was unlocked. Rebecca was really paranoid that something may have happened to Emily, so we just walked right in to the house.

And then her brother walks in behind us with one of his friends.

I have never been so terrified in my life. If I'd been that kid, I would have been scared to death to find two strange women standing in my kitchen. But he just shrugged it off like this is something that happens all the time. So he went down and found Emily (who was still asleep). Around 11:25 we finally got out of Emily's house. We now have about five minutes to get to Holland to meet up with all the other GSA people.

We got there just as all the Holland people were getting out for lunch. My car got lots of stares since they rarely see cars with West Ottawa parking permits on them, lol. I feared for the safety of my car.

Karla (one of the leaders of Holland's GSA) met us at the door and took us to the GSA meeting room (she decided we didn't need to check in at the office because we were visiting over lunch). John was waiting there for us. I then went out and wandered around a few hallways (meeting up with a few people I know from the Holland forensics team who couldn't figure out why the hell I was in their school on a Friday afternoon) before finding April, Jake, Laura and Nicole.

Meeting with the Holland folks was fun. We swapped stories about how our GSAs got started, then talked about coordinating our Day of Silence events, and inviting Alix Olson, a very cool, very radical feminist lesbian poet, to perform at Holland during that week, and opening the event up to all the area GSAs and the community in general. Also, some of the Holland peeps will be coming by PFLAG next week (reminder for you: Friday, 7-9, Grace Episcopal Church). I'm going to become known as the PFLAG recruiter ;-)

After the Holland meeting, I had to take Rebecca back to Emily's house 'cause she'd left her purse there. The problem is, no one was home anylonger at Emily's house. So we had to drive all the way back downtown to get a key from Emily's mom, then back to Emily's house...by this point I'm about ready to scream and refuse to ever chauffer anyone around ever again.... But we finally got the purse and went on our way to Grandville (about 45 minutes behind everyone else....)

By the time we got to Grandville, April and Jake had just left to pick up Chris and Brad (John decided not to join us). So the lesbian couple and the three bitter singles got lunch and hung out until everyone else showed up. Chris finally got to meet Rebecca, but didn't get it until Rebecca and I were walking beside him and Jake arm in arm that she was my Rebecca ~shakes head~. Even though that's how I introduced her.

Went to Hot Topic. Squealed when April found a kick ass new Fraggle Rock T-shirt. It's this horrible brown color, but it has Boober on it! And on the back it says "I might have some fun by accident". My motto for the day. Also found some kick ass black lace gloves for $3.98. She shops, she scores!

Then we rode the carosel. Well, some of did. The women did. I guess the guys just thought they were too cool to ride a carosel. They were the ones who missed out, though. It's very fun to ride a carousel horse next to your girlfriend while holding hands.

Yes, the three couples made quite a spectacle of themselves. And I'm damn proud to say that, for once, I got to be part of the group!

Then we spent most of the rest of the time sitting on some couches at the end of the mall. That was fun. Everyone else exchanged gifts and Chris...wow. This was so romantic. He started singing 'Elephant Love Song Medley' with Jake. In the middle of the mall!!! Then Nicole made Rebecca and I do it. ~shakes head~ I can't sing Christian's part! (Rebecca made me sing that part 'cause she was in a dress, I was wearing pants, so I had to be the guy.) After our rather shoddy rendition of the song (I sing it so much better with Jake. I think it's 'cause then I'm acting. I've decided Angela doesn't really like to perform, she just likes being other people who like to perform), Rebecca and I sat back and while everyone else sat around we sang through it again, this time with me in Satine's part. Did much better.

Hung out for awhile longer. Jake and Chris wandered off for awhile (with the rest of us making lewd comments the whole time), then April and Brad did (ditto. Though it was funnier this time. April went to the bathroom, so Brad came back without her. She took frickin' forever, so we started gossiping about her. After awhile, I heard a cough or something from above so I looked up and there's April leaning over the rail, listening in on our conversation! LoL. One of the funniest things that day). Rebecca and I didn't really run off...we went shopping in one of the candle stores so Rebecca could get a gift for April. We were within sight of the group the whole time, so no malicious rumors could be spread about us.

Then we all went to Spencer's, and Chris and I got into a bitch fight outside of it, lol. Rebecca was afraid we were gonna get thrown out. I don't even remember what we were fighting about. Just trying to prove who the bigger bitch is? I wouldn't put it past us.

Jake had a gift card to Best Buy, so we went there next. Then we went to McDonald's for dinner. God, that was bad. Jake started running through his DI piece for us. When he was a gay man, he hung off of Chris (of course), and when he was supposed to be the lesbian, he hung off of Emily. Well, Emily got into the role a bit too much and "groped" Jake (she ran a hand over his stomach). Jake jumped about 10 feet in the air, completely mortified, and hid behind Chris, who wasn't having any of that. He decided that to get even, he was going to grope me. So it's official: Jake's boyfriend has gone farther with me than my girlfriend. Where's the justice in that?!

Jake was about to die of embarrasment. And he was still apologizing today. And Chris did tonight when I got on-line. I told both of them not to worry about it. It makes for a funny story. We're gonna be talking about that one forever.

Unfortunately, Emily had to go home after McDonald's. So I took her, Rebecca and Laura back to Holland. I driven Nicole to McDonald's, but Nicole is no longer allowed to ride in my car. She spends the whole time fantasizing about men dressed in spandex and dripping blood from the mouth. Now, she's allowed to have all the disgusting straight BDSM fantasies she wants, but she can not vocalize them in my car while I'm driving us to dinner.

The good part of that drive was I spent most of the time holding hands with Rebecca. Which doesn't work so well in the city where I have to keep shifting, but I didn't mind too much.

So we drove back to Holland, playing Moulin Rouge really, really loud and singing at the top of our lungs. Very fun. Though it's hard to sing love songs when you're driving and you want to keep looking at the person next to you.

God, I should probably delete half of this entry. People are going to read it and use it as blackmail on me for the rest of my life. Nicole, you start bringing this stuff up around anyone and your chances of finding out Leila's identity disappear forever. Britt, April...I have nothing to hold over you. Except the promise of great pain. The rest of you...I'm not worried about. Either I never see you or you somehow think me freaking out over relationship issues is entertaining. I think you're all sadists but...to each her/his own, right?

God, I think this entry is beginning to rival my ranting Regionals entry. And I still have a whole day left to chronicle!

I was proud of myself today for getting myself up and out of the house on time all by myself. I'm growing up! Yea!

Of course, on the days I get to school on time, everyone else (especially ms. Forner) is running late. We didn't get to Mattawan until 5 to 8, and registration was suposed to be 7-7:30. Gah.

My day went pretty blah. Jenny and I had crappy judges. There is absolutely no consistancy in our critiques. Even with Mother's Butt out of the way (they split up. He's in a multiple, I didn't see her around today ~shrugs~) we only placed 8th. We're gonna meet tomorrow (actually, later today by now. It's 12:11 now. I I'm talking to Chris as I write this, which is not only slowing down my computer, but distracting me. It's really slowing down my computer. The screen says I've only typed up to "We're gonna meet tomor") ~waits~ Okay, it's caught up. Anyway. Jenny and I are meeting later today to discuss our critiques and make the final decision about finding a new piece (we looked Thursday night, no luck) or splitting up. Which would make me really sad. I've had so much fun with the Duo people. Especially 'Anniversary'. I'm luke-warm about their piece, but I love Dan. Yes, another Dan. I remembered today that we met last year when neither of us made our final round at Regionals and we bonded over Dan-Flavored Water. Hot Tropical Fruit flavored, for those who think young ~big exaggerated wink~

Okay, stopping this entry now so I can look at pictures Chris is sending me....

Ooh, nifty pictures! I'll have to set up some on-line photo-album thingy to show 'em off for all of ya' sometime. We've got pictures of the plastic-utensil orgy, me in my "I'm an evil show off villain! MWAHA!" pose (quote from Chris, not me), and pictures of Jake and Chris singing 'Elephant Love Song Medley' at the mall. ~big huge happy sigh~ Chris wants to start filming our musicals. Especially the one with the lesbians singing like they were in love ~twitch twitch~ ;-) I pointed out that the lesbians were only doing that after the gay guys sang all cute and sappy like, to which Chris responds that they were both sappy, but only one was cute.

Yeah, right. If he can say I'm graceful (that's two people now that say I'm graceful! i don't get it! It's some innate feminine grace thing, according to Chris, but I'm missing it completely) then I can say he was damn cute while singing!

Okay. Anyway. What was I talking about before the pictures? Oh. Forensics. Of course.

The piece of note today was Jake performing 'Laramie Project'. Oh my god, he was so good! He had me crying during 'Homecoming', and then he used me as a focal point when he was being Fred Phelps ~shudders~ It was so bad! He started to say one of his lines incorrectly, but being the good performer he is, he just kept going with it. Unfortunately, the only line he could come up with that would finish the new line well included the abreviated form of the "six-letter 'f' word". Yeah. And he's glaring right at me when he said that. Can we say scary?

But I was grinning hugely and basically crying by the time he was done. I now know what Ms. Forner must feel every time she has a team member do well. I've put almost as much effort into coaching Jake as I have to work with jenny, both on Jake's storytelling piece, and now Laramie Project. And to see Jake go from doing nothing in storytelling to taking 6th place in DI was absolutely amazing. Jake did most of the work, but I know that I helped him along a lot. And was the inspiration for his portrayal of a lesbian. So it's all good.

Jake was apologizing to me on the way home. For lots of things. His improved Phelp's line, making me cry and doing so much better than I did. For the first and last ones I told him to stop apologizing. The cover was great and I couldn't be happier for him. As for the middle...well, for that I will hate him forever and there's absolutely nothing he can do to change that, so he's wasting his breath ;-)

The bus ride home was a long one. But we certainly had some fun conversations. Though I now know more about what goes on in the guys' locker room after practices and games than I ever wanted to know. Dear god....

And so now I'm talking to Chris, answering the deep questions of the universe. Like is Jennifer Garner hot. And then, here's the fun one, what happens when a girl gets turned on. ~shakes head~ I managed to explain it but...man, there's a conversation I didn't think I'd ever be having. A lesbian explaining to a gay guy what happens when a woman is turned on...oy. But what would my life be like without that trip out to Wyoming Park...a month ago? Yeah. Exactly, I think. I'm pretty sure we went to the February 15th show of 'Sandbox'...wow. How much a life can change in a month! And of course I was probably the least affected one out of the initial group that went, lol. So even more happiness for Jake and April!

On the bus ride home we were also talking about how long various people have been with various significant others and I realized...I have no idea when I can say Rebecca and I started "going out." 'Cause we've been saying we're together for a couple of weeks but...should I start counting from the first day she was hanging off me (MIFA districts)? Should I start from yesterday? Hunt through my diary entries to see if I can find what day Emily asked us if we were going out?

I suppose it doesn't really matter...I don't see us making it to some important anniversary like a year (even 6 months is pushing it...see, I'm way too practical to be in a relationship. I'm not leaving for college until the end of August, yet I'm already thinking of how do I want to handle that situation. Break up with Rebecca at the end of the summer? Tell her we need to be able to see other people? Try to keep a long distance relationship going? Which I'm sure would work so well when neither of us can tell our parents about the real reason we spend so much time together...bah!) but it'd be kinda nice to know....

And on that happy note...good night.

I have no fun quote to put here. I am sad.

--Angela

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