osaraba | Again, with the weekend update.

Friday. Got out of work an hour early, went to meet Angelica and Will and we went to the mall to eat. Went to my house to play video games/hang out. Maryann came over after work (around 9pm). I finally got to show Maryann and Will the Crimson Room, et al. Teehee. Angelica had to leave relatively early (10:30pm), but the rest of us stayed up later doing... jeez, I can't remember. Maybe it was the Crimson Room stuff, LOL. Drove them home around 2am, I think.

Saturday. Woke up mid-afternoon. Went out to eat with everyone, wasted some time doing nothing in the car. My exciting life. Started playing Xenosaga with Liz, but I fell asleep before I could get very far into it. This game has the reputation for having like, 8-hour long cut scenes. And that's kind of what it feels like, although I've only just begun it. The opening scene is pretty darn long -- it felt like at least 10 minutes long. And that's only just before you get to do a tutorial about the battle system. Then when you're done with the tutorial, there are other cutscenes that last a few minutes each. I think we've watched more cut scenes than played. Aside from that, it seems pretty interesting. There are a few characters that are really cute, and I am definitely interested in playing more. (Although it's pretty bad of us considering we still haven't completely finished playing FFX-2 and Kingdom Hearts yet, which we're pretty much almost done with.)

Sunday. Got up and went to work. It was surprisingly busy for the day before a holiday. That's not to say it was overwhelming or I made a lot of money, but I made more than I've been making on Sundays for the past month or two. Still, I didn't bring my laptop with me so I wasn't able to watch anime, and I finished the book I brought with me, Sins of the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon, around 2pm, so I still had 4 hours to kill. I don't know what I did til 6pm. Liz came in 'cause we were going to have dinner with Juliet at Curry In a Hurry. Went to go eat and spent a long time sitting and talking. Finally, Maryann showed up and we ended up walking back to GCS, then going to Victor's house. We were late, as usual. =( We just never seem to leave early enough to get there at a decent hour. I think this time we got there around 10:15, and Victor picked us up from the bus stop (so very nice of him).

I wish we had gotten there earlier 'cause we had lots of fun. I finally got to see the inside of the rest of his house (so very nice and neat and pretty) and caught a few glimpses of his mom. We hung out in Chip's room 'cause it's cooler, watching a bit of Star Trek: Wrath of Kahn (which was as silly as I expect anything with William Shatner as Kirk to be), but was still kind of interesting. Not to mention, I got to hear where several lines from Warp 11's repertoire originated! I should rent that movie and watch it from start to finish. Oh, btw, we decided that Montalban was definitely wearing a body suit/chest mold thingy in the movie 'cause there's no way his chest was really that buff/smooth/unwrinkled. Yeah.

Then Chip came home with Joe and Justin (not the Justin we usually see, the other Justin that was there for New Years), and we watched some of CN's adult swim, which was somewhat funnier than I expected. Family Guy was entertaining and amusing, although it was nothing that left me wanting more. American Dad! was actually really amusing, funny even -- I really enjoyed the mockery they made of the Republican Way. Oh yes, that was gooood. Robot Chicken was good as well. Tom Goes, though, I really could have done without. Then we went outside and sat in front of Victor's house for a while, then someone suggested we go to Miller Park? Mill Road Park? Something like that. We drove over in Justin's Jeep and parked at one end of the park, walked a good distance -- through the wet grass -- to the other end to play on the swings and jungle-gym stuff. It was a lot of fun ~ I haven't been on a swing in quite a while. I got to use muscles I haven't in quite a while, too. LOL. The jungle-gym was fun -- not as fun as the old ones, all wood and metal. Now they're plastic; you can't totally brain yourself anymore. Where's the fun in that? =( But they did have a decent bridge -- the ones where you can bounce up and down.

It was so nostalgic to be in a park like that. And it was a lot of fun to be there with Maryann & the guys. I wish I'd not worn a skirt that day. =( There was also an element of... you know, guilty excitement? 'Cause it's illegal to be in a public park after dusk in NYC. So when the cops made their rounds with a high-beam flashlight attached, we all hid along the silhouettes of the jungle-gym. It was really amusing. I know that at one point either Joe or Justin hid in the tube-slide (which is a darn good idea), and Maryann was crawling around underneath the tube-slide platform, LOL. I was slightly resigned to being caught, but we weren't. ^^ I was soooo happy! Isn't it silly for a nighttime visit to a kiddie park to make me so very happy?

I don't remember what time we got there, but we left around 3:30am, got back to Victor's house (with a short pitstop at a 7/11 where Joe worked his darndest to convince me to stay until later that day). You know, I really wanted to stay. But I had stuff to do the next day. It's really not fair of Maryann to completely leave it on me to say that I have to go when she already knew I'd have to go. It's not like I'm forcing her to come home with me. It makes me look like the party-pooper all the freaking time. Well, I have responsibilities and if I'm the badguy because I take those responsibilities seriously, then I guess I'll just have to be the badguy. Even if it pisses me off.

Victor was really nice to give us a ride into Brooklyn to the R train at 4:30 in the morning. Especially when he had to be up (or leave?) by 8am to get to work. If we'd stayed, we might not have slept at all, and if we did it would have been two hours' worth and then a long train ride, and then who knows if I would even have gotten any sleep when I got home? And since I've been working 6 days a week for the past couple of months, some days really take their toll on me. =( We ended up getting home at 7am! LOL. It was pretty amusing to board the R train when it's still pitch black outside, make a few transfers, then when the 7 goes above-ground after Grand Central Station, be abruptly confronted with bright-as-day sunlight outside. It wasn't even weak sunlight. It was eye-poppingly sunny. It was also pretty amusing because there were quite a few people on the train, starting their day by going to work; and here we were falling asleep all over each other because we were out so very late the "night before."

Monday. Anyway, hung out with the parents for the 4th. Maryann told me that Victor & people had a good time drunkenly? setting off fireworks at the beach. I wish I could've been there. With jeans on. I did have a good time at Springfield Park (which isn't really called Springfield Park, but it's on Springfield Blvd in Bayside, so it's close enough) with Liz and my parents; it was so bright and sunny out, not even the bugs were annoying me. There was one beetle-type bug that was crawling around on the stalks of grass near me. I broke off a stalk and put it near the bug; it crawled on and I moved it over to another stalk farther away from me. It was so cute. >_<; Later, I played more Xenosaga with Liz. Got a bit farther this time before conking out. Which, actually, was pretty funny because one second I was totally wide-awake, and the next I was unable to open my eyes as I said to Liz, "Sorry, but I just can't stay awake anymore," and, with my jeans & shirt still on, rolled over and passed out.