I spent my spring break doing a whole lot of nothing, and this picture represents my spring break. Even though I've got like three or five papers to write, pictures to draw in my sketchbook and a few art gallery critiques to write up; They aren't due till like next month so I've got like a whole month to do them. even though me and 'lisa' are almost complete opposites and thinking of the ways we differ, there is like no reason we should be together at all because she...
- Can't come to terms with my metrosexuality.
After I lost that 'gucci mane body', My style got wilder, my shirts got smaller and my pants gottailored with a modern fit. I've always got manicures because in business and in life, one of the first things people look at are hands. But to her it's all gay and unbecoming of a man.
-Isn't down with the swirl
Well she really just isn't down with the fact that I'm down with the 'swirl'. I tell her I don't discriminate, and she says "Y'all (black men) just want anything not black!" When she found out about "elaine" (via facebook snooping) I almost caught myself defending why I was with her...
-Doesn't love music
She's content just to listen to the radio.
-Wants children
Like a lot of childless single girls around 23-25, they feel like some kind of countdown has started. When I tell certain girls I really "I don't see myself wanting/having children 'till at I'm least 30 or 27."
the response is always something like
"You're gonna be an old man when he grows up"
"You're gonna be chasing him around in a walker"
"That's too old"
*screwface*
but there's something about her so I guess we can agree to disagree...
Something about vintage american muscle seems like the best thing ever. It's an 88 Pontiac Firebird and even though I prefer mine coca cola brown with the bird on the hood, the red suits it just fine.
I think I know how Al Gore felt when he created the internet. I have created `the greatest dessert ever. I've found that I have a passion for cooking and I've been making indian dishes, alot of curry, spices, fish, lamb and potato dishes. Now I consider myself a beijan and i like my food hot because I can take the heat. So of course the perfect counter to that is ice cream. I made this delicious treat and it's so good, that it's still in the beta phase and my beta testers are giving me rave reviews. I added banana bread to this batch and since I didn't have any testers I tried it myself. So when I work out the name and the patent pending, I'll share it with y'all.
Classes start tomorrow and it seems like the perfect time for me to run over a deer. When I say run over I don't mean hit as like More like it was in the middle of the road dead and my dumb ass drove over it. I'll be getting a rental tomorrow but this shit couldn't of happened at a worse time. I was with 'elaine' when it happened so I had to keep my shit together you know? Speaking of 'elaine', I told her that I loved her and she told me "I've loved you for a long time Andre, I don't know what to say..." I told her not to say anything.
I know that we're not in love, but it feels good to have a lover. I really don't wanna play around with hella girls and stuff, but I damn sure don't want to settle down... So that leaves me in a interesting position, because I feel like I don't wanna waste my time or some girls time. Even though relationships never really defined me, I love the company of a new woman.
Speaking of worse time, I officially start as a full time student tomorrow. Funny thing is, as I was typing this on sunday afternoon, I got a call from the honors academic adviser asking me if I wanted to enroll in the honors program and swap out my classes with honors ones. Now all through my life, I've sometimes done just the bear minimum to get by because I may've felt like why work harder to get the same results as if I didn't work as hard? I'm not really a resolutions person at all but what better time to change bad habits than a new year right?
Speaking of school I don't know where my classes are but I know exactly what I'm going to wear.
I'm using wifi on the airplane! I remember being younger and just the thought of using my phone in the air would bring to mind visions of crashes and all sorts of alarms and buzzers going off...
Anyways, I'm on my way to Las Vegas to meet some good friends of mine and it sucks because I wish I could've caught the earlier flight to San Diego so I could've driven into Las Vegas with them because I think that would've just been cool as shit. But in reality I hate driving and I'll beat my friends there so I'll just meet them at our hotel the Mandalay Bay.
I really feel like I should've done more research on Vegas, I don't know for sure what I'll do, but I know it will involve debauch and 4 foot drinks with the shoulder strap...
After dropping off 'elaines' christmas gift, a brand spanking new vintage schwinn, while I was watching her ride it and smiling like a proud father, I realized that I like this girl. I haven't told her because real men don't say things like that do they?
Anyways I'll have some cool pics and stuff from vegas when I touch down...and if y'all know any what's up in Vegas let me know!
Damn... I'm so frustrated with myself! What should've been an easy fix, turned into a a day of terror for me. I finally got the reserve to fix my screen on my iphone. So I set out all my tools...
Open the two screws in the bottom. Use my suction cup to remove the screen from the case. But when I try to remove the screws to separate the digitizer from the assembly, I find out after removing 5 of the six screws, I have stripped one of the tiny ass screws in there. So today I'm going to take my phone to and try and get the screws removed. I haven't been spending as much time as I'd like with 'elaine' but the time I spend is really cool. Since I enjoy her company, she's beautiful and I like her a lot, I don't know why making it 'official' didn't work out. I mean nothing at all changed, we just called what it was, what it was.
But it seemed like that small thing changed the dynamic of it all.
I'm such a selfish person I want it all, the affection of one but the affection of others. There really isn't anything like the thrill of meeting someone new, and getting to know them at the same time.
Speaking of wanting it all, a a co-worker that's a has been on my mind lately...Long story medium we all just started at working at emory like a few weeks ago and the first thing I noticed was her body. This girls' shape is bananas, and she is very attractive. So when I find out she's a teacher So I keep it professional with green/yellow light jokes here and there and we made eyes at each other, until we go out after work for drinks. Now I have aspirations of teaching high school whenever I get tired of being a school boy/finish my degree, so I asked her how it was and if she liked it. She said to me....
"Well my goal is to not get pregnant before I finish my degree but if I did get pregnant right now, I wouldn't be that upset."
Hearing that made me pause for a second and think about all the horror stories I've heard of office flings and things like that, but on the other hand if I was really looking to settle down and stop going out and stop trying to catch other girls eyes, she would be the perfect girl for me. But that sacrifice is too much for me at least right now. Because she is a 'good' girl, I'm just gonna see what happens, and really watch what I do, we've been txting back and forth and have been out a few times but the vibe I get is this chick has seen guys who may seem like me who just want to give her hell then keep it moving.
I spent my 24th birthday with 'elaine' and one of my best friends brandon. I don't know how but she found this hole in the wall in the hood and there was this one chick with this short dress with no panties dancing...and when she'd bend over, you could see her uterus and all her business. yuck.
His birthday is on the 5th of November and I told him..
Me: Man you know what....I don't really wanna do anything for my birthday because I was just gonna celebrate for your shit or whatever...
Brandon: Damn Man!! I was thinking the same thing as you...
I honestly wasn't going to do anything for my birthday because I'm only 24, a baby by some peoples standards, and I was gonna treat it like just another day.... But fuck it, I plan on going to a chili festival, shopping and just see where my day goes from there. I want so many things right about now, but I've narrowed it down to.
A tattoo...
I was going to get a angelic character on my shoulder with the words 'think about it' and a devilish character on my hip/side six pack area with the words 'just do it'. I saw this picture and it was the fusion of the two ideas. I just gotta get my reserve up cause that shit hurts.
A Macbook... The only thing that kept me away was unfamiliarity. I always wanted to try it but who the fuck uses a Mac? To this day I have limited exposure to a Mac but I think I'll dive right in because I'm all about my iPhone, I love my iPod and the Apple store is pretty cool.
42' plasma flat screen HDTV... If things go my way, I'll be moving to a pretty cool place, and I need a big ass tv?
Call of Duty modern warfare 2... I'm a true nerd at heart and this game is going to be fucking bananas. I'm still debating on whether or not I want to get the version of the game that comes with actual night vision goggles though. But I mean what girl doesn't want a guy with a working set of night vision goggles?
I asked these kids did they know who 'Wishbone' was and they told me "The bone that you break and make a wish on" I feel so old!
I was in the market for running shoes when I came across these. I'm not really a big running fan because I think riding a bike is better but they do look cool and I do like to wear them.
Speaking of riding... I upgraded my road bike to a new hipster friendly 'fixie'. It's so light and cool looking and when I get some free time on my hands, I want to give it a ice cream paint job.
By my actions it's hard to believe that I try to be a somewhat righteous person. Well maybe not righteous, but I try to do right by people, because karma comes back around. One thing that even to this day baffled me was that even though I do some pretty bad things, God continues to bless me. I really feel like good things are happening to a bad person....
'If you sin and ask forgiveness you will be forgiven, no matter what'
I hear that and that's like no incentive to change my ways, not that I really need any or that my 'ways' are that bad. But it ties along with the one of the few things that keeps me out of church. I don't want to be a hypocrite, and be in church talking about being saved and a solider for Christ on sunday morning. When just six hours ago I was in the club doin' whatever... But I guess that probably would be better than Pastor Pillow and Deacon Comforter I commune with every sunday I saw this a thrift store and I don't even remember what it's supposed to say?
I got the chance to see Erykah Badu and Ricky Smiley. I had made up my mind a long time ago that I wanted to go but I almost missed out on my chance to see her. She put on an amazing show at the 'Atlanta civic center' and it's was my first ever concert in a 'theater' setting. So Erykah's on stage and there are two women behind me drunk as skunks saying shit like...
"I wanna hear Honey....is this honey???.....she needs to do honey!"
"The bands not even playing, that machine she has on stage (MPC5000) plays everything, they're only on stage for looks"
"Since when did black people get so persnickety??? They don't want me to stand up and have a good time when I paid my money for these tickets!"
For the first half of Erykah's performance, people were seated with just a few people standing up. Erykah Badu sees it and is like '
damn if I woulda known people couldn't stand up and party I wouldn't of played here!'
My date for the evening 'monica' went dressed as 'nicki minaj' I went to underground atlanta and I was walking with this chick 'kira', so this woman runs up on us and is like
"OMG who did your hair *looks at me* let me guess you right?"
Andre: .....Yeah....sure....
"I knew it so what did you use and.....''
When I first saw her hair, I thought... "mediatakeout.com..."
Since my birthday is coming up again, I decided to start on my wishlist early. I originally wanted to get some tortoise shell wayfarers, but when I tried them on, my face was waaaay too big for them. Plus they really don't suit my face like I assumed they would.
So the night finally comes and I go with 'elaine' to the party.
So we pull up and I see not one but two pink caddy's and I'm like "Damn, they brought the heavy hitters out here!"
So we go in and these glammed up ladies look at us like we're from the planet X, but we see one of our handlers and she tells us to head on back. Going deeper into the Mary Kay compound, there's like a classroom with all these chicks in front of a mirror type contraption with all various milks and honey's for your face. After being like 30 minutes late and making a scene as the only guy in the room, I take a seat near this cute girl with a baby face and a body like amazing grace.
"Mary Kay is recession proof, think about it... people will cut out alot of stuff but they still wanna look good. Am I right?"
Listening to the spiel about Mary Kay my handler put on, it's easy to see the allure of it. Selling shit people really don't need but they will pay for cause it's nice to have. But thats the same allure the weed/dope game has. You get someone under you selling shit and come up off their come up's, and they get someone under them and before you know it you're in a paid for Toyota Camry/Pink Cadillac.
So after exfoliating and rehydrating my lips, I adjust my personal mirror real smooth like so I can get a better look at the girl behind me and we make eye contact. I'm a firm believer in 'dancing with who brung ya' and I love what me and 'elaine' have but at the same time, we're just friends. So me and this chick talk all through the presentation through my mirror about how she wants to go and hates this shit, so I tell her "You can't leave without taking my number"
I really enjoy spending time with 'elaine'
My guitar...Every time I look at it I shudder to think I was about to sell it.
Even though I'm not really a mall person per se (I feel like I don't want to be wearing the same shit as everybody else PLUS you can find a shit ton of hot stuff to buy on the WORLD WIDE WEB) but I found myself accompanying 'elaine' to the mall. So I see a cuban girl so pretty 'other girls wanna give her a kiss' make a direct beeline for 'elaine' and say to her...
OMG you are so pretty and I just had to come over and talk to you
*winning smile*
I'm a Mary Kay person and I'm looking for face models to build my portfolio and I would love to have you!
Elaine: uh.....ok.
*Exchanges info*
Great we're having an event next week and you can bring your friend
*smiles*
So I look at 'elaine' like, 'how random is that?' For all my sarcasm and wit and jokes and shit, I like to think I'm not too jaded by certain things and I see the goodness and not the wackness.
Enjoying the company of an intelligent woman, sitting in musty thrift stores and Goodwill's thumbing through vinyl 'till I sneeze, listening to said vinyl, steppin' out in new pair of sneaks, meeting somebody intriguing. I'm an all around indoorsman for the most part, but at the same time i can appreciate the beauty of the outdoors.
