eternal_drifter

Yes I have returned from my weeklong expedition to Greensborro NC.  Let us recap:

Thursday night: Arrived in Greensborro and met with my Uncle J. and his wife.  Tried to sleep in their guest room, but Unc. doesn't have air conditioning so I'm litterally Roasting.  At about 12am I got a paniced call from a friends parents saying that her daughter had gone missing, and I was the last person she had called.  I explain to them that I have no f'ing clue because I'm over 300miles away and I have no idea.  I hang up mildly irked.  Then I get that chill in the back of my spine, you know, the one that says what if, Oh Shit!  Enter Nausea (stress related) and even more sweating.  I finally get dressed after a while and walk out to the car and crash in the back of my car.  Later when I'm almost asleep-ish, can't really sleep when stressed, cell rings.  Its the person in question, appologizing that her family went bonkers that her cell was "out of service range."  Stress level goes down and I finally pass out, for some reason the car is cooler than the house.

Friday:
Welcome to Driving day.
I have vague memories of this day, but I know a lot of what went on in the evening.
During the day I know I went to the Sheraton Mall, drove all over tarnation to try and find some little hole in the wall card and game store.  Finally gave up and messaged stagewench  for info on what was in the area.  Went out to DJ's Cards at about 3pm.  Played 2 tournaments and a draft, left at about 1am.  As I am leaving, enter onset of fatigue & hunger related nausea.  Sense a theme...  Now, I wasn't too sure this was hunger or even fatigue related nausea at the time, so I got in the car and started to drive back to Greensborro.  After mentally debating where to go I checked into the Howard Johnson hotel in G-borro.  Reason requires a little more explination.  My Uncle, at 68 is the second oldest man in the world to recieve a heart transplant.  He's had it for the past year and a half and is on anti rejection drugs, because it just won't accept.  A simple cold can easily kill him so I decided to just not be near while I was feeling sick. 
I crash at the HoJo at about 2am.

Saturday:
I have no idea what I did this day... I know it involved driving to my uncle's and picking up my stuff.  Teaching him how to upload and download to his Ipod and driving around greensborro randomly.  I know I did stop by Wall mart early in the day that day and passed by a almost literal aisle of batman stuff.  Yeah, called up leecil  immediately and she almost lept through the phone.  Nothing of note happens until later that night.  at about 10pm I decide to wander on down from my hotel room... on the 12th(top) floor of the HoJo (who knew they made them that tall?), to the Hooters downstairs for a beer.  Godamm that place was PACKED!  Sat down at the bar next to some redneck family.  Their son (16-16.5) was just looking at me like I was some sort of weirdo.  Oh yeah and he was sitting NEXT to me.  Kid had really gotten once over with the ugly stick too.  No, fuck that, the UGLY TREE. 

Anyways, I start a slew of random text messaging while at the bar.  I don't feel like staring at the waitresses, so as I'm texting everyone I'm watching the World Series poker games, fun to watch.  Phone rings after a bit... its Porkchop (not on LJ just a nickname). Conversation follows:

Porkchop: You're at hooters?

Me: Yeah, just here having a beer.

Porkchop: Where?  I'll come join ya!

Me: I'm in Greensborro.

Porkchop: Where's that?

Me: North Carolina.

Porkchop:  What!?!

Long story short, leecil steals the phone from Porkchop and we start talking stuff.... about 6 hours later I'm out in the parking lot meeting up with them and we all crash at about 5am.

Sunday:

Old ex Amy calls at 9am!  Note got to sleep at 6am.  Yeah, she wasn't greeted kindly... She took my groggy reaction hapily and said she'll call back later. We all go shopping.  leecil  buys this awesome Batman pack and a lot of batman stuff.  I end up buying a new poster and a real cool pair of shorts... this is significant, because I don't wear shorts....ever.  On a whim leecil buys this game called SPLIT, and we all go back to the hotel and begin mixing Bacarti Limon with various sodas.  After a few I'm just a little slurred but okay.. Amy calls back, note its 9pm... I turn on the speaker phone and start taking with leecil  and Porkchop talking along.  Amy asks why I'm in Greensborro, when she asks this I'm leaning back on the footstool that I was sitting on, I get to the phrase "I'm on vacation." an Leecil looks at me and mimics how I sounded.  "Vacaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaashunn"  I fall over laughing literally taking the footstool with me.  For the rest of the weekend and even now I can't say the word Vacation without laughing.  After all this we get takeout from Chilies(??).  Eat drink and watch adult swim..  Yeay Robot Chicken.  Crash, time unknown.

Monday:

Had breakfast at the Biscuitfactory?  somet place that had the name biscuit in it...  they had the creepiest placemats though... I'll upload a scan sometime later.  First restraunt I've seen where its hours were from 6-2pm.  Gravy there was more like soup..blergh.  Toured around with Porkchop and leecil , then they both headed off to meet a friend in Norfolk.  Went clothes shopping and picked up some new shoes and a new suit and a new dance club outfit, that isn't long sleeved.  Had Sushi at Akashi's with stagewench , then we went and caught the last showing of Fantastic Four.  Turned out to be actually a good movie, if you take the view of it being about a disfunctional family.  I liked it... and no lightning hasn't struck me yet.  I crashed back at the hotel at 12am.

Tuesday:

Most restless night I've had so far... I woke almost every hour on the hour that night.  Finally dragged myself up at about 9:30 and packed the car.  Felt literally like completely hammered and drained shit, no idea why either.  Felt a bit like an exhausted zombie.  Got some food and drink.  Played some Soul Calibur 2 at the arcade.  I <3 Ivy's Crimial Symphony :)  I can finally consistantly do that damn throw.  Wandered around Borders Books looking up photography stuff and trying not to walk by the manga and comics section, so disorganized.  Hit the road at 3, and cancelled my appointment with my friend at Duke for that evening and just drove straight home.

I'm here now so after all that what have I learned? 

I learned that in Greensborro people turn right from the center line while red... yeah that one confused me... even when 3 truckers in a row did it.. That and the game Split is fooking awesome!  And it was only $1!!   I'm off to sleep... peace.

Current Mood: tired

Current Music: Homeward Bound- Simon and Garfunkel