Brian’s Birthday
Mar. 5th, 2005 01:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ljpliceaseThank you Bri, for having a birthday which we were able to celebrate!
Unfortunately I couldn’t drink because I helped out in getting the birthday boy home. That’s ok though, because by the end of the evening he was drunk enough for the both of us. We started out at this crappy bar “Lost in Mexico” that used to be called “News Café”. I think somebody got stabbed there or something when it was called News Café. Hello, tangent. Bri started talking to this girl, who showed him all this poetry and everyone was rooting for him from the sidelines, but then her boyfriend showed up, and that was the end of that.
Paul came with Aubrey, both of whom were at the Festivus last year, and were more or less attached to each other – while she still supposedly had a boyfriend in Boston. Apparently they are a couple now. There were a lot of comments of the form “how the hell does he get so much action anyway?” I think it’s the way that he talks to people. He manages to fain interest, and I imagine he works at it even harder when he’s talking to a girl. It certainly aint because he’s a looker.
I had a nice long talk to Cicely. I think some people think that she is too young to be a manager, but honestly, I think most of those people underestimate her. I don’t actually have to work with her, but just judging on personality types of good, bad and one excellent manager that I have known, I think she is going to do really well. Like all of us, she has things to learn, but she will roll with it. Mostly though we didn’t talk about work rubbish, and instead concentrated on my trip to Australia, and art and theater and stuff.
Toward the end it was just me, Bri, Joe and Brad. Bri was totally wasted. We agreed to leave, Brad was going to home and Joe and I were going to ferry Bri to his apartment on the other side of the river. When we got there though, Bri was all like “let’s go to Torches.” Actually the whole night he was like “let’s go to Torches.” Apparently he and his friend have been working the waitresses there, but just as apparent is the fact that they haven’t gotten anywhere. So Joe and I relented; I was like: what the hell am I going to be doing? I also said “I hope you remember this on my birthday.”
We went to Torches, and Bri hit on this one waitress who totally shot him down. He was telling Joe and me that one day the waitress would take him up on his offer to go skiing. “I admire your confidence.” I said, to which he replied: “it’s not confidence, it’s persistence.”
After that we drove by Bri’s new house. He doesn’t move in for another month or so we could only see it from the outside. It looks pretty nice though. Then we went to a 24 hour diner and got some grub. At that point it was like 1 in the morning and we took Bri home and Joe and I headed off to our own homes.
Unfortunately I couldn’t drink because I helped out in getting the birthday boy home. That’s ok though, because by the end of the evening he was drunk enough for the both of us. We started out at this crappy bar “Lost in Mexico” that used to be called “News Café”. I think somebody got stabbed there or something when it was called News Café. Hello, tangent. Bri started talking to this girl, who showed him all this poetry and everyone was rooting for him from the sidelines, but then her boyfriend showed up, and that was the end of that.
Paul came with Aubrey, both of whom were at the Festivus last year, and were more or less attached to each other – while she still supposedly had a boyfriend in Boston. Apparently they are a couple now. There were a lot of comments of the form “how the hell does he get so much action anyway?” I think it’s the way that he talks to people. He manages to fain interest, and I imagine he works at it even harder when he’s talking to a girl. It certainly aint because he’s a looker.
I had a nice long talk to Cicely. I think some people think that she is too young to be a manager, but honestly, I think most of those people underestimate her. I don’t actually have to work with her, but just judging on personality types of good, bad and one excellent manager that I have known, I think she is going to do really well. Like all of us, she has things to learn, but she will roll with it. Mostly though we didn’t talk about work rubbish, and instead concentrated on my trip to Australia, and art and theater and stuff.
Toward the end it was just me, Bri, Joe and Brad. Bri was totally wasted. We agreed to leave, Brad was going to home and Joe and I were going to ferry Bri to his apartment on the other side of the river. When we got there though, Bri was all like “let’s go to Torches.” Actually the whole night he was like “let’s go to Torches.” Apparently he and his friend have been working the waitresses there, but just as apparent is the fact that they haven’t gotten anywhere. So Joe and I relented; I was like: what the hell am I going to be doing? I also said “I hope you remember this on my birthday.”
We went to Torches, and Bri hit on this one waitress who totally shot him down. He was telling Joe and me that one day the waitress would take him up on his offer to go skiing. “I admire your confidence.” I said, to which he replied: “it’s not confidence, it’s persistence.”
After that we drove by Bri’s new house. He doesn’t move in for another month or so we could only see it from the outside. It looks pretty nice though. Then we went to a 24 hour diner and got some grub. At that point it was like 1 in the morning and we took Bri home and Joe and I headed off to our own homes.
