Sun 10 Oct 2004

Wow its funny. I wanted to write about this party I went to but on the other hand i can’t think of much to say. It was a good party. There were many crushable girls there (including one of the roommates of the people in the house is a Ravens Cheerleader). It was located downtown in our fine nations capital. It was this girl Amanda’s Birthday bash + a fundraiser for diabetes. How do i know these people you ask? I don’t. Well ok its not like that. My friend Chas., a guy I work with, asked me if I wanted to come to the party. So I figured it sounded like a blast so I went. I know Chas. because 1. he works in my office and I have lunch with him just about every day. 2. He was stationed out in Minot, ND at the same time as me, and he dated a girl who was friends with me and I worked with. Ok enough connections? Anyways Chas.’s girlfriend is friends with the girl who was throwing the party. Ok so that makes sense right? good.
I had a good time at the party. Jello shots were had, and Ice Luge’s were done, and much beer was drunk. Overall i spent most of the night talking to Chas, some buddies of his/roommates of his GF, that I had met up with earlier that night before hitting the party., and of course I talked to some random people a little. I was in general being my non-gregarious self. But on the other hand my goal for the night was to get drunk and hang out, which I was very successful at. So hey if I didn’t talk to a million unknown people I don’t care. Sometimes I wish I was more the type to become the life of the party, and really hit off with people right from the start, but I just can’t seem to bring myself to do that. If I know a lot of people at a party I can transform into that, because I guess my humor and wit need somewhat of a starting point to get moving, and with out that I’m just stuck in low gear going nowhere. Thats one thing I respect about Chas. though, he can just jump right into large groups of people he doesn’t really know and get things started. Oh well i’ll mark that up on the self-improvement list. I think I can do that, and I’ve done it before, but I think last night I really was just more in the chill and observe mode, and I had a good time doing that. I think my only regret about my chill mode last night, is probably would have liked to get more of a conversation going on with the birthday girl (ok its not her b-day till monday .. but who can party on a monday??) Amanda, she seemed pretty cool, and she was damn cute. Ok so yeah I think I’m gonna start hanging out with Chas and his friends more often if I can.
Where was this last year? HA when i actually lived a considerable distance closer to D.C. Oh well the drives not that bad anyways.
Oh other thing of note. I pulled off a small miracle in parking in D.C. as well. I parallel parked in this space that, literally, when I got in I had 2 inches on the back and 8 inches in the front of me. Holy crap. Ok it wasn’t as impressive because it was a two man effort between me and Chas, who was standing outside the car telling me to backup or move forward a little or whatever I needed to do. But still damn.. even for two people it was pretty stellar. (only thing that pissed me off is the car in front of me had about 3 feet in front of his car unuseed, that DICK!)
Ok thats all for now.