Week At A Glance

Friday night at my parents house, and I should be asleep, but I’m not. Instead, I’m in what is considered my room, largely because it is the only other room in the house with a bed in it, other than my parents, and because there are a 6 or so plastic boxes which contain things of mine.

I’ve never lived in this house, it’s the 4th home my parents have had in South Florida, so I have very little connection to the place. I love the things in it that I recognize, particularly the bed spread that my grandmother knitted, and my parent’s bedroom set which they have had for 30 years, at least. Most of the other things are too new to matter to me. If that wasn’t enough, for some reason my mom can barely stand the presence of the boxes, which are in a closet in a spare room. She says that her friends throw out their kid’s shit if they don’t take it. Well my friends have homes they recognize to go home to Mom, so we’re going to have to call it a stalemate. Hey, you finally won with the cat, right?

So, I have liberated from the plastic boxes a few things to be thrown out, Shade The Changing Man #68-70 which I will read when I’m done here, and a 1993 Week At A Glance book, including phone book. In the spirit of reminiscing, here are a few choice memories tied to some of the phone entries.

If you ever were on the fence about me being a dick, this will probably push you over, but here’s the thing; these people were a part of my life 13 years ago, a very few are still an important part, but most are not. This is me summing it all up from down the road. I don’t think I will ever miss a time or a place as I do the time and place in my life they occupied. If I haven’t spoken to you lately, get in touch. It’s been too long.

Alex L. – Man, my cell phone never stored your # after I saw you at the NIN concert, I was so pissed.

Javier A. – Sorry we didn’t get to hang out more this week bro, you rock.

Natalie A. – I so should have hooked up with your sister instead of you, but thanks for the memories anyway.

Samuel B. – We need to be better friends my brother.

Carol – Whoever you were, you thought enough of me to write your own name and draw a flower next to it. Thank you for that.

Brent D. – You’re my best friend brother, but you know that. I’ll see you at the half mary this summer.

Bruce C. – I was right, I had enough friends.

Christina – You were so unattainable, so distant, me and Ralph were talking about that last night.

James C – Thank you for being a friend, when I had so few. I wish we were closer these days.

Lisa F. – I’m sorry we had that thing in the Hamptons. I wish I still knew you.

Julie G. – I’m sorry we never worked out but it was never meant to be, huh? I hope you don’t hate me when all is said and done. We tried.

Jen (Purple Hair) – I so don’t want to hear about your new tattoo. I just wanted to sleep with you. I never want to hear about anybody’s new tattoo.

J.C. – Man, I had some good times thanks to you. Thanks for making me feel like part of the scene when I was a new nobody.

Jessica – Now, I’ve torn Jessica’s number out of the book, which strikes me as an emotional act, but I have no idea what that act was. Maybe I just needed to put it in my wallet.

Darlene L. – I never figured you out.

J.P. – See Jim C’s entry.

Nicky – I think this was the tiny little Irish girl I knew when I first moved to Orlando. Man, I had such a crush on her, and all I have to show for it is a picture of her sleeping on cocoa beach sucking her thumb.

Michelle – Thank you for writing me that letter from wherever you went off to. You’re a fond memory. I had fun that night in Daytona.

Chris O. – Dude, you are such a dick, but then again, you told me you were.

Rick P. – You must have like 5 little kids brother. How are Gary and Paul?

Ralph A. – See the entry for Brent D.

Raoul – ….

Sergio – I’m surprised I never have run into you. Come to think of it, I’m thinking of someone else.

Viviana – You think I would remember someone with that name, but I don’t.

Natalie W. – You were always the most adorable thing. I hope you have much love in your life. I know someone who reminds me of you come to think of it.