Per Your Request

Before I begin: Kiki, Ann Arbor is your kind of place. Period.

Well I guess I haven't posted anything since Monday? Tuesday was just work, and an annoying day at that. Not my job's fault, just me not knowing the proper way to do everything yet and what should be a 30 minute task takes me 3 hours and I get frustrated with myself. I still have so much to learn. There are so many confusing ways to use the database, and pull drawings, link them, save them...it's a lot to remember. It's going to take practice.

Katey invited me to go to Wyandotte with her and her family Wednesday for a 4th of July parade and then to her house for a cookout. I had to get up early on Wednesday (around 7:00) to be at her house by 8:10...and then to the parade at 10:00. Her and her family live about 30 minutes south of me. When I was leaving it started to rain pretty hard, so I didn't know what was going to happen. By the time I got to her house though it had stopped and was actually really nice out. Her family was really great. They were all really welcoming and really funny to be around. They all asked if I was her boyfriend, but she made it clear that "no no no we're just friends". More on that another time...I guess.

But the parade was fun and I got to see Wyandotte which is like a blue-collor working town south of Detroit. The cookout was a lot of fun also. She had a huge family...5 sisters and like 3 million cousins. She asked me then if I wanted to go to Ann Arbor with her, because she works in Ann Arbor and her work was having a party for the 4th of July at a park. It didn't start until 4:00 but we had to be there by 2:00 to set stuff up, and to the store and buy vegie burgers for the two lesbians that were going to be there...more on that below.

Ohhh Ann Arbor. How do I describe it? Bums, lesbians, beatnicks, non-realists...it's like Asheville X 2. It was ok to visit, but I just can't take being around that for an extended period of time. It's like everyone it not in touch with reality. I like Detroit better, the people have actual jobs and aren't so flighty. The party/cookout at the park was a lot of fun. Katey's boss's daughter is a lesbian so that's who the veggie burgers were for. Although, she smoked, so what's the point of being a vegetarian? Animal rights I'd assume, but you never can tell.

When we got the pavilian to set up there was a homeless guy there reading, and charging his DVD player. Katey eventually said hi to him, and then he started to talk our ears off. He had crooked eyes and missing teeth, so looking at him while you talked was hard because you couldn't make eye contact. He introduced himself as Gilbert. He was apparantly in the army, and used to be a manager at Subway, and now lives under a bridge. Katey said "Aww I'm sorry, is it fun?". She almost implied that him and his homeless friends played "fort" under the bridge which I thought was funny. We had to go to the store and Katey asked Gilbert to watch the decorations. He did and he stayed there the entire time through the party, off to himself. When we were cleaning up we gave him all the left over food we were going to throw away and he said thank you. He was actually nice and not all begging-like, which I don't have much sympathy for. The party was fun though because she works with mostly hispanics and they danced and spoke a lot of spanish so I got to practice what I remember.

Katey said we'd go back to her house and watch fireworks, but by the time we got back it was around 9:45 and we were both tired, so I came back home and went to sleep. It was a really long day. Work today was pretty good, I'm glad tomorrow is Friday. A lot of people aren't there because they're on vacation.

Tonight I met Katey and her 1 year old niece for dinner at Chipotle in Farmington Hills. It was really good and it was fun to go out with her again. I offered to pay for her food and she just smiled and said "no I'd like to pay for my own, but thank you". It was weird because she said it in a very nice tone, but also clear and that was code for "just to be clear, we're only friends and I'm not going to give you the opportunity to think anything more". It was strange, but she's really nice, I guess she just wanted to be clear. Yesterday she would just talk about how she's in love with a guy her cousin introduced her too...another way of saying "we're just friends". That's fine, and I hope I don't come off as being creepy, but she can just relax and not worry.

Katey is a lot of fun though, I like doing stuff with her. After we left I stopped by a used book store in Novi and got a book to read by an author I like since I haven't read a book in so long and have free time to do so now.

I'm still addicted to grapes!