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- kingjulien
My roomate questioned me about smoking the other night . I came home from studying and he started with some small talk to bridge the subject. then asked me three times --in this weird tone-- whether I had been "chilling" lately. The moment was so awkward because I knew he was trying to sound hip, and yet it was so forced--so trite-- that I just didn't know what he was babbling about.
It turns out it wasn't even weed that he smelled, just this cheep ass strawberry candle I bought for a dollar fifty in the checkout line at Rite-Aid. It's one of those perfumed candles you smell when you go to a friend's house who lives in the hood and they're trying to hide some horrible curry smell. Anyway, I explained the new odor in my room and promised I wouldn't burn down the place after he brought up his fire insurance policy. I then went for a walk, slightly irritated at being broke and having to live with someone, and slightly weirded out with his attempt at confronting the issue.
The next day he was cool again, I became more under the radar than ever, and it became just another odd anecdote to ramble about. And yet I've noticed a change, a few minor things. subtle, so tiny it isn't even noticable yet. I flirted a little more obviously with that nectar at Starbuck's, the one I hadn't seen in weeks, and then ran into her again this morning--just after dreaming of her face while shaving--and she looked so incredible as she was going to her other job at some office downtown, her black skirt and matching wool coat, her curly black hair and that smile that greeted me with good morning. Tomorrow I might just grow some sack and try to get her number, because you get to that point where so many little tiny petty things bother you, and you're frustrated with everything, and then suddenly you don't care anymore, you feel at ease, liberated, the world is beautiful, the girl at Starbuck's is beautiful, the girl in my class who smiles every time she hands me her quiz is beautiful, and fuck it, what do I have to lose but some more dignity and self-respect, and really those things are overrated, and when it comes down to it, it doesn't matter anyway.
- DutchBoy0
good story.
go for it, and chill with her. :)
- johndiggity0
are you chilling now?
- jevad0
* high five
- Gilt0010
word to that KING!!!
And word to cute girls with black hair!
Get her number man! The only tough part is not being able to ask her to have coffee since she works at Starbucks...
- kld0
shaving? Is that what they call it now, just don't go blind. ; )
- ozhanlion0
hehe chill with her in front of yer roommate.
- ********0
kingjulien, get a blog.
...and then give me the link
- MLVR0
We don't have Starbucks in Sweden. They do bad coffee but I miss the Starbucks mocca frapps from when I lived in Sydney. :-(
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nick: that's what he just did?!
- del_razor0
first off.. definitely cool story. go fer it..
secondly.. you just wrote a multi million dollar selling single for The Streets ;) just put a stumbling beat behind that and get a bit drunk before you record it.. and you'll be set ;)
- winter0
damn, you write with uncommonly beautiful insight. Melville did too. please write a book and link it up.
- PostModernStuff0
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i agree with winter.
that is just one fuckin' beautiful piece of prose kingjulien. you are bookmarked but that's just irrelevant. do write a book. seriously.
- airey0
man, you obviously needed to vent. awkward living conditions can make life really uptight.
bring on the venting i say! share with us all and we can all grow forward!
good luck with the girl!( just be sure she isn't a lady-boy before you get your hopes up. man, i won't get caught by that again).
- Gilt0010
BANGKOK LADY BOYS!!
Helloooo Alan!