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meeting a friend, getting lost, finding my way home again

wow. i can't believe i'm home...safe and sound at last. what an eventful day.

so i go to work...nothing special happens there. like i seem to be having bad luck, but i try to brush it off. then kristin comes in at 1 and things are fine. i was supposed to go to see Drew's band in deep ellum with lindsay tonight, but Dan (neve fan and friend) called my cell phone to see if i'd take him to go see a band play somewhere else in deep ellum. of course i have NO clue on earth how to get to UNT...so i ask kristin and she gives me fairly simple directions. i follow these directions just fine...until i take a wrong exit and i end up in my OLD neighborhood in fort worth. but that's okay b/c i call trista and she tells me a much easier way to get to Denton from there. so i head in that direction and not too long after that...i see signs for UNT! so i call dan and tell him i'm there. i ask some students walking around how to get to his dorm and they tell me and i park. i go to dan's dorm and meet him for the first time. weird, but cool. like i've been talking to him online for over a year and this is just the first time we've met in person. it was fun. so we decide to head out to dallas for the show at this point.

of course...i have NO clue how to get to dallas from denton. so i guess. well, first, it takes me like 10-15 minutes to actually get myself out of UNT! confusing. but then i finally find myself on some road and..i take it. of course i have no clue where it leads to. needless to say, i'm very LOST at this point, and very SCARED. so we eventually found a place to pull over and ask for directions. turns out that we're actually in Richardson. and i don't know where that even is. but we are told directions to get to dallas and we take off again.

once in dallas, we pull over yet again to ask for directions to Deep Ellum. of course, i screw them up, but i find it by coincidence anyway! =) thank god. somehwere i semi-know!! i feel a little comforted by this.

the band that is already on the stage is very...odd. like not my (or dan's) taste. way too slipknot-mudvayne-ish for me. too muching yelling. which i don't really beleive is music. anyway, so this band plays and they are semi-tolerable. then another band like them comes on. same thing. the lead singer just likes to use "fuck" way too much for his own good. so we stand and laugh.

finally, Boy Hits Car comes onstage. very interesting. like they are sort of a little heavier than i like, but they just made it interesting. they dressed normal. they could sing. AND they actually used an acoustic guitar onstage. so luckily it was NOT like the last 2 performances!

at one point during the show, the lead singer climbs onto the amp. THEN he grabs hold of the lights and hangs there. he swings his feet up there so he's just basically now hanging upside down by his feet, singing. interesting. and of course he falls into the crowd and is then on his way to the stage again. but i had just never seen it done. very cool.

after words, dan goes to talk to him for a bit. he's a really nice guy. very laidback. dan gives him one of his cd's and tells him how BHC had some influence on the sound of Rabid Monkey (dan's band/solo project). so he took the cd single and stuck it in his pocket. then we left.

somehow i managed to find my way back to Dan's dorm very easily. =) i am relieved at this. i got on to 35-N and just stayed on that all the way back to Denton. there were signs saying "Denton" so i felt like we were heading in the right direction. =)

once we got there, we just stopped at an IHOP right next to the campus where we talked and ate for a while and then we just went back to his dorm. dan played me some of his songs on his electric that he had been talking about that night and i was very impressed. i hope that someday i'll be able to write like that. if i ever get the guts to venture out to UNT again, i will definately have to have Dan teach me some new chords and stuff. ugh. when i play my guitar it only makes me upset b/c i know like 3 chords and that's it. so my songwriting is very simple and monotonous, ya know? ew. but over time i'll improve. time and work.

so anyway, around 2, i decide that it's about time i head home. i really don't know how to get home yet, but i decided that i'd just have to experiment. haha. which is probably not a good idea at 2 am all by myself. but i eventually find my way out of the UNT campus about 15 minutes later and see signs for 35E-South. I took 35E-North to get here...didn't i? so taking South would get me home...right? i think to myself. so i'm driving on 35E-S for about 30 minutes now and i start to see signs for Lewisville, Carrollton, and Dallas...which scare me. i tried to call a friend but i'm sure he was asleep. his answering machine came on anyway. i just hung up and felt like i was going to cry if i ended up in Richardson again. so i find the next exit and luckily..it has a MOBIL gas station!! thank god. so i go in and ask the guy how to get to fort worth. and he gives me easy directions. apparently, i was going the right way. but if i hadn't of asked for directions, i NEVER would have known which exits to take or anything like that. so i got back on and drove, praying that these exits would show up so i knew i was going the right way. of course they did and i was sooo relieved to see the signs for Arlington! evenutually, i ended up in a place that i knew and i was only 5 minutes away from home.

i arrived home at about 3:15 am...tired, relieved, and just glad to be alive! getting lost with dan was pretty bad b/c i really had no clue where we were and of course he didn't know where we were b/c he's from NJ. so the only reason i hadn't broken down yet while getting lost is b/c he was with me and i wasn't alone. but then almost getting lost on the way home by myself - that wasn't nearly as bad as ending up in Richardson and Carrollton and realizing i was on the Tollway - but i was all alone so it seemed to make matters only worse. but once i figured out where i was...i was okay and i could breathe again. =) haha.

anyway, this is one long ass entry and i'm just rambling now. if you are still reading this...i'm sorry!! haha. it's long and boring i know. i just had to tell someone that would listen, ya know? =)

3:28 am - Sept. 27, 2001

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