I've heard from six old friends in the past 3 or 4 days. It was nice hearing from five of them but I didn't really enjoy hearing from the fifth one.

One of them is a guy I went to high school with & haven't seen since last summer. He's apparently living in Tuscaloosa now & taking classes at the University of Alabama. I have a little profile on Myspace that he happened across so he added me to his friend list. I've missed him so much. He's such an awesome guy. He still hangs out with some of our mutual friends, who I might be hanging out with this weekend, so maybe I'll see him. Another of the old friends found me through Myspace as well. He was an ex-boyfriend of my best friend in high school and I'm pretty sure I haven't spoken with him at all in well over a year. Probably about a year & a half. So it was nice hearing from him as well. The other three friends were from some message boards I used to post at and haven't heard from in about 2 months but yeah.. It's been a pretty nice week for renewing old friendships.

As for the one I didn't want to hear from.. Well, I got a text message from Tia the other day. Something about how she was listening to Avril Lavigne & it reminded her of last summer and me. I started to respond but knew that if I did, we'd start talking again and I don't need that. I feel like a horrible person for cringing every time I hear from/about her but I can't help it. She hurt me worse than anyone else has ever hurt me. And then she completely abandoned me for "God". I just don't want to hear from her again, ya know?

But anyway, last Friday was spent hanging out with Heather & Chris (I've mentioned him on here before - we went through training together at ClientLogic). We watched a couple movies, one being a french porn that Berkey (Heather's boyfriend and the guy who rents the apartment we always hang out at) mistakenly downloaded (it was titled Blade Trinity), and just talked & caught up on things for a while. It was super-fun.

Oh, and guess where Jess was Wednesday night around midnight.

If you guessed 'standing in front of a theatre, waiting for Star Wars to open', then you're correct. Oh, yes, I revel in my geekdom. I went to the midnight viewing of a Star Wars movie. I am such a nerd.

I'm a bit torn as to how I feel about the latest, and last, episode. On the positive side, I thought they did a good job of tying all the episodes together. I also liked most all the fight scenes. However, I also felt that the scenes between Anakin & Padme were painful (particularly the one where they both discussed how in love they were) and for some reason I can't pinpoint, the fight scene between Anakin & Obi-Wan kinda disappointed me. I dunno. I still prefer the original three episodes but I will say that Episode III is most definitely an improvement from Phantom Menace & Clone Wars. Of course that's not really saying much but still..

In other news, I was supposed to be hanging out with Heather & BlueHat right now but my mum is a fucking Nazi or something. She's all pissed off because I apparently hang around them too much. God forbid I actually socialize with the only friends I have. What she doesn't know is that all these days that I'm being flexed out of work, I'm going over to Berkey's place and hanging out with them anyway. I'm tired of her trying to control all aspects of my life though. My grandmother used to do that with my dad & I've had to sit around and listen to Mum bitch about it since I can first remember. And yet she does the exact same fucking thing with me. She does it with Joseph as well. She's actually told Joseph before that he can't go over to his friend's house because he's such a hassle to their the friend's family all the time. Right. She has issues. We're currently not speaking to each other. I think my yelling & cursing at her kinda sealed that deal. I would've just went over to Berkey's anyway but she told me if I did, she'd take away the Explorer, my phone, & cancel our internet subscription. Sigh. I really need to move out.

And now I've ran out of things to discuss and/or bitch about. How do ya like the new layout though? I think it's pretty nifty considering I fixed it up myself. I actually took an old layout I'd never used but changed around the colors, box dimensions, and the picture. I think it turned out rather well. Yay me!

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