Weird Sunday

So, today, it looked like i wasn't gonna do much, so I decided to do something about it. At about 2 pm I have my Chinese lesson. Turns out my grammar is really good, but my vocab needs work. This is, y'know, good news in that I'm at least good at something. So I'm hanging around the apartment, Grant calls me about PSP memory cards, I give him the best advice I have, and i get real bored playing Final Fantasy Tactics, and decide to hit the street.

I think to myself maybe I can find one of those elusive rock bars, and i take the 35 into the center of town with my notebook in hand. And i'm all writing up a diary or some business, talking about life, I don't see the clubs, and I get off near the bell tower and decide to get a coffee at starbucks.

Man, I haven't had coffee in over a month. It kind of destroys me. So i write more, all talking about how i need to do something with my time here, like find an instrument to play or start writing for serious or something. And I do, that wasn't just the coffee talking. I need a reason to get up in the morning on Saterday. But i've already written on that. Stealing TV shows and Video Games is great and all but come on, a boy needs something to do.

So i finish my coffee and go for a walk, bask in the neon for a couple of hours, watch a guy play trumpet for a while, get pushed into a heinous crowd, walkk some more, walk through the same crowd again to get back, and i find myself back in front of the shopping mall. The thing is built like pioneer courthouse square, lots of steps leading up from a big flat thing where they'll put up a stage or something. They had a ton of flowers there, and they were picking 'em up with shovels and tossing 'em in the back of trucks. So, I says to myself, that's dumb. And I grab one. One of the workers started to yell at me, I told her I wanted it, and she laughed. I don't even know what she said. But, hey, whatever. So, I take the plant, go to McDonalds, Eat, and take the 35 home.

...This is where things get odd. On my way back, Zhu Ting, my tutor and Grant's girl, invites me to eat quesadillas. I tell her i'll send her a message when I get back to the apartment. And, when I do, I see Grant walking away. I say hi, he doesn't respond, I notice the earphones, I start to crack some joke about how he'll go deaf listening to them that loud, and he says "Hey, why don't you fuck off, alright? Just go back." and he gestures to the apartments.

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So, there's drama a-brewin'. I guess I should just be glad he doesn't read my Blog, eh? There are a few possible scenarios I can imagine.

Unrelated drama: He's had a bad day in the brief time between when we talked about god damn hand-held video games and now, and needs some alone time and doesn't express it very well.

Girl Drama: She done the boy wrong, he needs some time alone and, again, expresses it poorly.

Related Drama: He feels that She has spent too much time with Me or, worse, She has said something to imply that she likes me. LIKE likes me. Ye gods.

Now, of those three the most likely situation is that it's girl trouble. He just bought her an expensive gift, so if she just broke up with him it would be a low thing. This is not what I'm worried about. What I'm worried about is the last one.

This raises all kinds of problems. First of all, I'm out a chinese tutor. I don't need this kind of crap. I want to improve my oral chinese, not be someone's therapist. I'd stick with my major if i did. Second of all, If she just broke up with him I can be the homeboy and be all nice even though he was totally rude just there. Because I'm such a nice guy and bros before hos. But if she said she likes me more than him, well, what am I supposed to do? I'm out a tutor, and I have to basically avoid situations where I would confront him until he's ready to talk. Which could be never.

Tactically, and as a drama veteran its important to think tactically in these situations, there are a few issues at stake. First of all, it means tommorow I gotta leave for the bus Early. Get on the bus before he does. This way I don't have to worry about whether or not to sit next to him. And maybe he sits next to me and we talk about it and maybe he doesn't but I can't come down on him because the next couple of days are delicate.

Also, I need to start communicating with Mike more. If this falls apart and Grant and I don't hang out so much, I need a homeboy. Now, Mike isn't my favorite person in this world but I gotta roll with someone or else I'll go crazy. The good news is I've already gone to da club with mike, and so it won't be hard to try and get him to go to the rock club or something. Whatever. But if things have broken off with Grant all permanent like, I need to start thinking of the next few months. There's only one coworker left, and I'll be damned if I'm gonna be left out in the cold because I hung out with my own damn Chinese Tutor.

Now, before anyone starts to worry, its important to remember I'm a drama veteran over here. Between the senior year of high school and the senior year of college, this ain't nothing. There were social groups of more than 10 people involved each situation. This one only has 5 and that's including me. Furthermore, the division is only one way. As near as I can see, everythings sunny between Mike and his girl. I'm operating under little to no information, but whatever's gonna happen it'll happen tommorow. And it might not happen at all.

Anyways, I'll let you know what happens, dear reader.