did you just call me obtuse?

The mystery continues...

Geoff calls me the other day and says, "I talked to MH, and she says she likes somebody else now that she has broken up with her boyfriend. I ask her who the new guy is, and she says it's a secret. Now this would lead me to believe that one, it's somebody famous, or two, it's somebody that I know. So, do you know if she's talking to anyone in L.A.?" I tell him that the only people I know of that she hung out with here were my roommates, and that they very well may be talking to her. I really have no idea. Of course, I already know that she's seeing a guy she met through her brother, and I tell Geoff this, but it started me thinking: Why would that be a secret? She told me, why wouldn't she tell Geoff? Perhaps he knows this guy and she doesn't want to let Geoff know for whatever reason. But that doesn't make sense, for if she really wanted to keep it from him, she wouldn't tell me since she knows I talk to Geoff. So... what the hell? I don't know, I shouldn't even want to know. It's really none of my business, but I'll be damned if this doesn't strike me as very odd behaviour even from my very odd friends. Oh, well.

MH will be coming to visit me in February, or so it seems. I'm excited. She is one of my oldest and best friends, and I haven't seen her in such a long time. It seems like every time I go to Texas, she's off in some other far and distant land, or the timing is such that we don't get to see each other or spend much time together. On top of all that, when she actually made it back to L.A., I was in bloody Ireland. So it goes...

This past week I had an audition with an indie rock band. I hadn't played in quite some time, (including the month I spend in Belfast) so I was a bit nervous about going into something like that so cold. But when it was all said and done, I played about as well as I could have without practice and I was offered the gig. Hooray for me! I don't know where this thing is going, but I told them I'd give it a shot as they seem to have some great potential, and I like the guys and the sound they're going for. (Think Trail of Dead, Mogwai, Modest Mouse.) If things do go well and I end up staying with it, we could be playing shows by the end of March, and that's something I really need to do. It may be my one and only true love, aside from... well, I'm just going to keep that one to myself for now. Not that it matters, but I don't know if I'm even ready to admit it to myself. Yes, it's like that.

A real doctor actually wrote this on a patient's chart:

"Patient has two teenage children but no other abnormalities."

And that is that.