August 9, 2013

This morning I had to wake up early once again, this time for the school district meeting at the high school. It was the first time I have been in the high school since the renovation, and I only saw the entry way, but it looks completely different. The meeting was in the auditorium, which is the only thing in the building they didn't change, so that wasn't very exciting. The meeting itself, minus the marriage proposal, was incredibly boring, especially when the superintendent got up and spoke for over thirty minutes. He was throwing around all of these numbers and figures that were interesting but I would have preferred to see them in a bullet point format in an email that I could look over on my own time. The librarian and para sitting next to me had a bet going on how long he was going to talk because being boring and verbose are apparently his thing. And the third grade teacher in front of me had an apple with a styrofoam cup for a hat, which she was drawing eyes and nose on to give the apple various faces. I nearly fell asleep and I think I would have felt the same even if I had gotten a full night of sleep.

The marriage proposal was kind of cool. A lady called up all the ESOL teachers in the district to recognize their hard work but kept one of them up on stage after sending the others back to their seats. And then her soon-to-be fiance came out from back stage with a rose and the audience (at least 80% women) started getting excited as soon as they saw him walk out. Then he got down on one knee and the place erupted and everyone stood up and she said yes. Thank God she said yes.

When I got home from the meeting I tried to take a nap but the dogs kept randomly barking so I was unable to get anywhere near a sleeping state. So instead I burned some DVDs for my friend and did other stuff that I am completely blanking on.

Tonight I once again went out to the bars. How I love the bars. One of my other high school friends had come into town so we all went out. The initial plan was to be done by midnight because my one friend had to leave in the morning and my other friend wasn't interested in getting drunk, but we ended up not leaving until two o'clock. Early in the night we met up with our former coworker again, that we met at karaoke the other night, and went back to the basement bar. Mainly because my friend wanted to pay back my friend's boyfriend, the bartender, who took a $0.50 loss on his tab the other night. He wasn't working but a short time after getting there he stopped by for a drink so my friend was able to clear his conscience.

From there we went over to the country bar because my other friend wanted to meet up with a girl that he has had a thing for since high school, and she has had one for him, but the timing has never worked out. Like now because my friend is living with his girlfriend. But we met up with her anyway. At one point she wanted a picture with my friend and everyone tried to make sure it didn't happen because my friend didn't really need a picture of him on Facebook with a girl he has had a thing for since high school. First my other friends tried to take the phone and take random pictures of their arms. And then our former coworker friend kept “accidentally” closing out of the camera on the phone but she could only claim drunken stumbling for so long. While at this bar I also ran into another former coworker who I haven't seen in years. He is the one who's cousin is currently a para at the school I work at. I don't think I have seen him since he left the theater but he still remembered a lot about me which says a lot for his memory.

We then migrated to another bar and ended the night there, just relaxing and talking because thankfully the music wasn't too loud. By this point it was after midnight and I was tired and didn't really want to be there in the first place because bars aren't my thing, but I want to hang out with my friends when they are in town. And eventually last call came around and I was able to go home and sleep.