Friday, January 22, 1993

January 22, 1993 - Friday - Emily Elise Weber

Not that I want to jinx anything, but I feel that I've found a pretty good friend in Emily. We've spent a good deal of time around each other the past couple of days, studying and what not. I went to chemistry lab on Wednesday actually looking forward to it. She was already there and I tried to sneak up on her but she saw me as I walked up. I took my finger and tickled her side and said hello before putting my stuff back at my station. We tease each other in a very jovial way, she actually does it just as much as I do. It's different. She also will brag about doing something well, just like I do, and I think it's pretty funny, almost cute. We've even gotten to the point now where we'll brag about each other being smart at the same time. How 'sweet.'

Anyway, I am smart enough that I can finish a section of the lab rather quickly and accurately and then go and talk and play with Emily until she catches up. It makes it a much more relaxed atmosphere and cause me to learn better. I'd help her out as well when she needed it and also would talk to a couple of other people in our lab group. I wasn't in any particular hurry, since I wanted to wait and leave with her anyway. She was going to play in this pool tournament for charity at the Reitz Union a little while after class and she asked me if I'd like to come. When I said yes, she seemed a bit surprised, but pretty happy. After class, we walked across the street and got her car, which was the 1972 Oldsmobile 88. We then drove down to the Reitz. We actually started answering some of the lab questions that are due during the next lab. I had Jon's and Ed's lab in my book bag which guided us through it.

As we were doing that, then fucking chemistry-major nerd from hell comes up to us and starts talking to us about chemistry. He says that he recognized the book, and is running a lab help session. He looked completely goofy, and said that he was just hanging out playing video games. Idiot! He just kept on and on and would not shut up! He even gave us his name and number and office number in case we wanted to come. I nicely wrote them down to make him happy, and hopefully send him on his way. He just kept talking. Then, when he looked at Emily, I looked down and started doing more work on the problems letting him just talk to her until he left. It was funny and she realized what I had done, and wished she had thought of it first. We both love making situational fun of people, even more so that Kimmeth and I. Emily and I could just sit there and make fun of any person or group of people that went by. There was a girl bowling down in front of us and she had extremely orange hair. I asked Emily if she knew what color the powdered cheese is in Kraft macaroni. She looked at me weird for a second, and then said yes, knowing that I had a point. I then pointed out the girl and we started cracking up! It was hilarious!!!

About forty-five minutes before the tournament, we went down and started playing a quick game of pool. I really suck, because I never play, and she easily beat me. It wasn't until then that I found out that she is on the university's pool team. They have a South Eastern Conference match on February fifth and she had told me about going to that, but it hadn't really clicked. I got to meet many of her guy 'acquaintances.' She's a real tomboy, and is really active in a lot of sports, and is decent in most of them as I hear. Thus she meets and hangs out with lots of guys, which is about the only thing that I am uncomfortable with if I were to actually pursue her. These two guys, Dan and Chris, were talking around me about Chris telling Emily what Dan had said when they walked in. Dan goes, 'What, that I said she is cute?' So at least she's attractive in other guys' eyes as well. Although it doesn't matter if she's presentable to society, it's her personality that really counts... Ha ha ha ha ha... That's another petty thing that bothers me, she knows too many Dans, and it get's pretty annoying.

I met the girl that organized the little tournament. Her name is Patty and she was heaving out of her shirt quite nicely. SHe didn't really have a clue about how to run the thing, though. She also tried to get me to play to no avail. Later on, when she realized that I was still there, she came and talked to me for a little while during which she asked me if I had come just to watch Emily play. I'm not quite sure what her reaction was when I said yes, but she went away pretty soon after that. I don't know, maybe it'll get me a good word in with Emily. There was this guy who is also on UF's team that is a couple of years older than Emily who played in the tournament. He coaches her although he lost in the first round. They're pretty good friends, but I'm not sure if they'd ever go out just from what I know about her already. It was funny watching her alternate between the two of us to keep us both happy although trying to seem very nonchalant. Later on, when she started losing, she stopped coming to either one of us and would just stand by herself after her turn was up. I would periodically help to cheer her up and get a smile, but she was taking the game a bit too seriously, and we talked about hat later. I was also possibly supposed to study with Jennifer that night, and I called her a couple of times from the Reitz Union, but I figured by then she had already taken off with Noel and/or Derek. Oh well, my time was much better spent with Emily.

Pretty soon after her loss, we took off. It was already past nine which meant I had spent almost four hours with her since we left lab. I talked a bit off sense into her after her loss, and we ended on a rather good note as she dropped me off in front of Beaty. I had fun. Yesterday morning, I got up and dragged myself to chemistry lecture a little early. Actually I didn't have to drag myself, because I knew that I'd get to see Emily. I thought it was funny when I realized that I was actually dressing up and making sure I looked perfect for chemistry lecture! If it weren't for her, I know that I wouldn't go to class very often.

On Tuesday she told me of her love of Jolly Ranchers when I asked her if she'd like a star mint. I found it rather funny that I just happen to have an entire unopened unwanted bag of Jolly Ranchers just waiting in my room. I put them into a cute little white paper bag, and carried to class. I asked her this time if she'd like a Jolly Rancher, and then handed her the entire bag. It was funny. She later said that she was going to eat them on her trip to Alabama, and I said that was good so that she will remember me the entire trip, and we giggled. Well... sort of. Snicker. We sat on the opposite sides of each other this time, and it took us almost half of the period before we were leaning on each other.

I've been pulling out little bits and pieces of Spanish from high school and we can have every limited conversations. She's taken many years and knows it well. We can sort of say things to each other, her in Spanish, me in German, when we don't want the other to know what we are saying but still think that something needs to be said. It's a shame that we both aren't taking the same language because that's a bridge that is very useful to strengthen a relationship, and it's fun. I really want to meet someone German who I can talk to who isn't in my class. That would be interesting.

Anyway, after class, I walked Emily to her Biology class. Kendra rode by and said hello and we argued over who she said hi to for a few minutes because we both know her. It was probably to Emily, because I think she's a bitch. I really didn't want that to be the last time that I got to see her this weekend. She was mentioning that she was going to go play frisbee later on and I told her how Ed and I play every once in a while. She told me that they play out on the Plaza of the Americas and that I should come out there later at about 12:30. I did. I took my towel and went and found me a spot on the grass, pulled off my shoes and socks, and looked like I fit in perfectly with all of the progressive people that hang out there during the day. They were having a little rally to protest the 'New World Order' and had local TV coverage. I sat and read the paper and listened to them for a few minutes. It was hilarious that so much bullshit could flow from the mouths of so few people. They made no sense. It was ridiculous! I just sat there and laughed to myself. There were a hell of a lot of cute girl's there though.

I soon saw Emily and this decrepit guy walking along through the Plaza so I got up and walked over to meet them. There were already two guys playing frisbee in the small area between the library where I met Melissa before dinner one night, and the podium where the speakers were. She had already walked out and missed a pass just as I walked by. It landed at my feet. I picked it up, we said hello, and I slid it through the air back into her arms. I didn't really care to play, I just wanted to hang out for a while to see her. It was really funny because the Krishnas have their little free food line and there were actually crash dummies from the TV commercials out there promoting safety week. All kinds of freaks and weirdos hang out there. Anyway, Emily wasn't really that good, she can either make it fly, or aim it, but not both at the same time, even when she throws it underhand. I'd like to get her out in the field here in front of Beaty sometime and play. That would be fun.

She came and sat on my towel with me to rest when she did, and we talked for a little while. I asked her when does she want to get together and do the chemistry and we decided on later that night. When she was ready, I walked with them towards Turlington. She was going to play pool with this ugly guy and the decrepit was just following her around. It was funny that she had three guys walking with her like that, and since I knew that she was thinking that, we had a pretty good laugh about it later on at dinner. When we got to the bike racks I decided to depart from the ugly little group, so I said goodbye and she said that she'd call me later tonight.

I came home and went to sleep. I woke up just as Chris was getting home and decided to actually read the chapter in chemistry so I'd have at least an idea of what I was doing when we studied later. I was still in my hanging around the house clothes and really looked like I had just waken up with my messed up hair and all. I sat down just as the phone rang, and it was Emily. Not only was it Emily, but she was already downstairs! I tried to figure out which tower she was calling from in my dazed state, and then got dressed in a hurry and went downstairs. She wasn't there. I walked all around my building, and then through the lobby to see if she had called from there. I then walked up to the other building and didn't see her there either. I decided to go back upstairs to see if she had called back or had gone up by herself. I knew that she didn't know my room number, but she uses the campus operator to find out people's phone numbers, instead of memorizing them, so I thought that she possibly figured out my address as well. She hadn't. So I went back downstairs, made the same trip I made the first time, and then walked out to the parking lot to see if I could see her big car. I couldn't, but then I looked to my right to see her sitting outside of Beaty West in front of the column. It blocked me from seeing her from the other side of the doors when I looked the first times. She said that she decided it would be better if she just stayed in place and let me find her.

We went upstairs, and I introduced her to Jon. They recognized each other from being in last semester's calculus class, but they didn't know each other well. We talked for about ten minutes. Ed came out of his room on his way to go somewhere and started babbling about something that didn't really make much sense. Sometimes he's so embarrassing, especially around cute girls. I told him goodbye and sent him on his merry way. We talked a bit longer and then decided that we'd go to Burger King to eat and then study. I threw on a sweater and brushed my hair and we walked over to the Jennings parking lot to get her car. Eating at that particular Burger King was a pretty absurd experience. I have never eaten in that particular restaurant before in the evening. The only other time I had even been in there was breakfast with her on Tuesday. They actually have waitresses that bring you your orders, they serve you popcorn as an appetizer, and they have built an entire wall made of red bricks with a fireplace and paintings to decorate it. It's pretty nice and very different.

We grabbed our usual seat by the window. We had a blast making fun of everybody we saw. We also talked a lot about ourselves and had a really good time. There's just so much that I learned that I don't even know where to begin. I hardly even know what to say. Everything has sort of blended together to form my mind's image of her, and it's hard to split these things back apart again.

I had a little talk with Jon just a little while ago about things. He started it off this time by asking me how I feel about Emily. We had talked about this last night, too. I told him that I pretty much like her but I'm holding back for a while just so I don't get let down. I would really like it if something develops between the two of us, but I'll just wait and see. I was surprised to find out that he knew she roller blades. She hadn't mentioned it to him any time recently. She did tell me earlier about it. She used to borrow them from this guy so much that he just went ahead and gave them to her for her birthday.

At Burger King we kept refilling our drinks every once in a while. A long time later, we had just stopped working on a problem, and she suddenly realized that she had to pee. That made me realize the same thing and we practically ran to the bathrooms. It was funny. We were going to play a little basketball after we studied but we had no basketball and didn't know where we could get one off hand. She has some little date with a guy named Norman tonight that she had to call once she got home. She kept playing it off saying that he'd better come up with something good since she agreed to spend the evening with him. She used to go to Mount Holyoke College up in Massachusetts for a year. She told me later that she left because of all of the lesbians. She just didn't like their too liberal beliefs and the way they tried to force them on her. She isn't all that proud of going to the University of Florida. I sort of wonder how she survived up there at an all women's school without a bunch of guy friends. Maybe that experience is why she is like this now.

We even talked had a little chat with one of the black waitresses later on when there were hardly any people in there. We just talked about what we were studying and she wiped the condensation from our cups off of the table so it didn't get on our books. I thought that was nice. It was so funny how we were making fun of people. There was a group of complete nerds that were talking about all kinds of computer bullshit rather loudly. We were cracking up. There also was a group of three older couples that met at Burger King just to decide where they were going to eat. They didn't order a thing, just met there. We couldn't get over that. It was fun. There were also some pretty cute girls that would come in and I would flirt with. When Emily dropped me off, we decided on studying maybe on Sunday and that I should give her a call.

Instead, Emily called me earlier today from home while I was cooking supper. She was working on her lab problems some more. I thought she was talking about the homework questions for a second and told her to stop it and wait until she could help me. She joked that I don't need any help, and I agreed that what I really need is the initiative to do them. She laughed and said something, but I don't remember what. We then decided that we'll probably get together tomorrow morning. Oh yeah, she and Norm are ending up going to play putt putt golf with free passes that she has. I thought that was funny and expressed my pleasure that they were only going to do that.

I talked to Pong today after German and we had a lot to catch up on after I dissed him that day about wanting to sit next to Jennifer. Anyway, I thing Noel stole her from me as a study partner. Pong and I were talking about Fran‡oise for a few minutes. She's going home this weekend and I begged her to take me home to the beaches with her. She said that she would if I seriously wanted to. Pong and I were also talking about Melissa. He said that he noticed that we were becoming pretty close friends towards the end of the semester and I thought that was cool. I then talked to Derek for the rest of our walk. We were talking about Gina being do fat now. I asked him how much he talks to them nowadays. He still talks to Jana quite a bit, but not much to Cindy. We were joking about them and some other people. It was the best talk we've had yet. I think Jennifer hates me. I think she's a bitch. The girl who roller blades in our class wore a really tight low cut stretch black shirt today. I saw some much of her breasts throughout class that I almost got a hard on. I flirted with her throughout class. Noel and I commented about how nice it looked at the beginning of class, and Jennifer cut in and said something derogatory. Maybe that's why she was being so ornery towards the end of class. If she even looked at me, which I'm sure she did, she would have seen me looking.

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