May 9, 1994 - Monday - Smile, Sarah & mom visit

Today sucked. It didn't really suck, I just wasn't really in the
mood to deal with the people I had to deal with, and wasn't on the
break schedule to deal with those that I wanted so badly to talk to.
I was rather upset when Shannon arrived and barely said hi and gave
me a peace sign and then disappeared into nowhere. I was then
replaced on height stick and later saw her talking to the guy out
there. My horrible mind thus thinks she avoided me out there so she
wouldn't have to talk to me. The problem was compounded later when
she unpleasantly talked to me out on boardwalk and so I left. I was
later sitting out at the wall daydreaming about Kristen lying on top
of me naked this fall in Gainesville when suddenly Shannon walked by
with a big smile and waved. I couldn't believe how a simple smile
could cheer me up so much, and also realized how horrible it would
have been had I seen her just walking by. I did get to talk to her up
at booth later on with Ronnie there as well.

So I concentrated a little bit more on Kristen. We joke around
whenever I see her but can still talk seriously which is a problem
Laura and I never solved. Chris and I were unloading and talking
about the women when I told him there's someone I'd do and pointed
into the line. Shannon was in there sweeping and he laughed and said
to get in line. He then pointed at Kristen in the booth and said that
there is someone he'd like to see more of. I agreed and said it'll be
cool together up in Gainesville. He said that if he could reserve
her, he'd be up in Gainesville all of the time and I laughed.

I wandered around boardwalk for a while later on and noticed
some really nice looking chicks in both the photo shop (Angie but I
don't know that yet) who looks like Marcella and in the gift shop.
They kept looking at me every time I walked by so I hope to meet them
soon. I also had the extreme pleasure of finishing up the day at the
river rapids with Kelly and some guy who talked to me the entire
time. That wasn't too bad and was a change of pace.

Continuing yesterday's thoughts: I was working across from
Briana and kept talking to her for a long time. Every once in a while
something funny would happen and we'd have a good laugh. Once she got
sick because this older hispanic was wearing a tight body suit half
way up her ass. It was great! There were this black woman who was
having trouble sitting in the seat correctly, since it designed for
the ease of a two year old, and we were desperately trying to get the
idiot to hold her arms up long enough to get the harness down. Jamey
(Elvis) was on button and he started making dramatic hand gestures to
make us hurry up. Since his is one of the slowest people there, I
looked right at him and yelled all the way across to the back of the
coaster for him not to start getting an attitude. I thought it was
hilarious.

That was right up when I noticed father and Chrissy in line for
they had come and finally bought season passes. I chatted with them
for a little while and Chrissy gave me a big hug right on the
platform.

Later on, as I was returning from the wall, I looked into the
crowd at all of the girls as I usually do and I saw these two eyes
that my mind instantly recognized as Sarah's! The rest of her looked
different until she looked up at me and yelled my name and then we
hugged each other long and hard and she was saying some bullshit
about it being so long since she's seen me. Her hair is a lot shorter
now which is why I didn't notice her right away. She then introduced
me to her mother!, her brother's girlfriend, and her little brother.
That was cool to meet some of her family and all. She told me that he
had gone up to Kumba to look for me and will find out Friday if she
gets to work there. She then said to give her a call sometime this
week and we all parted. That was quite interesting.

Kristen told me today that she'll be living in a triple this
year in Broward. Three people in a box!!! I told her that sucks and
there won't be any privacy whatsoever. She agreed and even said that
she can't stand one of the girls very much. I almost told her that
it'll be cool as everybody finds a boyfriend and starts staying at
their rooms, but I didn't want to imply anything that I could soon
suggest that she do with me.

May 8, 1994 - Sunday - UF girls Briana & Kristen

I tell her to give me a call sometime, she knows where I am. She
tells me to do the same and gives me her beeper number. She asks if
I'd be home today and I say no, I work. Shar¡ called at five. Cute.

I got ready to head up to Kumba this morning just as Chris and
Mike pull up. We all walked together up to Kumba and talked about
Ryan's party last night. A lot of people were there, and a lot went
on, but it was the same old shit. I made up a pretty good excuse
which got me off the hook as to why I didn't ever show up. Chris said
that none of the girls we hit on ever showed up. Ron Jones, although
he was totally whipped by Krissie, seemed to be ready to split when
Kevin and I ate lunch with him on Friday. It turns out that he
screwed (tore up!) Jacqueline's old friend and I instantly remembered
Melissa, the gorgeous one. Chris agreed that she was the one and I'd
congratulate Ron in a heartbeat for nailing someone so awesome. Chris
said not to spread the word, though, and of course I wouldn't.

We went up to Kumba and everybody packed in around Nilsa in the
little room. This pretty good looking girl named Erin was in there
and still had a hangover. I went and sat next to her. Landry was
there and gave me a huge welcome back yell, and then explained to
Erin that he always welcomes Dan that way. I think his acceptance won
her over quickly for me because she was joking around with me a lot
later on while we were on platform. She was telling me everything
interesting that would happen to her as she worked. Somebody left a
medium stuffed white tiger in the box and I told her it is mine now.
She laughed and said go ahead until I told her that I took home quite
a few animals last year. It suddenly disappeared soon thereafter and
I looked all of the way across the platform and asked her why she let
somebody take my tiger. She smiled and said she didn't do it and I
made puppy eyes and frowned and said that it is her fault. She
laughed a lot about that.

I also remembered another thing the wonderful Shannon did as we
were walking to our cars on Friday. Right after she said she doesn't
smoke pot any more, a little bunny went hopping across the sidewalk
and she got very excited and pointed it out to me. It was really cute
the way she did it and I figured that she must love animals since she
is a country girl. I then told her about the bunny nest that got run
over by the lawnmowers last summer.

I had seen this new girl named Briana yesterday morning when
Chris and I rode the Kumba and Nilsa had introduced us to the new
girl Kristen. I had gone on break and bought a drink and Kristen came
in about five minutes alter and sat across from me. I decided to
start asking all kinds of questions when she suddenly asked me if I
went to UF. She's been there a year already and swears that she
remembers me from somewhere. She lived in Broward and is in the
marching band that travels to all of the football games. She wants to
be an elementary school teacher and is pretty smart. I asked her how
her grades went and she got a 3.6, and so did I! We then realized and
she was rather over excited about the fact that we both essentially
got the same grades, a bunch of A's, a B, and a B plus. It was pretty
cool.

We then started naming all of our classes trying to figure out
where she might have recognized me from and finally narrowed it down
to Grigg's psychology class last fall. Chris and I were rating the
girl yesterday and he liked her because she had some back to her. I
just kept thinking for the rest of the day about whether or not she
has a boyfriend and what it would be like to have a normal smart
girlfriend for a change! She is decent enough to show off and is very
friendly and I like that a lot.

I quickly convinced Ronnie to let me have a lunch and break
together since it was my sacrifice of the later break. I told him I
wanted to head up to Crown Colony which I did and had two super fresh
pizzas covered with cheese the only way I love them and they were
delicious! They also had free cake from a banquet which I ate some
of. I even joked with the archipelago group about the cake. [snip]

I then went back to Vivis via the Skyride and found Briana and
Kristen sitting together on break. Kristen said have a seat as I was
sitting down and I thanked her. She then told me that Briana is going
to Gainesville, too. She goes to Armwood high school and was
surprised that we both know where that is. Kristen went to King so
that's not how we know one another. Briana and I then talked across
the coaster track on the platform for a while and I found out quite a
bit about her from both her and Chris. She's wants to major in
Chemistry and I found out that she is seventeen and graduates this
year which is really cool. I just realized what a good and early
start I am getting with all of the girls. I really hope these two
Gainesville chicks will pay off as well as Laura did and would have.

I asked Chris about Briana and he says that he has a boyfriend
for quit a long time but her parents only let her see him once a week
but she sneaks over there although he lives pretty far away. He says
they have sex and although she is quiet, which scares him, he says
she is wild! I suddenly looked at her in an entirely different light
because although she is a a hick, she looked like a Catholic hick
virgin. It makes the fantasy of imagining her have sex when I look at
her so much more real and believable and the goal more seemingly
achievable. Cool!!!

We three walked out together because Chris had called me from
the height stick and told her to wait for me as well. He then was
babbling to her and saying that I wanted her phone number and then
started asking her if she was getting rid of her boyfriend soon. She
actually was flirting as she said yes because he has been a constant
asshole lately and so forth and Chris was joking with her about
sexually starving him. He and I made some pretty truthful remarks
about her needing someone better which I'd be more than happy to
provide!