This week started out with a bunch of crap. You know the kind of crap that just makes you bend over in pain? Eh.

Well, Thursday night, I went online to check my checking account. I knew I didn’t have any money – I figured by balance would be something like $1.25 or some ridiculous low number. Since it was Thursday night, it was only a matter of hours before my pay check from Barnes & Noble was deposited into my checking account. Well, when I opened the account, the balance was -193.58. Yeah. I almost started crying. How the hell did it get like that? Obviously I am not an accounting major, nor can I do any type of math. But this was just retarded. I retraced my steps and saw my error(s). I simply spent what wasn’t there with my handy check card. Thank you plastic. By 12:30am, Friday morning, my little pay check was deposited into my account. ALL of it was swallowed up. I still have a little negative left to pay off. Basically, I am poor. When I saw that all of my money that I had worked so hard for had just vanished like that, I felt sick. No more of that. No more frivolous spending. Especially now that I will be living off campus, in my OWN APARTMENT, with a roommate, of course.

Kori, a friend of mine from high school, and I will be rooming together this year at Georgia Southern. We are going to Statesboro Thursday to look at apartments and make a decision. I’m SUPER excited. This will truly be the first time that I am on my own, in my own place. Granted, I will probably be sleeping on an air mattress for a while, but still, it will be my place, paid for with my money. It’s funny how life works out like that. When Kori and I were in the 10th grade, we had the idea to run together for Junior Class Presidents of Student Council. We wanted to plan Prom and be the talk of RHS. Well, we lost. But never did I think back then that one day I would be living with Kori!

The story of the week goes to a friend of mine who is in love with cars. He recently went to Miami Beach for a vacation. While he was there, he fell in love. Here is his tale, written to me during an instant messaging session (notice my exhaustive use of the exclamation point during the conversation – someone needs to stop me with that thing. Oh, and this friend’s identify is being held hostage):

ton1025 (11:32:49 PM): I fell in love with a Latin man in one night
ton1025 (11:32:51 PM): lol
Miguel6674 (11:33:18 PM): Oh my!
Miguel6674 (11:33:22 PM): What happened?
ton1025 (11:33:24 PM): lol
Miguel6674 (11:33:28 PM): Did you two do the nasty?!
Miguel6674 (11:33:34 PM): You little ho!
ton1025 (11:33:43 PM): well I had been drinking all day at a food bar called the Palace
ton1025 (11:33:54 PM): gay owned and operated blah blah.. cool place
Miguel6674 (11:34:05 PM): ok
ton1025 (11:34:29 PM): I got there at 5 pm
ton1025 (11:34:35 PM): left at maybe 10pm
ton1025 (11:34:55 PM): I’m walking back to my hotel which is 2 streets over, but somehow manage to get lost
Miguel6674 (11:35:18 PM): lol
ton1025 (11:35:19 PM): and its night time
ton1025 (11:35:42 PM): a really cute Latino guy rides by on a bike and smiles at me and says hi.. I say hi..
ton1025 (11:35:50 PM): he keeps going on his way, and me on mine
Miguel6674 (11:36:02 PM): OMG - I already love it
ton1025 (11:36:22 PM): The hurricane got really bad
ton1025 (11:36:29 PM): I was soaking wet from all the rain and wind
ton1025 (11:36:31 PM): lost
ton1025 (11:36:37 PM): getting kind of scared
ton1025 (11:36:49 PM): about 10 minutes after initially saying hi, the guy on a bike comes back
ton1025 (11:37:13 PM): he told me to come with him to get out of the rain, so we get under the doorway of the convention center
ton1025 (11:37:20 PM): its raining like crazy
Miguel6674 (11:37:32 PM): OMG
ton1025 (11:37:33 PM): and his name is Henry. he's from Columbia (the country)...
Miguel6674 (11:37:37 PM): nice
ton1025 (11:37:55 PM): and.. he is just
ton1025 (11:37:57 PM): gorgeous
Miguel6674 (11:38:04 PM): I'm already jealous
ton1025 (11:38:08 PM): very beautiful, very mysterious
ton1025 (11:38:15 PM): perfect body, etc
ton1025 (11:38:45 PM): so one thing led to another and we end up making out in the rain in the middle of the hurricane at night with cars driving by
Miguel6674 (11:39:12 PM): fnsdklfhdsl
Miguel6674 (11:39:16 PM): wow
ton1025 (11:39:28 PM): eventually he tells me to follow him, me on foot, him on bike, rain pounding us
ton1025 (11:39:37 PM): he has an apartment 1 block away
ton1025 (11:39:45 PM): so by the time we get there, we are soaked to the core
Miguel6674 (11:39:58 PM): ok
ton1025 (11:40:12 PM): he has a roommate
ton1025 (11:40:14 PM): named Leonardo
ton1025 (11:40:25 PM): another VERY hot Latino
ton1025 (11:40:48 PM): so we go into his room, and he gave me a big t-shirt and a towel to put on to get dry..
Miguel6674 (11:41:11 PM): xc,lzcl
ton1025 (11:41:12 PM): and I come out and talk to him and his roommate
ton1025 (11:41:32 PM): they were having pizza from a local restaurant called Pizza Rustica
ton1025 (11:42:02 PM): and they were so sweet, they had a chair pulled up for me
ton1025 (11:42:03 PM): =)
ton1025 (11:42:23 PM): we talked for about 2 hours, the 3 of us.. they are both very smart, well educated, and sweet
ton1025 (11:43:03 PM): it turns out that Henry, the one on the bike that rescued me from the storm actually works at the Palace, where I drank all day
ton1025 (11:43:04 PM): lol
ton1025 (11:43:06 PM): small world
Miguel6674 (11:43:18 PM): Nice
Miguel6674 (11:43:23 PM): ANDD...
ton1025 (11:43:43 PM): well, in his room he had the new Shakira cd... which i also have
ton1025 (11:43:51 PM): its all in Spanish.. very beautiful
ton1025 (11:44:01 PM): so he puts that on repeat, and we go to sleep..
ton1025 (11:44:33 PM): well, we made love 4 times... it was beautiful, passionate, and mindblowingly romantic
Miguel6674 (11:44:54 PM): OMG
Miguel6674 (11:44:55 PM): OMG
Miguel6674 (11:44:55 PM): OMG
Miguel6674 (11:44:56 PM): OMG
Miguel6674 (11:45:01 PM): I love it!!!
ton1025 (11:45:11 PM): we cuddled.. he is very deep and sweet, asking me questions.. gorgeous accent..
ton1025 (11:45:24 PM): it was like a scene out of a movie
ton1025 (11:45:38 PM): he is moving to NYC in like a week, and he wants me to come visit him up there
ton1025 (11:46:34 PM): oh and the next morning, I had to check out of my hotel to drive home, so he got on his bike (he had to go to work) and he walked me to my hotel, then kissed me goodbye right there on the street in south beach with people everywhere
ton1025 (11:46:53 PM): and that was the last I saw of Henry
Miguel6674 (11:47:15 PM): That
Miguel6674 (11:47:15 PM): Is
Miguel6674 (11:47:17 PM): SOO sweet
ton1025 (11:48:00 PM): it was such a chance meeting, there at night in the hurricane
Miguel6674 (11:48:14 PM): yeah
ton1025 (11:48:15 PM): I was lost; he was going to get a bottle of wine
Miguel6674 (11:48:26 PM): Wow. That was meant to happen.
ton1025 (11:48:35 PM): yeah... im never going to forget it
ton1025 (11:48:39 PM): he sang to me, the shakira songs
ton1025 (11:48:44 PM): and translated what she was saying
ton1025 (11:48:48 PM): it was so romantic
ton1025 (11:48:55 PM): he was gorgeous and humble...

Yeah, so who’s for going to Miami Beach? I know I am.

I have mentioned that Harry Potter is this Friday? Well, it is! HARRY POTTER NUMBER SIX IS COMING OUT THIS FRIDAY AND I’M DOING TRIVIA FOR HARRY FREAKING POTTER.

The trip to New York is coming together nicely. Frier, Pepijn, and I will be leaving Atlanta a week from today. I haven’t been on a plane since 2000 – that was the last time I left the state, too. (I don’t count the time I had to take Pepijn and Catie to Gainesville, Florida. I didn’t get to see anything besides the highway, his apartment, and Wal-Mart, so it doesn’t count)

Well I’m out.

GOOD day.