30 jun 2008
make it even easier
Friday we (Brenda+me) had a barbeque and i got my hair burned. Or rather, Brenda invited Kelee & Karen over, and where Kelee goes Jaryn & Crys follow, and where there are that many dramatic lesbians in one place, i invite my rational friends (who tend to be straight for some reason, but that's gotta be a sampling anomaly), so Zach was there too. And several dogs, but that's not part of the story, just the chaos.
After tasty tasty feta burgers and so forth, everybody was standing around outside/on our little tiny porch smoking. Jaryn & Karen were seated, i was standing next to Karen, a few feet from from the grill, which Crys & Kelee were playing with. Our porch is really tiny, about 3X8, and with four people was at capacity. i think Brenda was by our door, and Zach was on the lawn. In any case, Crys started squirting lighter fluid into the grill, which was all fine and dandy until she squirted a lot in it, creating a fireball. i instinctively backed away from it, and knocked over a candle, which ignited my hair. Karen slapped the fire out pretty quickly, but the left side was suddenly 5 inches shorter than the right side.
i cut it later that night, and all in all it looks okay (i'm getting a lot better at giving myself haircuts). It's shorter than it's been in several years, and feels really weird... but mysteriously only takes half as long to brush. What's up with that?
Now, i was really not that upset that my hair caught on fire. i mean, 6 inches is a lot to lose, but it'll grow back. It was an accident, and it's not like Crys meant for anyone to get burned or anything... but what she was doing was extremely stupid. The thing is that on Saturday Brenda & i went to a lake with them all again, and when the hair incident came up, Cyrs claimed it was all Kelee's fault for telling her to put more lighter fluid in. Which, even if true, is unimportant. Cyrs did it, and it could have easily been dangerous to either Karen or me. Her blaming somebody else pissed me off, and if she hadn't, the whole thing could just be a joke (honestly, how many of us in EC have wounded each other?). i'm terribly unimpressed with her anyway, she has the most remarkable last of curiosity i've ever encountered in another adult, and the only reason she has to hang out with us all the time is because she's jealous of Brenda's new friendship with Kelee and Jaryn... which is by itself annoyingly immature.
So that's the hair on fire incident, and its fallout thus far.
Damn, we need internet. i have 9 minutes left and haven't started either of my 2 internet projects for today nor told you lovely readers all about the actual fun of this weekend.
Because! We went to Seattle yesterday! Brenda's ex-boss Aimme and Aimee's friend Sara(h?) wanted to go to Pride, so we joined them. The parade was awesome, long and so forth, there was an impressive crowd. We went briefly to the Market, and walked around downtown Seattle, which i really like from my glimpse so far. Clara picked me up, and we went to an absolutely adorable tea place, and drove me around town a little. Seeing Clara was great, she's doing awesome and i hadn't seen her in 2 years. i'll probably go visit her again, or maybe she'll even come up here for a weekend sometime. i'm terribly excited about it.
gah, 5 minutes. Honestly.
"You've never seen Schindler's List?! What kind of Jew are you?" ¶ 12:37
Friday we (Brenda+me) had a barbeque and i got my hair burned. Or rather, Brenda invited Kelee & Karen over, and where Kelee goes Jaryn & Crys follow, and where there are that many dramatic lesbians in one place, i invite my rational friends (who tend to be straight for some reason, but that's gotta be a sampling anomaly), so Zach was there too. And several dogs, but that's not part of the story, just the chaos.
After tasty tasty feta burgers and so forth, everybody was standing around outside/on our little tiny porch smoking. Jaryn & Karen were seated, i was standing next to Karen, a few feet from from the grill, which Crys & Kelee were playing with. Our porch is really tiny, about 3X8, and with four people was at capacity. i think Brenda was by our door, and Zach was on the lawn. In any case, Crys started squirting lighter fluid into the grill, which was all fine and dandy until she squirted a lot in it, creating a fireball. i instinctively backed away from it, and knocked over a candle, which ignited my hair. Karen slapped the fire out pretty quickly, but the left side was suddenly 5 inches shorter than the right side.
i cut it later that night, and all in all it looks okay (i'm getting a lot better at giving myself haircuts). It's shorter than it's been in several years, and feels really weird... but mysteriously only takes half as long to brush. What's up with that?
Now, i was really not that upset that my hair caught on fire. i mean, 6 inches is a lot to lose, but it'll grow back. It was an accident, and it's not like Crys meant for anyone to get burned or anything... but what she was doing was extremely stupid. The thing is that on Saturday Brenda & i went to a lake with them all again, and when the hair incident came up, Cyrs claimed it was all Kelee's fault for telling her to put more lighter fluid in. Which, even if true, is unimportant. Cyrs did it, and it could have easily been dangerous to either Karen or me. Her blaming somebody else pissed me off, and if she hadn't, the whole thing could just be a joke (honestly, how many of us in EC have wounded each other?). i'm terribly unimpressed with her anyway, she has the most remarkable last of curiosity i've ever encountered in another adult, and the only reason she has to hang out with us all the time is because she's jealous of Brenda's new friendship with Kelee and Jaryn... which is by itself annoyingly immature.
So that's the hair on fire incident, and its fallout thus far.
Damn, we need internet. i have 9 minutes left and haven't started either of my 2 internet projects for today nor told you lovely readers all about the actual fun of this weekend.
Because! We went to Seattle yesterday! Brenda's ex-boss Aimme and Aimee's friend Sara(h?) wanted to go to Pride, so we joined them. The parade was awesome, long and so forth, there was an impressive crowd. We went briefly to the Market, and walked around downtown Seattle, which i really like from my glimpse so far. Clara picked me up, and we went to an absolutely adorable tea place, and drove me around town a little. Seeing Clara was great, she's doing awesome and i hadn't seen her in 2 years. i'll probably go visit her again, or maybe she'll even come up here for a weekend sometime. i'm terribly excited about it.
gah, 5 minutes. Honestly.
"You've never seen Schindler's List?! What kind of Jew are you?" ¶ 12:37
