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Last night, my buddy Joe and I went to Gentleman Jim’s here in Murfreesboro. We were playing darts and popping off at the mouth when some random guy asked if he and his girlfriend could get in on the next game. Bored with just beating the snot out of each other in darts, we happily obliged and welcomed the new competition.

As the night went on we got to know these people and their friends. We chit chatted, laughed, joked, and all around had a good time. Somehow through the night the guy who had originally asked us if he could join in on our dart game turned into a real undercover douche bag. By “undercover douche bag” I mean he was all smiles and jokes for the majority of the time but periodically he would slip in some insults and rude comments. Please see below for an example.

Undercover douche bag: So do you go to Vanderbilt?
Me: (wearing my Vanderbilt t-shirt) No I’ve got a buddy who went there. He gave me this shirt. I go to MTSU
UCDB: Oh so you’re not really smart at all. You’re just pretending to be.

Then if a night with remarks like that slipping here and there weren’t enough, it somehow got better. Before we were leaving I asked the UCDB’s girlfriend a general question and before she even had a chance to answer the UCDB said to me with total sincerity, “Look you’ve been talking to her all night. Don’t talk to her anymore”.

Stunned by this, I gave the UCDB a very confused, “Are You Freaking Kidding Me Look” as for the first time that evening, I sized him and his friends up. Joe and I could have mopped the floor with these chumps in a matter of minutes even though they had another man on us.

It was then that he smiled and added, “I’m just joking” before pausing a moment and mumbling, “Seriously don’t talk to her”.

I was honestly offended by his rudeness. I had done nothing but be a nice guy to him, his friends, and his girlfriend. I thought we were all having a good time. I didn’t realize he would take loosing to Joe and me so hard and be so uncomfortable with some other guy making his girlfriend laugh. I guess the whole “being secure with himself” was not something he did regularly.

I weighed the options and realized that this wasn’t something worth getting into. However, I did think that its times like these that being more open with using the finger might be a good idea.

Yesterday I raced home from work to take my required test for graduation. When I got there (right at test time) I noticed that my name wasn’t on the sign in sheet. A little confused, I asked the lady what deal-io was. She told me that she had just found out today that students graduating in August were not required to take the test and that I could just go home.

I kind of stood there for a minute with my mouth hanging open, dumbstruck by what I had just heard.

She then hands me a card and asks me to call the number of the testing office this morning “just to double check” what she was saying was correct.

I could only turn and walk away…

I ended up leaving from the testing and going straight to the Rec. Center. I ran four miles so it wasn’t a total loss.

I found out today from some people in my class that I’m required to take two specific tests before I can graduate. Since I’m graduating in the summer I was under the impression that I had awhile before I needed to start worrying about them.

I’m lucky that I brought it up, because I was then told that I had to take these tests this semester or I wouldn’t be able to. The people in my class then asked me why I didn’t know all this; it was in an email that was sent out.

I don’t normally check my school email. It’s always empty and if I do get something, it’s a complete waste of time to read it. However, after hearing that a message that could play an important role in my college graduation could be waiting in my inbox, I ran to a computer ASAP.

This is the best part.

I checked my email at about 3:00. Lucky me, there was a message that read, “Important Graduation Testing”. For whatever reason, I happened to notice that the email was sent today at 2:06. This was an important fact because on the last line of the email were 2 times on 3 days that I could take the test. The first time was today at 1:00!

Good thing I got the email about the testing a whole ONE HOUR AND SIX MINUTES after the 1st test began! Seriously, what if that had been the only time I could have taken this stupid test?

MTSU did crap like this to me when I 1st transferred there. They eased up on the incompetence for awhile, but now I can see that getting my diploma may be hell.

Last night Heather and I started playing this game where we tried to name the most random/obscure person we went to high school with that we could think of . The object was to see which one of us could remember someone that the other person had totally forgotten existed. The only rule to the game was that the people we were naming couldn’t be either on the facebook or mySpace. They had to be totally random people that we have no form of communication with what so ever.

We had only been playing this game for a minute or two when we met up with Kati before going out with some of our friends. It didn’t take long before Kati and everyone else was in on the remembering random/obscure people action.

There’s nothing like it when someone says SoAndSo’s name and you’re knocked for a loop because you forgot that person was even alive.

I realize that this game sounds kind of snoody, but give it a try you’ll be amazed at how fun it actually is. Also its kind of weird to know that you’re probably on quite a few random/obscure people lists.

UPDATE: Looking in your yearbook is also against the rules. These people can only be those that you remember off the top of your head.

As troubling as this is, I thought it would be best if I just put it out there and let everyone know.

My cat has an eating disorder.

That’s right. It seems that she has developed a case of bulimia. Over the past week she has been gobbling down her food and then throwing up all over the place. Just last she threw up all over my desk and then again on the carpet when she jumped down. The amount of vomit that my cat is producing is not normal. She is bingeing to the extreme and I am very worried.

I feel like such a terrible parent. How did my daughter get so self coconscious about her weight? I know that Heather and I joked about her getting big, but I didn’t know it would go this far. I need to get her help.

I got bored today in class and I doodled this. I thought it was funny and I had access to a scanner, so I thought “why not post it”.

As I sit here watching the Olympics and Heather works on a paper for school, let me give you the low down on this Wonderful Holiday known as Valentines Day.

Friday I called the floral department of Publix and went ahead and ordered some flowers for Heather. Publix has always had great flowers and I thought it would be nice if I could actually surprise her for once and get them a few days early.

I told them how much I wanted to spend and that I would pick them up on Saturday night. Also I asked them that instead of roses I would like a bouquet of irises and other purple and yellow flowers (these are Heather’s favorites). Apparently someone from the produce department took my order and didn’t bother to take my number. This would have been a nice piece of information to get because Pubix didn’t have irises and they had no way of getting a hold of me to let me know this. I found out late Saturday night when I went to pick them up. Long story short, they made me a different bouquet of flowers and I had to go back and pick them up on Sunday. They also gave me $5 off to compensate for the produce guys mistake. Not the best compensation but everything’s not always the way you want it to be.

On a different note but still on the same topic, I’m really not a big fan of Valentines Day. It’s a silly holiday in which I have to spend a lot of money. Sure it’s nice to spend time with my girlfriend and I don’t mind buying her a card and something cute, but I hate that it’s supposed to be this huge romantic day for lovers. It’s Tuesday. I don’t feel romantic. I had to go to school all day and I have a test on Thursday that I need to study for. It would be better if it were always on the second Saturday of February instead of the 14th.

I guess I’m just rambling because I’ve had a busy day, I’m tired, my head hurts, and I don’t feel romantic.

Conversation overheard at Havertys:

Customer: “Me and my husband have been together now for over 30 years.”
Salesperson: “Wow that’s fantastic! Congratulations.”
Customer: “Yeah, we were pretty young when we met. I was actually jailbait when he tainted me forever.”

When I overheard this conversation, I was in the middle of processing this customer’s order. It made me turn a little red as I tried hard to hold in my laughter when I asked her to sign for her credit card. Some things shouldn’t be brought up in conversation while buying furniture. The age at which you lost your virginity being one of them.

Me Watching The SuperBowl
Note: I put my hands on my head like that when I’m tired