we're together, but it ain't like that -jb

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the freakin’ weekend kicked off with me dropping a sick suzie off at cianna's work so they could leave from there to go to atl with lori. i cleaned my apt and fell asleep watching tv while waiting on my old roommate from tech, jb, to get here. he rode his sweet little triumph bike here from peoria, il to save money on gas.

i feel bad for my neighbors because we stayed up until 5 a.m. sharing songs we had written and just catching up. somewhere in there we got some waffle house, which he doesn't get the luxury of up in yankee land.

saturday morning we watched a little football then decided to go canoeing down the harpeth. we called it my scouting trip so that if i was to take a certain someone down it i could be a smooth operator.

(c) 2006 JB

we were anything but smooth on this trip. i decided it would be fun to take blue along. for the first half he was out of the boat more than he was in it.

(c) 2006 JB

he eventually stayed in the boat with a lot of convincing from my paddle blade. when we stopped for lunch on this little sand bar, he took advantage of the shallow water that other canoes were getting stuck in, and would jump in their boats. we couldn't get him to stay in ours, but he loved jumping in with other people. (fyi, if your dog weighs more than about 40 pounds, do not take him canoeing, because he will flip you.)

"we're together, but it ain't like that" (c) 2006 JB

after the canoe trip it was nap time before we headed to a sports bar to see the tech game. jason and i met up with erin and her boyfriend (yeah, that erin), and lindsey and some of her friends. it was funny seeing how much jason and erin have changed in the 4 or so years since we were all close. i ran into a distant cousin who i hadn't seen in like 15 years. by the power of facebook we still recognized each other.

tech lost in a tight game and so we headed to this place called the flying saucer. silly name, but very cool place. beer snob heaven. i tasted a lot and enjoyed the pretzel i ate. we finally got home around 2.

(c) 2006 JB

sunday was breakfast (at lunch time) at cracker barrel (another southern luxury) followed by a lot more guitar pickin' and singin' and a little bit of recording. you'll hear it on myspace or purevolume soon.

we went to this place called siverado last night. at first i was making fun of the place, but after a while it kinda grew on me and i had a lot of fun. it's this country line dancing bar, except there were all kinds and colors of people there. there were a few break dancing black guys, your cliche cowboys, and everything in between. i definitely didn't try any of the country dancing, but enjoyed myself when the booty shaking music of the past 10 years was played. erin came again as did lindsey's friends (including her boyfriend, logan). he's a ridiculously nice guy who also writes songs (imagine that) so we're gonna get together and play some time.

(C) 2006 JB

reactions from the weekend:

holy cow jason and erin have changed. i don't feel like i'm all that different, but they aren't the same. we all had so much fun hanging out again. when erin left last night she was like "this was good" and i had to agree. we've had so much time to grow and change and to get along again is awesome. she's such a sweet girl and her boyfriend patrick seems like a great guy. he went to lipscomb so he can't be too bad, right?

i can be social. i met so many people this weekend and really enjoyed it. i don't know what my deal is, but when i go into situations (including ones with a ton of potential to be awkward like the past two nights) i expect the worst. this weekend i just went into it to have fun, and that's what i got out of it.

i'm gonna head to work in a little bit and maybe figure out some way to not be so far behind. but then again, i'll always be behind.

happy labor day, r.i.p. steve irwin