i ain't slept this long since like a week before i left home to come here. i'd expected i was gonna get up at like 10, get some homework done, eat by like 12:30, come back, shower, bullshit around, get back to the work. but hell... it's time to eat now. & im still sittin here in my draws.
guess i was tireder than i thought. i *finally* got off the plantation this weekend & since this won't happen til the next full moon im sure, i feel compelled to give a detailed account of evrydamn thing that happened even tho it wasn't much.
yo..
i seen BROWN ppl, cat!!
real blk folk!!! it was so exciting.
i kicked it w/ candis all weekend. mrs. gully was w/ the husband.
this month is Roots & Heritage month, so there was some stuff happenin this weekend. there was a step show at dunbar community center down the street on friday, mostly high school kats, but a small grou of Alphas from UK were there too.
fuckasorority.
i wanna be in a fraternity, dammit. maybe i cld sue for like, gender discrimination to get them to lemme in or sum'n? *shrugs*
anyway, we go & watch the babies step. it was cute. then we went & ambled around kroger actin up & bein loud. went to Perkin's at like 12am & had the most orgasmic pancakes ever, 2econd to nate's pannacakes of course (<-- u owe me $5 for that compliment, too). came back, went to sleep.
got up early saturday mornin, even tho i was up til like 4... downloaded burned some music.
got the Chicago soundtrack. good shit if u like musicals. catherine zeta jones has a really nice voice.
finally got all of Eric Roberson's CD. REEEALLY nice voice.
got Erykah's new one. it's um.... not her best. actually the worst she's put out ever. that's not to say it's like, horrible or sumthin. it feels really rushed tho. not diggin it like usually.
aaaaaaaand the jewel of soulseek... *drumroll*
OWT
KAST!
dammit
fuggit erbody tha's been talkin shit. soon as i figure out what's goin on in my bank account i'ma go out & buy this joint. for me to actually wanna GIVE money for it when i technically don't have to.. yeah. it's dope.
oh, i got that new nappy roots' too. sounds a whole lot like they last album, which i guess ain't too bad a thang.. the last album was good, i thought, & this one is too. not mindblowin or groundbreakin, but good.
they need some variety tho. talkin bout the same stuff w/ the same sound. there's a lotta anti-war verse on it, tho, & that's good. other than outkast & mos & talib here & there, i haven't heard any other artists be so political in they music in a minute.
so. that's the music i 'borrowed' this weekend.
did laundry after that was done, got osme homework done. randomly bullshitted til around 7, 8pm when candis called. we was posed to go to the Heritage Classic football game, but she had a volleyball tournament & didn't get back til late. she just wanted to see the battle of the bands & that was at the end. wunna her friends was in the band & she wanted to see him play.
we get there just as the game is endin, right. but we ain't actually get inside because we were literally swarmed.. SWARMED... by a buncha half-drunk Ques. i mean really, it was ridiculous. they was all a lil too close for comfort, wantin to hug all on us, one of em just started smellin our necks (wtf?). candis was actin all giggly about it, but i was like...
dude...
can i help u find sumthin? can u gimmie like 5 ft of personal space?
i don't mind bein friendly but this was unwanted attention. & it ain't even like we was dressed provocatively or nuthin; we had on more clothes than any other female out that nite. alla this ain't to say im braggin or nuthin cause really, what's to brag about?
the moral of the story, friends, is that niggas will holla at any and evrything.
i saw Andrew out there, dude i used to go to high school with. i think he was gonna ask me to go to prom w/ him @ one time, but then he got a chick, for which i was kinda thankful for. he was drunk when i seen em (surprise). i saw him before he saw me & hadn't planned on sayin anything (shady, right? whatever.) but he ran up on me a lil later like i owed him money. i gave em a hug, said my 'how u been doin' & whatever. him:
'damn.'
what?
'oh! oh she speaks now!! yo dawg, she usedta didn't NEVER speak in school dawg, she was like this:' *makes a closed mouth sign w/ fingers*
lovey, jus cause i ain't talk to u in high school don't mean i didn't talk at all.
i seen mookie too... went to high school w/ him too, & he used to live across the street from my daddy. i was actually gonna speak to him but we never caught sight @ the same time, & i was not finna run off & leave giggly candis in the middle of all them wolves.
she got a number from one of them who invited us to their party later that nite.
yeah, right.
so we go in & yo..
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO many blk ppl. the actual battle of the bands sucked, but i had fun just takin in the blk folk. we're a beautiful bunch, im tellin u.
even the babies were in rare form that nite.
there was a young cat tryna sell t-shirts for $5 & lemme tell u.. dude was *workin* the crowd. i told him i didnt have any money. he ain't believe me so i emptied my pockets for him. $2. what can i get for $2, lil homie?
'for $2? $2, u can have my phone number for $2.'
ha!
'i mean im sayin i know im a lil young, you know but, that's okay!!'
how old are u?
'17.'
!!
'but i'll be 18 in a month!!'
how old u think i am?
'um..... 19?'
im 21, sir.
'yeah, but see it's gon come a day when u get older & u gon WANT a young man & u can already have one now!'
well when that day comes, i will personally seek u out, k?
'but u ain't gon know how to find me! u don't even know my name!'
if it's meant to be, then faith will lead me to u.
i told em that if i'd had the money i'da bought one just cause he was a nice young man. then i told him to stay in school & not to do drugs.
after that, one of the bands (the one that candis' friend was on) went to Golden Corral to eat, & he had us meet them there. we get there & got in free.. we wasn't gonna eat so we just walked on in unnoticed on some mission impossible shit.. & just sat & talked w/ her friend til it was time for them to go. he's a nice cat, but he reminds me of a dude i really, REALLY really despise. the way he speaks, his voice & the way he holds his mouth.. it actually made me kinda uncomfortable for a minute, but he seems to have a good heart & personality. i told candis she shld marry him. knowin her, she'll prolly end up talkin to the other asshole friend of hers that came down from OH. dude's an ass, i can tell already. he was drunk & kept grabbin @ her butt when we was @ the game. that seems to be the kind she goes for. *shrugs*
anyway
we kicked it w/ the band. it was kinda dope. band dude sare the nicest dudes ever. the football team tho... tha's another story. i didn't appreciate summa the looks & under-the-breath comments we got.
SO.
from Golden Corral we went to Rupp Arena, tryna go to some after party they was posed to have after the game.
why was it more ppl standin outside than it was inside. & it was only bout 20 ppl outside.
ppl wld go in & come out PISSED.
'i cain't believe i wated $20 on a VIP ticket for this shit!'
'don't even waste yall's money!!'
so yeah...
we didn't go in.
there was a party @ UK's student center, so we figured that mighta been where erbody who left was headin. actually tho, most of em just went to the parkin lot & sat on they cars, smokin & bein loud. it was mostly drunken dudes, so we figured we wasn't gon stay around too long.
so we get to the student center at like 1:45am when the party was comin to a close. we walked up to the door & seein ppl startin to come out, we turn around to leave.
'you so pretty. come here, pretty, what's your name?'
we turn around & it's a dude w/ dreads, yella, taller than us but not too tall, kinda chubby, talkin to candis. i was gonna keep goin, but she turns around & stops. his name was like, gillian, gilligan, sumthin like that. he had a lil friend w/ him (emphasis on little--he only had like half an inch on me), yella, dreads, skinny cat. while candis is talkin to gilligan, i introduce myself to the other cat cause us standin there watchin them talk wld look kinda herbish.
'hey, what's ur name?'
tracy. *shakes hand*
apparently i forgot to ask dude's name, cause really i wasn't too interested in casual convo. & outta nowhere he calls me Aaliyah.
me: ?
'aaliyah.'
me: ??
'aaaahleeyah.'
in my head-
is this dude really tryna say i look like aaliyah? cause ima need for him to get some better game. and plus, he's pronouncin 'aaliyah' wrong.
then it hits me. oooooooooooooohhhhhh... he's tellin me HIS name. duh.
alia (AAH-lee-ya) & gillian. from jersey, goin to school @ wilberforce university in xenia, which is where candis is from. so gillian & candis connected there. me & alia's just makin empty chitter chatter.
they was lookin for sum'n to get into that nite, cause naturally they were bored in ky w/ nuthin to do. i was like sorry... what'chu see is whatchu get. ain't nuthin to do here.
we were tired by the time we ran into them, so we wasn't tryna do nuthin w/ them that nite. alia had hinted a/b goin to chill at either me or candis' crib (no.) but candis hadda get up at like 7 & my dorm has a curfew that i played up to be more strict than it actually is.
before we parted he wanted my number so we cld help them find sum'n to do the next day.. i was gon give him my dorm number & like, give him directions to a restaurant or sum'n shld he call. i got lotsa homework to do today. but thankfully his pen didn't work & i ain't have one.. candis gave gilligan her dorm number & alia was like 'i'll just get ur number from her.' candis is gonna be out all day today tho.
so im wagerin that's the last we'll see or hear from alia or gilligan.
seen albert while we was out there. he gave us hugs, asked how we was doin & then told us to go home. lol.. good ol albert.
seen michelle, chick i went to high school with. she was kinda wunna the stuck-up ones i didn't care too much for; we rode the bus together cause she just lives around the corner from me, so i guess i got to know her pretty well. she just had wunna those nose-in-the-air attitudes, so i never jumped to kick it w/ her & her ppl.
she always says hi to me when i see her out tho. she was the only one aside from andrew that i saw that nite (& i saw a bunch) that spoke. guess maybe she ain't all that bad.
seen Kappa Chris too. i don't think he likes me too much anymore cause he didn't stop to speak like he used to.. heheheh..
aaaaand i seen kablasian Kappa Dwayne. that's when it was time to go. i didn't have the patience.
so then we went home. i dove straight in the bed, got on the horn & spent my last hrs of consciousness w/ a beautiful blk man. chocolate icin on a chocolate cake :o)
well friends,
that was my nite of a million blk ppl. hopefully the memories will last me here on the plantation til the next time i get to get away.
