Day 81 – At Sea

Today was a no class day. But didn’t have time to sleep in, as my SeaTV group was shooting a segment at 10:00 am. The premise behind the segment was explaining why there are lumberjacks on the ship (our team name is the Sassy Lumberjack Club). Since the voyage’s theme is sustainability, we decided to be environmental lumberjacks who protected the trees. It was some great stuff. I got to yell at the administration and had a shot making out with a tree.

After shooting the segment, I went to lunch. And it was Taco Day! I ate so much food. I had at least 10 tacos. And a taco salad. I must have eaten a pound and a half of ground beef alone. Fantastic. Though, in hindsight, kind of disgusting.

After lunch I left a note on Amy’s door asking if she wanted to watch a movie that night. Like the last note, this had “yes,” “no,” and “maybe” boxes. Next to the “yes” box was a smiley face; next to the “no” box was a frowny face; and next to the “maybe” box was a neutral face saying “I don’t know what to feel.”

Back at the room, I watched an episode of In Treatment before spending a couple hours writing in my journal.

Around 3:30, I got together with Tolan and Derek to write a song together. We decided to make it a story about the ol’ Wild West. I would be the main character, and Tolan and Derek would voice the various characters I ran into. It was great fun adding Derek to the equation. We thought of some hilarious stuff together. And Derek has a great voice (he can play guitar, too, but we decided to stick with one guitar), so it gave us more musical options.

Shortly before dinner Derek had to run off to a meeting, so Tolan and I spent a few minutes working on our rap. Tolan had written some hilarious sex/penis lines. He is rapidly improving at this musical comedy stuff. For our first few songs I did most of the lyrical writing, but he is getting sharper and sharper. The rhymes he wrote were hysterical.

When I came back to the room I saw Amy had returned my note. No surprise, she said yes. You see, dear readers, I’m far too handsome to resist. She said she’d be over at 8:30.

So I went to dinner feeling pretty, pretty, pretty good about myself. I got dinner with Nick and our neighbors Blake, Alan, and Mark. Earl also came. Dinner was great; hysterical conversation. I love our neighbors.

After dinner I went to a meeting about how to carry on with spiritual dance at our home institutions. Unfortunately, I felt like it was a bit of a waste of time. We didn’t really get much information; Jenny just kinda gave us a vote of confidence.

After the meeting I went back to the room to clean up for my movie date with Amy. Meaning I brushed my teeth and put on deodorant. When she came over I had her pick a movie from my repertoire, and she picked the Big Lebowski. She had never seen it before, so I kinda pushed her in that direction.

Anyway, the Big Lebowski is an amazing movie. Too good, in fact, to make a move. I was engrossed almost immediately.

But I did forget how long it is. Two hours. So it ended around 10:40, meaning Nick would be back in twenty minutes or so. Knowing I had little time to work with, I put on some music and said “can I kiss you? On the lips?” I really don’t know why I’m so awkward with women. But she laughed and said yes, so we did that until Nick came back.

When Nick came back she stayed and hung out for maybe half an hour. She’s actually really cool. I mean I was sort of friends with her beforehand, so I knew she was cool. But I was unaware as to just exactly how cool she is. She’s pretty damn cool. And she has a great sense of humor (read: thinks I’m hilarious). I went to bed shortly after she took off, but I vowed to try to stay with her for the remainder of the voyage.