Houseguests
Zai’s cousin Jessica and her friend Eric came to visit this weekend. So I had the opportunity of sharing our one-bedroom apartment with two additional people.
It wasn’t as bad as I thought it may have been. Jessica bunked with Zai in the bedroom (which is smack in the middle of the apartment), Eric and I camped out in the living room. Oddly enough, I slept rather well on the couch.
We took them to the Melting Pot and had one of the most expensive dinners ever, I was anxious the whole night, trying to encourage Zai to not order that second pot of cheese (which is like… $50), mentally rebalancing the budget and envisioning eating nothing but ramen for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for the next month, until Zai tells me her mother is picking up the tab. That’s nice of her mother, though I feel that perhaps we should have been a tad more conservative with the check knowing that someone else was footing the bill.
This dinner with Jess went a lot better than the first time I met her, I think we both made the effort to be friendly, and I think we’re both much better off for it, I ended up enjoying her company.
This Eric fellow is a story in and of himself.
Without getting into the specifics, Eric likes Jessica. Jessica, on the other hand, does not like Eric, but she keeps him around. Meanwhile, she’s seeing someone who is… less than gentlemanly.
In fact, he happens to be overbearing, forceful, and downright unaware of the concept of civility. In short, he’s a complete a-hole.
I’m not a big fan of this type of behavior. She may not mean to, but she’s leading the boy on. Maybe it’ll work out for the best for Eric, but I have my doubts. I’ve been in Eric’s position a few times (which I’ll be sure to cover more on later), and have had many friends in this situation. It does not usually end up well for the nice guy. The forceful guy (however a-holish) generally succeeds in taking what he wants.
Zai and I have had many chances to sit down with Eric, due to the A-Hole calling Jess repeatedly and keeping her out in the hallway talking to him for periods of hours at a time. He likes her, and the whole situation frustrates and infuriates him. Something tells me that he’ll end up getting hurt in all this, one way or another.
Other than that, its been pleasant. They went to the Field Museum of Natural History yesterday. I would have gone with, but I wasn’t feeling too great. Besides, it was nice to just get some quiet time alone, get a bit of video games and a few pages of the new Harry Potter book in.
Still playing Romancing Saga. It is not the easiest game I’ve played…
Zel-kun out.