amusing 24 hours

I locked myself out of my room again. It was terrific; I stepped out of my bedroom for a shower, and pulled the door shut behind me. I hadn't realised the lock was on. I got out of the shower and found that everything - phone, keys, clothes - was locked in my room. My roommate has moved out, too. Thankfully I was able to borrow one of the girls' phones and call the landlord... who wasn't home. So I got to spend three hours watching the hockey game in a towel. Actually that's pretty much what my evening was going to be anyway.

Well no, that's a lie. During the 3.5 hour process of getting from the airport to my apartment last night, I apparently befriended some dude who I helped to get from the airport to centre street since he had no idea how to do it with the Calgary Transit. He called this afternoon inviting me over to watch tv and eat pizza, etc. I was thinking of having an "accident" in the shower and breaking an arm or something to get out of it, but watching the game in a towel has been far less painful.

The city was really weird last night. Here's a rundown of 9 pm to 12:30 am in Calgary, grum's perspective:

9:00 - stepped into baggage claim area at Calgary Intl., called home to inform Mum.
9:15 - got my one checked suitcase (heavy) and together with my bookbag (rather heavy) and carry-on case (very heavy), headed for the bus stop.
9:20 - Arrived at bus stop, found confused looking guy scrutinizing illegible bus chart.
9:45 - Bus arrived, driver told everyone the LRT system is in disarray.
10:20 - Bus reached Whitehorn c-train station.
10:40 - Train arrived and waited ~5 min before getting going.
10:50 - Train stopped after just two stations and we had to switch over to a train on the other side of the track.
11:10 - Got to stampede station and train stopped. Me and my new best friend ever started walking west towards centre street, and parted ways there.
11:20 - I continued with my unwheeled heavy, rather heavy, and very heavy articles for 6.5 long, sweaty, shoulder-killing blocks, unaware of the free buses linking the two ends of downtown in the stead of the trains. During this trek I observed three different SUV-style limos (hummer, excursion, and escalade based), and several huge swarms of crotch-rocket motorcycle gangs (or possibly the same one several times).
11:45 - I then saw the title on a bus: "free 7th ave shuttle" and hopped on.
11:46 - A highly ironic 100 m later the bus dropped me at the 7th street c-train station. I got on a waiting train bound for the northwest.
12:00 - Train left the station.
12:20 - Train got to Brentwood station (uninteruppted service for northwest I guess).
12:30 - I got home, with no strength left in my arms (barely able to form fists) and serious blisters.

I'm fine today except for horribly pulled muscles between the shoulders and neck. Plus my arm muscles are comically huge.

I'm not entirely sure why I'm so opposed to hanging out with this dude from yesterday... but I am fairly sure why. I have lots of male friends here, but almost no female friends, and frankly I'm getting annoyed with this situation. Even if things never go anywhere, flirting and joking around is fun. Anyway I don't feel I need any more male friends. Moreover, this guy is nothing like me. He works at telus selling phones, and has no plans to change that, ever. The guy has no aspirations, except buying a Civic in Manitoba for $1400 and selling it to "rich idiots" here for $4000. Wow it's not often I'm such a fuckin snob.

I figure if I can avoid the guy for the next ten days our friendship will wane over the summer. Unless "being apart makes the heart grow fonder" applies to male friendships, in which case I'll have to resort to the blessed relief afforded by the field shotgun.

This was just on the tv 2 seconds ago: Ed the Sock is addressing a guy who's just been given the underwear of three pornstars.
Ed: "So I see you've been given three thongs there."
Guy: "Can I sell them on e-bay?"
Ed: "No, I want to use them to make soup."

Another post tomorrow... selected photos from last Friday at Snooty's, with my fiancé. Cheers all.