This is the story of how i got my favorite nickname and of the many possible reasons why i just can't say goodbye.
i realized that what they say is true... i hate crowds. i hate parties. i hate going to crowded bars with large groups of people. and i thought that i loved doing these things. but then i realized, i have never liked these things.
it all started at an 80's party at JP's house. the year was... ummm... 2001 maybe... i don't know, but whatever, that's not really all that important. ok, so lisa, kristen, shelby and i went all out! we had really awesome outfits on. lisa's parents have the picture of us in their living room, and i look at it all the time, but i can't remember who was wearing just what. i know there was a shit ton of leather and lace, spandex and bangles, hairspray and lipstick. i was going for punk rocker. i had made my shirt, The Dammed is what i stenciled onto the front, and New Rose on the back because it was my favorite song. i even bought a leather jacket that i jazzed up with studs and patches. i was so stoked about this party!
so we get there and everyone is equally stoked. the party rages on and i realize, after being there for a few hours, that i hated this. i hate that awkward situation when your just standing around and no one is really talking to you and i wasn't just about to try and change that because i really didn't want to talk to anyone anyways. so i started to plan my escape. i wasn't going to just walk out the door, or tell everyone goodbye... that would be way to easy. so i found an unoccupied room - the laundry room- and i pried open a small window and slithered out. at this point, i realize that i'm fucked. i made it out of the house, sure, but i was a minor and minors have curfews and i had to walk home. but i wasn't just about to walk home because i looked like heroin addict/hooker and my house was very far away. so i started walking to lisa's parents house - which is where i was supposed to be staying anyways - and i remember seeing a cop pass me on the road as i was walking down Galveston. nothing happened, i just remember being so fucking scared out of my mind that i was going to get into trouble. i got to lisa's, got into bed, and that was that.
so this became my habit for the rest of my life. and i believe it was that night in which i acquired the nickname "Houdini"
i started slipping out of windows - i decided that since it worked once, i should just do it all the time - at every house party i went to. i never said goodbye, i never even let anyone know that i was unhappy about being there. i would just run anyway, only to spend the rest of my night walking around in the dark, by myself, and this was way better than any party.
10 years later, i do the same thing. only now, i sort of let people know that i'm unhappy before i just disappear. urg, and i don't even want to tell people that much, but sometimes people get scared when someone disappears and they will do weird things, like actually look for you, or call the cops.
so last night. last night. urg. it was a fine night, filled with fine people and fine wine and whatever else. it was just another normal night with my lady friends. at frist, i was super bummed that elise was just watching a movie on her couch. jelousy, i guess. i am always so jelouse. urg. its just that, i wanted to be doing that at my house. i wanted to rent a movie and sit on my couch and eat cheese and drink wine and cry my little peepers out over some stupid julia roberts movie about men and why they suck so much and about how women just suck as much but in a completly different way, but instead i was sitting on elise's couch, watching a movie that i have seen probably 5 times. but then i realized that i actually have never seen the ending of this movie, so i started to get REALLY into it. i can't belive i did not eat the faces off of the two girls sitting next to me, chatting their brains out, like normal friends do when they hang out. wow, i mean, really. i think i am growing up a little bit here because my patience with them was unheard of. i think i asked her to turn it up at one point when it was almost over and i realized that this was the part i had never seen, and elise had JUST turned it down!
wow i just rambled... back to the story....
so the movie ends, i read them the story of my life, written by someone eles, and then we laugh and drink and everyone is ready to go. dane got home, kamron was ready. word up, its power boom time and we are ready to go.
so the bar... its a bar. there no real hotties lurking around to speak of, so i'm pretty much over it at this point. whatever, i'm a good sport for a while. but then i find myself sitting there, digging a very long, twisted, dark tunnel into my heart of my deep limbic system (that's the part of your brain where you store highly charged emotional memories, for all of you dumbos out there) and i realize that this mind-mine-mission i'm on behind my face is, in fact, showing up ON my face. so i have some explaining to do to dane as i frantically collect up all of my shit and nervously pay for the drink i had. basically, i tell him that i need to go hide from everyone for a while. i think i said something like, "ya, i'm feeling emotionally ill and i need to take a break for a minute" and then i got up and ran out the door, in a highly dramatic fashion, and i run. full on sprint, into the wrong direction. i immediately realize this, but i can't turn around because someone might have seen me leave, and i really didn't want to talk to anyone about this, i mean, i broke out into a sprint for that very reason. so i ran around the block and down the street to the bus stop. oh, and i turned my phone off as i was rounding the first corner, this way no one could ever know what the fuck just happened.
i left my phone off until about 2 o'clock today.
i just can't handle that much noise. i have to yell and i lose my voice and i can't hear what anyone is saying. and i don't really give a fuck what anyone is really saying, because i've already heard it because i was probably there or someone else already told me. i would rather just sit in my house and do this. fuck. i would rather make a giant slide and fill a pool full of warm jello and do all the many weird and sticky things that you could do with those two things. it seems like there would be endless possibility's with that.
okay so the story ends like this... i don't like crowds all that much, which scares me because that sounds like a sign of adulthood. i don't like saying goodbye. i don't like endings. see... its true. i can't even end this stupid story properly.