Love Me Like A Ball And Chain is a swing song, and a good one at that. I've spent the last day hanging out with Merlin, with no objections - Merlin is an awesome friend. He's always polite, good mannered, and makes ridiculously funny jokes at good times. My parents like him too, so he must be a good guy! Heheh. Anyway, I have to tell everyone what exactly happened because Merlin and I had a lot of fun.

First, he came over around 4:45 in the afternoon. I had just gotten back from track practice, where I had pushed myself running the Hidden Lake course and finished before the coach had expected me to. By quite a bit too. He had predicted I'd finish in above 30 minutes and I finished in 29:30. It's all about how much a person is willing to push themselves to improve.

After my work, we had a cool dinner, prepared by my Mom, then took off for swing dancing. We got there just in time for the lesson. I've decided I'm no longer going to pay for the lessons, but rather just go and watch them. I can learn by looking just as I can by physically doing the action, so I might as well save $3.00 and not repeat moves that I already understand. However, I do plan on attending and paying for basic and intermediate Lindy Hop lessons starting in May. Merlin seemed to have a really good time. But besides all that . . . the night of dancing was more interesting than usual. First of all, I miss all my friends at Analy, so if I see my friend Ana at the next Track meet I plan on asking her if she could tell her swing friends to come to next Friday's dance party and have fun. I learned two pretty cool new moves, one of which a follow up to a move I already knew. I danced with a fair amount of good looking girls - surprisingly enough a lot of people from Santa Rosa High came very dressed up. There were a lot of good follows there.

Mid-way through the night, I was feeling disappointed because I saw neither Amanda nor Liz there, and Amanda said she might come, and I was hoping that she'd take Liz because I was looking forward to seeing her. Surprisingly, when I saw Liz there was really nothing romantic at all. It's as though she's confused, nervous, or just forgot that we've talked on the phone for the last few nights until it was late. I'm glad I'm not attached, because if I was I probably would have been hurt. We did talk to each other though, and definitely flirted a little. It seemed like she was either tired or having a bad night though, and the mood seemed a bit contageous.

Halfway through the night of dancing, Dan Halverson and Kendra, Dan's childhood friend and what I think is his cousin, offered to take me to Carro's to go get some ice cream. I invited some others, and we all went off and had a ton of fun eating ice cream, laughing, and making jokes. It was awesome, and since I've never gone out during swing dancing per se before, it was really cool. Dan ended up giving Merlin and I a ride home, which was totally cool because we got to stay an hour later than before, and actually got to stay til the last song of the night.

Even though Liz wasn't quite as flirty as I had wanted her to be, I had a great time talking to Kendra on a friendly level.

There are so many things in the night of dancing itself that it's hard to explain everything. I'll explain the details I remember vividly.

I remember having a great time meeting new people - a girl with hair in a pony tail who said she didn't know how to do any dancing but line dancing, and who was dancing very well by the end of the night.

Kendra smiling, and her and Dan saying that guys have been hitting on Kendra all night. Us joking about it . . .

Liz, Amanda, and Nick Wheeler showing up together.

Going outside, getting ready to go to the restaurant, and being forced to make the decision whether to go in Liz's car or Kendra's, and having to make that decision again on the way back.

Dancing with Liz for the last three songs, but not dancing at all with her before that.

The way we said good bye . . .

It's hard to explain, because I'm still totally happy, but at the same time I feel odd because I don't know what I feel. I guess that's the way human feeling works - if you understand it too well it changes just to leave you confused about yourself. Makes sense to me.

Merlin and I got back past 12:00, and played video games together until around 1:30, when we went to bed.

We woke up around 10:00, and my mom fixed us French Toast. We played video games, then went outside and played basketball til nearly the end of a 20 track CD. We played "HORSE", and then "BOB IS THE WINNER", which was a verison of horse that was longer. The title was his choice. Good ol' Mer. We went on a run after playing basketball. I think I did pretty well. I can feel myself getting into shape - I sweat less, my heart beats slower but the blood pumps faster. It's amazing, and I love it. We hung around, listened to music, I showed him a few different dance moves, and we talked and such for awhile longer, then my Mom and I drove him to the bottom of his hill in Rio Nido. I had a great time hanging out with him, and like I've said before, he is probably one of my better friends, and is probably one of the most reliable.

I checked out the Psychology classes at the J.C. I'd take one if they weren't four day a week classes. I'm still considering doing it, but at the same time I don't want to load myself down over the summer: I'm already considering Jujitsu, and I'm positive I'm doing three different types of ballroom dancing, which means I'll be a busy boy, know what I mean?

Oh yeah, Merlin and I also watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I just remembered.

I think I'm about done with writing for right now. My friends are asking me to go play Starcraft with them, and I'm tired from all the running and dancing. I'm curious as to if Liz will call or not tonight - either way I'm having a game night with my parents, Jon, and Sherri. Game nights are fun! Risk! Monopoly! Clue! Go, Go, Go!

Take care my friends!

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