What's the theme?

Every now and the you hear some news that just knocks the living shit out of you and leaves you standing there, flabbergasted. The problem with this is, nine times out of ten, that news is entirely horrible: a grandparent dying, planes veering into buildings, a mate drunkenly taking a swing at someone and then being taken to pieces. You function on automatic while it sinks in; speak and react and smile and laugh, all while your brain runs at a million miles an hour connecting the dots and filtering information into a “to digest later” box somewhere near the medulla oblongata. That’s nine times out of ten.

The other ten percent you spin the wheel and end up on entirely the opposite side. This time you’re gasping and looking for something to say because the news is flat-out fucking awesome.

Nick gave me a bell last week and said he wanted to talk about the annual Gishi party he’s hooked up the past couple of years (like when we got dressed up as movie characters, or ran around as samurai). He’d been being very secretive about the whole deal this year, maintaining that it would be worth the wait. All we knew was that the party would start somewhere than wasn’t Ako and then move back there at the end of the night. Turns out the theme this year is “Wedding Party.”

Yeah, Nick “Pinky Pig” John and Kanako “Yellow Monkey” Hayakawa are tying the knot, filling in the forms and then breaking out of the land of the rising sun. How good is it when two people just fit together so well that it’s hard to think of one without thinking of the other. How much better is it when it works out for them: they get together, they live together, they live together. When you look at them as a couple and go, “hey, that’s how this whole relationship deal is meant to work out.”

Congrats guys, December is going to be a blast.

Posted in General on Monday October 17, 2005.