After
Freedom Academy I was spending a fair amount of time traveling the
hour and a bit north to take my girlfriend out on a date. She was
returning the favor and coming down for a couple of dates and a
dance. It was clear that it was not sustainable but it was a lot of
fun. I went up there late one evening to go to a party with her after
I had worked all day with my dad and then went climbing. It had
already been a very full day and I should have gone to bed but any
hint of a possibility that I might get some loving was too much to
pass up. I showered up and tried to pop an unsightly zit on my chin,
that went badly. It was a gooey swelled mess but instead of taking
this as a further sign I should just call it a night I cut out a tiny
circle of band-aid and covered it up. It looked like I covered a zit
with a band-aid but that was better then that festering monstrosity
that was the alternative. I drove up there already starting to fall
asleep and when I got to the party I was really tired. I hung out,
uncharacteristicly quite and calm and ran into the couple of kids I
knew from UASC and Freedom Academy and then I went out onto the porch
with my girlfriend and fell asleep while I was cuddling her on the
love seat swing. She was trying to wake me up because it was only
about 11 and there was plenty of party left but I was unconscious
with fatigue. She went inside at one point and got some piña
colada mush in a little can and she tried to feed me some. It was one
of the most miserable feelings of my life being kept out of deep
sleep into a half conscious world filled with force fed piña
colada. I was trying to tell her to stop but I was too out of it so I
had to eat and was so scared that I formed an aversion to the flavor
of piña colada that made it impossible for me to enjoy it at all
for ten years. Ghastly. I slept the night out on the porch and in the morning
I had to head off before almost anyone was up so I woke my
girlfriend, kissed her and she walked me out to my truck for one more
hug, one more kiss and a farewell.
