{"id":704,"date":"2004-07-12T00:24:32","date_gmt":"2004-07-12T00:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m3ntalcontraband.com\/?p=704"},"modified":"2020-11-07T22:23:30","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T03:23:30","slug":"i_am_hopeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/?p=704","title":{"rendered":"i am hopeless"},"content":{"rendered":"

i think i should preface this entry with a statement. i am a dumbass. i am infinitely oblivious and am in serious need of a refresher course in \u201cyou fucking idiot, shes flirting with you.<\/i>\u201d right then, rewind back to friday. what did i do friday? oh right, miho\u2019s live set. me, marisol, kev, and betty met up to check out miho (ex-cibo matto<\/i>) at tonic<\/i>. a country blues band came on first at 9, and miho came on at 10ish. the set was pretty coo\u2026very chill, but my dinky digital canon couldnt get a single decent shot of the band\u2026grr. stupid zoom. bettys bro met us up afterwards and we ended the nite at verlaine<\/i> with drinky drinks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SATURDAY<\/b>
fish was coming off the injured list, so we chose a relatively calm ride for satty. we made our way out to the delaware river for some easy trails, starting in lambertville. the trails along the delaware river ride along old canals and train tracks on both sides of the river. so we took the trails northward alongside the old canals\u2026easy and scenic. three bridges and eight miles north we crossed over to pennsylvania at bulls island and then took the trails south along the penn side canals. the penn side was nicely demarcated with red clay dust along the trails that clinged to everything, unlike the gray shale of the jersey side. super. another eight miles south, we hit new hope, the town across the river from lambertville. after a relaxing pitstop at the local starbucks<\/i> (there really is one everywhere) we continued south another seven miles, crossed back to jersey, and made our way back north to lambertville. thirty miles\u2026whew. it was running a bit late, so we caught a quick din at this (ridiculously nice) local restaurant\u2026the landing<\/i>\u2026and then headed out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DUMBASS<\/b>
we decided to grab coffee and chess at our summit starbucks<\/i>. fish was in the starbucks<\/i> grabbing our drinks and i was sitting outside setting up the chessboard when i notice a really cute girl drinking inside with some people. i glance up again a few minutes later and all of a sudden shes outside standing next to me. she comments on the chessboard and asks if i was good at chess. i reply that i was so-so, so she goes, \u201coh, im reeeeeally good at chess.<\/i>\u201d i go, \u201creally? thats coo. so, doooo\u2026you wanna play?<\/i>\u201d she goes, \u201csure!<\/i>\u201d and hops onto the chair across from me. she takes white, and a few minutes later her kings dead. super. i swear i thought she was for real, and i didnt mean to lay the chess smackdown so harshly. and by the way, im playing this straight and absolutely nothings registering in my mind\u2026in case you were wondering. regardless, the naivety continues when i go ahead and play another game with fish as the girl chats with her friends one table over. my mind is still running with the lights out even as she occasionally tosses over a wave. ok, i just have to stop this recap here\u2026its embarassing. ill just say that things didnt start registering til i was halfway back to manhattan. did i mention she looked like natalie portman? somebody please kick me in the balls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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i think i should preface this entry with a statement. i am a dumbass. i am infinitely oblivious and am in serious need of a refresher course in \u201cyou fucking idiot, shes flirting with you.\u201d right then, rewind back to friday. what did i do friday? oh right, miho\u2019s live set. me, marisol, kev, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive-favorites","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8157,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions\/8157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}