Fred's blog: "Bored"

So yeah I'm sitting here at work with only a brief time left and well a few things are going through my mind, unfortunately my mind isn't sharing any of these thoughts with me so I'm really just a vegetable sitting very still. A few months ago I saw a movie called The Fountain and now I want to grow my hair out like the lead character in that film. The only problem I'm finding out so far is that growing hair is a very slow process. Why has today felt like the longest day in the world. No seriously I don't even remember noon, noon feels like it was sometime yesterday (maybe it was) yikes now I'm scared. So I met my first Mexican this past week and I found it completely odd that he would look at me funny. He was giving me this "I really thought I was the only Mexican on the face of the planet" kind of a look. Which I guess makes sense seeing as there aren't very many here in Washington, especially close to the Canadian border. Yesterday while working out I saw this one guy who had six big towels with him and at first I thought no way are those all his. They're probably for his grandkids or something who are swimming in the back. But nope they were all his and believe me he sweated enough to where he needed to use them all. And then I realized "oh no is that my future" I'm scared again. You know X-Ray vision sounds like a good idea but what if you couldn't control it or turn it off. Yeah think about that for a second.... My folks keep on bugging me when am I going to start to settle down. I'm only 24 and yet they ask me this very seriously. I guess it has to do with my cousins and junk, stupids are all married with kids and younger than I am. I mean don't get me wrong I love my family but if there's one thing I want to achieve in my life it's that I want to be the first person in my family to get married with kids not being the reason why. Last weekend a scary yet beautiful thing happen to me when I was out. I was shooting pool with some friends when some friends of theirs showed up. They were black and well I had no problem with that at all. After a while one of them said "so have y'all ever hung out with black people before or are we your first, is it what you expected" While people laughed at that I took the opportunity to tell a joke to follow his. I said "I had a black friend once (I then slowly and sadly looked down and with an even sadder tone of voice said) but I sold him" Yeah I could hear my hair and nails growing that's how quite it got. But then the silence was broken by one of the black guys as he laughed and said "now that was good". I thought how cool are these guys and how much better would the world be if we didn't all take ourselves to seriously. Anyway I thought that was a pretty cool thing that happened that night, well that and I actually won a game of pool. Which if you knew me, you'd think that would have to be at least the first sign of the apocalypse. Anywho I only have 6mins left of my shift so let me wrap things up here. Take it easy all...