I was totally surprised.
And I was like remember my friend, Carrie, she came to see me a few times in the hospital. And he smiled (what a great smile he has!), and he was like, sure. And that was like Carrie’s big opportunity (yeah, right) but she didn’t say anything. I swear I saw her turning red. Well, there was this little awkward silence, and I jumped in and said we actually stopped by to see if Josh was in. And he was like, so you took my advice. And I was like, huh? And he told his friend how we’d been talking about how Josh and his friends were geeky but that he said Josh and his friends would be rich studs in like ten years and how we should be nice to them.
And his friend laughed. He was like geeks rule the world, especially around here. And then Carrie said Josh had this cool computer program he was working on, like a social logical experiment. The funny thing was she didn’t say sociological (I looked it up in the dictionary), she actually said “social logical,” which it kind of is in a way, but Dr. Cogan was like social logical, that sounds very scientific. And Carrie realized what she’d said and got all embarrassed.
So that was our big encounter. Afterward, we went over to Josh’s and checked if he was home (he wasn’t, which was good, because Carrie was in a bad mood and she would have been mean). We had to go straight to the mall, where Carrie got this new pair of jeans (I swear her butt’s getting bigger!).
Feb. 10
Another lame Saturday night. Just got back from The Creamery, which is like this faux diner that’s been around forever. I swear sometimes I’d just rather sit home and watch a DVD (I just got two new movies—Wedding Crashers and Election. I could watch both of them like once a month, no problem). It’s like the same thing every weekend. Carrie heard a rumor there was a party up in the hills, in Portola Valley, but she didn’t have an exact address, and we spent like half an hour trying to find it. It’s dark as hell up there, too. There are no streetlights. And by the time we got there we had like fifteen minutes before the cops came. Usually, parties at houses in the hills take longer to break up, but it was just our luck that it didn’t. So our next choice was either downtown Palo Alto or Café Barrone. I would have preferred going to Barrone and just getting some coffee, but there’s this guy Carrie kind of likes that was going to The Creamery, so we went there instead. The thing about the Creamery is all the lame younger guys are there early, but the cooler people show up later since it’s like the last stop. But by that time we have to leave, so what’s the point? It’s OK, I guess, it’s not like the diner in Diner (I love that movie), even though it sort of tries to be.
Supposedly, in a couple weeks we’re going to a Stanford party. Carrie’s brother is going to take us, which should be pretty cool. Carrie’s convinced she’s going to date a college guy. Someone who can take her out to dinner, she says. I get the feeling she’s losing interest in Dr. Cogan, which I knew she would. Lately, all she’s been talking about is Gap guy. That’s this Gap salesdude at the mall who goes to junior college. I do admit he’s pretty cute and Carrie claims she’s going to set up a double date for us, though I told her I’m not saying yes until I see the other guy.
On the way back from The Creamery, we were talking about who we’d lose it with, like what our ideal scenario would be. And I was like would you consider losing it with Gap guy? And Carrie was like it depended, she might. She wants to lose it with an experienced guy. And I was like I’d rather lose it with a guy who was losing it with me, too. She was like, yeah, that might be OK, but she thought it would be better to do it with someone who knew what he was doing. It could really suck if he didn’t know what he was doing. And if it really sucked it might give you a bad view of sex