The Beginnings - Part 158: "YOU KEPT ME UP ALL NIGHT"

"Who knows what will happen this weekend, or this week.   I’ll keep you posted…otherwise nothing much.   I’ve been going out with a mad boy who tried to kill me last Friday.  He’s very cute and I’m sure it’d be a kick, but I think I’ll take a rain check on the death scene.”
-Edmund White in a letter to Ann and Alfred Corn

 The Beginnings – Part 158:  “YOU KEPT ME UP ALL NIGHT”

December 8, 1983. 

Salima looked dynamite today.   I can’t wait until our lunch outing.  I think I will surprise her and dress-up extra nice.  I liked the way Salima flaunted her rear end at me today.   Did she do it on-purpose?

Barbara Reynolds and her beau, Robert, gave me a ride to my parking lot after work. 

Nici came over tonight while I was watching THE EDGE OF NIGHT.

Nici said, “My landlord must have gone into my house while I was at work because the upper lock was locked and I don’t have that key!”
“I don’t think he’s allowed to do that.  Maybe he wanted to smell your panties.”
She smirked and said, "You never know!"
She continued with her flirtatious ways.  Her attempts at a hopeful seduction with me was evident.   I think it will happen but I just didn’t want to be predictable…just yet.  Ha-ha.  We all play games.

I went to the ACUPULCO Restaurant in Alameda to eat.   I saw Elisa there.   We had a nice chat.  I made tentative plans with her for this weekend.  She may stop by at my place with her new blue-eyed daughter, Stephanie.   The strange thing about Elisa is that she fits the out-of-sight, out-of-mind concept.   When I don’t see her she seems to block me out of her mind.   It’s only when she does see me that she remembers me.   Perhaps it’s just my own feeling.   Who knows?
Elisa looked very fat.   She was too, too big; however, she did just have a baby.   After seeing her I came home to exercise.   As I was exercising my phone rang.   It was Alexis Budabin!  We made a tentative date for tomorrow night.  I also spoke to one of her chums that lives in the Hotel named Randy.   Randy is twenty years old.  He is a Gemini (like me), born on May 22^nd.  He seemed very nice.

Bill Helbush also called me.                                                                                                                                     "I felt so tired today,” Bill said.  “You kept me up all night.”                                                                                I laughed, “What a joker!   I’m glad you thought to call me.  Thanks.”

It was funny because I had just expressed the same ‘Thanks’ for calling me line to Alexis.

Alexis had said, “I’m pissed at my roommate because she never gave me the message that you called.”
This alerted me that she may actually be interested in me…after all.

Well, enough is enough.   In summarizing the events of the last few days I must write now that I actually made tentative Saturday night plans for a flick at home (on the VCR) with Tammy Duhr.   I just don’t feel like driving to Hayward to pick her up.   Maybe ‘in the end’ it will be worth it to hear her laugh.

I need to give my car a tune-up this weekend.  My vehicle registration fee was two-hundred and sixty two dollars.   What a rip-off!  I hate those surprise billings that one doesn’t expect to receive.   I hate it.

“If you can make a woman laugh, you’ll be all right,” his father had told him.
-Edward Rutherford, LONDON, the novel