Current mood:	annoyed
Current music:	That new Coldplay song with the cool beat

Joey and Adam have moved in, and I'm automatically so much more uncomfortable than I was just a couple of days ago.  I don't know what it is about me, but I over-analyze everything that other people do while they're in my presence.  I make note of weird habits, any inconsistencies, the way that they organize things, what they eat, how they eat, when they shower, etc.  And then my mind takes all of that information and uses it to tell me how weird they are because of how different they are from me.  It's really awful, but it's totally subconscious, and it just takes over.  I've been forced for years to figure out how I'm going to adjust my life based on how other people around me act, but I'm getting tired of that.  I guess that I'm just annoyed now.

But everybody pretty much keeps to themselves out of the three of us.  I am always in the mindset that there's really nothing to say to other people unless it's a bigger deal, so I have always kept to myself pretty well.  Joey just goes about his business (what he's actually DOING with his time, I have no idea), and Adam's usually on the internet.  We're all well-behaved.  There are just some things I've begun to notice that I think are interesting:

1. Joey slurps his food.  Sucks and slurps.  Noodles, soup, cereal - anything that isn't quite 100% solid.  Audibly.  And he has a tendency to chew with his mouth open sometimes.  It bothered me from the beginning last year, and now I pretty much need to go to a different room when he's eating just so I can focus on something else.  I'm convinced that it will drive me crazy by the end of my time here, however long that is.
2. Adam plays music, but really, only when we're not around.  Joey and I went to a sporting store yesterday to buy Joey some goggles, and when we came back, he was playing music.  He also will play when we're both on the 3rd floor and he's on the bottom floor.  So clearly, he needs space to be able to play music.  He also will play electric bass in his room with his amp on, which isn't a big deal.  Personally, I find it soothing a little bit.
3. Adam makes bad jokes.  TERRIBLE jokes.  Not disgusting or dirty or vile bad jokes, just...bad ones.  That nobody understands.  To try to get attention.  Ugh.
4. There is no easily-prepared food in my whole house, other than what I buy.  When Joey moved in, he threw away a lot of my easily-edible food to make room for all of his food.  And it all takes at least 30-60 minutes to prepare!  I'm a completely polar opposite.  I will enjoy cooking with my future wife, whoever she is, and I think I'm a good assistant in the kitchen.  But when I want food, I want food NOW.  Living at home in high school, there was ALWAYS snacky food or leftovers that I could just pick up and eat.  I don't even waste time with preheating things anymore.  I'll eat stuff cold, I don't care.  But here, there's nothing.  There's like, lentils and oatmeal in the cupboard, only insane organic foods that I would feel guilty eating because they bought it,  a ton of fruits and vegetables, and more frozen chicken, shrimp, and fish than we have room for in the freezer.  First off, how are they going to eat all of that stuff before it goes bad?  Our refrigerator is PACKED!  Secondly, if the refrigerator is PACKED with stuff that I would feel guilty eating (or don't want to take the time to prepare), then how do I even go shopping for the easy stuff?  There's no room for it.
5. Joey is OCD about a lot of stuff.  This just weirds me out.  He'll act fine about everything - the temperature in the air, the cleanliness of the house (and the kitchen in particular), and the organization of foods in the fridge.  But try doing something different - drop the air by one degree, rearrange the food in the kitchen, put something where it doesn't belong - and I swear to God, one second later, it will be back the way he wants it.  He is controlled by his mom, and the way she does things.  It's unbelievable.  So basically, nobody else can live the way they want to in the house because it's Joey's house.

Granted, they do good things.  Joey's the only one of us who will deep-clean regularly (and as far as I know, he hasn't gotten mad at me yet for not helping him).  I usually just stay out of his way because things will be done the way he wants them done, or not at all.  I know that Adam generally likes to stay clean, but the kid is a rabbit.  In 2 days, I haven't seen him eat anything other than fruits and vegetables.  It's unbelievable.  And then there's me.  I like to try to be a little bit more normal.  I mix my days up, I have different routines, and I like to be a normal, lazy kid.  It keeps me SANE.  But seriously, if I can't put easy junk food in the cupboard soon, I'm gonna go NUTS.

Alright, there's my vent.

In other news, I had a "date" with Kristen Whitworth the other day!  She just got back from England and said she had fully recuperated from the trip, so we had an olympic party!  She had her house to herself the whole week, so a couple nights ago, I went over around 7:30, we played board games and card games, and just watched the Olympics.  I thought I was going to be gone right after primetime ended, but I stayed and talked to her until 1:30 in the morning!  It was great.  I'm so happy to have her in my life as a good friend right now.  We talked about what she looks for in a relationship, too, and other things like that, so I feel privileged that I've gotten to know her better.

School starts in 2 weeks, and if I don't compose, my professor will eat me.  So I guess I'll try and do that soon.

Forever and Always,
-The Music Man