instances of apathy

Last night there were things both good and bad that happened. Some of those things were bad.

I don't care.

I meant to catch up with Levone but didn't, so I just stuck to plan and went downtown to meet Glen and crew for his b'day. That went well. Talking, laughing, odd musings on cartoons, and an ambient football game on tv.

After that, I went home to get ready and meet up with Morgan for party number two for some friends who also had birthdays. James didn't like this idea, but took him along anyway.

Good party, fun times, hilarious vids. Lots of talking and laughing and karaoke. Drinking of course. I was greeted like a local celebrity; everyone shouted my name and hugged me in turn as I walked through the door.

Birthday greetings and songs and all of those things were sung/said/etc. Just a generally good time with friends for a few hours.

Then Baranda called. The people at this party have an issue with her because of some missing alcohol from a party last year. I told them to give her the benefit of the doubt there, but they wanted to hash that out with her.

That said, she asks where we are and if she could come. I wouldn't have suggested it but they told me to direct her. I knew these people were drunk and drunk plus angry equals bad. When she arrived (the whole time telling me how excited she was about thus whole visit), I told her to wait at the car and brought Elaine out (it was her house) to her and let them talk.

I found out later that the conversation was pretty heated. Baranda was visibility upset and ended up leaving about 15 minutes after arriving, angry that people were angry about something she had recollection of doing. I suggested to Morgan that he go home with her but he stayed.

I just sang another song on karaoke and talked to people until we were ready to go home.

I caught Baranda calling Sanquan so I tried to listen. Morgan called to me angrily from the car. I started to become annoyed as I was attempting to ascertain what needed to be said to him (Baranda was upset with him and wanted me to tell him to sleep on the couch).

I got in the car, attempted to process my irritation and found that I had no reason to be irritated. I could just choose not to give a fuck. I let the annoyed feelings wash over me, apologized to James for holding him up remained silent for the rest of the ride.

When we got hone, the door was locked. I called Baranda to unlock the door. This went into a rant that ended up with Morgan sleeping in his car. I left the front door open for him. Good thing - it started raining only a few minutes later.

I laughed; he can't roll up his car windows.

James and I reviewed the events of the night and agreed that things could have been less complex but it was a good evening, then dropped off to sleep.

A person that doesn't believe in God asked me to pray for them. They felt lost. I just said, "We all start that way. You have my prayers." and left it at that.

Baranda continued to vent throughout the night and finally worked things out with Morgan this afternoon. She's decided not to visit Elaine's anymore.

As I process all of this, I shrug. I decided to go hiking with Morgan in spite of my mild irritation with him and that's that. As for everything else, it sucks objectively, but personally, I feel nothing.