It's close to Midnight

"and something evil is lurking in the dark..."

OK, So the most freaky set of coincidences just happened.

It starts last Wednesday when I'm sick as hell, but have to go help direct the sports show we tape on Wednesday. It really doesn't take a lot of effort to tape, typically I can just leave the preview on the wide camera angle and switch between that and one of the two closeups. So I get a call on my cell phone with the default ringtone, which kind of confuses me because most people that call me have a custom ringtone.

It's Kelly from back home who used to go to my HS, but quit and did that high school over the internet thing after like a year. I used to talk to her, but then she got a boyfriend and he hated me for some reason, so we quit talking. So then last summer she was like "Yeh, I don't care what he thinks, if I want to talk to you I will." Anyway, it was my birthday, and I was having a pretty shitty birthday. So I was supposed to meet her and a friend. Well Jenna (someone who I'm surprised this is the first I mentioned her... She'll undoubtedly show up more often) ended up calling me right when I was leaving so I ended up going to her house since I was better friends with her. Then I kinda forgot about Kelly and she got pissed, and I hadn't talked to her since.

So she calls me randomly and was like, "Are you home?"

"I'm like uh... Well funny story. I go to OSU and am on quarters, so I don't have finals for like 4 more weeks..."

"Oh, well when are you coming home?"

"Yeah, another funny story... I'm not. I'm staying here."

So the conversation goes on for another minute or so, but we say that we'll have to talk some more some time, and I hang up and get focusing on directing since a commercial was imminent.

So I'm relaying this story to Rahkeem tonight over IM and he proposes this inquiry:

Breathe**** (2:22:38 AM): is her sn sweetchik something or other

Meanwhile I'm talking to like 5 people, plus my roommate, so about 10 seconds later I start formulating a reply with "It used to be," when I get interrupted by a new IM window.

Sweetchik*** (2:22:51 AM): hey there

SOUND FUCKING 7!!!

Now that happens every now and then to everybody, you're like haha that's kinda weird, but it happens. Well ya... except for the fact that the only time I've talked to her was over the phone last Wednesday, and I just randomly decided to tell Rahkeem the story. And when I say randomly decided to tell him the story, I mean RANDOMLY. We were in the middle of a conversation about Multitasking and R. Kelly. Anyway, it wouldn't be that weird BUT the fact that the last time I talked to her on AIM was probably at least 10 months ago. And she had a different screen name then. The last time I talked to her on this screen name was around Christmas 2004.

So that was just weird. BUT it gets weirder. So she's points out how hasn't used this screen name in a long time:

Sweetchik*** (2:24:49 AM): actually i restored this sn.. i havent used it since around xmas apparently since i still have jingle bells playing as an IM sound

Which... happened at the same time that Paul was being a complete retard because I wasn't talking to him ... well I'm not sure why:

MediaMogul** (2:25:03 AM): squoosh squoosh squoosh
MediaMogul** (2:25:06 AM): squoosh squoosh squoosh
MediaMogul** (2:25:10 AM): honk honk squoosh honk squoosh
MediaMogul** (2:25:13 AM): (jingle bells)

So right around now I'm just freaked out. I tell the three of them that I am freaked out... then I blog about it.

Now to go write my 3-page paper due tomorrow.

P.S. If anyone doesn't get this entries song lyric, I never want to talk to you again. It's a classic.

"You try to scream..."