Pandemonium

Friday is always a good evening for duty entertaining. It gets it over and out of the way without making too much of a mess of the weekend.
-William Corlett
"Two Gentleman Sharing"

Pandemonium: a state of extreme confusion and disorder
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0B1s6cOJDA

Is this a riot or are you just pleased to see me?
Why aren't we holding hands and talking sweet?
I love you really though I know no one believes me
There's chaos every time we meet

Oh, now look what you've gone and done
You're creating pandemonium
That song you sing means everything to me
I'm living in ecstasy

The stars and the sun dance to your drum
And now it's pandemonium
You're crashing everywhere, it's like you're smashing china
Skidding on an icy road
You're major trouble since you were almost a minor
I sometimes think we'll both explode

Oh, now look what you've gone and done
You're creating pandemonium
That song you sing means everything to me
I'm living in ecstasy

The world's gone mad, what did you do?
Telling perfect strangers that I love you
The stars and the sun dance to your drum
And now it's pandemonium

I can't make sense of anything
All I know is the party's in full swing
If we both just stop for a minute
I'd declare war and then you'd win it

To tell you the truth I thought I was shockproof
Until I saw what you get up to
When you think about it it's quite an achievement
That after all I still love you

Oh, now look what you've gone and done
You're creating pandemonium
That song you sing means everything to me
I'm living in ecstasy

The world's gone mad, what did you do?
Telling perfect strangers that I love you
The stars and the sun dance to your drum
And now it's pandemonium

Twenty-five years ago today:

February 15, 1985
Friday
Dale kept saying "Tell me."
It seemed to work with me.
"I was pissed off when I learned from Hank a few months back that Karyn had said 'nothing happened' the time she stayed the night with me. I mean, I can't believe she had to report anything to any one."
Dale added to my fire. "Well, I've seen...as well as Tim...several men go and leave in the morning from Karyn's apartment when we picked her up to go to work. She would give reports on the sexual experiences of those men."
I just listened.
"I appreciate the fact that you have high morals and that you're not a one-night stander. I wish I could say as much for myself."
I laughed silently at the thought of Dale having multiple one-night stands.

Dale and I went to Barnaby's on this Friday night after work. Sue Fischer from the Data Marketing Group was there. She wanted me to go to Happy Hour because her boyfriend, Hank, was going to be there. I think I was being used as a jealousy pawn. Ugh...I did not like the vibes. Dale and I ended up leaving and ate dinner at some Mexican Restaurant on my American Express. He is always hungry! Damn.

Dale drove me to the Fruitvale BART station where my car was waiting in the parking lot.
"Give me a call to see about that bike ride this weekend, okay? I mean it."
"Okay, sure," I said as I slammed his car door shut.
I thought, "Hmmm...Dale would be going a good five miles per hour while I'd have passed him twenty times on the bike, but it would be fun. Maybe."

I came home and went straight to the gym. Then I was suddenly back home and went straight to bed.

You put people into categories.

All that fuss and fume!

As nobody ever phones to speak to me, I've rather lost the knack of attending to them.

Life is based on the unexpected. It can be quite stimulating.

Pandemonium.

He felt a strange shiver. The creative juices started to flow through his body.

You cannot live with pleasure all the time. It has to be something one longs for, something one snatches at.

...blissfully happy.

"Do you ever feel lonely?"
"Most of the time. I've grown used to it. Besides, it has been of my own making. I never had...the courage, you see. Sometimes you have to be ordinary. There's always someone for everyone. You'll see. Don't rush in."
-William Corlett
"Two Gentleman Sharing"