Other People's Live Seem More Interesting Because They Aren't Mine

Columbia is the murder capital of the world.

You may have laughed when you read that. I did, too. IN fact, I spent most of the night joking about it. Then I stepped outside the house.

This guy in a truck stops his car outside. He yells out the window, 'You wanna fight?' Clearly telling him no, we head out of his way. He somehow misreads that as a signal that we want to fight and gets out of his truck. This is your average South Carolinian redneck who was clearly drunk and weighed somewhere between 240-260. In other words, it's David and the Goliath.

He taunts us nonstop with his incredible use of the word 'fuck,' exploiting it's many uses. He then tries to tell us he is just joking, but we don't believe him. (Why would we? He sounded dead serious to us, plus he was still advancing.) He misread us not believing him to meaning that he should pull a knife out. And then offer it to us.

Why in God's name would we take your stupid knife? He decided to not only choke my bestfriend, but tried to stab him as well. My friend is not new to fighting, and defends himself. He doesn't ever throw a punch; just defends himself. I'm freaking out at this point, and try to talk some sense into the guy. I tell him that we are just leaving, and would love to not cause a problem. After maybe about ten minutes, and maybe a dozen 'yes sirs' we finally made it out. We aren't afraid to go to the law. I'd love to see you try to get out of that one.

I saw fear tonight

And I was scared.

She's Gone, She's Gone Across the Border, Man.

I promised some photos and here they are. The top two are obviously from the Kid Cudi concert (the top one is him fist bumping me.) The last three are from the Mars Volta concert with their kickass lighting. That's about sums up my Fall as well as most of my Winter.

I'm really glad that Winter is coming to an end. I've had a taste of Spring (because South Carolina has really odd weather) and I just want it to be here already. I love the cold weather, but it's been enough of that. I just want some warm sunshine. Or snow. I wouldn't mind winter if I could just see some snow.

So what have I been doing during the long month between posts? The same thing as I always do: Try to take over the world. Honestly, it's been pretty tame since my last post. Still trying to save up money so that I can get out of here over the Summer. I'm actively looking for a second job, as well as other opportunities such as donating plasma (they can't call it selling, but they can offer you a monetary compensation for your time.) I can overcome my fear of needles for some extra cash.

I'm always worried about my blog entries being too long sometimes. Recently I felt like I skimped out on some of the posts. I'm finishing the Eragon series (I started it, I'm damn well gonna finish it. You don't outgrow books. Except maybe The Hungry Caterpillar. The plot twist just got old.) I've been trying to branch out my musical horizons. I've come across some cool things. Mainly I hear most of my music from Charles, who's blog, Sonic Nutrition, has a link up at the top right of my blogpage. I love music. I always knew this, but for some reason I just appreciate music a lot more.

I'm working on some letters right now for a certain group of people. International stamps aren't cheap. Well, they aren't for a bookseller.

Tschuss,

Zeb