Shuffle

I went to the cast party yesterday and I had a lot of fun. Near the end Indie, Ben, Brittany, and Tim were lying on the hammock and I went over and sat down next to them. Then Brittany got up and Ben invited me to take her place between him and Tim. So I did. Then Ben said he figured we'd be lying here a while, so he might as well take his shirt off and get a tan. It was slightly wet, so it stuck to his skin and he had a hard time getting it off. And he definitely did need a tan. So Ben and Tim are good friends so they talked mostly. I learned a lot of stuff about Ben. He has a girlfriend in Oakland. I'm actually really happy about that because now I can be friends with him and really convince myself that that's all there is. Then because Tim is Tim, they talked about video games and stuff. Ben had one arm around Indie and one around me and then there was Tim who didn't quite get it and was the only one fully dressed. Tim always has to bring up how he and Ben are like good and evil twins and I said I would melt of happiness if they morphed together into one super man. Then Jon came over and asked if he was the geekiest becasue he worked at a video game store, and Indie said that was geekiness squared. I said it was geekiness times Avogadro's number. Then Tim and Ben talked about how Avogadro's number is 6.02 times ten to the positive 23rd, because of a mistake that happened during Jeopardy. So we had this light conversation going on and it was really nice and I wanted it to never end, but then people started getting up. I took the chance to ask Ben about the song in the car and this is how it went.

Me: Ben, can I ask you an awkward question?
Ben: Um, sure.
Me: Remember after an Anything Goes rehearsal, you gave me a ride home and we listened to Jersey Boys?
Ben: Yeah?
Me: Why did we listen to that song?
Ben: Which one?
Me: I don't know, it was like a love song and it was really awkward.
Ben: Oh, it was on shuffle.
Me: okay.

So. I was melancholy for the rest of the day, but it might have been just because I was tired. But this shows that Ben considers me a friend and I'm content with that. I don't know him very well anyway. I want to hang out with Tim and Ben and Cameron and Emma and Keleki and Zac and that crowd more often. They are really funny and know all the words to every musical ever.

After all, everyone knows Cacambo is the coolest character in Candide. ttyl!