I awoke at 10am this morning and was not able to get back to sleep. The bright sun and blaring music of the girl upstairs (yes, the Cure) deprived me of what little rest I'd planned on getting. Reluctantly I arose from my blissfully comfortable bed and fixed myself some toast and jelly while I sipped the last half of a glass of orange juice from last night. It tasted like I felt.

I went and did some fairly last minute christmas shopping for ChI and Jen and Steve. I don't really have many other people to shop for. My mother is happy to just see me for a few days over the holidays. I don't talk to her much. I got ChI a neat little blue glass angel for her windowsill that refracts the light amazingly well for a translucent object. And the best part was its price - $14 in the antique store across the street (nearly) from Jen and Steve's.

I ran into Klepto girl by the strip and chatted with her for some time. I haven't seen her in a week or more and was kind of wondering what had happened to her. She'd gone off to New York for a week or so with a boy she met at Fox's (where she works). She seemed happy and only bummed four or five cigarettes from me in the course of our coffee cup conversation. I am out of some gossip circles among my friends but Klepto girl is a good source for information. It turns out that 'flock of seagulls' Roger has been having a little tryst with ChI's best girlfriend Monica. I made a mental note to ask ChI about that later.

Christmas shopping done I purchased a pint of whiskey at the liquor store and walked along the path near the train tracks to ChI's apartment. I spotted a few cops on the walk (unusual) but was able to avoid their detection by ducking into the bushes briefly out of sight. Once I arrived at ChI's we finished off the pint of whiskey and I helped her with a painting she was working on. No other housemates were home so we fooled around in the living room a bit.

I get such a thrill from doing naughty things in other rooms aside from the bedroom. We went from the kitchen floor to the counter to her bent over tabletop, it was madness... Like running a marathon or sex obstacle course. Around 6pm one housemate came home to catch a glimpse of me sitting on the couch in the study completely naked with ChI's head between my legs. ChI didn't see (obviously) but I did and caught a little chuckle at the girls hurried rush up the stairs away from us. I really think she's afraid of ChI and certainly must think of us as fuck hungry junkies or something.

I didn't have to work in the evening so ChI and I spent the evening together - catching a cheap movie downtown and meeting up with Jen and Steve for a few drinks at their place afterwards. We stayed up entirely too late - walking home around 3am and passing out almost immediately when we got in bed.

Dean