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i guess thanksgiving wasn't nearly as awkward as i thought it was going to be. i went over to visit "the girl" and her family. they're all a bunch of really friendly people. i felt at ease. there were only a couple of instances where a member of her family referred to me as her "boyfriend," and she jumped on those theories and shot them right down. needless to say, that stung more than a little bit. one thing about her family: the men are all firm believers of "the 'stache." all they need is a sharp pair of aviator sunglasses and we're right back in 1983, i tell ya. magnum p.i. was apparently a favorite show around the respective households. this is in no way a slight to any members of her family. they are all incredibly nice people. they just happen to have magnificent moustaches.

she and i were able to talk out concerns i had regarding the recent change in our relationship. most of the problems and questions i had with it are now smoothed over. i feel a lot better. it kinda goes without saying that most of my issues stemmed from my typical overanalysis and insecurities in issues such as this. right now the whole scenario gets a hearty "thumbs up." she also gets a gold star for being able to understand my incoherent ramblings and still being able to communicate with me effectively. it's nice to be with someone who's just as weird as i am. refreshing, even.

dinner was delicious. just thought i'd point that out. hopefully everyone else had a good feast laid out in front of them.

she and i ended up heading out to catch a movie later thursday night. we were gonna see rush hour 2 at the second run theater, then when that was playing too late, we decided to go check out heist. when we got to the theater, we saw that the newest jean pierre jeunet film was playing. amelie was an awesome film. i highly recommend it to anyone who liked jeunet's work on city of lost children and delicatessen. amelie is a love story told in the way you would expect him to tell it…unexpectedly. just a few notes: (a) dominque pinon is still funny, even when he's speaking a language i don't fully understand and (b) why the hell isn't delicatessen available in dvd in the states?

friday was the kilowatthours show at aslans how. they turned in a great performance and i recorded it. hopefully we'll be seeing it on transmission3000 soon. after the show, scott and i headed out with ben to cahoots to get our drink on. i ran into "the girl" who was also out with friends. this was prior to our discussion about the issues, so i felt pretty awkward. we ended up heading out to the back door because it was bound to be less crowded. she said she'd meet up with us there later, which was cool. we hung out there until dan and chris (the other 2/3 of kilowatthours) and their girlfriends got tired and ditched, hung out for a while, telling "the girl" stories about our semi-recent trip to manhattan, then headed right back to cahoots. scott and i stumbled in the door to the apartment at around 4 in the morning. we pretended to drink some more while we played some ps2, then i crashed out.

saturday was laundry day. the girl and i ended up heading out to see heist (finally) and it was a damn good movie. david mamet hardly ever disappoints, honestly. so i was 2 for 2 on the movie tip, this weekend. this was the night when we ended up having that previously mentioned "talk" that helped straighten my head out.

now i'm at work, no more coffee…facing down what's looking to be a long day. oh well…we all gotta do it sometime.