Weekend in New Orleans, part 2

Boy, did the trip go sour pretty quickly. We were all at Ryan’s watching the games on Sunday. I had been annoyed with Kim since I had been waiting for her for an hour so I could give her shirt to her. Apparently she forgot about it and she and Bill went to get breakfast. Totally annoying. So I left to go to Ryan’s and saw the two of them eating at a restaurant. I basically threw her shirt at her and kept walking. Get to the bar and a bit later get a tm from Bill wanting to know where we were. I told him at Ryan’s. So they show up. I told Kim why I was frustrated and she apologized. No big deal. She had to leave around 4:00 to get to the airport. Eric and I are sitting at the bar just drinking. He was pretty toasted, well, we both were. And we were talking and I told him that he and Kim needed to clear the air. There is so much confusion between the two of them. He was upset by that because he thought he did that in Hawaii, but I said that she wasn’t getting what he was trying to tell her. And he was okay with that. I mean, he was upset, but he was handling it. Me, him and Bill started playing pool, then E just left. Bill was outside on the phone and E just blew past him. I didn’t think much of it – I thought he was on the phone. Apparently he was more upset (translation – very drunk) and was wandering and wouldn’t tell Bill where he was. So then Ed comes in and is all pissy wanting to know what happened to his brother and when I said that we were talking and something I said pissed him off, he went ballistic on me. And Bill just sat there and listened to Ed berate me. So that pissed me off as well. What I tell Eric is between the two of us. Ed left, went to find Eric. I left the bar and tried to get Ed to talk to me, but he was ignoring me. So I sent Ed a tm saying that our conversation was between the two of us, but basically here was the jist of it. And he went off on me for that. So now I’m pissed off as hell. So I go back in the bar and Bill is just sitting there. He wants to know what was going on and I tell him a bit and he’s just saying that Eric and Kim’s deal doesn’t bother anyone and I should be a big girl and get over it. Okay – it is a big deal since it does affect people because we have to hear about it. But I guess the difference is that I don’t want to hear about it every time and he doesn’t mind since it doesn’t affect him. But in a way, it does since he’s listening to it. So I finally left. Just walked out.

Now, they still have my shirt, and Ed has the key to the room, and neither of them would give me those things. So I’m pissed about that. Later on I met Debbie, Greg, Rex, Marianne, Sue and Sandy out by the pool and gave them the lowdown. They all agreed with me that this crap has to stop and that it does affect others. I mean when Kim says she won’t come to anymore games because of Eric, well, that’s affecting people. Right?? I also told them that I was fed up with the fact that I get the room and Eric and company just assume that someone could sleep in my room with me. No one asked, no one bothered to find out if I was okay with that. I was nice about it, but that’s the last time. I’m totally sick of it. I don’t deserve their treatment. And I told the guys down at the pool that I was fed up with it. So I’m done. I’ll hang out this year, but to be honest, I don’t know how much time I’ll spend with Bill or Eric. Bill and I were supposed to share a cab to the airport, and he wouldn’t even do that because I was leaving too early. My flight leaves at 6:00 and he wanted to get to the airport at 5:30 since his flight leaves at 6:15. I hope he misses his flight! It would serve him right.

So now I have to figure out how to play nice when I don’t want to be anymore. I’ll organize the tailgate this week since I said I would do it. But I won’t be sending any messages or calling Bill anymore. I’ll just do my own thing. I have a birthday gift for him which I’ll give him, only because I already bought it. But that’s it. As of now, we don’t have a friendship because I’m sick of this game playing. We’re not in high school anymore, and these people need to grow up. Kim and Eric need to get it all out, but then they need to follow their actions. Kim will tell Eric that she just wants to be friends, but then she’ll do things that makes him think there is something more. And that’s not right nor fair to Eric. We’ve all seen it. And Bill needs to quit sucking up to Eric and just deal with him. If he has a problem, he needs to talk to Eric about it instead of pussy-footing all around it (case in point – having to leave the tailgate last week to get Eric when he didn’t want to do so; having to sell the LSU tickets when he didn’t want to). Quit complaining about it and speak up.

So I’ll just be hanging out with Debbie and Greg, and Fred and Jayne for now. No more of this other shit. I haven’t slept all night and I’m exhausted. I wish I could just go home and sleep, but once I get home, I have to get ready for work. Maybe I’ll get lucky and my flight will get cancelled or something! But it’s okay – I can come home and sleep. I need to get some e-mails out and that’ll be it for the day.

And on top of all of this, my uncle had a stroke at the Iowa State game on Saturday and had to be airlifted to the hospital. And according to Bill, I’m not supposed to be bothered about this.