Dream Silently

Friday Afternoon - Approx. 3:00pm

I’m shuffling through paperwork at the lab on the project I’ve been permanently glued to when Z calls me. I was trying to kill an hour of time so that I didn’t have to go back to town. Apparently, she’s just bored as I am and can’t concentrate on anything either. I mean who could? We’re going to see Tegan and Sara in concert. The last time I went to a concert was years ago! I ended up going and hanging out with her at her office, while we waited on 2 others in our group to wrap their own work up.

Friday Evening - Approx. 6:00pm

We’ve been on the road for about an hour and a half. Conversation has been entertaining. T really wants to prove he can rob a bank with just ductape. *sighs* Mine engineers.

The rest of our party ended up leaving Elko late due to losing tickets. oops.

Friday Evening - Approx. 7:15pm

Dropkick Murphy’s + Lead Foot on Gas Peddle = Arriving Early in Reno

I don’t think I need to say anymore. *singing Good Rats*

Friday Evening - Approx. 9:15pm

An Horse was the opening band for the night. They were decent. Soft pop listening with catchy lyrics. I’d go see them again if they are ever on their own.

We satisfied ourselves (along with the listening) with beer and a couple of shots. One of our party was a bit of a stick in the mud. She wouldn’t drink with us and stood there the whole time with her arms crossed, scowling. The rest of the girls and I agree… she shouldn’t of come. It really irritated Z.

Friday Evening - Approx. 10:15pm

Tegan and Sara.

They sound so much better live than on their published works… I was impressed. They played, I believe, all of their music off their new record “The Con” and they played some of their older stuff. If they ever came close to Elko again, I would go see them again. Unlike the last show I saw… they lasted for nearly a full 2 hours.

Friday Evening - Approx. 11:45pm

Stick in the mud girl got taken back to the hotel. With the encouragement of A (who has no reservations or cares about what people think about her in general… which makes her A LOT of fun to be around, we danced like idiots to one of the local bands that plays in this particular casino that the show was at. The guys with us refused to lose their manliness and dance with us.

Z and I temporarily became a couple due to creepy guy stalking us. He gave us crap for holding hands when we left the bathrooms (tried to dance with us on the dance floor and then followed us over to the ladies room… see? CREEPY!). The guys with us… despite not dancing with us… did keep us in regular supply of beer.

Saturday Morning - Approx. 2:00am

We made back to the hotel in one piece… still buzzed and starting to slow down. My feet were killing me. A and B retired, leaving 4 of us in the hotel lobby, continuing to drink and playing rummy after a failed attempt to teach cribbage to me. There was an old woman, which Z described best as someone who walked out of an 80s music video, muttering and talking out loud to herself. It seemed like she was trying to speak to us… but we’re over in the other sitting area with our backs to her.

A few minutes later, she disappears and then somehow she’s behind Z and me. She comes up to us and asks, “Are you staying in this hotel?”

Us: “Yeah…”
Her: “Then go to your room.”

I turned and went, “What?”

Her: “You need to go to your room.”

Me: “Excuse me? Do you work here?”
Her: “You need to go to your room.”
Me:”Do you WORK here?” *dropped tone, getting irritated*

Her: “You need to go to your room.”
Me:”Do you WORK here?”

The whole time, she’s inching closer to me. By about the fourth or fifth repetition of my question, her, we guess, boyfriend interjects by saying he works here and pulls open his blazer, which mostly says he’s OFF DUTY. The woman, however, keeps up her previous statement and he ends up pulling her away and walking into the attached casino.

The way she was looking at me and the way she was coming toward me, if he had not pulled her away… I may have had a couple of assault charges. I don’t tolerate being talked to like a child very well…

After she was gone, Z was watching from her vantage point on the couch and I guess she tried to come back towards us a couple of times and got pulled away and then the guy tried to do the same thing and she pulled him away.

We talked amongst ourselves after that, even pointed out that if we were being a nuisance then the hotel clerk at the check in counter would have told us to leave.

Right before we headed to our rooms, a security guy on duty did come up to us, but all he did was ask, “Are you guys staying here?” and “Make sure not to fall asleep down here and that I was just checking because some guy complained about you… but you appear to not be doing anything.”

We agreed.

The night ended at 4 in the morning, with me up and ready to go places at 7. *shakes her head*

The Rest of the Story

We left for Elko about 11:30 after having breakfast and way too many cups of coffee. About then I was ready to fall asleep, but ended up driving about 2/3rds of the trip. T took over at the end of it and that started the Alphabet game (where you pick a category and say a name starting with the letter of the alphabet that you end up on… countries was SO HARD… especially when your mind has started to shut down). We made it home a little after 4.

I went to sleep shortly after that and didn’t move again until about 8 this morning…