Thursday, August 19, 2010

Mingling

Like most people, I have separate social circles. Not too long ago, I let two of them mix, and right now, I'm not sure if I particularly like my decision to do that. So one group are my two high school friends, lets call them Lisa and Ramona. I've been in and out of touch with them since high school, but since my college graduation, I've been seeing them more and more. the other group of friends, who are super dear to my heart, I'll call them The Boosh. I've gotten so close to them over the last year, I'll call them Trini (who I've known for my entire life, pretty much), Paul (who I've also known for most of my life, and is younger than the rest), Laura (Trini's best friend since high school, known for a year), and Trini's boyfriend Jensen (who I've also known for like a year). However, Jensen, Trini and Laura all went to high school with this guy, Sean, who isn't really a regular with The Boosh group, just a friend that they see every now and then.

so here's the problem:

So the Boosh group, that I'm a part of, are really really tight. We make huge efforts to hang out as much as possible, and take our outings very seriously. It's really weird if one of us happens to be missing. So, of course, with a group as tight as ours, we make a lot of plans- to see LOVE, the Cirque du Soleil show that's Beatles focused, as we play Beatles RockBand pretty much every week. It's a big part of our happenings, which mostly consist of us hanging out at Trini's, and smoking hookah. Other plans include "Magical Mystery Tour", that involves Beatle-like transcendental experience, if you know what I mean. So those are our big plans, but we make little ones, like where we plan on eating, or how to celebrate big occasions. I know it sounds like such a bitchy/snobby thing to say, but we don't take well to people adding themselves into our group. For example, Sean isn't part of our group, really. If he shows up, then okay, but we won't necessarily miss him if he's not there.

As of now, Trini is out of the country, visiting family, and the Boosh has really tried to cope without her here.

So here's how Ramona and Lisa fit in. Of course, like any normal person, in conversation, I relate my experiences and thoughts, and surely, my friends figure in to what I talk about. I know that Ramona is a Beatles fan, and is quite artistic like Trini and I thought that she would be a nice person to bring over, randomly, and that she might be a "floater", like Sean is. Lisa, I wasn't too sure about. If you didn't get the point from above, the Boosh group is pretty chill, and we don't really go out often and all. Lisa, however, is quite the opposite, as she likes dancing, going out, drinking, whatever. I tell my Boosh friends about my friends, and one day, Jensen told me to invite them over to the bar he goes to, as we were planning on drinking that night.

Okay, so Jensen, Laura, and I go pick up the two girls and we go to the bar, where Sean is also a regular. Obviously, Paul is not of age, and does not factor into this part of the story. In any case, we all get drunk, whatever, and Sean obviously clicks with my friends. Lisa is a total flirt to him, and Ramona shares his passion for creating (he writes, she draws). In any case, this type of behavior pretty much continues for a week or so- just a lot of drinking, which isn't really normal of the Boosh crew at all.

As this behavior was shocking to me, I talked to Laura, who I'm very close to. We both shared a lot of the same ideas, that it wasn't fair that Paul was suddenly being shut out of our plans, that we typically aren't a bunch of drunks, and that frankly, Sean wasn't really a part of our group, and it wasn't really cool of him to suddenly feel like he was one of us. Both Laura and I had the vibe that Sean had a thing for one of them, and that people might eventually get hurt.

The ultimate point is, Lisa, Ramona and Sean are acting like this type of behavior is normal, like we're one mega-group now, and that's it's all cool. IT'S NOT! The Boosh crew is what matters most to me, to be honest. It's not cool that Ramona and Lisa feel that they can come with us to Vegas to see LOVE and they feel like Sean is totally part of it. I don't appreciate them calling us+Sean : the Boosh crew. It's really not. I feel like the three of them have tried to insert themselves in a group that really isn't there's, or really any of their business to join. Trini hasn't even met them yet, and she's such a big part of our group, she's like our anchor.

As much as possible, I try to get Boosh infusions, where it's just us, because that's what it all boils down to, essentially. In the past, bringing in people has only added unnecessary drama, and I don't want any part of it. I don't want Sean to hook up with my high school friends, I hate when Lisa acts like she was there for something that she wasn't, and goes on about it like she knows everything. I'm annoyed with her whining and complaining about being trapped and going to Hawaii. I'm tired of Ramona talking about Scott Pilgrim and about Sean. Don't go around calling people by certain nicknames and not knowing the reason. I know it sounds possessive, but these are my friends, and frankly, I don't care if they stay floaters, and that they only show up like once a month or less. I'm tired of their disrespect for Paul. He's underage! He can't be out late, he shouldn't be drinking a lot, and going out to bars all the time and having get togethers without him is just plain rude and unfair. Please take him into consideration when you make plans. They are not Boosh crew. At all. A part of me wishes that they never got to meet, and that things could carry on the way they were.

I know this post is angry, and I'm probably all crazed because of the hormones, but I'm just so tired of it all. I am seriously counting down the days when Trini gets back, in the even that she can bring some normality back into our group.