Attack of the Ems!

Crazy NYers. A few years ago Jocko called me from the Holiday Inn--I hadn't seen him since high school. Now he was in my backyard, 1000 miles away from NY, touring with some band. I took him around before the show then stayed up all night finishing an important paper for class. Then yesterday Ems called in the afternoon saying she was in NC and about to stay the night in Athens. What!? I hadn't really slept that night so I was counting on getting sleep--lots of it, and early--last night. Ah well. Forget that idea! Anyways, it was Ems so obviously it was fun. Her friend M turned out to be pretty darn cool, too, although she'd just broken up with her boyfriend and was a bit sullen. They got in late and we went downtown for some pizza and drinks. By 130 we were pretty crazy, so we walked back to the motel screaming and laughing and basically acting like those annoying kids I always complain about. We weren't drunk, mind you, we'd only drunk like 1 1/2 drinks per person all night; yet, something about it all made us giddy. M was probably losing her mind trying not to go nuts with anger at her ex, and, well--Ems and I were just being Ems and I when we're put together. Edison slept through it and justified his slighting us by warning "Oh great, I can't go out with 3 girls. You'll be giggling and being really annoying." I was like "Ems and I?! What!? No way! She's just driven 10 hours and I haven't slept. We'll be dragging our feet." Whatever! Edison knew the truth. By the time we reached the motel we were dancing in the street and hollering South Park quotes in respective voices at the top of our lungs while falling over each other in euphoric giggles. Then I got in my car while they went up to their room. As I was driving out I saw the manager walk out and sort of try to stop me. I kept driving. Then he walked down to the corner we had been screaming at and tried to figure out what was going on. He probably thought cats were being killed or something. I didn't get to sleep until after 3am, and then there was breakfast at 7am before Ems and M had to leave for New Orleans (Ems is a cook and is interviewing with Emeril Live!) Edison came to breakfast which was awesome because then I could witness the usual Ems and Eddy banter. Essentially, they insult one another as much as they can while smiling and exchanging dark glances every now and again. I love it. We walked Ems back to the motel where she made him take out a dead hornet from her truck. He threw it on the ground with a napkin and she accused him of littering while he said she should thank him for de-bugging her truck. Priceless. Then she drove us home and he accidentally knocked a bucket of pickels over. It stank. She yelled at him, then apologized, then they hugged and now they miss each other. Awesome. I miss her too but I hope to see her in NYC the same time I see Cinder Block. And if she moves to New Orleans I'm going to grab that girl's ankle and make her take me. :)