1987 continued

Back to my adventure in the music business. When I was betrayed by my friend Kris, it made me look at my life in a very different way. I realized I had started to isolate myself in my little tower apartment, and I was feeling very lonely. I decided to move in with two girlfriends, Karena and Sally Anne who were both DJs at KBVR. It was really fun, and pretty crazy. We had a beautiful little house, and we each had our own bedroom. I decided I wasn't gonna be taken advantage again by letting my feelings get in the way, so one night, I picked up a guy at the local bar, Squirrels. I can't even remember his name, but he was cute and funny, and we had a good time chatting and flirting. He came home with me that night, and we started to have sex. A few weeks earlier, I had gotten really sick, and had broken several ribs by coughing (yes, you can really do that!). I was over the flu, but my ribs were still healing. And when we started messing around, it hurt so bad, I asked him to leave. I think his name was Jesse.... Anyway, later that night, he came pounding on my window, and tried to rip the screen off so he could get in. It scared the daylights out of me, and woke up Karena and Sally Anne. We all went to the front door, and Karena had a baseball bat with her. We threathened to call the cops if he didn't leave, and he finally went after saying I owed him! Yikes! I don't learn lessons easily, but this one definitely got through, I needed to be alot more careful. All three of us were working at The Beanery, a local coffee shop, and I met a really sweet guy, Dale, who would come in each day for his mocha. We started dating, and he was so gentle, so nice, and so respectful. No crazy drama with this guy. He rode a motorcycle, and we used to go out for long rides in the country, and occasionally, he would pop wheelies with me on the back. It was a blast. He would stay over with me, and both Karena and Sally Anne liked him alot. I did too, but I was also really getting wrapped up with the radio station. I became Music Director that year, and it was taking alot of my time, not to mention working full time, and also going to school full time. I remember the last time Dale and I were together. We were giggling and cuddling Saturday morning, watching Pee Wee's Play House..... and he said to me he wanted to spend more time with me. Silly me..... I felt like I was being pulled between the radio station and my passion for the music, and for him..... and I chose the music. Let me just say, he's a classy guy, and we're still really good friends.... But this was my life, and where I wanted to go, and I couldn't stop, not now. I was the one who got to review all the music that came into the station, and decide what would get played, and what didn't. It was a rush. I remember pushing bands like Green, and The Stems, and The Flaming Lips, and The Donner Party, Mr. T Experience, Died Pretty, Sound Garden, Green River and then Mudhoney... oh so many great bands. I had to walk through the doors that were opening, and I did just that. DJing was like a drug for me. Playing new music, writing about it, talking about it, turning people onto this incredible wealth of music coming out. I pursued it almost single mindedly. Its a miracle I graduated, but I did, Cum Laude, with a degree in Anthropology and a passion for contemporary pop culture....