Barbecue fun

Hosted a barbecue today. My pals Erika and Natalie and Natalie's boyfriend were the only ones to eat. Melissa came over with her mom and her friend, but I knew she probably wouldn't stay long since she's packing to move back to Pennsylvania on Tuesday. ::sniff, sob:: My first pal in NO is leaving. Rachel was working in the lab, and science being science, her gel preempted her plans to come eat burgers and grilled veggies and salsa. Chad never bothered to show, which I suspected on Thursday when he replied that he "wasn't making any promises" about coming when I asked. I found out from Melissa that he had gone scuba diving with another grad student and her husband. He couldn't just say he was going diving -- he had to be such a freaking MAN and beat around the bush. Jerk. His loss, because the burgers were perfect and Natalie's strawberry cheese pie was a hit. Erika and I each had two slices, and we soon regretted it when we couldn't breathe. My salsa sucked because I put in too much chili powder, but no one's perfect.