This post is NOT bitching.
Jennifer and I went to visit Sam's college over the weekend for our birthdays (mine is on the 25th (tomorrow, WEIRD!) and Jennifer and Sam's are on the 30th.). We met up Friday and after much delay set off. We actually talked for 8 hours straight which is proof that we have not been spending nearly enough time one on one. I really like road trips especially when they don't last 16 hours and only have to involve the bitchiness of people I know I can forgive for anything. (Jennifer and I will ACTUALLY be friends forever. That's just what will happen). It was cool though.Sam's college is really weird and flat and spaced out. It's like actually the size of the Georgia Tech campus but with only like 20 buildings. The dorms sort of arrange themselves in a maze and his is like a motel. He has his own dorm bathroom and a balcony which is pretty ritzy. His roommate is actually really awesome. The only cosmetic sort of product he owned was dredlock shampoo and dredlock wax whereas Sam has infinite product. There's beer everywhere. His roommate is basically the definition of a hippie. He had Led Zeppelin poster- Bob Marley poster- Jimi Hendrix poster- Forever 27 poster- and poster he made on Adderall. On Saturday night he burst in a bunch of friends and played Sufjan Stevens and then Dark Side of the Moon really loud while trying to write haikus. I'm pretty sure he was way high because he was asking us how many syllables Christmas has. Also the classes he had could actually be going towards majoring in being a hippie. Everyone was a hipster and on drugs and way small. Sam was pleased that we found it so surreal because he did not enjoy it so much. Apparently he had expected it to be like Dragon*Con 24/7 where you learn about things you care about all day (because Sam goes to constant panels too) and party all night. Instead everyone is like "I'm on so many drugs" and Sam is like "I'm on a moderate amount of drugs. I think I'll rebel by working out.". They're right by the ocean though and I sort of regret not kayaking across the bay. They do have a really excellent cafe though. It's like college food where none of it actually makes sense to eat as a meal but it's excellent and healthy and way vegan with smoothies and an excellent couch.
Over the course of the weekend I had infinite Guiness which makes me so happy because everyone else that I could possibly drink with around here is like "Cheap vodka!!!!!!!" and I'm like "eww". We also drank a lot of wine with Sam's group of friends who could actually make sense in real life. It's fun to drink wine in a giant circle out of used Starbucks cups. I never got full flegded drunk which was also cool I guess.
The best time we had was going for breakfast at 2pm at a town close to the beach. We were so depressed for so long because everything was expensive and weird but then we found this place called "The Blue Dolphin Cafe" which allowed all of us to indulge in our weirdest eating habits (Jennifer: home fries, a biscuit, a fried egg, bacon. Me: garden burger with thousand island dressing and guacamole as well as fries with various combinations of thousand island dressing, ketchup, and spicy mustard. Sam: oatmeal and secretly pouring creamer into a cup we brought in with ice and drinking it.). The town also had a lot of greek statues and they tried to incorporate Christmas decor into them which we took pictures with. In Sarasota was a giant statue of that guy kissing his girlfriend after coming back from one of the world wars. By Giant I mean I'm almost as tall as the girl's shoe is long.
I drove all the way back. As you can tell it was way confusing.
Over the course of the weekend I had infinite Guiness which makes me so happy because everyone else that I could possibly drink with around here is like "Cheap vodka!!!!!!!" and I'm like "eww". We also drank a lot of wine with Sam's group of friends who could actually make sense in real life. It's fun to drink wine in a giant circle out of used Starbucks cups. I never got full flegded drunk which was also cool I guess.
The best time we had was going for breakfast at 2pm at a town close to the beach. We were so depressed for so long because everything was expensive and weird but then we found this place called "The Blue Dolphin Cafe" which allowed all of us to indulge in our weirdest eating habits (Jennifer: home fries, a biscuit, a fried egg, bacon. Me: garden burger with thousand island dressing and guacamole as well as fries with various combinations of thousand island dressing, ketchup, and spicy mustard. Sam: oatmeal and secretly pouring creamer into a cup we brought in with ice and drinking it.). The town also had a lot of greek statues and they tried to incorporate Christmas decor into them which we took pictures with. In Sarasota was a giant statue of that guy kissing his girlfriend after coming back from one of the world wars. By Giant I mean I'm almost as tall as the girl's shoe is long.
I drove all the way back. As you can tell it was way confusing.