Jul 28, 2005 09:27
It's been raining all day, which is a pretty accurant mood-to-weather gauge. I've been home for exactly four days and I'm already crawling out of my skin. One more month and I'll be back at SU but I can't help wondering -- has there ever been a longer summer, ever?
On my last night in D.C. I tried to split time between my USFPI friends and the S-bourgers in town. I went to an unofficial farewell dinner in Georgetown with Kristen, Caroline, Megan, her boyfriend Gary, Mo, Ezra and Georg. We sat around talking for quite awhile, which was nice -- it's unfortunate that just when you're finally feeling comfortable with people, it's time to move on.
With great difficulty I caught a cab to Adam's Morgan, where I met Sania, Catherine, her sister Leslie and Karin. We bar-hopped a little, by which I mean walked along the sidewalk in front of several bars while the bouncers shook their heads at my GW t-shirt, jeans and flip-flops. We were about to give up when a woman pulled us aside and insisted we try their club, no cover. Um, ok. Upstairs it was like one of those trippy places you'd expect to see in Go or The Maitrix. Catherine came back from the bathroom and reported there had been a girl throwing up into the garbage can, and another girl was passed out on a couch, curled up into a ball.
We wandered to the other side of the club and found a table, which we didn't realize was in the VIP section until they put the rope up. Sweet. So there I was, in a t-shirt and jeans, sitting in the VIP section of some kind of perverted rap/techno lounge, a passed out girl to my right, Karin and Sania rapping along to the techno version of Usher's 'Yeah' on my left and a drink somewhere in between.
Back at Madison Hall, the rest of the USFPI kids were already pretty far gone from playing Kings, or as our Australian friend Jono called it, "International Game of Death". Yeah. Ok, Jono. We played one more round then decided it would be smart to collectively cut everyone off. Hey. These are kids who voluntarily gave up their summer to attend nine hours a poli-sci lectures a day and write an 18 (no more than 20!) page paper after. We don't throw down too hard.
So what's up for the rest of the summer?
August 5th - Academic Outline for paper due
August 10th - Football Media Day
August 10th - Leave for Cleveland with Mom, Aunt Rhonda and Jessica
August 14th - Return from Cleveland
August 20th - 18-page paper on child/girl trafficking due, not to be e-mailed
August 27th - move back to Drrty South campus, sans help from Mom and Dad, who will be in New Orleans
August 29th - senior year of classes begin
August 30th - small nervous break-down, to be followed by chips-and-real-world-reruns binge.
So as you can see, I still have a lot ahead of me. I'll keep you posted.