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Ugh I hate that I've been one of those people that just writes a random clip of a song lyric every now and then and calls it a blog.
Yeah yeah, love the songs and such but who wants to know that I like an old death cab song or a random verse from a counting crows song that hasn't been played in like 10 years?--Moral of the story. When I actually get around to writing in this thing...there will be substance!
And by substance I don't necessarily mean anything life-changing, amazing, or terribly exciting. Maybe just an update on my life here, a funny story there, and tons of awkward moments along the way.
So, I had a wonderfuly wild weekend!
It all started Friday night.
(as most weekends do)
It was the most gorgeous evening ever, walking around campus was amazing. The sun was just starting to set, and I swear the sun lit up every single cloud in the sky which gave the world this insane golden glow. Regardless of whatever color the sky was...it was just one of those days you want to skip/jump/freeze and get a picture of it to encapsulate the perfect moment.
Zider was a badass and came to La Cocina between sorority things and then PHack came to meet us. Let me just tell you...La Cocina has CHANGED! The speakers blow you out of the room when you walk in, but you can't even move because the line is so freaking long. The food wasn't amaazing, but we also came very late. I'll have to go on time next week and see if my view is any different. They also ran out of effing sopapillas, and that greatly upset me since they're like my favorite things on earth!
Anyways, walked back to Allen and started on project "make Brett a going away/birthday thing that doesnt completely suck" and let me tell you...it was quite difficult. I cut pictures, angled paper, designed letters, cropped, outlined and more for hours and hours until Zider called me. I showered and got ready to go, and worked a little more, then found out we were going to some apt party. Threw on some clothes and met Z in the 6 pack. Got stopped along the way by some guy that said "Hey brotha, where all the butt naked booty ass hoez at??" Haha gave a little laugh and pointed him in the direction he was going.
Anyways, Zider found out the party was overr and everyone headed to the bars--but different bars. We were waay too sober to go to Joe's where all our friends were waaasted, so we decided to go to Murphy's to catch up. Got there and were like mehhh should we really go?? and ended up going to Antonio's and eating some pizza. Realized ALL of our friends were in Murphy's, so we headed back after that and saw that the line was TWO YEARS long...seriously. We ended up cutting (i know i'm a douche) when there was this big gap in line. Finally got in and Zider found a 21 bracelet on the ground! haha lucky daaay. Got ourselves some long islands and hung out with the always fabulous Katie and Rachel. Katie was out of controlll and I loved every second of it.
Ran downstairs and found Allie!!!!!
It'd been forever, and it was grreat to see her. We talked and caught up a bit, then I ran into like every gay person on the face of U of I...haha well like 15 of them. It was Jason's birthday, so that was pretty sweet. Hung with them, got some more drinks and decided we really wanted to daance. Went upstairs and caught up with the HS kids and Rachel again until FOOTLOOSE came on, haha. we went a little bit crazy on that one. Had a great time though. After a long discussion about after hours and much flip flopping, zider decided to head home. I walked her a little while, then headed over to afterhour's at chris's house.
Haha I thought it was going to be a craaazy dance party but I got there and Kill bill was on. After the birthday boy didn't seem satisfied with this, I screamed for a veto, and someone ended up putting mean girls on, which was a step in the right direction--but no dance party. After drinking some more and being a little whiny, those of us who wanted to dance ended up in Chris's room going crazy to Dan's ipod tunes. Haha and were we ever a spectacle. Imagine like 10 gay guys, 2 couples, the rest friends, drunkenly going crazy to today's (and yesterday's) hottest hits. It got so hot in there and we were all sweating like crazy, but needless to say I had a blast! It was like C-street...without the darkness, strobe lights, POUNDING music, and making out.
Got outta there and headed back to the dorm to further work on Brett's present...a litttttle bit tipsy still. Prob not the best idea. Woke up the next morning feelin goood. Decided I needed to hardcore work on the going away thing, so I buckled down and got nearly done, then called Matty to figure out the plans for the day.
**OMG I just had the most terrifying flashback of my dream last night**
SO...part of it, I was driving somewhere...or in the back seat, and there was something in my ear, so i pull it out, and like the entire inside of my ear comes out! It looked like a dark honeycomb attached to a bunch of tubes and such...it was gross, and i started frrrreaking out. Next thing I know, I'm running through a building with Brett, racing to the top floor. We get to a window and there's this little pod you can stand in, like 100 stories above the ground. There's a table that wobbles that's got nothing underneath it, held up by like iron poles. I have to climb on it to get into this window covered in plastic wrap with a tiny hole in it. I step on the thing and grab hold of some very shady looking metal handlebars above my head, and almost start bawling cuz it's so high up and scary. I try to open the plastic wrapped window but i can't, and Brett's just telling me to goooo in. And I freak out, and end up somewhere completely different at a party--it was bizarre.
ANYWAYS--showered, finished the project, and Matty & Brett came to pick me up for Curtis Orchards! It was a perfect day for it too! Got there around 4, met up with Jake and Kristen and got to picking apples! We wanrdered the rows of apples, illegally cutting through the rope barriers between the empires and the jonathons, the gold and red delicious, illegally eating apples the entire time. I say--if you're in an apple orchard picking apples, you should be able to eat them. I spose it's just the way I was raised.
We found out which ones made the best pie and went at it. Took some sweet pictures along the way. Ate delicious apple cider donuts, petted goats, took obscene childlike pictures in front of cut out figures and took way too long in a children's maze. All in all, it was a lovely experience, and I hope to go back sometime soon. After the orchard, we went over to Jomarie's to say hi, and she was watching Grey's Anatomy! Got kinda sucked in and Brett Matt and kristen went to get the pie crust while Jomarie and I drooled and gaped while sitting in front of the best television show on earth.
The pie crust came and we got to work! We totally could have made a cooking show--and ya know what, we kinda did. Cookin with sass. Haha, we sliced up all the apples, matty made the cinnamon sugar filling part and it just worked like a dream haha. I dont know when the last time I lauhged that hard is. We were out of control and elated for some reason, I should do a study on apple's effect on the seratonin levels of human brains or something...
Jomarie continued to be very accomidating and let us use a bunch of ingredients, supplies, and her oven! She's pretty much the best. She even help us with the apple cutting, teaching us the age old techniques o f apple cutting passed down from her grandmother and mother. Needless to say, you can't buy this kind of pie in any supermarket. Made with love and laughter, with 3 slits on top, one by each of us! We then headed to bobo china for the buffet!! It was delicious, and very reasonably priced. Sadly they were out of the veggie spring rolls for the vegetarian boys...but I pretty much struck gold. It didn't stop any of us from having at least 3 plates of food. Delicsh.
Walked to late night to get ice cream for the pie, and upon my insitance on using up points Brett got his fave, a latenight pizza, and matty got some muffins. I decided I should run back to Allen to change and grab Bretts thing. Got all ready and Zider decided to come meet us for a quick dessert/goodbye to brett. We ate our pie and it was heavennnn. Seriously...if we ever go broke, we will make millions starting a pie making company. Zider got there and she tried this fab pie, and agreed.
Laughed up a storm then gave Brett his book, tons of funny pictures so it was a good time. I'll miss that kid! Haha, so then Zider and I had to go to Cly's to meet up with the HS friends, but we were 100% sober and weren't all about that idea. Brett offered to get us some alc at the gas station. Came out with the cuuuutest little bottles of vodka i've ever seen! One for each of us...haha i'm still cracking up thinking about how he was like "it's like i'm your dad and you're my kids, and i'm like...here you go, one for each of you--but that's all you get this week!!"
Good times, Zider and I were basically alcoholics finishing our bottles in the corner while everyone else soberly talked. We got all good and wasted and said our teary goodbyes to Brett. I think I hugged him and matt like 7x each. It was so sad, but not even real feeling. Thinking that he was the last of 'pod abroaders' to go, makes me start to breathe fast, and feel claustrophobic. I can't believe they're all gone/leaving monday morning! Aw, well only til DECEMBER. But that's for a few paragraphs down...BE EXCITED.
Zider and I had a lovely walk to Cly's, walking arm & arm, talking about everything and nothing, as we so often do. Got to Cly's and both had to pee sooo bad. She ended up taking a picture of Laura Mac smashing her face up against the window from inside, it's tooo funny. Got in and it was bummmpin. It was my first time at Cly's. Gotta love it! Ran into Maya, Carrie, Kim, Maria, Kunie, Brownie, and of course Lmack!! Danced like crazy, frequently utilizing the conveniently placed poles. Got my first drunk dial of the night from Jeff-o but I couldn't even hear cuz i was in the middle of craaaziness. My second drunk dial--was very unexpected and I dont even know what to make of it! I spose we need a sober dial to figure that one out haha.
Anyways, Ran into Nicole from OTB and talked to her, while getting very upset that Zider was in the bathroom for "What a Feeling". We left the bar with everyone, and they all went their separate ways while Laura Zider and I headed over to Zeta Psi to see neal. Get ready for the funniest walk of my liiiife down Green Street. We were in that drunken, "we're the shit" state of mind, so of course we're struttin our stuff, smiling at people and makin friends all over the place. Let's first recall how many pizza places there are on green street. Many, yes? Let's talk about how we walked by everrry one of them, and Zider goes up to everrry guy with a pizza box and asks him "Hey man, can i have a piece??" and then Laura starts in on it, and we are craaaacking up, raking in the free pizza and it's phenomenal. When they say no Zider's like, "well FUCK YOU ASSHOLE, i dont need your fuckin pizza you jerk. You are a LOOOSER" Haha and I pull her away and get ready for the next guy with a pizza box. We ended up with 4 free pieces. hahahaha.
We had a lovely walk to Zeta Psi including much skipping, and a trip to the top of Krannert. We saw a guy sitting by the lights and screamed about how illuminated he was. Took pictures on the steps, and laid down on the rocks to look at the stars. Took more pictures and for some reason thought it would be a good idea to bury me in these rocks. Decided to stop that one and head over to Neal's...bearing rocks of course.
Got there and had a nice little reunion with Billy, Viral, Beth, Laura Pardon, and Neal. It was grrrreat. Went inside danced a bit, got some sign taped to me and ended up on the couch with a beer, very tired. Zider and I chilled then talked to Ian for a bit and Laura decided it was time to go home. Walked back with them and stopped in Jimmy Johns for some bread. Charged $2.13 on my card for a loaf of bread and felt reallllly stupid. Walked home eating that crazy thang and said bye to Laura and Zider. Ended up staying up waaay too long on the computer and just havin a grand old time talkin on the phone to zider and patrick.
Then I woke up late--missed breakfast with laura, missed the apple orchard, and have been writing this rather than studying. Love my life? yeah!!
OMG last thing I swear.
I am officially going to EUROPE over winter break!!
TO SEE THE POD STUDY ABROADERS!!!
I leave December 27th.
I return January 11th.
Get to stay for Christmas.
Back with 4 days before school.
And I get to see many of the loooves of my life!
My flight is being booked as we speak, AND I get to fly with Matty!
This is the best day ever. I love everything!!
I dont even mind that the rest of my day involves studying for a bio exam and practicing piano!
haha so many exclamation points.
Whew, time to get back to the grind, this was a nice little break.
Smile, it's a lovely (though rather cloudy) day!
Yeah yeah, love the songs and such but who wants to know that I like an old death cab song or a random verse from a counting crows song that hasn't been played in like 10 years?--Moral of the story. When I actually get around to writing in this thing...there will be substance!
And by substance I don't necessarily mean anything life-changing, amazing, or terribly exciting. Maybe just an update on my life here, a funny story there, and tons of awkward moments along the way.
So, I had a wonderfuly wild weekend!
It all started Friday night.
(as most weekends do)
It was the most gorgeous evening ever, walking around campus was amazing. The sun was just starting to set, and I swear the sun lit up every single cloud in the sky which gave the world this insane golden glow. Regardless of whatever color the sky was...it was just one of those days you want to skip/jump/freeze and get a picture of it to encapsulate the perfect moment.
Zider was a badass and came to La Cocina between sorority things and then PHack came to meet us. Let me just tell you...La Cocina has CHANGED! The speakers blow you out of the room when you walk in, but you can't even move because the line is so freaking long. The food wasn't amaazing, but we also came very late. I'll have to go on time next week and see if my view is any different. They also ran out of effing sopapillas, and that greatly upset me since they're like my favorite things on earth!
Anyways, walked back to Allen and started on project "make Brett a going away/birthday thing that doesnt completely suck" and let me tell you...it was quite difficult. I cut pictures, angled paper, designed letters, cropped, outlined and more for hours and hours until Zider called me. I showered and got ready to go, and worked a little more, then found out we were going to some apt party. Threw on some clothes and met Z in the 6 pack. Got stopped along the way by some guy that said "Hey brotha, where all the butt naked booty ass hoez at??" Haha gave a little laugh and pointed him in the direction he was going.
Anyways, Zider found out the party was overr and everyone headed to the bars--but different bars. We were waay too sober to go to Joe's where all our friends were waaasted, so we decided to go to Murphy's to catch up. Got there and were like mehhh should we really go?? and ended up going to Antonio's and eating some pizza. Realized ALL of our friends were in Murphy's, so we headed back after that and saw that the line was TWO YEARS long...seriously. We ended up cutting (i know i'm a douche) when there was this big gap in line. Finally got in and Zider found a 21 bracelet on the ground! haha lucky daaay. Got ourselves some long islands and hung out with the always fabulous Katie and Rachel. Katie was out of controlll and I loved every second of it.
Ran downstairs and found Allie!!!!!
It'd been forever, and it was grreat to see her. We talked and caught up a bit, then I ran into like every gay person on the face of U of I...haha well like 15 of them. It was Jason's birthday, so that was pretty sweet. Hung with them, got some more drinks and decided we really wanted to daance. Went upstairs and caught up with the HS kids and Rachel again until FOOTLOOSE came on, haha. we went a little bit crazy on that one. Had a great time though. After a long discussion about after hours and much flip flopping, zider decided to head home. I walked her a little while, then headed over to afterhour's at chris's house.
Haha I thought it was going to be a craaazy dance party but I got there and Kill bill was on. After the birthday boy didn't seem satisfied with this, I screamed for a veto, and someone ended up putting mean girls on, which was a step in the right direction--but no dance party. After drinking some more and being a little whiny, those of us who wanted to dance ended up in Chris's room going crazy to Dan's ipod tunes. Haha and were we ever a spectacle. Imagine like 10 gay guys, 2 couples, the rest friends, drunkenly going crazy to today's (and yesterday's) hottest hits. It got so hot in there and we were all sweating like crazy, but needless to say I had a blast! It was like C-street...without the darkness, strobe lights, POUNDING music, and making out.
Got outta there and headed back to the dorm to further work on Brett's present...a litttttle bit tipsy still. Prob not the best idea. Woke up the next morning feelin goood. Decided I needed to hardcore work on the going away thing, so I buckled down and got nearly done, then called Matty to figure out the plans for the day.
**OMG I just had the most terrifying flashback of my dream last night**
SO...part of it, I was driving somewhere...or in the back seat, and there was something in my ear, so i pull it out, and like the entire inside of my ear comes out! It looked like a dark honeycomb attached to a bunch of tubes and such...it was gross, and i started frrrreaking out. Next thing I know, I'm running through a building with Brett, racing to the top floor. We get to a window and there's this little pod you can stand in, like 100 stories above the ground. There's a table that wobbles that's got nothing underneath it, held up by like iron poles. I have to climb on it to get into this window covered in plastic wrap with a tiny hole in it. I step on the thing and grab hold of some very shady looking metal handlebars above my head, and almost start bawling cuz it's so high up and scary. I try to open the plastic wrapped window but i can't, and Brett's just telling me to goooo in. And I freak out, and end up somewhere completely different at a party--it was bizarre.
ANYWAYS--showered, finished the project, and Matty & Brett came to pick me up for Curtis Orchards! It was a perfect day for it too! Got there around 4, met up with Jake and Kristen and got to picking apples! We wanrdered the rows of apples, illegally cutting through the rope barriers between the empires and the jonathons, the gold and red delicious, illegally eating apples the entire time. I say--if you're in an apple orchard picking apples, you should be able to eat them. I spose it's just the way I was raised.
We found out which ones made the best pie and went at it. Took some sweet pictures along the way. Ate delicious apple cider donuts, petted goats, took obscene childlike pictures in front of cut out figures and took way too long in a children's maze. All in all, it was a lovely experience, and I hope to go back sometime soon. After the orchard, we went over to Jomarie's to say hi, and she was watching Grey's Anatomy! Got kinda sucked in and Brett Matt and kristen went to get the pie crust while Jomarie and I drooled and gaped while sitting in front of the best television show on earth.
The pie crust came and we got to work! We totally could have made a cooking show--and ya know what, we kinda did. Cookin with sass. Haha, we sliced up all the apples, matty made the cinnamon sugar filling part and it just worked like a dream haha. I dont know when the last time I lauhged that hard is. We were out of control and elated for some reason, I should do a study on apple's effect on the seratonin levels of human brains or something...
Jomarie continued to be very accomidating and let us use a bunch of ingredients, supplies, and her oven! She's pretty much the best. She even help us with the apple cutting, teaching us the age old techniques o f apple cutting passed down from her grandmother and mother. Needless to say, you can't buy this kind of pie in any supermarket. Made with love and laughter, with 3 slits on top, one by each of us! We then headed to bobo china for the buffet!! It was delicious, and very reasonably priced. Sadly they were out of the veggie spring rolls for the vegetarian boys...but I pretty much struck gold. It didn't stop any of us from having at least 3 plates of food. Delicsh.
Walked to late night to get ice cream for the pie, and upon my insitance on using up points Brett got his fave, a latenight pizza, and matty got some muffins. I decided I should run back to Allen to change and grab Bretts thing. Got all ready and Zider decided to come meet us for a quick dessert/goodbye to brett. We ate our pie and it was heavennnn. Seriously...if we ever go broke, we will make millions starting a pie making company. Zider got there and she tried this fab pie, and agreed.
Laughed up a storm then gave Brett his book, tons of funny pictures so it was a good time. I'll miss that kid! Haha, so then Zider and I had to go to Cly's to meet up with the HS friends, but we were 100% sober and weren't all about that idea. Brett offered to get us some alc at the gas station. Came out with the cuuuutest little bottles of vodka i've ever seen! One for each of us...haha i'm still cracking up thinking about how he was like "it's like i'm your dad and you're my kids, and i'm like...here you go, one for each of you--but that's all you get this week!!"
Good times, Zider and I were basically alcoholics finishing our bottles in the corner while everyone else soberly talked. We got all good and wasted and said our teary goodbyes to Brett. I think I hugged him and matt like 7x each. It was so sad, but not even real feeling. Thinking that he was the last of 'pod abroaders' to go, makes me start to breathe fast, and feel claustrophobic. I can't believe they're all gone/leaving monday morning! Aw, well only til DECEMBER. But that's for a few paragraphs down...BE EXCITED.
Zider and I had a lovely walk to Cly's, walking arm & arm, talking about everything and nothing, as we so often do. Got to Cly's and both had to pee sooo bad. She ended up taking a picture of Laura Mac smashing her face up against the window from inside, it's tooo funny. Got in and it was bummmpin. It was my first time at Cly's. Gotta love it! Ran into Maya, Carrie, Kim, Maria, Kunie, Brownie, and of course Lmack!! Danced like crazy, frequently utilizing the conveniently placed poles. Got my first drunk dial of the night from Jeff-o but I couldn't even hear cuz i was in the middle of craaaziness. My second drunk dial--was very unexpected and I dont even know what to make of it! I spose we need a sober dial to figure that one out haha.
Anyways, Ran into Nicole from OTB and talked to her, while getting very upset that Zider was in the bathroom for "What a Feeling". We left the bar with everyone, and they all went their separate ways while Laura Zider and I headed over to Zeta Psi to see neal. Get ready for the funniest walk of my liiiife down Green Street. We were in that drunken, "we're the shit" state of mind, so of course we're struttin our stuff, smiling at people and makin friends all over the place. Let's first recall how many pizza places there are on green street. Many, yes? Let's talk about how we walked by everrry one of them, and Zider goes up to everrry guy with a pizza box and asks him "Hey man, can i have a piece??" and then Laura starts in on it, and we are craaaacking up, raking in the free pizza and it's phenomenal. When they say no Zider's like, "well FUCK YOU ASSHOLE, i dont need your fuckin pizza you jerk. You are a LOOOSER" Haha and I pull her away and get ready for the next guy with a pizza box. We ended up with 4 free pieces. hahahaha.
We had a lovely walk to Zeta Psi including much skipping, and a trip to the top of Krannert. We saw a guy sitting by the lights and screamed about how illuminated he was. Took pictures on the steps, and laid down on the rocks to look at the stars. Took more pictures and for some reason thought it would be a good idea to bury me in these rocks. Decided to stop that one and head over to Neal's...bearing rocks of course.
Got there and had a nice little reunion with Billy, Viral, Beth, Laura Pardon, and Neal. It was grrrreat. Went inside danced a bit, got some sign taped to me and ended up on the couch with a beer, very tired. Zider and I chilled then talked to Ian for a bit and Laura decided it was time to go home. Walked back with them and stopped in Jimmy Johns for some bread. Charged $2.13 on my card for a loaf of bread and felt reallllly stupid. Walked home eating that crazy thang and said bye to Laura and Zider. Ended up staying up waaay too long on the computer and just havin a grand old time talkin on the phone to zider and patrick.
Then I woke up late--missed breakfast with laura, missed the apple orchard, and have been writing this rather than studying. Love my life? yeah!!
OMG last thing I swear.
I am officially going to EUROPE over winter break!!
TO SEE THE POD STUDY ABROADERS!!!
I leave December 27th.
I return January 11th.
Get to stay for Christmas.
Back with 4 days before school.
And I get to see many of the loooves of my life!
My flight is being booked as we speak, AND I get to fly with Matty!
This is the best day ever. I love everything!!
I dont even mind that the rest of my day involves studying for a bio exam and practicing piano!
haha so many exclamation points.
Whew, time to get back to the grind, this was a nice little break.
Smile, it's a lovely (though rather cloudy) day!