i can't stop now
before i settle in for a ridiculously long day of studying, i feel i must update about yesterday. so here goes.
thursday night i went to bed at 12. i knew friday would be a long day so i felt i needed some sleep. i was awoken at 1 by the wind making my blinds clatter all over the place. i was then kept awake by all the drunken assholes stumbling back into the dorms throughout the night. from my room i can hear people sliding their IDs in the SDR booth, the turnstile moving, and the door opening and shutting. i could also hear morons knocking over dumpsters and trashcans. there was a girl who ran around shreiking for 5 minutes solid. 2 guys got into a fight. at 2:30 the punks from FIJI that live below me decided to turn their base way up. some douchebags kept running up and down my hallway. and andrea & lou were being just a tad loud across the room. so i did not get back to sleep until 4:30. i got up at 8.
classes were dull but i managed not to fall asleep. i was given study guides for my huge art history test and my lame computers test which are back to back on monday. after class i grabbed a salad in the union & headed back to my room. i was just sitting to eat my salad and the second i became unidle michelle IMed me. she was supposed to go w/ christine to get her nails done & then take me food shopping later, but christine had to cancel so she wanted to know if i could go then. as i was talking to her, ryan IMed me for the first time in weeks trying to get me to agree to go to the improv show and then drink w/ him & the improv team at 4am (yeah that's EXACTLY what i planned to do at 4am). as i was talking to him and michelle, taylor sat down to chat. andrea had people in the room talking. i had music on. i was still trying to eat my salad. my cell phone charger broke on thursday night so i was trying to find a motorola carrier in willow grove. i agreed to go w/ michelle but i had to call lisa & lip to tell them i couldn't make the gym at 2. and ask lisa where a grocery store was in willow grove area. i then had to transfer money to my debit card to buy groceries and the phone charger w/. then i said bye to taylor, threw on a coat & shoes & left w/ michelle, still eating my salad.
we went to starbucks first so michelle could pick up her tips. i got a 30% off mocha frappuchino and then they were clearing out the breakfast food so i scored a free cranberry orange muffin. we then headed up to willow grove. on the way everyone was out to kill us and we almost died multiple times. i SWEAR i am destined to die by getting hit by a motor vehicle. michelle dropped me off at circuit city & went to get her nails done. i got the phone charger for $30 that i couldn't really afford. then i called my mom to tell her about that so hopefully i get repaid. then michelle from arcadia (aka be beep michelle) called me. i had invited her to la salle for the night & she was asking if it was ok. i said i just had to check & see if bern (who was also coming for the night) minded picking michelle up around 10. talked to bern, she said that was fine, and called michelle back. then i went into Ross Dress for Less to kill time. i ended up buying 2 impulse pairs of shoes for $20. one pair was 6 bucks. the other $15. i think they're pretty hott. then i wandered into Ethan Allen to look around. i ended up talking to the ladies that worked there. one of their daughters was a jr. nursing major at la salle. then i wandered into the Tweeter music store where the creepy sales assistant kept smiling funny and following me around. then i walked over to Willow Grove mall. i was there for about 10 minutes. a weirdo phone sales guy asked me about what i had bought from Verizon (upon seeing the bag w/ my phone charger in it). but i ignored him. then michelle called saying she was done. we headed to Clemens grocery store. i think it is old people central. just lots and lots of adorable old people. i got what i needed. michelle got a card for alan that was so appropriate. then we headed back to school.
i ran to the gym for about half an hour. got back & began cleaning myself up for dinner w/ michelle. lisa IMed me & decided to come to dinner too. i raced down to dinner and felt very rushed b/c bern was sposed to be here soon after. i finally started trying to chill out. but then i realized how little sleep i was running on and i got very tired. thinking back on yesterday afternoon still makes me feel rushed and antsy.
after dinner i tidied up my room for bern. she got here & we just chilled for a while, finally enjoying being obligationless for an hour or so. lisa met up w/ us just before 9 & we headed over for improv. the signs lied though and it wasn't on til 9:30. we didn't want to go to Up Til Dawn yet so we were just kind of standing around. then this girl in charge of Up Til Dawn approached everyone standing in front of Backstage and freaked out. "You HAVE to go up the ballroom. i didn't rent the theater! you can't be in there! i'm responsible for all of you so you HAVE to go to the ballroom!!!!!" no one listened. we decided we could see improv at 2am instead & headed up to Arcadia to get michelle. we were there very early so we went into Dunkin Donuts for sugar. while we were sitting there George walked in and it was very weird. none of us had expected to see each other in Dunkin Donuts near Arcadia. we picked michelle up at about 10:30 and headed back to La Salle.
we came back to my room. we sat for a while. rachel from across the hall chatted for a bit. amanda down the hall had lost her ID & we found it so i got a hold of her & returned it. i got a very nice phone call. then we decided we had time to kill before improv at 2 & it was late enough so we put on Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter. the first time i've watched it since i bought it. i think i can say bern & michelle both enjoyed it. bern & i fell asleep for a bit, but not too long. at like 1:30 we walked up to LA to get lip. we passed La Salle security & made him drive us half a block. then he passed us when we were walking back and thought we were the weirdest girls in existence (which is probably quite true).
improv started promptly at 2. it was melissa's first night so we thought we'd be supportive. the show was not bad. some parts were painful though. and they kept mocking spanish, which would be hilarious if the girls behind us weren't the members of the latino sorority. well actually that made it more amusing b/c they were getting pissed off. i think some of the things said shocked even ryan, a very difficult feat. i miss ryan. but not really this ryan now, i miss the ryan from last year. he tried to make me promise to go to eugene's birthday party tonight. i just don't think i can w/ all the work i have. and i'm not sure i want to anyway. people would be wasted by the time i got off work. i am not interested in getting wasted. and again, i have SO much work. anyway, the improv show ended at 3. we got some shitty "breakfast" then lip & lisa headed back to LA. bern, michelle & i passed out around 3:30, utterly exhausted.
i woke up at 7 this morning & was gonna be really pissed if i only got another 3 1/2 hours of sleep. fortunately i fell back asleep til 10. now i have to work. all day. i am not leaving until i go to work at 7. check in later to make sure i'm a) not dead, b) awake and c) actually studying.