just... wow
I think yesterday may honestly be classified as one of the weirdest experiences in my life. okay, maybe not quite up there, but certainly close...
the afternoon started fairly normally, with maybe the exception of having bummed a ride with people going to the film festival when I was not, then getting a form signed & walking around downtown (which I hadn't done in forever, so that was different). but even that was normal.
at 3:30, the oddness began... with little bits & pieces from working at the Boys & Girls Club (as a service event). it was mostly putting me around little kids that was weird, although I did get many unusual requests from the little ones, and they seemed to like asking me questions that I couldn't quite understand... several kids wanted me to take their pictures, and most of them also wanted to take my picture (interesting...). also, trying to teach little kids a dance was pretty interesting in & of itself. I was entertained. but it was definitely odd.
then... a fencing tournament against a high school team, during which I was exceptionally confused. I really didn't know what was going on the whole time... yeah, and then we lost. but they have a coach & have probably been fencing for about the same amount of time (since we all started in college)... not to mention that they probably practice more. in any case, the best part of the tournament was seeing Asher & Ikumi! (they graduated last year... Asher was our old president). I guess that wasn't too weird, either.
but then the weirdness definitely started. MAtt & his girlfriend? (at least he's dating her, not sure how the label goes) Leah drove us to dinner... in the Handi-van. Emily, Tom, & I were in the backseat... there was no middle seat... and MAtt & Leah were having an incredibly weird conversation up front. it was an extremely bizarre situation. after parking downtown (in a handi-van, hahahahaha), we ate at the Grill... pretty normal, except conversation was weird. Kiah told us a story that was probably better left untold, MAtt pretended to be my pimp & selling me to Kiah for a roll of quarters and Scott for 3/4 bottle of Sunkist. hmmm.
random person seen: Liz (and Kiah told me that I should've introduced him to her... haha, my goodness)
then we all went up to Patrick's 21st birthday party. oh man, that was ridiculous. most of the fencers were there (awkwardly), and I knew a ton of other people there. (not really random, but important people seen: Mikey, Sergey, Dom, Courtney) I witnessed some amusing keg stands. the party was pretty normal, but then everyone left once Caelen (who also was celebrating her 21st) left... so there were very few left for Patrick's portion of the party. ouch... then things were amusing, though. random person seen: girl from my steel band (don't remember her name right now...). we decided to go downtown, but we had to go to an 18+ bar... and Kiah had free passes to Last Call so we went there & didn't have to pay the cover. what a shitty bar! anyway, Emily beat Kiah, Patrick, & Patrick's friend John in pool b/c they were all really drunk. by this time, Patrick was being reallllly funny, and Kiah was still macking it (as expected). I also got very blatantly hit on within minutes of arriving. it kinda creeped me out, although it was interesting. after a while, John (random Patrick's friend) started throwing sugar at me (there was random tons of sugar all around), and we just had this sugar war going on. odd. random person seen: Joe, the drummer from my steel band.
once Last Call closed, we went back to Patrick's apartment. on the way up, we met people in the elevator. random person (of the two girls in the elevator): Megan from my Black Holes class. Patrick & Kiah decided to jump off the elevator & invite them upstairs with us. really odd. upstairs we all hung out, although I had at this point decided to attach myself to Patrick (it's the I hug people when I drink thing), and we had an interesting conversation about immortality. then we all tried to eat cake... oh man. it was all so silly. and then Kiah decided to start making out with the random girl he met on the elevator!!!! RIGHT THERE!!! WTF!!!! and Emily & I wanted to sleep on the couch, so we sent them back to her room downstairs. so we slept on the couch with Montana, Kiah's little and completely boring brother. needless to say, we occupied one end & he took up the entire other portion.
all in all, it was a weird night. words cannot adequately fill in the rest of why it was so ridiculous. most of that was due to Patrick's really weird & amusing drunk behavior, and the situation of it all being just... wow.
oh, & we lost John (Patrick's random friend) in the elevator. Emily tried to look for him, but to no avail.
I wish that words were adequate. it was great.
the afternoon started fairly normally, with maybe the exception of having bummed a ride with people going to the film festival when I was not, then getting a form signed & walking around downtown (which I hadn't done in forever, so that was different). but even that was normal.
at 3:30, the oddness began... with little bits & pieces from working at the Boys & Girls Club (as a service event). it was mostly putting me around little kids that was weird, although I did get many unusual requests from the little ones, and they seemed to like asking me questions that I couldn't quite understand... several kids wanted me to take their pictures, and most of them also wanted to take my picture (interesting...). also, trying to teach little kids a dance was pretty interesting in & of itself. I was entertained. but it was definitely odd.
then... a fencing tournament against a high school team, during which I was exceptionally confused. I really didn't know what was going on the whole time... yeah, and then we lost. but they have a coach & have probably been fencing for about the same amount of time (since we all started in college)... not to mention that they probably practice more. in any case, the best part of the tournament was seeing Asher & Ikumi! (they graduated last year... Asher was our old president). I guess that wasn't too weird, either.
but then the weirdness definitely started. MAtt & his girlfriend? (at least he's dating her, not sure how the label goes) Leah drove us to dinner... in the Handi-van. Emily, Tom, & I were in the backseat... there was no middle seat... and MAtt & Leah were having an incredibly weird conversation up front. it was an extremely bizarre situation. after parking downtown (in a handi-van, hahahahaha), we ate at the Grill... pretty normal, except conversation was weird. Kiah told us a story that was probably better left untold, MAtt pretended to be my pimp & selling me to Kiah for a roll of quarters and Scott for 3/4 bottle of Sunkist. hmmm.
random person seen: Liz (and Kiah told me that I should've introduced him to her... haha, my goodness)
then we all went up to Patrick's 21st birthday party. oh man, that was ridiculous. most of the fencers were there (awkwardly), and I knew a ton of other people there. (not really random, but important people seen: Mikey, Sergey, Dom, Courtney) I witnessed some amusing keg stands. the party was pretty normal, but then everyone left once Caelen (who also was celebrating her 21st) left... so there were very few left for Patrick's portion of the party. ouch... then things were amusing, though. random person seen: girl from my steel band (don't remember her name right now...). we decided to go downtown, but we had to go to an 18+ bar... and Kiah had free passes to Last Call so we went there & didn't have to pay the cover. what a shitty bar! anyway, Emily beat Kiah, Patrick, & Patrick's friend John in pool b/c they were all really drunk. by this time, Patrick was being reallllly funny, and Kiah was still macking it (as expected). I also got very blatantly hit on within minutes of arriving. it kinda creeped me out, although it was interesting. after a while, John (random Patrick's friend) started throwing sugar at me (there was random tons of sugar all around), and we just had this sugar war going on. odd. random person seen: Joe, the drummer from my steel band.
once Last Call closed, we went back to Patrick's apartment. on the way up, we met people in the elevator. random person (of the two girls in the elevator): Megan from my Black Holes class. Patrick & Kiah decided to jump off the elevator & invite them upstairs with us. really odd. upstairs we all hung out, although I had at this point decided to attach myself to Patrick (it's the I hug people when I drink thing), and we had an interesting conversation about immortality. then we all tried to eat cake... oh man. it was all so silly. and then Kiah decided to start making out with the random girl he met on the elevator!!!! RIGHT THERE!!! WTF!!!! and Emily & I wanted to sleep on the couch, so we sent them back to her room downstairs. so we slept on the couch with Montana, Kiah's little and completely boring brother. needless to say, we occupied one end & he took up the entire other portion.
all in all, it was a weird night. words cannot adequately fill in the rest of why it was so ridiculous. most of that was due to Patrick's really weird & amusing drunk behavior, and the situation of it all being just... wow.
oh, & we lost John (Patrick's random friend) in the elevator. Emily tried to look for him, but to no avail.
I wish that words were adequate. it was great.