My Weekend at Fairfield!
So, this weekend I went down to Fairfield to see some of my best friends! And it was an awesome time, it made me wish for school to come even faster! There were so many memorable parts of the weekend, but I'll try and give a decent summary of its greatness.
Friday I had to work 11-7, and then the plans were to drive down to Colin's house and spend the night there before picking up Em and meeting up with everyone else at school on Saturday. Fortunately I got out of work an hour early and, with minimal traffic, had a quick trip down. Colin and I went to see Cars, which by the way is one of the best movies I've seen recently, very funny.
The next morning Colin and I awoke to find the biggest snapping turtle I've ever seen in his backyard. His cat was like circling it and clearly wanted to attack it, we had to bring his cat inside because it was being stupid and seriously this turtle definitely could have killed it. We took pictures of the turtle as well. After breakfast we made our way to Emily's house (via really good directions from her mother) and then once we picked her up we traveled down to FU and met up with Colleen and Laura. Then we met Jess at Archie Moor's and all had lunch together! I hadn't seen any of them for over a month, but it seemed like we had never left each other, we just picked up where we had left off. I think that that's the best type of friendship and also the strongest. Like the type where you can go a long time not talking to the person if necessary and still feel like you never left their side when you see them. Those are definitely signs of true friends. So anyways, then we went back to Fairfield and met up with AJ and Alex in Loyola and watched Jack Bauer shoot a guy with a flare gun (honestly one of the sweetest things I've ever laid my eyes upon). We watched the US-Italy game in the commons and Jess gave me a massage which was amazing (I attempted to return the favor but failed miserably). Then we went to Jess' room and Davide called, which was awesome because I had been trying to call him during the game but the stupid international codes weren't working. So we all got to talk to him which was good. Then we went to Laura's room and watched Jurassic park for a little bit which was funny. We eventually made our way down to the Acoustic Cafe on Black Rock to relax and listen to some live music, AJ and Alex included. But the show started later than expected, which was not good for my drive home. We luckily got to hear AJ and Alex, but then it was 10:30 and I still had a 3+ hour drive ahead of me because I was working 9-5 on Sunday so I needed to get back home. So then I brought Colin home and his mother insisted on me drinking Pepsi so I didn't fall asleep and die on the rode. Then I brought Em home, and she gave me this really large hershey bar and was going to stay up to talk to me on the phone despite the fact that she's been sick lately and needed to sleep. Although that would have been awesome for me, it would have been crazy for her and as a result I told her it was Ok and she should get some sleep even though I was so happy she had offered to. Then Jess called me anyways and that along with the candy and soda probably saved my life on Saturday night. My friends have now saved my life. Feels good to have such good friends. I finally got home around 3AM and went to bed, only to have to get up to work in the 90 degree heat on sunday. Thankfully I made it through (with a visit from Beth!) and then went to my aunt and uncles for a father's day dinner and then went swimming with the cousins. So overall a great weekend. I'm sure I forgot some things but that was the gist of it. And Pawsox and Eric on Thursday, should be nice!
I'm in a weird mood right now. Being back at school during the summer was kind of strange, this whole living two lives thing in college can sometimes be really draining mentally. Sometimes I just wish I could have all my friends together all the time and not have to worry about not seeing them for long periods of time. I also wish I lived closer to them because I know if I did we would see each other all the time. I don't know, maybe I'm overthinking everything like I sometimes do, I guess it's just part of college life. It just makes me so nervous sometimes, because I feel like I'm closer to my friends at school then pretty much all of my friends from home except for maybe three or four, and we all live in different places and I don't know, in a perfect world we'd all be together all the time. I'm probably just tired and thinking about the future too much.
Yet, as a think about it, I also realize how lucky I am to be able to have all of this mental warfare with myself over other people. I'm so lucky to have friends that I can trust and would do anything for, alot of people in this world don't have that luxury. The fact that I think about it alot only serves to illustrate how important these people are in my life.
I hope you all know how much I love you.
Aaand that's my rant for the night. Mas tarde amigos.
Friday I had to work 11-7, and then the plans were to drive down to Colin's house and spend the night there before picking up Em and meeting up with everyone else at school on Saturday. Fortunately I got out of work an hour early and, with minimal traffic, had a quick trip down. Colin and I went to see Cars, which by the way is one of the best movies I've seen recently, very funny.
The next morning Colin and I awoke to find the biggest snapping turtle I've ever seen in his backyard. His cat was like circling it and clearly wanted to attack it, we had to bring his cat inside because it was being stupid and seriously this turtle definitely could have killed it. We took pictures of the turtle as well. After breakfast we made our way to Emily's house (via really good directions from her mother) and then once we picked her up we traveled down to FU and met up with Colleen and Laura. Then we met Jess at Archie Moor's and all had lunch together! I hadn't seen any of them for over a month, but it seemed like we had never left each other, we just picked up where we had left off. I think that that's the best type of friendship and also the strongest. Like the type where you can go a long time not talking to the person if necessary and still feel like you never left their side when you see them. Those are definitely signs of true friends. So anyways, then we went back to Fairfield and met up with AJ and Alex in Loyola and watched Jack Bauer shoot a guy with a flare gun (honestly one of the sweetest things I've ever laid my eyes upon). We watched the US-Italy game in the commons and Jess gave me a massage which was amazing (I attempted to return the favor but failed miserably). Then we went to Jess' room and Davide called, which was awesome because I had been trying to call him during the game but the stupid international codes weren't working. So we all got to talk to him which was good. Then we went to Laura's room and watched Jurassic park for a little bit which was funny. We eventually made our way down to the Acoustic Cafe on Black Rock to relax and listen to some live music, AJ and Alex included. But the show started later than expected, which was not good for my drive home. We luckily got to hear AJ and Alex, but then it was 10:30 and I still had a 3+ hour drive ahead of me because I was working 9-5 on Sunday so I needed to get back home. So then I brought Colin home and his mother insisted on me drinking Pepsi so I didn't fall asleep and die on the rode. Then I brought Em home, and she gave me this really large hershey bar and was going to stay up to talk to me on the phone despite the fact that she's been sick lately and needed to sleep. Although that would have been awesome for me, it would have been crazy for her and as a result I told her it was Ok and she should get some sleep even though I was so happy she had offered to. Then Jess called me anyways and that along with the candy and soda probably saved my life on Saturday night. My friends have now saved my life. Feels good to have such good friends. I finally got home around 3AM and went to bed, only to have to get up to work in the 90 degree heat on sunday. Thankfully I made it through (with a visit from Beth!) and then went to my aunt and uncles for a father's day dinner and then went swimming with the cousins. So overall a great weekend. I'm sure I forgot some things but that was the gist of it. And Pawsox and Eric on Thursday, should be nice!
I'm in a weird mood right now. Being back at school during the summer was kind of strange, this whole living two lives thing in college can sometimes be really draining mentally. Sometimes I just wish I could have all my friends together all the time and not have to worry about not seeing them for long periods of time. I also wish I lived closer to them because I know if I did we would see each other all the time. I don't know, maybe I'm overthinking everything like I sometimes do, I guess it's just part of college life. It just makes me so nervous sometimes, because I feel like I'm closer to my friends at school then pretty much all of my friends from home except for maybe three or four, and we all live in different places and I don't know, in a perfect world we'd all be together all the time. I'm probably just tired and thinking about the future too much.
Yet, as a think about it, I also realize how lucky I am to be able to have all of this mental warfare with myself over other people. I'm so lucky to have friends that I can trust and would do anything for, alot of people in this world don't have that luxury. The fact that I think about it alot only serves to illustrate how important these people are in my life.
I hope you all know how much I love you.
Aaand that's my rant for the night. Mas tarde amigos.