weekend update
yesterday was possibly one of the greatest times I've had at Fordham. Yeah...yeah i'll go out on a limb and say that in fact, it was one of the greatest times i've had at fordham. there. now for the "why".
it all started with the snow. i'm not gonna lie, when it starts snowing at 10:30 in the morning and still hasn't stopped, it's exciting!! added to the fact that they closed the university from 3pm onward...which is even more exciting. so basically my 2:30 class was about 5 minutes long, and that was a thrill. then, i came back to the room and watched "the truth about cats and dogs" which is a great movie... i heart janine garofolo and the cute british guy too. so yes... then i got ready for open mic night around 5:30 ish because i was going to the caf with goodie and alex at 6:30. i was kind of bummed because i had this really cute outfit planned involving a slipdress, a tank top, and jeans. but that didn't work out so well considering it's MOTHER-BLEEPING COLD ouside!!! so i wore something else... goodie and i went to the caf and saw that alex wasn't waiting for us because we were 15 minutes late (i had made us 15 minutes late... me?? never)
when we got into the caf, we put our stuff down and just as i was about to turn around to go in, annie was like, "joh!" and i looked up and there she and andy were, just chillin at the high table right next to the low round table where we'd put our stuff. they said they were coming to open mic, which was mad exciting, if only because if they went, matt would probably go. and if matt went, he would probably play the guitar. and if he played the guitar, it would be a good time. so as we were getting food, we found alex and that was cool, up until the point where we realized that not only had she put her stuff at the "crew table", but she fully intended to sit there, instead of where me and nicole's stuff was. this was deeply disconcerting, because i don't really like sitting at the goddamn crew table. not to mention the fact that rob and scott were sitting there. and while they're genuinely nice people, they just have no lives other than crew... and that's alright for them, but doesn't make for especially mentally stimulating dinner conversation. although i must admit the funniest "off-the-cuff" comment i've made in a while came out of it.
Nicole: that's why i'm glad i quit crew. because i can work out when i want, how hard i want, and how long i want.
Me: kinda like sex.
it was funny, i swear. so then i went to help set up for open mic. let's just say that snow bummed me out a little bit, because um, about 8 people showed up who weren't ampersanders. but annie, andy, and matt showed up (complete with matt's guitar) and so did alison kubiak, which was a blast. chris kondrich is my favorite discovery this year. he and i have that same sarcastic sense of humor, and he's just so fun. i ended up asking him last night to be my best friend for the rest of his senior year... anyways that comes later. what comes now is that it was such a friendly, intimate setting because everybody basically knew each other. so chris read, and then another kid read, and then i was getting really nervous, because i had a poem about tex that i was going to read...and i kind of wanted him to be there, because we hadn't really said anything much about whatever we may become since we hung out the night after the kisses at the cast party. so i kind of wanted him to be there... but then i realized that i really didn't care whether he was there or not, so i got up and read that one about him, and "holding back the knives" which i'm still ridiculously proud of. so, right as i sat down, tex walked in the door. i was like, 'it's kismet. it's just not meant that he hear the poem right now. such is life.' and he was weirder than even tex was last year. because last year when he kind of clearly knew that i liked him but whatever... he would always give me a hug and talk to me for a little bit. but last night he was a little shady and i went to sit next to him and he just sat there...absorbed in his own stuff which is cool because he has a lot of stuff going on in his head right now. grades and whatnot... so it's cool.
it was so much fun, and i really loved chris's crotch poem. anytime you can write a poem with the phrase, "off, off pants!" in it, you have a gift. lol so eventually everybody who had wanted to read did, and so it started to break up. everybody ended up at Nova* and that was cool...that was honestly so much fun.
i walked over with lynsey, kara, and this kid whose name i still haven't learned. but whatever. when we got there, tex and andy were playing soul calibur 3, and ellen and bridget were just sitting around, whatev. then andy gave up and sat down, and bridget went to play, and lynsey and me were sitting on the little couch talking... andy and rachel (i think) and ellen were on the big couch, and then matt and annie came in!! i really love hanging out with them. matt had brought his guitar, and we spent basically the whole night just talking and singing, whether matt was playing or whether it was sublime and green day playing on the cd player. we talked about books...we talked about music...i talked about ballet and swing dancing with this girl ashley who's really cool...matt played hootie and the blowfish, and reel big fish, and dispatch (just the general) and other great stuff. we talked about simon and garfunkel, we talked about beat poets, we talked about just about everything and for a while i just sat and listened. it was so nice...to just listen and know that at that moment, i fit into this group and it was fun and there wasn't any worry that i was trying to impress any of them or like i had to know as much as them about any one subject. and then just singing along to sublime was potentially the best part because it was just so fucking fun. and yeah, everybody but me was smoking. which doesn't bother me as much as i thought it would. good times.
*Nova-- so Lynsey IM'd me the other day to ask me if i would be interested in moving into terranova with them for second semester. because bridget is going to amsterdam, and they were one short of the 7 they're supposed to have without her leaving. so they're scrambling for roommates partly because if they don't get one more person that they like, they can't retain the apartment. and they're trying to retain it without 2 of the girls. so of the 6 of them, they don't like 2 of them, and 1 is going to be in amsterdam. so that leaves only 3 and i guess you need 4 to retain. i was shocked. i had no idea that they'd all want me to live wtih them. but i guess lynsey suggested me and nobody had any big problems with it. it would be really fun, i'm not going to lie. i seriously considered it. because shit...they're fun people. and it's a nice apartment. and sometimes it's hard living in wellness with alex as much as i love it and love her. sometimes this room just doesn't feel like "home". it feels like a dorm room. does that make sense? anyways, i decided in the end, with some help from one of my friends from home, that i would have the rest of my life to live off-campus, and at least all of the next 2 years if i really decided that i needed to. why not just enjoy living my second semester of sophomore year on campus. plus i odn't think i could really afford it, if only because you have to pay for like... everything. cable, internet, food, not to mention i wonder about utilities... i mean it's fordham housing so i'd guess that comes in the money you pay to the university for it... but whatever. i was seriously considering it and after last night i kind of wish i hadn't told them no, if only because it's so much fun to go there. but then again... there is the concept of "it's a nice place to visit but i wouldn't want to live there" which could be true. i don't know. but lynsey said that if they can retain it for next year then i could live with them next year. that'd be mad exciting and fun. and i'd be prepared for it so i'd save more money.
that's all i've got for now... choir concert tonight is cancelled, choir rehearsal this morning was effectively cancelled, basically i just have to trudge to the library across the frozen tundra at some point to do this semester's statistics homework... that i haven't done any of yet. wish me luck. woot!
it all started with the snow. i'm not gonna lie, when it starts snowing at 10:30 in the morning and still hasn't stopped, it's exciting!! added to the fact that they closed the university from 3pm onward...which is even more exciting. so basically my 2:30 class was about 5 minutes long, and that was a thrill. then, i came back to the room and watched "the truth about cats and dogs" which is a great movie... i heart janine garofolo and the cute british guy too. so yes... then i got ready for open mic night around 5:30 ish because i was going to the caf with goodie and alex at 6:30. i was kind of bummed because i had this really cute outfit planned involving a slipdress, a tank top, and jeans. but that didn't work out so well considering it's MOTHER-BLEEPING COLD ouside!!! so i wore something else... goodie and i went to the caf and saw that alex wasn't waiting for us because we were 15 minutes late (i had made us 15 minutes late... me?? never)
when we got into the caf, we put our stuff down and just as i was about to turn around to go in, annie was like, "joh!" and i looked up and there she and andy were, just chillin at the high table right next to the low round table where we'd put our stuff. they said they were coming to open mic, which was mad exciting, if only because if they went, matt would probably go. and if matt went, he would probably play the guitar. and if he played the guitar, it would be a good time. so as we were getting food, we found alex and that was cool, up until the point where we realized that not only had she put her stuff at the "crew table", but she fully intended to sit there, instead of where me and nicole's stuff was. this was deeply disconcerting, because i don't really like sitting at the goddamn crew table. not to mention the fact that rob and scott were sitting there. and while they're genuinely nice people, they just have no lives other than crew... and that's alright for them, but doesn't make for especially mentally stimulating dinner conversation. although i must admit the funniest "off-the-cuff" comment i've made in a while came out of it.
Nicole: that's why i'm glad i quit crew. because i can work out when i want, how hard i want, and how long i want.
Me: kinda like sex.
it was funny, i swear. so then i went to help set up for open mic. let's just say that snow bummed me out a little bit, because um, about 8 people showed up who weren't ampersanders. but annie, andy, and matt showed up (complete with matt's guitar) and so did alison kubiak, which was a blast. chris kondrich is my favorite discovery this year. he and i have that same sarcastic sense of humor, and he's just so fun. i ended up asking him last night to be my best friend for the rest of his senior year... anyways that comes later. what comes now is that it was such a friendly, intimate setting because everybody basically knew each other. so chris read, and then another kid read, and then i was getting really nervous, because i had a poem about tex that i was going to read...and i kind of wanted him to be there, because we hadn't really said anything much about whatever we may become since we hung out the night after the kisses at the cast party. so i kind of wanted him to be there... but then i realized that i really didn't care whether he was there or not, so i got up and read that one about him, and "holding back the knives" which i'm still ridiculously proud of. so, right as i sat down, tex walked in the door. i was like, 'it's kismet. it's just not meant that he hear the poem right now. such is life.' and he was weirder than even tex was last year. because last year when he kind of clearly knew that i liked him but whatever... he would always give me a hug and talk to me for a little bit. but last night he was a little shady and i went to sit next to him and he just sat there...absorbed in his own stuff which is cool because he has a lot of stuff going on in his head right now. grades and whatnot... so it's cool.
it was so much fun, and i really loved chris's crotch poem. anytime you can write a poem with the phrase, "off, off pants!" in it, you have a gift. lol so eventually everybody who had wanted to read did, and so it started to break up. everybody ended up at Nova* and that was cool...that was honestly so much fun.
i walked over with lynsey, kara, and this kid whose name i still haven't learned. but whatever. when we got there, tex and andy were playing soul calibur 3, and ellen and bridget were just sitting around, whatev. then andy gave up and sat down, and bridget went to play, and lynsey and me were sitting on the little couch talking... andy and rachel (i think) and ellen were on the big couch, and then matt and annie came in!! i really love hanging out with them. matt had brought his guitar, and we spent basically the whole night just talking and singing, whether matt was playing or whether it was sublime and green day playing on the cd player. we talked about books...we talked about music...i talked about ballet and swing dancing with this girl ashley who's really cool...matt played hootie and the blowfish, and reel big fish, and dispatch (just the general) and other great stuff. we talked about simon and garfunkel, we talked about beat poets, we talked about just about everything and for a while i just sat and listened. it was so nice...to just listen and know that at that moment, i fit into this group and it was fun and there wasn't any worry that i was trying to impress any of them or like i had to know as much as them about any one subject. and then just singing along to sublime was potentially the best part because it was just so fucking fun. and yeah, everybody but me was smoking. which doesn't bother me as much as i thought it would. good times.
*Nova-- so Lynsey IM'd me the other day to ask me if i would be interested in moving into terranova with them for second semester. because bridget is going to amsterdam, and they were one short of the 7 they're supposed to have without her leaving. so they're scrambling for roommates partly because if they don't get one more person that they like, they can't retain the apartment. and they're trying to retain it without 2 of the girls. so of the 6 of them, they don't like 2 of them, and 1 is going to be in amsterdam. so that leaves only 3 and i guess you need 4 to retain. i was shocked. i had no idea that they'd all want me to live wtih them. but i guess lynsey suggested me and nobody had any big problems with it. it would be really fun, i'm not going to lie. i seriously considered it. because shit...they're fun people. and it's a nice apartment. and sometimes it's hard living in wellness with alex as much as i love it and love her. sometimes this room just doesn't feel like "home". it feels like a dorm room. does that make sense? anyways, i decided in the end, with some help from one of my friends from home, that i would have the rest of my life to live off-campus, and at least all of the next 2 years if i really decided that i needed to. why not just enjoy living my second semester of sophomore year on campus. plus i odn't think i could really afford it, if only because you have to pay for like... everything. cable, internet, food, not to mention i wonder about utilities... i mean it's fordham housing so i'd guess that comes in the money you pay to the university for it... but whatever. i was seriously considering it and after last night i kind of wish i hadn't told them no, if only because it's so much fun to go there. but then again... there is the concept of "it's a nice place to visit but i wouldn't want to live there" which could be true. i don't know. but lynsey said that if they can retain it for next year then i could live with them next year. that'd be mad exciting and fun. and i'd be prepared for it so i'd save more money.
that's all i've got for now... choir concert tonight is cancelled, choir rehearsal this morning was effectively cancelled, basically i just have to trudge to the library across the frozen tundra at some point to do this semester's statistics homework... that i haven't done any of yet. wish me luck. woot!