Pittsburgh Adventures Vol. 2: A Tale of Then and Soon
I'm kind of bored and listening to Zeromancer and not tired enough to go to bed, so I'm posting this now.
Last Friday was Slovak happy hour, which I was very excited about because that is my people's food. Well it turns out that my people's food is quite like Polish food (at least what was served there), which isn't too surprising, West Slavs and all.
Anyhoo, after that there was some drinking at the house before Matt (Kewley), Bettina and I went to see Away We Go which was really good. Then we went to Pizzaria Uno and then Bettina dropped us off at home and I went to bed a little before the rest of the housemates got home.
Saturday there was reading (a chapter by Lewis Siegelbaum in a edited volume on Russian history that Lauren bought at random) and I watched a couple more episodes of "Brigada" with Matt Jennings. "Brigada" is this 15 episode Russian TV series about a kid that comes back from Afganastan in 1989 and gets involved in organized crimes (this is a common theme in contemporary Russian film). It jumps from 89 to91 to 95 to 97 to 2000 though, which is pretty cool. We're only four episodes in.
Saturday night, however, I went to Sphinx Cafe and Hookah Lounge with Mary (from my class), Helen and Issac (from Lauren's class), which was pretty sweet. There was a belly dancer, and good smoothies and mango flavored tobacco which we couldn't even smoke all of because wow they give you a lot when you order the large hookah.
Afterwards we walked to Issac's because he wanted to make us gin and tonics, as he is convinced they are they best drink ever, and we all hadn't really had them. I'd had one before and didn't like it, and didn't like it this time either. Tastes like a pine tree man. Eww.
Anyhoo, way later than we should have left, I walked the girls to their dorm and then walked my own bad self home. Took an hour and I got home at 3 AM. Pretty good walk though. I miss walking at night, actually.
Sunday I did homework and read and watched the first episode of "The Prisoner" over on the AMC site, which is pretty cool but I don't think I'll get finished before Moscow.
This is a short week, because we get Friday off on account of the 4th of July on Saturday, so we're having a party that night. It should be... big. I haven't played host to a party in a long time, mostly because my parent's haven't been out of town (because I don't want to keep them up, they don't care so long as we clean up, for clarification) and also it's kind of a pain. But this is pretty much a once in a lifetime chance here, so what the hell. Plus there's a certain sweetness to being able to just crawl into your "own" bed when you get tired, and not have to worry about getting home or sleeping on a couch or some shit. It allows one to go to bed still drunk, which is awesome.
I guess there isn't much else to say except that we're basically inviting the entire Russian and Polish sections of the program, so it should be pretty sweet. Pittsburgh Adventures Vol. 3 will certainly reflect upon this party.
Last Friday was Slovak happy hour, which I was very excited about because that is my people's food. Well it turns out that my people's food is quite like Polish food (at least what was served there), which isn't too surprising, West Slavs and all.
Anyhoo, after that there was some drinking at the house before Matt (Kewley), Bettina and I went to see Away We Go which was really good. Then we went to Pizzaria Uno and then Bettina dropped us off at home and I went to bed a little before the rest of the housemates got home.
Saturday there was reading (a chapter by Lewis Siegelbaum in a edited volume on Russian history that Lauren bought at random) and I watched a couple more episodes of "Brigada" with Matt Jennings. "Brigada" is this 15 episode Russian TV series about a kid that comes back from Afganastan in 1989 and gets involved in organized crimes (this is a common theme in contemporary Russian film). It jumps from 89 to91 to 95 to 97 to 2000 though, which is pretty cool. We're only four episodes in.
Saturday night, however, I went to Sphinx Cafe and Hookah Lounge with Mary (from my class), Helen and Issac (from Lauren's class), which was pretty sweet. There was a belly dancer, and good smoothies and mango flavored tobacco which we couldn't even smoke all of because wow they give you a lot when you order the large hookah.
Afterwards we walked to Issac's because he wanted to make us gin and tonics, as he is convinced they are they best drink ever, and we all hadn't really had them. I'd had one before and didn't like it, and didn't like it this time either. Tastes like a pine tree man. Eww.
Anyhoo, way later than we should have left, I walked the girls to their dorm and then walked my own bad self home. Took an hour and I got home at 3 AM. Pretty good walk though. I miss walking at night, actually.
Sunday I did homework and read and watched the first episode of "The Prisoner" over on the AMC site, which is pretty cool but I don't think I'll get finished before Moscow.
This is a short week, because we get Friday off on account of the 4th of July on Saturday, so we're having a party that night. It should be... big. I haven't played host to a party in a long time, mostly because my parent's haven't been out of town (because I don't want to keep them up, they don't care so long as we clean up, for clarification) and also it's kind of a pain. But this is pretty much a once in a lifetime chance here, so what the hell. Plus there's a certain sweetness to being able to just crawl into your "own" bed when you get tired, and not have to worry about getting home or sleeping on a couch or some shit. It allows one to go to bed still drunk, which is awesome.
I guess there isn't much else to say except that we're basically inviting the entire Russian and Polish sections of the program, so it should be pretty sweet. Pittsburgh Adventures Vol. 3 will certainly reflect upon this party.