| this week (and beyond!) |
[Nov. 14th, 2005|02:10 pm] |
Everything is awesome.
Last weekend was super sweet. I don't want to write up all the details, but suffice it to say that even after driving a thousand miles in the span of four days I had a fucking awesome time. Shout-outs to Jessie, Kristina, Nicole, Janet, James, Ladd, Allie, Erika, MeMe, Sophia, Anne-Marie, Carlo, and Siarah. And of course when I got back to school last night I was immediately greeted by the wonderful news that Emi had purchased some Triple Sec, so I went over to San Nic and we had cocktails.
This week is going to be a bit iffy: I have three programming assignments due, a math midterm, and various other scholarly requirements. I can deal, though.
I think I'm going to be able to Sow another Seed of Empire this week, too, which will be great news if everything works out.
I brought my suit down, and I'll probably be wearing it to the TriDelta date party this weekend. I like wearing my suit, but I'm going to try to resist the urge to buy a new shirt or tie to go with it.
We're planning a Vegas trip in addition to the Mexico trip. No word on dates yet for either of them, considering they'll be moderately expensive and that I'm broke and tired of driving, it'll probably be Winter or Spring quarter before we actually go, but it's still going to be awesome. Emi has never been to Vegas before.
SHDH6 is coming up on December 10th, and as long as my finals schedule permits I'll be able to attend. Today an idea for a quick and simple software project struck me, which I might try to develop that night. I think I'm also going to do a geek pitch for Barracuda and AUVAI/AVI. I think it'll be at the very least interesting for the other geeks there, and I'm hoping that by doing the presentation I'll be motivated enough to get back involved and start coding again. |
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| Emi's Birthday |
[Oct. 27th, 2005|01:13 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | emi, food, party, school | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
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| [ | Current Music |
| | Fischerspooner - Tone Poem | ] |
Yesterday was pretty awesome, overall.
In the morning I got out of bed and over to trailer 387-101 for my CS 20 midterm. The entire test was cake; I finished in fifteen minutes. I then went over to get some breakfast at Ortega, cause I was actually awake and not in class during breakfast hours. They have bagels! I ate many, with cream cheese.
After eating I meandered over to Engineering I for my math lecture, but I ended up sleeping through the entire thing. After class was over Zac told me that I had been snoring. Whoops.
After my nice nap I went back to Manzanita and did some email and showered. Then I got on the 'cycle and headed across campus to work. Although I'm peeved about using PHP instead of Perl, work is still going well overall.
I snuck off work half an hour early to take care of a couple of errands, including picking up a vase and roses for Emi. At 3 I made my way to San Nic, and wished Emi a happy birthday. She had already been visited by her TriDelta sisters who had brought champagne, and her mom had gifted her a marvelous cheesecake.
We quickly grabbed Heather and Wei out of the hall to come join us as we drank champagne and ate cheesecake. Of course, Emi only has one wine glass, so we all ended up sharing it. Heather, impatient as always, just drank it from the bottle. The party broke up after just an hour or so because both Heather and I had to get to class.
After Writing ended I went back over to San Nic, and dragged Heather to the bus stop where we met Emi. We took her to this very nice Italian place where I had the best food I've had since coming here: a medium-rare cheeseburger on fresh Italian sourdough.
We finally left the resturaunt around eleven, and ended up back at the UCen. Here we just lounged around and threw paper airplanes for about an hour, and then everyone went to sleep. |
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| Party Night Deux |
[Sep. 25th, 2005|01:30 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | arina, iv, movie, music, party | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | good | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Gorillaz - 19-2000 (Soulchild Remix) | ] |
Damn I've been keepin busy this weekend. Yesterday started with Arina and I taking the bus down to Santa Barbara where we hung out and shopped. We went into this really cool antique store, and a cool outdoor Indian place where they sold cool rugs and jewelery and stuff. Oh, and we also ate at Chipotle on State Street. I really do have to say that Freebirds is superior to Chipotle, now that I've been properly indoctrinated.
Anyways, after we got back we rented Wayne's World and ended up napping through the movie. It's a good film though; I haven't seen it in quite a while. Anyways, when the movie was done it was just about time to head over to the Sugarcult concert.
When we got there we met up with Michael. I didn't realize it at the time, but after I spoke with him for a while, he confided in me that he was truly the Archangel Michael is here on Earth as the Angel of Justice and Punishment. I spoke with Michael during the opening band and through the intermission, but when Sugarcult came on Arina and I went up into the crowd and Michael stayed back to tell some others about why he was here.
The concert was pretty damn awesome. I didn't realize it at the time, but Sugarcult is the band who plays that "I'm bouncin' off the walls again" song. Of course in retrospect I feel pretty dumb for not having known that, but whatever. Their other songs are also pretty good, and they also covered a Modern English song, which was pretty cool.
After the concert we took a quick break to run through some sprinklers, and then we set out for IV. Tonight we got into some parties right away. There weren't any cool live bands playing at the parties we went to, but one of them at least had a nice sound system and was playing Darude, so we took some time to dance.
One thing I'm coming to understand more and more about partying on DP is that they don't really make drinks here. Everything is distributed straight up. Last night I partook of Cobra, Jose Cuerbo, Captain Morgan, and some cheap vodka of which I never learned the name.
After we were done partying we decided to go for a walk on the beach. After we were only down there for like five or so minutes who do we encounter roaming the coast but Zac. He seems to be there just about every time we go to the beach. We joined him, and ended up walking about two miles further along the coast, so we were well away from school. Anyways, being the bright kids we are, we decided to go swimming at that point. To make a long story short we had a couple mile journey back to Manzanita in wet, cold clothes.
When we did get back here we found some guys sitting around with a soccer ball, so we joined them and had a little passing and monkey in the middle. Eventually we all got tired of that, so we headed over to San Nic. We watched part of Fight Club, but by this point we were all exhausted (it was close to 4 by now) so we all just crashed there. |
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| Del Playa |
[Sep. 24th, 2005|11:10 am] |
So last night I went partying on Del Playa for the first time. I'd of course walked up and down the street before, and seen all the chaos and partiage, but I'd never actually gone into one before.
The first party we went to was on the south side of the street, right above the cliffs. We walked back into the yard, and the first thing we saw was the band. They had their little stage set up, and were dressed in your typical Metallica-rocker type fashion, but they were actually playing really mellow Marley-esque music. We went up the stairs to the balcony and had a good laugh as we watched some other freshmen trying to operate the keg tap. Eventually, after much shens, we got out beers, and just stood on the balcony and watched the band and the ocean.
We wandered around there for a little bit longer, and did a tiny bit of dancing, before we headed back out onto DP. The next party we came too was also band-oriented. This band, called Picket Line, was actually playing from a trailer with a fold out stage, and filled with AV equipment. It was really cool. Oh, and the singers were actually standing on amps up on the roof of the trailer. In addition to playing some pretty decent music the band were throwing out free merchendise. I snagged a Picket Line t-shirt, which means I can go one more day without doing laundry.
At this point Arina (who has by now definately learned her lesson) was so sick of walking around DP in heels that we decided to grab some munchies at Freebirds, then head back to my place. We came back and hung out with Paul for a while, and then went into the lounge to watch some tv. We got a little That 70's show, and some Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
At this point we were getting pretty tired; cause we had both been missing sleep during the week because of those annoying classes. Arina just crashed in my room because her roomate's boyfriend was over for the night, and she didn't want to interrupt them. We had just switched off the lights and were going to go to bed when the phone rang.
I was super excited; finally I had a chance to spend more than three minutes on the phone with Allie. I practically ran into the lounge and answered. We talked for a little while, and then Allie decided to go to bed, so I came back and went to sleep too. |
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