Konstantine- Something Corporate

Just back from Philadelphia like 2 hrs ago. Great, great weekend.
And time for the quick recap (yes, you know my "quick" means tediously, horribly long-winded):

Friday- Suffered through my 2 favourite classes (they were good. Got a good grade on my first college paper!) Got to the bus station easily (made all the metro stops, etc) and had a long wait at the station. Got to 'Delphia around 9:30 where Jo, Ashley and Jarnese picked me up (they had one hell of a time finding the place) and went back to CHC where we just chilled and talked 'til late into the night/morning.

Saturday- Slept late, had lunch and just chilled most of the afternoon. Went to see Without a Paddle w/ Jo and Alisha (absolutely HILARIOUS movie) and then we drove around for a while. Came back to the campus to find Gavin and some of Jo's other friends in the process of getting completely drunk off their asses. Gavin is absolutely the FUNNIEST drunk ever. I think the "Broken Dick" story speaks for itself. After making sure he didn't die we talked to Bill and Nick (?) for a while and they made me talk on the phone to their friend George (w/e).

Oh, and on a side note, Jo dyed my hair. Darker brown now, I liked it a lot. She did a great job.

We did a lot of other stuff as well, I just don't feel like typing it. Ask if you're interested. I did get "dorm sick" though and while I shall miss Jo and the people I met up there, I'm happy to be home.

On another note- I'm REALLY REALLY hating int'l relations. It just has too many ties to economics for my taste. I also think I'm going to switch to a major in Justice, Law and Society (JLS) and a minor inr history. I just like JLS so much more and it's such a better prep. for law school. Also, Dr. Butterton thinks I should look into the law school @ the University of Chicago. Woot.

Oh, and my mommy sent me clothes and ramen noodles!

Aloha- (yeah, I don't know what that was about either.)

This week's been good. I had a lot of homework, as well as a Russian history paper and debate to do, but they went well. Thursday night I was freaking out because I had my first college paper to write. I mean technically I've been writing college papers since 10th grade, but this is different...we shall see how well I do, mwahaha.

The weekend's been a lot of fun also. On Friday night I was feeling sick and tired (reaction to the TB test I needed for my interview) so I went to bed early and slept late. But on Saturday I went to the rugby team's party. It was a costume deal, so some of the girls on my floor got decked out in complete 80s-regalia. It was an impressive sight to behold. I however, just wore jeans, THE slut shirt (hehe) and a red sox baseball jersey stolen from Lindsey. Joanna went as a lifegaurd and kept blowing her damn wistle so Erin and I joked that we were going to wait until she was completely intoxicated then steal and convince an even more drunk frat boy to swallow it, alas I ended up hanging out w/ some guys from Leonard Hall and never got to see this fun deed played out. *insert sad sigh here* The cops busted up the party due to noise complaints. So I ended up walking home on Massachusetts w/ some people who I had never known before that night. Got back to the dorm, watched a bit of Fight Club w/ some people before crashing into an unflappable sleep which lasted until 12:30 this afternoon. Life is good.

Now I'm writing my College Writing definition essay. It's title: "Horse racing: Adrenleine Rush or Animal Abuse" and it's turning out rather well thus far. It's also not due until Tuesday so I'm so proud of myself for starting now!!!

Next weekend it's off to Philadelphia to visit Jo and whoever else I can. Senior Week 3: The Adventure that Never Really Ends Continues in Philadelphia!

California- Phantom Planet

Last night some people from Northside, Meghan and I went to Georgetown w/ the intent of just walking around. However, Meghan and I managed to get us into a 21 and over jazz bar/restaurant thing that was absolutely awesome. The band was great and Meghan got up and danced w/ some old guy who could seriously dance. It was great. I discovered that not only is Giddeon from Gettysburg, he went to Delone! Small world. It was like, "omg! Someone who knows what rt. 30 is!!!". After the longass walk from Georgetown to the metro and finally getting back to AU we watched a bit of Cruel Intentions then Meghan and I just talked about life/friends/etc for a couple of hrs. Overall a good night w/o going to a frat. I'm happy.

Today we went "TDR shopping" aka stealing food from the dining room and taking it back to the dorm @ brunch then I went to Pentagon City and Georgetown w/ some people from Arabic. Fun stuff.

Now my feet really really hurt and I want to go out but I don't want to go out, ya know?

Oh, got invited to a "heaven and hell" party @ some frat w/ GW next week. Maybe I'll go...

Parents came down for dinner tonight w/ me since my bday is coming up shortly. It was really good to see them, but kind of weird at the same time, just because it's not the same anymore. I was horribly, horribly home sick yesterday, but feeling much much better now. It's weird becuase the homesickness comes in spurts and bouts.

Other then the horrible homesickness this weekend's been fun. I was in Georgetown all night Friday until around 5am. Really really beautiful area, but I prefer Adams Morgan. Saturday ran around D.C. a bit more and then today I woke up late, had brunch w/ people from the floor and then cleaned my room and such waiting for parents. No classes tomorrow so I'm going to sleep late and then get my work done.

Oh, fyi: Cheesecake Factory is DELICIOUS!!!!!

So classes are going well. Arabic seems manageable. Not fun or easy, but manageable. To think that one day I may actually be able to write and understand that language is beyond comprehension. I got my topic for my term paper in Beyond Sovereignty. It's going to be War Crimes laws involving immunity. Should be interesting. My lit. prof. is amazing. I'm so glad I didn't test out of that class now. Math really really sucks, but we all knew it would, didn't we? And history is just flat out hard. It's even worse because I just know a teeny bit of Russian history when it seems like everyone else knows so much. Also doesn't help that I'm fairly certain I'm the only freshman in the class...

Thank god the weekend's here...I need to have some fun w/o worrying about waking up early the next day and so forth and so on.

On a really annoying note, my damn printer won't work!!!! Ugh. I have to find some time between my Russian History, my interview and lunch tomorrow to take the disc I made to the library to print. Of course that means going back into the bowels of hell but c'est la vie.