i guess i feel obligated to talk about my weekend.
thursday, i had chapter for the first time in a long time. i hate how my days are segmented. junior seminar from nine until ten, seneca from ten until eleven fifteen, archaeology from two forty five until four, and then chapter at six. this thursday, however, i also was supposed to go to one to one studios at nine to meet josh hailey. allison purves was also looking into the internship, so we headed over together.
i felt like a complete outsider, and being sober as the only stranger in a room full of people who know each other is kind of unnerving. especially when the person who is the reason you are there has not arrived yet. we chatted a bit about our semesters and growing discomfort in a new environment, but i think i felt a bit more at ease once the music started.
i ended up seeing a good number of people i knew, including jeff, one of my favorite regulars when i still worked at starbucks, the new religious studies teacher who stole meagan malone's identity, grant, who i had still not seen since i was back, melanie, and erin (though i'm not sure of the spelling on the last two). met josh and a few other people, and ultimately our out was granted when the guy working the door said we should just come back during the day some time and we had more work to do, so we headed back. martha left right as i was getting back on campus, and since we didn't sync up i kind of abandoned her. i just ended up hanging out with sam and james and listening to a file i got with a pretty amazing little diddy in it.
went to sleep, woke up to study for greek at 730, finished my roman legacy reading for friday a good chunk of monday's reading during the hour i had to kill after finishing studying and my class at ten. greek and roman legacy both went really well, and i finally feel like i'm getting my ~groove back in the classroom. i'm not as intimidating walking in every day, which is nice. then kava for a while with martha, whitney, april, david and jordan. then back to april's room for a bit, then i tried to escape for a nap, only to be talked into studying outside with sam. i finished the rest of my livy reading, then went back, took a short nap, then reuben's with martha and april. irene was working, so we chatted with her for a bit, too.
got dressed, then april came over and we drank a bit before melanie and martha came to pick us up. we went to martin's, which was dead, and only stayed for a little while before heading over to fenian's, which was packed. travis' band was playing, and a ton of people turned out. the crowd definitely thinned out as the night went on, and we were there until last call. stephanie, her boyfriend, and whitney's friend from home, rob, where there, too. it was really a good time, though i was pretty quiet. i kind of talked to april about why i am so quiet these days, and i think it helped being able to chat about it. i don't want to hide behind alcohol to be social, so i'm trying to ease myself back into the situation, and so far, so good. i saw kevin, jimmy, a bunch of old people i would always see around the lambda chi house, and josh downer. stephanie drove april and i back to campus after we walked to ava's, where i finally called it a night. i woke up at 7:30, again, and sat around on the computer and watching tv until i finally fell back asleep around 9:30. slept until around eleven, when april called to go to waffle house with whitney.
i have only been to waffle house twice before in my life, so i guess this was the charmed third time. ava showed up as we were finishing up, so we all just chatted about the night before and our day ahead. gas, beer, and a liquor run later, april and i headed back to whitney's to watch the memphis/tennessee game. it wasn't showing on tv, so rob rigged the computer up to the tv to stream it online. it took a bit more effort than it was worth, however. josh downer texted me about meeting for coffee, which had completely slipped my mind, but i was stuck at the apartment since i hadn't driven there. after the game, april, ava, and i headed back home, where i checked my e-mail only to leave shortly thereafter for thai food.
james had never had thai food before, so it was an interesting experience. the thai iced tea, which was basically bubble tea minus the boba, was fantastic. we went to bops afterwards, since i always tend to get ice cream after thai food for some odd reason, and then back to the room. then i sat in my room, listening to all-american rejects, blonde redhead, and fleet foxes on shuffle, haha. i decided not to go back to whitney's for margaritas, which was probably a solid choice with the red curry and strawberry cheesecake concrete in my stomach. i don't have much of a stomach for tequila these days anyway. except trudy's margaritas. those are the shit. lethal, but amazing.
i passed out, woke up at 10:45, really confused, watched supernatural online, and then went back to sleep. i woke up again at 5:45 and at 8, then finally went back to sleep until 10. i read for a while, started getting my life organized in latin and greek (a different binder for my word lists, and a notebook for my notes. class discussion, and bits of translation - it will be SO much better now). i had an amazing bagel for lunch, then nick came over with coffee at around 1:30. just sat around, listening to mae, laying in bed, tenatively trying to figure out if we have any common ground in music. not knowing jimmy eat world is going to be a problem. and he will have to start to love andrew, or it is a no go. or at least be quiet about it if he hates it. i hate meeting new people when i know we share little to no middle ground. i gravitate towards different things than he does, and if you know me at all, i hardly talk about anything other than my music, so if we don't share it - it will be a problem.
he stayed until about 4:30, when i started updating on here, trying to sift through old memo pads. then hang out in sam's room, caf, then back here where i have been bumming around online for far too long. i was trying to cling on to the haze as i slowly slipped into clarity, and now the caffeine is finally cutting through the fog. time for greek, i suppose.
another day, another update.
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