With the combination of being tired, bored, and frustrated with my computer, I am not going to take the time to describe my weekend in detail. This will be a mere overview. This weekend has been extremely eventful. So, my last post was Thursday morning. I'll take it from there.
Thursday day/night:
Since I dropped my jogging class and only have lab once a week, I only had one class on Thursday. What did I do with the free time I had suddenly acquired? I studied. I had to! I wanted to go star gazing with the excursion club later. I've made a few friends from the excursion club now and some of them wanted to meet up and "pregame" (which means drink before attending an event for those who didn't know). I wasn't intending on being intoxicated while stargazing but, at my eagerness to get to know more people, I jumped at the opportunity. (Keep score, readers. So far, that is 2 nights in a row that I drank with friends.) Afterwards, we met up with the leaders and other members of the excursion club at Embarcadero Hall. We mingled for a while before heading up the mountains in our separate cars. My DD (sober, I promise) ended up losing the car we were following, we got lost. After about 45 minutes of trying to find our way, we gave up and found a spot on the side of the road that over looked the city and still had a beautiful view of the stars. It wasn't what we came up for but it was still amazing. I hung out with some friends once we got back for a little while and then, eventually, headed up to my place and went to sleep.
Friday:
Friday-day was normal. I went to all 3 of my classes and was exhausted through all of them. I tried to study in between my classes because I was convinced to go out with some people that night. (Last wednesday a couple of sweet girls introduced themselves and, when they found out I haven't gone to a party despite the one I went to in my complex a week before, told me I had to go out with them that weekend) I said no at first, with the pressures of studying at hand, but like I said I don't want to turn down too many opportunities to get to know new people and experience new things. I was eventually convinced. Around 7, I went to a mass curry dinner. The cook made, what I thought was a vegetarian curry for me, only to be told later (during drunk banter) that he used chicken broth... it got ugly after that.
Anyways, after the dinner sabotage, I went out with the girls and a couple of my guy friends to Del Playa (night 3 of drinking with people). This is the party street that everyone at home was telling me to avoid because it's right on the bluffs and drunk people fall off occasionally. This is, also, the party street that everyone here was telling me I needed to go to. I decided I wanted to experience it. I definitely chose the right people to go with. They know everyone and everywhere to go. I met so many people, they have all turned into one big blur. It was a stimulus overload! There were hundreds of people walking on the streets, there were strobe/laser lights, fog machines, D.J.'s. People were dressed up or barely dressed. EVERY apartment was having a party. I don't know how they do it every weekend. It was an awesome night, needless to say. The El Dorado (my apartment complex) crew all met back up in the end and headed to Freebirds for some community nachos. It was a bonding moment ;).
Saturday:
My day was dedicated to O chem reading. I am proud to say that I really did study all day. I went to the coffee shop and left my computer behind so I wouldn't be distracted. I even continued to study once I got home. I even told the people I went out with the day before that I wouldn't go out because I was in the mood to study. I continued to study while I was cooking for my roommate and me. I was so proud of myself. Then, my roommate got bored and really wanted to go out. I eventually caved and called up my friends who were out and about and told them we were going to meet up with them. We did. Four nights in a row people!! I never do this... EVER! I've done this once before while I was traveling, but that's it. I hope I have more will power to turn down a night or two in the future. I now understand why everyone calls this the party school. Anyways, we did the same thing. We party hopped. I got to go up to some balconies to overlook all the people which is insanity. We didn't stay out as long but we had our trip to freebirds afterwards again and met up with the El Dorado people. I hung out with everyone until I could not any longer.
Sunday:
Because I didn't get to study as much as I possibly could the days before, I punished myself by not going on the hike to the three pools I've been looking forward to all week and turned down an offer to go surfing. I cleaned my kitchen and bathroom and then studied immediately after. Around 5:00, I went for a sunset run. I thought my run would help with my lack of motivation to deal with my crappy internet and crappy physics, but it only made me want to shower and curl up in bed, only to fall asleep to a comforting movie. I tried to fight it but I have just been staring at a pile of unopened notebooks and textbooks for the last 3 hours. I took this unproductive moment to catch up on blogging an now I'm giving up and going to bed. There is no use in studying in this state of mind, I won't retain anything. Therefore, I am going to curl up in bed and watch Amelie now. Tomorrow is a start of a new week... a new, productive week.
Here's a picture of Del Playa to give you an idea of what goes on:
Granted, this is on Halloween, so this is more exaggerated then going on a regular weekend night. Picture this but with gaps in between the people... and less people.. and a little less costumes. I've decided that Isla Vista is Neverland. It's the land of lost kids with no parental supervision. This is the reality check to every kids' "world without adults." To all my elders who are reading this blog, don't worry about me. I still have my responsible tendencies. I am still the one at these parties who ends up taking care of the fallen, whether I know them or not. I am still the one that brings the bandaids and goes on water runs. I am Isla Vistas "Wendy." You have nothing to worry about.
Good night party people. I miss all of you guys.
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