Overall the past two weeks have not been good. Projects and finals have taken up a lot of time, sanity, and years away from my life. Then, I got sick and threw up in the bathroom, the day before my final. Now I'm sweating in my room wondering why my room is so warm in the first place but at least it's good to sweat it out a little. The only good part of the last two weeks have been a couple expensive nights in downtown Santa Barbara (expensive by my standards, at least).
One night was a farewell party for a labmate who's going back home to Turkey for a month. It made me feel like I was 21. Not so I could drink, but so that I wouldn't have to be the guy who altered the celebratory plans. We took a quick detour to Java Jones and then turned right back around to the bar the rest of the group was going to. Some valuable socializing missed.
The other night was with a guy I knew and a girl from a class I took last quarter and her dormmate. The events leading up to this night were classic. While talking to the girl online, she says something about the dormmate finding the guy in my facebook hot and that we all should do something together. This topic went on for a little while, with ideas of what do to, etc. I wasn't really planning on saying anything to the guy, until they nudged me. Well, I probably wanted to a little, since it was so funny in it's high school-ish manner. So I bring the guy into the loop. It gets to the point that I give the dormmate the guy's screenname and tell them to talk it out themselves. The next day, I hear something the dormmates ranting about me and how it was all a joke blown out of proportion. Of course, now that makes it all the more hilarious. But they've met, at least online, and can do whatever they want to do.
I'm talking to the girl later. She and her dormmate want to do something and wondered if I want to go, which was fine with me, and they've invited the guy too. And that was "the other night," as referenced above. End of story.
The night itself was fun: we ate dinner at the SB Brewery Co. and ice cream at Coldstone; I saw a volume of Bleach manga in Borders; and we watched Hitch. But nothing quite as funny as the backstory.
However, that was two nights out of like the last ten. So I hope your past few weeks have been better.
