Massive Procrastination leads to Massive Update

I know I'm procrastinating my research paper when I've resorted to doing laundry, taking a shower, and washing my makeup brushes within a few hours of tonight. Now I'm going to update on my past couple weeks as I've neglected to document my last few weeks of college. (Que panic)

Tuesday, 5/13/08: Duel Birthdays and No Finished Gifts
Today was both Cassie and Shian's birthdays. I every year I run into this situation and this year I'm proud to say that I made BOTH birthday events/dinners. Shian's birthday dinner was at this cute restaurant in downtown La Jolla where I bought her the "strongest drink you have" (aka Long Island Iced Tea) and got her adequately intoxicated.


I then rushed to Cassie's dinner which was ridiculous because there was a spectrum of people from her life all at one table. It was pretty interesting, really, and even the Boys-from-upstairs showed up! It's nice to see how some things in life are still constant, especially with people.



Wednesday, 5/14/08: Sunny, Social Day with a Scattering of Dance
I always try to reserve my Wednesday breaks for my 1st year girls: Cassie, Kat and Linda. Those two hours between 1pm and 3pm are one of the highlights of my entire week! That day happened to be extra special because a.) the weather was gorgeous, sunny and perfect. Just how San Diego SHOULD be! b.) I was with my girls c.) we ran into many other friends during those few hours! Oh, how I'll miss PC. Though, I won't be missing the moment where pledges run up and greet me in front of my non-affiliated friends. Awkward and embarrassing!

Later that night, Sierra, Linda, Kat Cheung and I all ventured downtown to seek out Salsa dancing! It's something I've always wanted to do and it did NOT disappoint! Cafe Sevilla was everything I had imagined a Salsa Club to be. The bouncer, Mike, was really friendly and gave us free passes for the night (he also had ridiculously long eyelashes, it's so unfair). You then had to walk downstairs to the underground level where there was a small entrance. Suddenly, it would open up to be this hot, humid, spread out dance floor where the red lighting and live band gave it the perfect dance mood. Random guys came up to ask us to dance and while I've never really Salsa'ed before, it was so much fun. As long as the guy was a good lead, following was pretty simple.

Speaking of Sierra and Linda, we also went out to celebrate Sierra earlier in the month! She earned Honors in her major! So we went to Hillcrest and picked out an Indian restaurant to eat. Yum!



Thursday, 5/15/08: Grunion(less) Run!
Kat, Cassie, Linda and I all attempted to see the infamous Grunions...but to no avail. They were definitely no where in sight that night! Oh well, it's ok! We ended up taking a romantic stroll up (very far up) along Mission Beach and ran around the life guard towers a bit.



Friday, 5/16/08: Crap, I forget already. I need Kat to remind me. [EDIT] OMGz I'm a retard: SUNGOD FESTIVAL!
I can't believe I forgot what Friday was (that is SO not a reference to how the day was) but it was definitely my best Sungod! Not because the concert or the events were great, but because of the company, of course! To sum up my feelings about UCSD's administration: I hate you and you're all a bunch of squares who are trying to control us and ruin our college experience because you're all bitter about your own lives.

Anyways, the day started out with an amazing breakfast of Hello Kitty waffles with strawberries, bacon, sausage, eggs and Strawberry Mimosas! We had a bunch of friends over...I forget who exactly altogether but Linda eventually made her way over as well as Jean! Sierra had to work a half day so she couldn't meet up with us in the morning, but joined us later in the afternoon!

After breakfast, Linda, Jean and I went to do a little bit of shopping for Salsa dresses and skirts at UTC! We donned our swimsuits because we had planned to swim in the fountains on campus, but we heard that they drained the fountains and roped off any access. How much does UCSD suck? No bounds, I tell ya. Anyways, me and Linda decided that the only way to make it right was to swim with the dolphins. The UTC dolphins!


Yes, oh yes we did. We're obviously not very photogenic underwater, but it was rushed and we didn't actually want to get in trouble. Then again, do you think they'd really arrest two girls in bikinis? I hope not. What kind of world is that?

After that quick dip, we scampered off back to Costa Verde and went to an actually swimming pool to just lounge and relax. I got a call from Adam and was informed of a gathering at Christine's place (also at Costa). So after we got bored of the pool, we wandered on over there. I dont' know why people were so surprised at seeing us in bathing suits, we were just at the pool! Yay for Bikini Fridays!

We also rampaged through McDonald's across the street. We didn't meet the shirt and pants requirement but they were very understanding of the need for some fun so they let us order our meals anyways, haha.

FINALLY, we took the shuttle to campus. Weren't we surprised to see it completely DEAD. I mean, it was like a weekend! So very different from all the other Sungods where people are wandering around, people running into friends, just fun in general. It's like the one day of the year where we feel like a college campus and have some sort of pride. Anyways, we took and quick photo in front of the Sungod, and what do you know, the Koala DOES have it's upside: it maintained it waterslide tarp up on Muir Lawn!



There was one smaller hole that was in the middle of the tarp, and of course my arm went through it as I slid down, face first. It yanked my right arm back and left a nasty burn mark that later scabbed over. =(

Thanks to Jean, who was our photographer!

We went to Pei's place to drop off some stuff and then went to where the real fun was at: IHouse! Seriously, one thing I've learned about UCSD is that IHouse is where it's at. Everyone is so friendly and the international kids are so much more spontaneous. People wandering in and out of dorms and making new friends.

After spending most of the afternoon in that area (I finally found Irvin again), we decided to check out this new system of UCSD's where they combined everything about Sungod into the RIMAC area. Basically, it blew. We had to stand in this HUUUGE line to get in before a certain time and it was just so ridiculous. Ugh. I just did not like that. I ended up losing Sierra and Jean at some point but I ended up taking a nap on the lawn for a little bit. Anyways, I think I saw Shian and a couple other people but this part was a bit confusing.

Thanks for letting me nap on you, haha.

I watched/listened to Sean Kingston "Kingston, Kingston...(echo echo echo...)" and he was not a very good entertainer. He didn't even perform all his hits all the way! =( Anyways, I found Cassie and Linda and we tried to figure out when Kat was going to perform her LAST dance! We found her too! Yay! She said that they were going to perform on the side stage and that if we saw it light up, we should haul ass there.

Meanwhile, some guy was hitting on Cassie and it was awkward trying to ignore him. Then he turns around to go back to his friends and his friends turned out to be me and Irvin's friend and THAT was awkward. O_o Go figure! Suddenly, I turned and saw the side stage lit up so me, Cassie and Linda sprinted for the stage. We got there with enough time to get front stage seats!

They were amazingg! I'll post the video, too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D26VBozc5ew
They even had different shows like these weird acrobats and other dancers. Pretty cool! I think that the side stage was possibly better than the concert!

After THAT, we were some of the last ones on campus as most people left the concert (bad signs!). We were hungry again so Kat, Cassie, Linda, Irvin and I went to Tea Station to get some food and drinks! So Asian, haha. After that, we were pretty exhausted so we dropped them off home and called it a night. Whew!

I love themmm!

Saturday, 5/17/08: Sorry Ronnie, we went to LA.
So Saturday was supposed to be a recovery during the day and the follow up of Sixth College reunions. We went to the beach and it was PERFECT. I mean, when San Diego has good weather, it's incredible. We took the bus from campus so that we wouldn't have to deal with parking...good thing too! It was SO CROWDED at the beach! Oh well, it made it that much more fun!

We were hungry, so we trekked to a burger joint up on the main road and ate yummy greasiness. Totally worth it. Eric and Gary even visited SD, though I didn't get to see them much. Sorry! I walked up and down the whole beach looking for those guys when they actually ended up walking up to the other end looking for ME. Go figure. I even ran into Garcia and Jess. Fun day!

Later that night, Ronnie was throwing a welcome home party for his brother...but instead, we tried this whole "spontaneous" run we were having and decided to drive up to LA. Why? Because I got invited to Eva Longoria's new restaurant opening party. The words that were used to describe it to me were "red carpet", "exclusive", and "you should come if you can handle the paparazzi". O_o I don't think they would take pictures of us, but the idea that paparazzi would be there was crazy! So being silly, we were like, OKAY LETS GO!

Unfortunately, LA traffic got the better of us and we ended up missing the party. Oh well, we ended up going to a club for a little bit and then grabbing some amazing breakfast food for a super late dinner. Thanks anyways, Larry!



Sunday, 5/15/08: I don't remember. =(

Okay, that is my bulk update for that one week. I'll return to do this past week at another time!