Insomniac

Man, feel­ing a lit­tle light-​headed right now. I think my caf­feine dose is kick­ing in. But let’s start at the beginning…

What did I do yes­ter­day? Woke up at around 7:30 for no par­tic­u­lar rea­son. No one else was up at that time, so I went back to sleep. About 5 min­utes later, Joe M called me up… appar­ently he for­got to go pick up his BB from the air­port, and was just call­ing around to make sure no one else had gone in his stead. Went back to sleep again and woke up around noon­ish. Chat­ted online for a large part of the day. Had “lunch” around 3 again. It was half of my Baldo’s. Man, I’ve got­ten used to hav­ing a meal a day for the last week. Is that weird? Start­ing watch­ing my old The Tick episodes. I love that show… so deli­ciously ran­dom. Spoon!

Joe M came over for a bit, then we headed off to ExComm at Lamp­post, even though nei­ther one of us was needed. After ExComm was the first rush event, Pizza Night! Offi­cially, there were twenty-​something poten­tial pledges there. I met… Po, Linda, Lin, Liz, Chris, Haley, Tyler, and Tony. Funny story about how I met Tony. In fact, it’s quote!

“Dinh, I need you!”- Alice C, pulling me away from Drew and Steph Liu.
“Huh? What’s going on?”- Me.
“I need you to talk nerdy! This guy says he’ll pledge if I find some­one nerdier than him!”- Alice C.

So yeah, that’s how I met Tony. But unfor­tu­nately, I did not rise to the chal­lenge. I was not nerdy enough to answer his hard­ware ques­tion, because I don’t really fol­low hard­ware unless I’m about to build a sys­tem. He says he’ll still con­sider pledg­ing, though.

Emily fin­ished the IPhi comic and handed it to me before turn­ing it into Jack­son. It looks great! I can’t wait for the first issue of Expres­sions! Oh yeah… I still need to write a pro­file, too… Split a pizza with Drew and Joe M. Oh, and Clint came by! He said he’s not plan­ning on get­ting a LB this term, but I’m hop­ing to still keep him as active as pos­si­ble. “Helped” Drew and Steph Liu with all the stuff they are fill­ing out in hopes that we will win some awards at Sec­tion­als. Oh, and talked about pos­si­ble Sec­tion­als t-​shirts designs.

After pizza, went to Brandon’s, where I was sup­posed to work on the t-​shirt. But instead, we sat around and talked. Talked to Chris, Clay­ton, and Michelle about Sneak/​Snatch in par­tic­u­lar. Went on Brandon’s com­puter to look for inspi­ra­tion online, but noth­ing really jumped out at me. Oh, while I was online there, though, Mommy Tang talked me into stay­ing up until 5 with her and get­ting cof­fee when Star­bucks opened. Joe M was my ride, and he went home shortly after that, so I did, too. Chat­ted online some more, and before I knew it, it was 4:30. IMed Mommy Tang a cou­ple of times to ask if we were still on for cof­fee, but she didn’t answer. Then Drew talked Eddie C, and through him, me, into chalk­ing. So we got cof­fee (I had a dou­ble espresso) and went to campus.

Our group hit Young, Olson, Ever­son, Roessler, Chem, and Hutchi­son. Then we went home. Now the caf­feine I had at around 6 has finally kicked in, and I’m not even tired. Well… men­tally tired… but phys­i­cally… I’m not even yawn­ing anymore.

And I’m sup­posed to have Fuji’s at 12. Should I nap? I think I’m going to force myself to. Those of you who know me know that I’m usu­ally not like this at all. I can usu­ally fall asleep at the drop of a hat. But today… is just odd. Here’s hop­ing I don’t go into sleep-​deprivation-​induced seizures at the active meet­ing today.

Tags: Alice C, Computer, Eddie C, Joe M, Steph L, Work