From my friends… from my goals. It’s weird. I try to hang out with friends as much as possible, and yet I can sit in a room full of people I know and feel so disconnected. As for getting ahead in life… I feel like I’m dead in the water. Like… I “know” what I should be doing. But I’m not doing it. It almost feels like I can’t. But I’m sure it’s more of “I won’t” right now. And I don’t know why.

So I randomly hit the home page of a friend I haven’t really talked to in a while. I still have his SN on my “non-APhiO” SN, and looked at his profile out of boredom. He graduated from Johns Hopkins with a BS in Biomedical Engineering and a BA in Electrical Engineering, and is now “developing a comprehensive software model of a normal human ventricular myocyte.” He also worked on a fetal model for a mechanical human childbirth simulator which went on to win the student design competition at the 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society while he was a senior at JHU. This is a guy I used to play four-square and NES games with. We used to compete over everything. Then he moved to a better school and skipped a grade, and it all went downhill for me.

:sigh: So enough doom and gloom for one post. Let’s talk about what happened yesterday.

Woke up early to go flyering. Picked up Izzy, and met up with Drew, Katrina, Kevin, and Merry on campus. I was chair, so yeah, brought the stuff, split the folks, and laid out the battle plan. Izzy, Kevin, and I went east, like I always end up doing. Around the time we hit Olsen, got a call from Katrina. Some lady who identified herself as somehow connected to ASUCD came into the room where Katrina and Merry were working and told them that we were illegally flyering, and would be charged extra clean-up fees or somesuch. So I decided we would call it a day. Didn’t really think anything would happen, but I wanted to play it safe. Oh, apparently some other person was stalking Drew as he was stapling the big flyers up on the boards, too. :sheesh: Why on my day as chair?

Went home, and obviously online for a bit. No one was up yet. Well, no one who didn’t need to study for something. So back to sleep I went. Talked to Alice for a bit. We discussed the flyering incident and she tried to get me to table with her at Safeway for the Spaghetti Feed. I slept some more. Then went home home.

Got home to find no one there except my little sister. We watched Hidalgo together. It was OK. Just very anti-climactic. (I just noticed I use that to describe a lot of things nowadays. Am I becoming embittered and cynical?) But yeah, seemed like the movie was just picking up, then the obligatory bad guy trap was sprung, but the hero overcame it despite injuries to himself and the horse (mostly to the horse) and won with pure strength of heart.

Napped for a bit, and then it was time for dinner. Home cooking is so awesome. I would go home home every day for dinner if I could. Talked about some upcoming family stuff. Mostly my cousin’s wedding this summer. And thus the march begins. She’s the oldest of the cousins. I’m fifth. Let’s see how long this takes. Cousin #2 already has a man lined up. Not sure about #3 and #4. But soon… I’ll be getting the third degree from the aunts and uncles about my :cough: love life. They kinda kid about it now, but I have a feeling it will be stepped up a notch this summer. Yay!

Back to Davis after dinner. Talked online for a bit to see if anyone else wanted to go to Aywon’s. Then I headed over to Alice’s to drop off the flyering supplies. Got her, Becca, and David to come, too. Drove over to Sharps, parked at Joe’s end of the complex, and walked over with him.

Bao greeted us at the door with loud obscenities. Got some pressure to drink, but they laid off us pretty fast. I hear they are going to try to get us all on Wednesday. Starting with Peggy. Supposedly she is now the weak link in our Lent Wagon Club chain, so hopefully she can hold out. (Because if she can’t… I’m afraid of the possibilities.) It was fun watching all the drunkies even though I couldn’t join in on the festivities. Especially since I haven’t seen Bethany at a party in ages. (My fault, though, since she did invite me to one the other day.) CFAA makes me sad. Moreso when it’s intra-family. Hmm… what shall be quote of the day?

“Allan loves to be called an FF - Fruity Flip!”- Bao.
“Dude, you sound like a breakfast cereal!”- Joe.

Then that began a bunch of milk does your body good jokes. (Which always reminds me of the Fatal Fury OAVs. Or was it the movie? Either way… does anyone know what I’m talking about? ) And Drew challenging the TAK house to be “true” to their hardcore frattiness and have beerios at “Info Night.”

So my away message last night was “Vicariously binge drinking” and I didn’t realize how true that would be. Minh and Aywon in particular got really messed up. Aywon would go puke and walk back into the room with at least two new beers - one for himself and one for someone else. I was amazed. Where did they even come from? Did he hide some behind the toilet?! People started trickling out, and then suddenly two or three carloads of pledges came around 1, when everyone was on the verge of passing out, and there was no booze left. Just sat around some more after that, until I finally said I wanted to go home and sleep. Aywon and Jeannie definitely looked like they wanted to sleep, but stayed up to entertain us. They are such great hosts!

So yeah, went home, but I couldn’t sleep, so went online. Ended up talking to some people, of course. Kept Cathy company for days because she was the only one who actually stayed up to study at the insane all-nighter complex that was Genie’s apartment.

Here’s the table of disgrace:

I owe Aywon a good strong shot. Or at least a beer chug.

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