Peaches

Hmm… got three days to catch up on. I bet­ter get crack­ing. Good thing inter­net is down, so I have noth­ing else to do again. OK, that’s a bit of a lie, I DO have more manga to read, thanks to Merry and her end­less list of stuff for me, but I fig­ure I should think of you, my dili­gent read­ers, before think­ing of myself.

So… Fri­day… woke up around 7:30. Went online for a bit. Got ready for my day, which started with a project in Roseville. Drew picked me up at 9:15 and we were on our way to the Gal­le­ria. I haven’t been there in ages. It’s mostly upscale girly fash­ion shops. And it’s hella far. The project itself was the “Big Broth­ers Big Sis­ters Vol­un­teer Bou­tique.” Basi­cally a vol­un­teer fair in the mid­dle of the mall with a fash­ion bou­tique theme. It was pretty cool. We just stood there and answered some basic ques­tions and passed out fly­ers at the BBBS booth, try­ing to get more peo­ple involved in the pro­gram. Also went around dur­ing our “breaks” and scoped out the other booths for pos­si­ble projects for us. Drew and I col­lected a bunch of fly­ers and will pass them along at the next ServiceComm.

Came back to Davis and thought about nap­ping, but I would only have time for about 45 min­utes’ worth before my next project, and fig­ured it wasn’t worth it. Sadly, I was low on gas and funds, so I used my coin reserve to get enough gas to drive to the project. Tried to pick up Nancy Bui, but turns out she was in the mid­dle of class and had got­ten a replace­ment. Picked up Nhi and headed off to Arden for the other BBBS event, their Great Chefs fundraiser.

We were the first ones there, because I knew there would be traf­fic on Busi­ness 80. Damn, I hate B-​80/​I-​99 so much nowa­days. I avoid it if at all pos­si­ble dur­ing between 7 AM and 9 PM. Any­ways, we were the set-​up crew. Some folks helped with bal­loons and dec­o­ra­tions and such inside. I was with the crew stand­ing around out­side help­ing ven­dors unload their food and bev­er­age. Wanted to stay and taste some of the stuff, since it looked really good, but that wasn’t our job descrip­tion, and they sent us pack­ing as the event actu­ally started.

Took Nhi back to Davis. She wanted me to take her to her dorm, let her pack some stuff, and then take her to her BB’s place. Man, so demand­ing! After that, went home and chat­ted online. Sophia C and I were com­plain­ing to each other about our allergy symptoms -

Which IS sad, because while I was stand­ing around out­side the BBBS Great Chefs project, the wind picked up and pollen and stuff hit my face and I swear even my cheeks started swelling. I’ve never expe­ri­enced that bad of a reac­tion before.

Then the two of us headed to Miss APhiO. Despite there being only three con­tes­tants (two of ours, and one IC!) this year, it was a great show. I was very enter­tained and give it a hearty three thumbs up. In a per­fect world, every­one would be a win­ner. But sadly, there can only be one, and it was the lovely Miss Plea­sure My Peach. Some peo­ple say it was the hair, but I main­tain it was the tal­ent. Peo­ple don’t real­ize just how impor­tant the tal­ent por­tion is! (Birth­day Fairy approves, Miss Peach! )

After the show, went to get some food, then headed to the D4K sweat­shop. I left early, though, when Eddie picked me up. David was in town, so of course we had to do some­thing. That some­thing ended up being get­ting 40s of Steel Reserve and headed to the Take­mori house. I downed my 40 and then promptly passed out. Woke up when it was time to go home and crash again. But in my own bed.

Tags: Food, Internet, Sophia Chang