There is a chance I may actually go to law scool in August...Yes, I understand how ridiculous that proposition is, but stay tune for details as they come out.
Rizzo was actually at the draft on Thursday...never have I been so envious.
So the tubing camp past three weeks ago and I have yet to comment on it. You all knew that couldn't last. Some brief anecdotes:
1) I got called a pussy...twice..both times by girls. I didn't think they even used that word...First time was at a bar (I got her number, though. hah) and the second time was by Sarah after I turned down a beer. Very emasculating.
2) The lady at the adjoining campsite wore nothing but a thong and a t-shirt that she tied above her stomach all week-end. She also had a propensity to sit either spread eagle or on all fours on top of the picnic table. One might not think that this is so bad, but this wasn't the type of woman you'd like to see in this manner of dress. I wouldn't say that she is fat, just much closer to the before picture than the after.
3) I saved Jennifer's life...ok, that's a gross exaggeration, but let me pretend that I'm a hero for a change. Usually it's people saving me (Liz, Blake, Rob, Sarah).
4) Before the trip, Jeremy and I made odds on each potential pair hooking up on the trip. I'd happily post them here if I wasn't so
6-27-03 - NBA Draft
5-20-03 - Thoughts
5-14-03 - Blake, On Googling Oneself
5-8-03 - Fidelity Optional
5-5-03 - Anniversary Thoughts
5-4-03 - Susan's Column
4-29-03 - Movie Reviews
4-26-03 - Blake's Column
4-23-03 - Reality Television
4-22-03 - Theme Column
Archives
1) "I Hope I Just Didn't Give Away the Ending" - New Radicals
2) "Bohemian Like You" - Dandy Warhols
3) "Get in or Get Out"- Hot Hot Heat
4) "Hopeless Case of a Kid in Denial" - Hellacopters
5) "You and I Both" - Jason Mraz
6) "You Turn Me On" - Ugly Americans
7) "Thirsty" - The Roots
8) "The Slow Descent'" - New Pornographers
9) "Hooche Mama" - The Datsuns
10) "Got to Get You Off of My Mind"-Solomon Burke
5) Saturday night after tubing, Kevin received a call from Chris informing all of us that he proposed to Amy. Chris is the first of my guy college friends to get engaged, and my reaction to that surprised me. Instead of feeling the need to chide him for breaking down, I was genuinely happy for both of them. So Chris and Amy, all of my best wishes and my most heartfelt congratulations.. But isn't December 20th a little soon? Glad we never placed any money on this, I would have bet heavy on Nick as the first to go.
This all seems the appropriate time to tell my favorite Amy story, one that most of you have already heard ad nauseum. My freshmen year, I went down to South Padre for spring break with 8 of my friends. Out of my group of friends, I think I was the only one who drank much (Wow, things have changed). Anyways, the second night there, we go to Louie's, a club on the island. I show the bouncer my Nebraska id which clearly showed my age as 18, but I put my wrist out and the doorman gamely provided me with a wristband. Sadly, none of my friends followed suit. So I went straight to the bar, but for all intents and purposes, I was drinking by myself. Not to let a good wristband go to waste, I drank heroically that night. I think I had more alcohol that night than the rest of my group had drank in their combined lives. Eventually, we left Louie's to head over to Charlie's, either because we had a perverse desire to pay multiple covers AND waste the power that my wristband held or because Jimmy was chasing after a girl...you decide. At this point for me, the night begins to get a little fuzzy. We find the girl that Jimmy was into along 5 of her friends...one of which was Amy. The two groups amke forced small talk, never one of my favorite activities, so I head my 18 year old ass over to the bar. The Charlie's bartender was kind enough to serve me with my Louie's wristband...what a sport. So I head back over to my friends, only to find the group of 14 dancing IN A CIRCLE. Never has there been a greater example of what it means to go to Rice...so of course I go over and join in. Fourteen sober people and one drunk me, dancing in a circle. Don't you wish we all had our personal MTV camera crew to follow us around. Anyway, when I get drunk, I tend to forget lots of things...like, the fact that I have a girlfriend. So I scout out the group we just met, and recognize Amy as a cute girl from my first semester English class. That's enough of an in for me. I slowly dance my way over to her, and this is a sight if any of you have ever seen me dance. Once I was next to her, I slurred a line that couldn't help but succeed, "I have a girlfriend, but I think you are really pretty". Amazingly this didn't work. This is where I lose about an hour of memory. But my friends gleefully informed me, that I went up to her 4 more times throughout the night and used the SAME LINE EACH TIME! Unbelievably, I did not even get a phone number.
It is almost the All Star break, and the Astros are in another pennant race. It isn't as much fun as it should be though, because it is hard to work up enough venom towards their competitors, the Cardinals and the Cubs. It is just hard to hat players like Pujols, Edmonds, Prior, and Wood...the two players I hate most in the NL Central are both Astros, Kent & Villone.
Rob was in Europe for two weeks and amazingly enough, no one had sex on his bed.
I have really been into the group from the late nineties recently, The New Radicals. I love there cd, but everyone laughs at me for it. I can't understand why, it's great stuff. The only other person who likes it is Kevin, and because of that, he is no longer to be played by Anthony Michael Hall in the Glenn movie. How does Coldplay's lead singer Chris Martin sound?