A Long Overdue Post
Well, my weekend vacation has seemingly turned into a 5-day absence, but not necessarily because of laziness or procrastination. After my 3-day weekend spent in Berkeley I had to catch-up on Tuesday with my schoolwork and spent both Tuesday night and Wednesday night out with friends for various dinner events. Needless to say I haven't been around much to make a post, therefore I'm making an effort now despite being marginally intoxicated. So much has happened in the past week that I don't even know what to say or where to begin. I'll try and be brief and whizz through my week of activity.
Last Friday night I went to a Carnival-themed party where we had party hats, sno-cones, and face painting materials. I, of course, got tattooed on the arm with a heart under which read "Cheap". It was a good event and I curbed my drinking because I was going to be spending all day Saturday driving in the car. What was really cool about the party was the fact that it was thundering and lightening here in LA. Wait a second... we've got thunder and lightening and tornadoes in and around LA? When did we arrive to Kansas?
After 5 hours of sleep, I eagerly awoke in the morning to traverse through the scattered monsoons up towards Berkeley. Becca joined and we had several fun moments. More details can be read on her site so I don't have to go through them all. It's sad to think that this will be my last visit up to Berkeley; a tradition I started 4 years ago. But with the end of every good adventure comes the birth of another, so I think I'll have other trips I'll be taking in the future. We danced Saturday night and spent the rest of the weekend lounging around Rob and Lauren's apartment eating the snacks we each brought. On my way back down I spent some time with Amanda in Bakersfield, just to say 'hi' and catch-up briefly. After seeing Amanda, I realized that I had seen all of my high school group in the past week:
* Natalie - Dancing Wednesday night
* Rachel - Party Friday night
* Rebecca - Weekend in Berkeley
* Robert - Weekend in Berkeley
* Amanda - Monday in Bakersfield
It's nice to keep up with folk'll and see how everyone is handling life.
Tuesday I played catch-up during the day trying to get on top of some lab work. After Dance Club Tuesday night, I went over to Ethan's for a spontaneous get-together for a girl who just broke-up with her boyfriend. We ate dinner, played Settler's of Catan, drank 3 bottles of wine between us all, and did other random stuff. For a Tuesday night, it was fun and it looks like we did our job in cheering her up.
So I wasn't around that night to post as I had intended to, but don't worry, there's always Wednesday. Well, Wednesday was spent on other schoolwork due later in the week along with job-searching stuff. That night, I went out for dinner again, this time to Buca di Beppo's in Santa Monica for Elisa's surprise birthday dinner. We ate a lot of food and I had one drink. Afterwards, I got back intending on doing work, but ended up back at Ethan's for another drink and an attempt at homework. Once again, another oportune time missed out on due to an excess of activity.
The week doesn't get any better because I'll be spending most of my free time working on an engineering lab report, plus I've got my film class Thursday night (I still have to post on last week's movie) along with a scheduled time to meet a friend, and Saturday there's a birthday party I'm going to. So I am going to try and keep up the rest of this week because there's a lot still that I want to post about.
Upcoming this week, I've got the next in my series of movie-class posts, the results from my movie survey plus my top ten films of 2005, an update on my roommate in Italy, and many other random things I have planned. If only I had time to do everything I wanted to do! There's no random Chris fact this week, but there will be one next week so stay tuned. And I'm sure there's more going on that I'm forgetting now.
If anyone is interested in a non-paid secretarial position, I'll be accepting applications now at:
crispy_krisb@yahoo.com
Perhaps then I'll be able to keep up with life....
Last Friday night I went to a Carnival-themed party where we had party hats, sno-cones, and face painting materials. I, of course, got tattooed on the arm with a heart under which read "Cheap". It was a good event and I curbed my drinking because I was going to be spending all day Saturday driving in the car. What was really cool about the party was the fact that it was thundering and lightening here in LA. Wait a second... we've got thunder and lightening and tornadoes in and around LA? When did we arrive to Kansas?
After 5 hours of sleep, I eagerly awoke in the morning to traverse through the scattered monsoons up towards Berkeley. Becca joined and we had several fun moments. More details can be read on her site so I don't have to go through them all. It's sad to think that this will be my last visit up to Berkeley; a tradition I started 4 years ago. But with the end of every good adventure comes the birth of another, so I think I'll have other trips I'll be taking in the future. We danced Saturday night and spent the rest of the weekend lounging around Rob and Lauren's apartment eating the snacks we each brought. On my way back down I spent some time with Amanda in Bakersfield, just to say 'hi' and catch-up briefly. After seeing Amanda, I realized that I had seen all of my high school group in the past week:
* Natalie - Dancing Wednesday night
* Rachel - Party Friday night
* Rebecca - Weekend in Berkeley
* Robert - Weekend in Berkeley
* Amanda - Monday in Bakersfield
It's nice to keep up with folk'll and see how everyone is handling life.
Tuesday I played catch-up during the day trying to get on top of some lab work. After Dance Club Tuesday night, I went over to Ethan's for a spontaneous get-together for a girl who just broke-up with her boyfriend. We ate dinner, played Settler's of Catan, drank 3 bottles of wine between us all, and did other random stuff. For a Tuesday night, it was fun and it looks like we did our job in cheering her up.
So I wasn't around that night to post as I had intended to, but don't worry, there's always Wednesday. Well, Wednesday was spent on other schoolwork due later in the week along with job-searching stuff. That night, I went out for dinner again, this time to Buca di Beppo's in Santa Monica for Elisa's surprise birthday dinner. We ate a lot of food and I had one drink. Afterwards, I got back intending on doing work, but ended up back at Ethan's for another drink and an attempt at homework. Once again, another oportune time missed out on due to an excess of activity.
The week doesn't get any better because I'll be spending most of my free time working on an engineering lab report, plus I've got my film class Thursday night (I still have to post on last week's movie) along with a scheduled time to meet a friend, and Saturday there's a birthday party I'm going to. So I am going to try and keep up the rest of this week because there's a lot still that I want to post about.
Upcoming this week, I've got the next in my series of movie-class posts, the results from my movie survey plus my top ten films of 2005, an update on my roommate in Italy, and many other random things I have planned. If only I had time to do everything I wanted to do! There's no random Chris fact this week, but there will be one next week so stay tuned. And I'm sure there's more going on that I'm forgetting now.
If anyone is interested in a non-paid secretarial position, I'll be accepting applications now at:
crispy_krisb@yahoo.com
Perhaps then I'll be able to keep up with life....
posted by Chris Burzlaff @ 2/24/2005
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