TV; Rocking, Cigars; Preparation; Retreat; The Morning After, Mom & Dad, Lizard; Lunch, Sabrina, Home
10/2
TV; Heroes, probably.
10/3
Band practice. Char had proposed a cigar night, so afterwards I met he, Cindy, and Angela at Downing Street for beer and burning things.
10/5
I had been busily working on some Real Work for school, so I hastily made some revisions to an old poster to have something ready for our program retreat.
10/6
Showed up a little late to the retreat. Disappointingly, Columbia Lake had not added wireless internet access in the two and a half years since we had las been there. What is this, 1999? So I contended myself with some reading and napping until the evening came.
Sadly, some fascist somewhere decided to cut the beer from the poster session, so things remained dry up to dinner. Once dinner time came, The beer was flowing, so we started imbibing the free Shiner, went back to our room to pregame, had some shots and more beer, and then went to join the Official Party.
It was a pretty good time, all things considered. Sadly, Char and Graham weren't present, but we had plenty of other partyers around. I got thoroughly drunk. Pool and mini-shuffleboard were played. I got more drunk. I think somebody bought a round of shots at the bar. I may have even danced a little.
And then the keg was floated. Somebody had announced over the PA that the afterparty was in our room. So we went back there. But then people didn't really show up, so Oliver and I went on a fact-finding mission, found the other party, and were going back to get everybody else when it turned out they had gotten impatient and found us. A good time was had, and this year it wasn't our room that was trashed, which is always good.
And then off to bed...
10/7
I woke up early with my neck bothering me, which meant that I didn't go back to sleep. I eventually gave up on sleeping and went to shower, both hungover and with the horrible pain in my neck. A quick vomit helped, but there was still the neck thing to deal with, and there was no way I could make it through more talks that morning.
Luckily, I'm a pro. I managed to show up just as a session was ending, snuck in the side door, went into the entry way to sign in, looking like I had been there all along, returned to the lecture hall, and snuck out through the side door to check out of my room and drive home.
I was just getting into my bed to take a nap when my parents called, and hey, they were at my apartment complex. A couple that they had known from many years back at church were in town for treatments at MD Anderson, and were actually staying in my complex, so I pulled myself together and went downstairs to join the four of them for lunch.
After lunch, they came up and checked out my apartment, which they hadn't seen in two and a half years or so. They liked the new TV and thankfully didn't realize how much of the stereo equipment was new and, well, expensive.
Dad went on back to my Aunt and Uncle's, and mom road with me. I did laundry and we all had dinner there.
Notes indicate we went to Lizard Lounge. Likely candidates for that are Cindy, and maybe Char, and Angela, as well. But honestly, I can't remember that well...
10/8
I went out to Susan and Jerry's to have lunch with them and the parents. On the way home I went by Sabrina's place to see her as she had been going through some tough things and I hadn't made it out to see her yet. After that, home to enjoy the rest of my Sunday.
TV; Heroes, probably.
10/3
Band practice. Char had proposed a cigar night, so afterwards I met he, Cindy, and Angela at Downing Street for beer and burning things.
10/5
I had been busily working on some Real Work for school, so I hastily made some revisions to an old poster to have something ready for our program retreat.
10/6
Showed up a little late to the retreat. Disappointingly, Columbia Lake had not added wireless internet access in the two and a half years since we had las been there. What is this, 1999? So I contended myself with some reading and napping until the evening came.
Sadly, some fascist somewhere decided to cut the beer from the poster session, so things remained dry up to dinner. Once dinner time came, The beer was flowing, so we started imbibing the free Shiner, went back to our room to pregame, had some shots and more beer, and then went to join the Official Party.
It was a pretty good time, all things considered. Sadly, Char and Graham weren't present, but we had plenty of other partyers around. I got thoroughly drunk. Pool and mini-shuffleboard were played. I got more drunk. I think somebody bought a round of shots at the bar. I may have even danced a little.
And then the keg was floated. Somebody had announced over the PA that the afterparty was in our room. So we went back there. But then people didn't really show up, so Oliver and I went on a fact-finding mission, found the other party, and were going back to get everybody else when it turned out they had gotten impatient and found us. A good time was had, and this year it wasn't our room that was trashed, which is always good.
And then off to bed...
10/7
I woke up early with my neck bothering me, which meant that I didn't go back to sleep. I eventually gave up on sleeping and went to shower, both hungover and with the horrible pain in my neck. A quick vomit helped, but there was still the neck thing to deal with, and there was no way I could make it through more talks that morning.
Luckily, I'm a pro. I managed to show up just as a session was ending, snuck in the side door, went into the entry way to sign in, looking like I had been there all along, returned to the lecture hall, and snuck out through the side door to check out of my room and drive home.
I was just getting into my bed to take a nap when my parents called, and hey, they were at my apartment complex. A couple that they had known from many years back at church were in town for treatments at MD Anderson, and were actually staying in my complex, so I pulled myself together and went downstairs to join the four of them for lunch.
After lunch, they came up and checked out my apartment, which they hadn't seen in two and a half years or so. They liked the new TV and thankfully didn't realize how much of the stereo equipment was new and, well, expensive.
Dad went on back to my Aunt and Uncle's, and mom road with me. I did laundry and we all had dinner there.
Notes indicate we went to Lizard Lounge. Likely candidates for that are Cindy, and maybe Char, and Angela, as well. But honestly, I can't remember that well...
10/8
I went out to Susan and Jerry's to have lunch with them and the parents. On the way home I went by Sabrina's place to see her as she had been going through some tough things and I hadn't made it out to see her yet. After that, home to enjoy the rest of my Sunday.
posted by L. Maxwell Ward at 10:17 PM
