| So...are we just maturing, or what? Because it feels like this weekend has been THE epitome of fun, and yet...something's missing. I'm left disappointed and somehow strangely unsatisfied...
Thus I shall spin my yarn of a tale and tell you all about how I became the prince of a town called Bel-Air. So the Statics test was incredibly hard, the TA even admitted it was way too difficult and took her over an hour to complete (which is how long we get in our hour-and-a-half lecture time to take the test), but hopefully there will be some MASSIVE curves attached to that. Let's not forgo the fact that finding out I have a Thermo quiz the next day at 2 AM kept me up all night studying (but it's O.K., I'm pretty sure I did well on that). Wednesday we finalized the Design-Build-Fly prototype airplane design so that we can hopefully have the prototype built and ready-to-fly by the first weekend we're back from Winter Break, and Thursday was my typical night of video games at Quang/Shane/Tarique's apartment. I made crab fried rice for them, and it was GOOOOOD too, except it would've been better had Tarique not already used all the onions and garlic in the house. -_- Note to self: next time, add onions, green onions, garlic, cilantro, and maybe some lime zest. Crab was tender though, so repeat the fry in oil and butter-boil-fry with rice and eggs process. Friday's when the fun begins.
After class, Quang and I played pool and watched Tropic Thunder on my laptop. Then, much like the TASA Night Market, the Japanese Association hosted another night festival, so we went to that and ate some really good yakisoba and yakitori for only $2 while watching performances by various campus organizations. Funny thing is, NONE of the performers for ANYTHING (even like the sword guys or the dancing troupes) were Japanese.  Anyhoo, afterwards, we ate pho with Daren, Van, Lan, and Raeanna, and then Quang, Raeanna, and I went to Steven/Greg/Chris/Gip's apartment to play Cranium Wow with them + Emily and Lee, except we got there so late (because Daren couldn't find a guy to cover for his shift at the booth he was volunteering at for a long time) that they were too tired to play anymore, so the 3 of us went back to Raeanna's apartment. So recently, the Chen sisters kind of adopted a kitty-cat this past week, and even though it was REALLY hyper the first few nights it was with them, it's probably grown used to the apartment, because now it's as lazy and playful as a normal cat. So Quang and I were waiting there for Shane to pick us up and take Quang home/drop me off at Jester since the buses don't run after 11:30, but Shane, playing Halo with Jason at Simkins, took his sweet time finishing, and by the time he called us back (at 2 AM), Quang was sufficiently knocked-out on the fold-out bed because Raeanna was already telling us to just spend the night. So I told Shane that it was too late, we'd just stay over and come back in the morning, and after we finished watching Night at the Museum, I went to bed on her couch at 3:30 AM (we were gonna wake up at 8:30 AM because Raeanna had an H2O volunteering service project at 9:15 that Quang and I weren't gonna attend, but she obviously was, seeing as how she's the co-chair). Now, apparently the couch is the cat's bed, because it was jumping all over the place all night and woke me up hourly. The first time it jumped up on the couch, it was right next to my face and it REALLY startled me, but it was still on the comforter, so as I threw the comforter off, it sent the cat flying across the room.  But it was cool, it likes me, and eventually it fell asleep under my arm.
So this morning, we wake up at 9, head back to Jester, I take a shower, and Quang, my roommate Johnathan, and I head to Quang's apartment and play Halo for a few hours. Then, along with Shane, we head back to campus and get lunch at Dobie Mall before heading off to Van's surprise birthday party, where we proceeded to have cake and whatnot and play Ultimate Frisbee for 2 hours. Met a few new people, it was pretty cool. Then the remaining members of the party (8 of us) went and played Taboo and Cranium in the Jester East piano lounge for another 2 hours as we watched the OU-Texas Tech game on the big-screen TV outside (this was a critical game, because if Tech lost, which they did, it would put UT, Texas Tech, and OU at a 3-way tie for Big 12 South Champions, the winner of which goes to the national championships). So we'll see on Monday (or later) how Tech's CRUSHING DEFEAT plays out on the rankings...But anyhoo, after that, Quang and I were feeling rather dissatisfied with the day, despite the fact that we played video games, sports, AND board games, as well as having eaten out, watched a movie, and spent the night out, and decided to take a walk and just go talk like we used to do with William. So on the way to the Spider House coffeehouse, we were joined along in our walk by Reanna and Shane, and we spent another good 2 hours at Spider House just talking about life and reflecting on the semester and whatnot. So AGAIN despite the fact that we've now added social interaction amongst close friends to the list of our activities, we were STILL feeling bored, and we realized, are we just maturing, or bored with Austin already, or what? How is it that this SERIES of fun activities fails to stimulate us? In any case, we decided to randomly hit 6th Street (Reanna's never been, thought we'd show her) to see if the excitement of the Austin nightlife scene could put a little spice in the action, so we walked around until approximately and hour ago. I was actually in the MOOD to go dancing (as well as Raeanna and Quang), but of course, Shane didn't want to, and he was Quang's ride back to Riverside, so we just walked around and left. -_- *sigh* What a waste...
So here I sit, after a weekend bust FULL of wholesome activities, not spending more than an hour in front of my laptop (short of the movie) doing nothing, without the sinking feeling of having something to study for (since we're all done until finals, but we can life guiltless until after Thanksgiving Break's passed), but...bored? Lonely? Dissatisfied? I don't know what it is, but I don't like this feeling...It really feels like I've done nothing this weekend, even though I know that's not true...:-\ |
