So, about last night...
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jackofallgeeksOk, so, quick run-down of last night, since whatever it is I posted last night is probably not very informative.
I was upstairs drinking tea and attempting to get some exposure with my house-mates because though I've been living with (most of) them for several months, I tend to hide myself down in my room. The reasons for this are left as an exercise to the reader, but I suspect it has something to do with me being afraid of them, or at least of being rejected by them.
So, it turns out that Kate, Dustin, and Shawna (Dustin's girlfriend) are going out, just to a few bars because there's not a whole heck of a lot of night-life here in Monterey. While they're getting ready, Joe shows up with his buddy Mike and a case of Corona. They decide to put Bicardi Limon in their Coronas, and Kate and Shawna follow suit. Dusting, generally speaking, it a just-beer kind of guy, so he sticks with that. Joe and Mike decide they're going to go out, too. Kate gets onto Guitar Hero, Shawna convinces Darya to go out with them, and they eventually ask me to go, too: I resist, but there's really nothing for me to do in an empty house anyways, so I decide to go out with the roomies.
Before that, though, Casey shows up and he, Kate, and Dustin decide we all have to play 'Thunder', which Joe and Shawna think is a great idea. 'Thunder' is of course a drinking game, played to the song "Thunder" (or maybe "thunder Storm," I don't know) by some 70s-type rock band who I never found a name for. You stand in a circle, turn on the song, and take turns drinking -- whenever the say "thunder" whoever's drinking stops and the next person goes until they say "thunder" again. Not all intervals are of equal length. It was a lot more fun than I would have thought, partly because it's such an awesome 70s-type rock song.
So after getting a nice buzz, we all (Kate, Darya, Casey, Dustin, Joe, Me, Shawna, and Mike) walk down the hill to the bars. We stopped at the Brit (Britannia Arms) which was kind of dead, but I saw a couple guys I know (Jason and Alex). Then we passed Live (Monterey Live) and went down to Doc's (Doc Ricket's Lab or something like that). The Brit is what I think of when I think 'bar.' Live is what I think of when I think 'bar that thinks it's a coffee shop', in that it sells the requisite beverages and food, but it's got the design and feel of a (non-corporate) coffee house or something (kind of like if College Perk or that place by the Naro were more like shops and less like houses). Doc's is the closest Monterey gets to a 'club,' and actually reminded me of Vice Versa, except with worse music and more drinking (I wasn't much of a drinker back when I went there, not that I'm much of one now, either).
So Casey bought us some drinks, and Kate's friend Will (I can't actually remember his name, but you don't know that) showed up, and we had more drinks, and Darya got us all out on the dance floor, and some of the dancing was alright and reminded me of my sorts of clubs (sans costumes) but most of it was, uhm, not. I saw a buddy of mine from the card shop, Chris, and then Mike got in a bit of a spot when the girl he was dancing around with (some random girl he somehow thought would be a good idea to dance with) called his bluff and dragged him off somewhere. I'm told Joe had to go save him by pretending to pick a fight with him. More drinking, whereby I'm having to lean against things not because I *can't* stand up, but because I'm disinclined to. We all get back up to the house, play another round of Thunder (this time with a bottle of wine because we were out of beer -- that's a bad idea, for those who don't know), and by that point I could do little more than lay on the futon giggling. So I picked myself up as best I could, came down to my room, and made the post. Then I slid very liquid-like into my bed and sunk into warm oblivion for several hours.
Well, for those who are curious, Darya is my newest house mate. She just got here from San Fransisco, she works for the UN or something and her new job is actually on NPS's campus. I was the first one to meet her because she was moving into the house while everyone else was at work, and it wasn't until the following day or so when she was actually around when they were. She broke up with her boyfriend just this week because he said he couldn't drive two hours to come see her anytime in the next three months, but he sounds like a general ass anyways. And, that's really about it.
I was upstairs drinking tea and attempting to get some exposure with my house-mates because though I've been living with (most of) them for several months, I tend to hide myself down in my room. The reasons for this are left as an exercise to the reader, but I suspect it has something to do with me being afraid of them, or at least of being rejected by them.
So, it turns out that Kate, Dustin, and Shawna (Dustin's girlfriend) are going out, just to a few bars because there's not a whole heck of a lot of night-life here in Monterey. While they're getting ready, Joe shows up with his buddy Mike and a case of Corona. They decide to put Bicardi Limon in their Coronas, and Kate and Shawna follow suit. Dusting, generally speaking, it a just-beer kind of guy, so he sticks with that. Joe and Mike decide they're going to go out, too. Kate gets onto Guitar Hero, Shawna convinces Darya to go out with them, and they eventually ask me to go, too: I resist, but there's really nothing for me to do in an empty house anyways, so I decide to go out with the roomies.
Before that, though, Casey shows up and he, Kate, and Dustin decide we all have to play 'Thunder', which Joe and Shawna think is a great idea. 'Thunder' is of course a drinking game, played to the song "Thunder" (or maybe "thunder Storm," I don't know) by some 70s-type rock band who I never found a name for. You stand in a circle, turn on the song, and take turns drinking -- whenever the say "thunder" whoever's drinking stops and the next person goes until they say "thunder" again. Not all intervals are of equal length. It was a lot more fun than I would have thought, partly because it's such an awesome 70s-type rock song.
So after getting a nice buzz, we all (Kate, Darya, Casey, Dustin, Joe, Me, Shawna, and Mike) walk down the hill to the bars. We stopped at the Brit (Britannia Arms) which was kind of dead, but I saw a couple guys I know (Jason and Alex). Then we passed Live (Monterey Live) and went down to Doc's (Doc Ricket's Lab or something like that). The Brit is what I think of when I think 'bar.' Live is what I think of when I think 'bar that thinks it's a coffee shop', in that it sells the requisite beverages and food, but it's got the design and feel of a (non-corporate) coffee house or something (kind of like if College Perk or that place by the Naro were more like shops and less like houses). Doc's is the closest Monterey gets to a 'club,' and actually reminded me of Vice Versa, except with worse music and more drinking (I wasn't much of a drinker back when I went there, not that I'm much of one now, either).
So Casey bought us some drinks, and Kate's friend Will (I can't actually remember his name, but you don't know that) showed up, and we had more drinks, and Darya got us all out on the dance floor, and some of the dancing was alright and reminded me of my sorts of clubs (sans costumes) but most of it was, uhm, not. I saw a buddy of mine from the card shop, Chris, and then Mike got in a bit of a spot when the girl he was dancing around with (some random girl he somehow thought would be a good idea to dance with) called his bluff and dragged him off somewhere. I'm told Joe had to go save him by pretending to pick a fight with him. More drinking, whereby I'm having to lean against things not because I *can't* stand up, but because I'm disinclined to. We all get back up to the house, play another round of Thunder (this time with a bottle of wine because we were out of beer -- that's a bad idea, for those who don't know), and by that point I could do little more than lay on the futon giggling. So I picked myself up as best I could, came down to my room, and made the post. Then I slid very liquid-like into my bed and sunk into warm oblivion for several hours.
Well, for those who are curious, Darya is my newest house mate. She just got here from San Fransisco, she works for the UN or something and her new job is actually on NPS's campus. I was the first one to meet her because she was moving into the house while everyone else was at work, and it wasn't until the following day or so when she was actually around when they were. She broke up with her boyfriend just this week because he said he couldn't drive two hours to come see her anytime in the next three months, but he sounds like a general ass anyways. And, that's really about it.
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Date: 2007-04-06 08:44 pm (UTC)Sheez. And M just bought a comic where the characters walk into a bookstore singing "Six Pack" by Black Flag and didn't get the reference either... did they stop teaching AWESOME MUSIC after 1977?
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Date: 2007-04-06 08:54 pm (UTC)did they stop teaching AWESOME MUSIC after 1977?
Sadly, yes. They determined that it was "not academic enough" and "constituted common knowledge below the scope of formal education." I lament the fact weekly.
Great game, though. :p
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Date: 2007-04-06 11:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-06 11:49 pm (UTC)Pictures are Here (http://photos-847.ak.facebook.com/ip002/v67/31/61/3309963/n3309963_33625847_2659.jpg), Here (http://photos-632.ak.facebook.com/ip006/v44/31/61/3309963/n3309963_31707632_322.jpg), and Here (http://photos-538.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v75/223/39/3607902/n3607902_33661538_6679.jpg). She's the cute one.
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Date: 2007-04-07 08:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-09 03:52 pm (UTC)I'm guessing the last one, but you can never tell through the internets.
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Date: 2007-04-09 03:59 pm (UTC)