good week for food

sunday: vermonsterrrrrrrrr
mission: to finish a vermonster before leaving college
venue: barrack's road ben and jerry's
20 scoops of ice cream, four ladles of good good fudge, tons of toppings and 14 college kids (me, shraddha, ulka, jing, justin, minh, kristin, joyce, lorenzo, selma, freni, anh, vickie, ivy) who starved for the day = vermonsterfun

monday: last day of class
...bartending class, that is. after an eight-week run and 75 drinks we bid farewell to "getting *:) and gettting no work done" Monday nights. i consider myself now a well-informed bartender. next time i go to bars i'd order the most pretentious drink ever...just to test the bartender.

tuesday: get your free cone!
it's ben and jerry's free cone day AND kohr brother's 5 cent cone day. sweeeeeet! after picking up ruth (who was sitting in her room in her lacy panties...winkwink!) and justin/jing/pauline/lorenzo at the comm school, we headed to ben and jerry's to satisfy another ice cream fix. yummy. i didn't get to go to kohr brother's but my roommates saved me some.

wednesday: greg's party
mission: (according to anh) to visually rape greg d. and hopefully send him to the hospital after the unforseen surprise.
venue: Brown College -Tucker Lounge/Harrison and First Wok
what do you do if one of your friends' birthdays is during the summer? well, you throw him a surprise party almost two months before because you know he will never EVER suspect it. And that's just what we did.
memorable quote of the night: after asking greg why he believed that the tunnel outside tucker lounge was deemed a biohazard after some dude puked in there...

I knew Anh wouldn't lie to me.

He was sooooo wrong. we had a whole google group dedicated to his surprise party.

thursday: IHOPping
since there is nothing to do on a rainy and gross thursday night (bars are out of the question because you have to walk all the way there and back) , a small group of us decided to go to IHOP and abuse their thursday's 50% off student discount. (my suggestion to go to Buddhist's was vetoed by anh. hey, i didn't know it was an open air bar!) even with the semi-crappy service and the incompetent check out lady, i still had fun. bacon and good company always make me smile.

friday: viva italia!
gelato is italian for the best frozen dessert EVER. need i say more? i thank splendora for opening at the downtown mall. what's next? head over to christian's to get some pizza. i had a calzone and all was good.

saturday: asian night
after india day at the paramount (i still don't know how they managed to get the historic paramount for india day. i give them props just for that.), we decided to ditch the free indian food at newcomb and head to the dumpling place (aka marco and luca...as if anyone really knows). except that the dumpling place was already closed. how disappointed was i? not so much since we immediately decided to go to that new thai place - lime leaf. good thai food and excellent service but thai99 is still the best.

alter egos

Snow White and Wendy

a royal reception in wonderland

I went to the a-school's annual beaux-arts ball for the first time this saturday. it was sooo much fun. seriously...why haven't i been before? anways, beaux arts is the fancy word for "theme party" well, beaux arts is REALLY an academic classical architectural style closely related to the ecole de beaux arts in paris. (that little tidbit was from wikipedia...it's awesome and the name's quirky so double yay!) This year's theme is "A Royal Reception in Wonderland". I went as Wendy from Peter Pan. I know she's not royalty but she's British, so my costume still works. (lauren rationalized this for me) I bought that '70s style tiffany-blue dress in a thrift store that same morning for $15. sweet! i wanted to be a tacky bridesmaid first but that didn't really pan out since most of the dresses were EXTREMELY tacky. hey i have my pride you know. I went with lauren who managed to get sarah to come along. we had to do the "walk of shame" from the a-school to the satellite ballroom. we got weird stares; people looking away pretending they didn't see us; and a girl saying, "What is fairytale princesses?"

When I got there the first person I saw is one of my discussion kids. It was kinda surreal, but we're friends now. i bought her a drink. shhhh....don't tell. Then there are the a-school kids. I recognized everyone except for maybe a couple or so. i had two drinks myself. talked to a couple of drunk people first, played some unknown card game with the cards they used for decoration, then went to dance. the dj played mostly techno with some '80s and early '90s music thrown in. everyone had their own style of dancing. yes, creative people have "creative" moves. niiiiice!

Quote of the Night: from some random guy on the street after seeing Dave pull Lauren's makeshift puffy sleeves off

That is f***in' wrong!

upgrade?

upgrading is never easy. they say all you have to do is follow the instructions displayed on the screen and in a few clicks you are on your way to upgraded goodness. yeah right! they don't say in that brochure that you have to download upgrades when you have files and programs that are not compatible with xp. it took me a day to upgrade to windows xp. i had to call my brother who was about to go to bed because my video card was all f***ed up. i had to deal with a screen that only displays half my icons in some weird 4-bit color mode. it felt like i was playing pacman (old school style) only it's not as fun. and i had to deal with that the whole time the windows security feature keeps telling me that my anti-virus software cannot be located and i basically opened the door to every virus in the world. i was really close to opening up my computer, literally. i still have to figure out why mozilla firefox is acting up. this is quite frustrating. plus, i miss my tab browsing!

man, after all this is figured out, xp better live up to my expectations. they're not that high either: all i need is a computer that will not crash when i open photoshop, microstation, indesign, winamp, AIM, yahoo messenger all at once. well maybe that's pushing it......