Well, yesterday my final paper was due. I didn't get it done. After Monday I was too beat. I had my calculus final at 2:45, got out of that at 5:00, crammed for Hydrology until 7, took Hydro from 7:15 till 9, then planned to pull an all-nighter for the communication paper. Nope. Not so much. So I went to sleep.
Yesterday I did as much as work as possible, which was honestly not that much--still feeling fried. I finished it today folks, don't you worry. 42 pages exactly.
Well in the past few weeks Caroline and I have gone out to eat often, probably because of the insanity that erupted with the guys in our lives or just because we were both thrown into bizarro world (she more than me) and didn't feel like picking up any groceries while there. Regardless, somehow Caroline always forgot her money, and remarked earlier this week how she was going to give me a crisp $20 before we left to pay back for the meals. I thought about it for a moment: if you spend money on someone with a meal, movie, etc it's a lot more fun to be paid back in the same way. A crisp $20 would be nice, but another dinner date would be better. So that's what we did! Last night we went out Empire Brewing Co. in Armory Square for dinner, with a stop at the wonderful Soundgarden to check out the new and used CD selection (I got Kelly Willis' new album "Easy" and Liz Phair's "Exile in Guyville"). Empire is the best quasi-cheap restaurant in Syracuse, and they have a sample tray of six beers (5oz each) for only six bucks! We split one, ever so delectible. I had a delicious dinner with sweet potato fries, garlic mashed potatos and really good grilled chicken. Mighty tasty all in all.
Then, after a quick trip to Blockbuster, we headed back to Caroline's for movie night! Jason and Pat, two absolutely fantastic guys to have as friends, came over to watch "When Harry Met Sally." Since I was the only one who had ever seen even parts of it the boys were initially skeptical, but of course it's a fantastic movie so we all had a grand time. Caroline went on (another) wine tour two weeks ago so she had a bunch of new bottles, so of course we cracked into a magnum bottle of Fauckerson's Red Zeppelin (from the Finger Lakes Region of New York) while we enjoyed the now classic scenes of Harry and Sally. After the movie Jason bid us a great break and left, but Pat, Caroline and I thought it'd be fun to polish off the wine and bust out the karyoke machine, so we did.
And it was great.
And it was loud.
And it was BAD.
She has an entire Shania Twain karyoke CD, and then a girl mix and boyband mix! We were so excited we were almost hoarse before the end of it. When "I Will Always Love You" by Whitney Houston came up, I immediately thought of my dear friend Paul in VA, who, at random moments (like in the middle of Wal-Mart), would burst into the loudest, most off-key version of the song your poor little ears could imagine. I figured it'd be the perfect thing to sing to his voicemail, so quick as that my cell was out and we sang to him, except he spoiled all the fun and actually answered his phone. Good to chat for a bit, though difficult to do while in a room with people singing karyoke.
Caroline then promptly fell asleep in her papazan chair. She does this sort of thing often, that's why she's a great friend. So Pat left to go home and I was sitting on the couch watching some made for TV movie, then before I knew it it was this morning and somehow Caroline had departed from the papazan and onto the floor. And we weren't even drunk! Oh well.
God bless classes being done! I shall be back in VA in no time!
