Who would have ever knew?

I’m in California right now. It is 7:45 pm and I got into this van at 5:45 am. We won’t be at our destination for a few more hours. No big deal.

But I’ll blog about all that later. Right now is weekend recap time.

This quarter got off to a somewhat rough start solely because my workload was absurd. No time to go out, no time to see people, sitting in my room doing soil science from six pm till bedtime every night. I did get to let loose one night and go on a whole lot of nice adventures with Bej. We went on a romp through the forest off the path and still made it to the beach in the afternoon and then explored the parking lots at night. We ran into a troop of jugglers and had our own personal circus, wrote down some suggestions for the school, contemplated the complexities of the abalone shell, and made friends with the goofiest tree.

So that was great, but then it was back to soil science for a bit. I think I got a better balance worked out now, though, because this past week to weekend was fantastic.

Wednesday was the first weekly open mic night at Bo’s apartment. Lots of people showed up and lots of people performed and there was a lot of talent. I had to leave early to get back to tons and tons of soil science. But it gets better.

Thursday night was sleepover night at Av’s for the rest of the apartment but I had homework (unlike me) and class at eight am the next morning so I stayed behind. I ended up going to a potluck and hanging out with people at La’s apartment and then coming home to an empty house where I could run around in Auntie M’s clothing and sing Johnny Cash songs as much as I wanted to. I wasn’t as productive as I wanted to be but it all worked out okay in the end.

On Friday we had a soil organism lab in class which was pretty neat. We got to look around in soil for little critters and identify them. Then at night we had a nice casual gathering at the apartment combining my friends from class with the extended apartmentmates and then later adding the La and Mir crowd as well. My kind of activity.

Then on Saturday I went out to a very mature dinner with A and No and Bej. When I came back Je convinced me to go to an off campus party, but after the bus ride and 20 minute walk to get there we realized we did not like the party at all. I think we spent under seven minutes actually there before turning around and walking back to the bus. That might seem like it wasn’t a fun way to spend a Saturday night but I think it was my best party experience yet. Journey definitely better than the destination. I had a lot of fun walking around downtown with everybody and then when we got back Je and Bej and I had a study party and I got a lot of work done even with the party break.

Then on Sunday I lay around in bed all day and then woke up for Indian feast night at five. Ba came over and we cooked chickpeas, lentils, naan, and chicken with help from Mel. Everything was done at almost the same time and everything was delicious. We invited Da over as a thank you for his assistance on Friday night. After dinner I went to the best party ever. Everyone was hanging out and drawing pictures and singing and playing guitar and it was great. I didn’t get to sleep early as I planned but that’s okay because I got to sleep a lot in the van today.

Looks like my life is back on track. I like it.