9/17/11-9/18/11: The Adventure in the Wee Hours

There are certain people who begin to behave as if they are drunk once the clock hits 12am. I am one of those people. So, apparently, are Sarah Coughlon, Jon Titus, and Audrey Zhang. Put us all together for 6 hours [11pm-5am] and chaos happens. One spectacular development is that Ken Mai begins birthing babies after having laughed for too long. Deep breath in, push, and repeat. That keeps me acting sober for another 2 minutes. Maybe.

Over the course of the night, we were exposed to some actually drunk people, which served to expose how drunk we [or rather, I] were acting. To be honest, Jon was quite the caretaker/drunk-sitter and did in fact restrain Curtis from hurting both himself and others. He succeeded a majority of the time. The other two boys--Carlos and Kevin--weren't as intoxicated, and behaved quite well. :)

Jon stealing away phone from Curtis to stop him from inviting more people over, and to protect him from texting/posting anything that might be regretted in a sober state.

The other two: nice and behaved. For the most part; Carlos broke Sarah's hairtie.

After the drunken boys had left [with Jon in tow to keep them safe], things were calm for a while. We mostly worked on our separate homework assignments [well, I did; Audrey started Skyping and Sarah curled up with the Green Monster. Once Jon came back, so did crazy plans to go to Ikea and IHOP. The latter we actually did; the former was delegated to a latter date.

Back in Sarah's dorm, we find that in our excitement to leave for fluffy goodness that is pancakes at 3am, she had forgotten her key. And so we call hupdee [HUPD] and start waking up the whole entryway with our drunken laughter at the ridiculousness of the situation. A HUPD officer comes, unlocks the door, gives Sarah a little lecture, and we start being hysterical again once she leaves. Finally, though, we're winding down a bit, and as much as we'd love to stay awake until the morning, we start drifting asleep, and staying asleep. Jon and I had the awkward dilemma of finding ways/enough positions to be comfortable sans comfy chair or bed, but we managed, eventually. ;)

So most everyone is just out of it by 5am. I'm up until around 6, and to solve my insomnia I go around turning off the lights in the room [and this is when I realize that there's already light outside]. Finally manage to fall asleep [on the nice, comfy floor], and approximately 3 hours later, we start waking up. Starbucks has opened by now, but we have little actual intention of going. Audrey leaves for the "thing" she has to do up at the Quad, and Jon and I find our way back to our respective dorms to sleep or [in my case] shower and update my blog. :)

And that brings us to now.

Yes, for the first time since I've been here, I woke up in a place that was not Weld 32. It was spectacular. :)