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So I'm thinking I need to get out more. You know, make some friends outside of the department, seeing as the only thing that department people do is drink beer, do work, and complain about doing work.

I'm in the market, as they say, for a nice group of friends. How do I go about that? Well, I'm thinking mebbe I should join a nice club. It's a little difficult seeing as it's almost the end of the semester and then all those lazy undergraduates will go home for the summer, but it's not too early to be thinking about what kind of club I'd like to join.

I'm trying to meet several criteria:

1. People that do this activity would make good friends
2. This activity is something I actually like to do
3. Won't take up a HUGE amount of time, but still meets often enough so I can get to know people.
4. Isn't the kind of activity where whatever you are doing prevents you form actually getting to know or talking to the people with whom you are doing the activity (i.e. ballet)
5. Friendly towards graduate students

Here are some options, mostly based on criterion number 2:

German Club
Argentine Tango Club
Salsa Club
Taiko Drumming
Mariachi de Brown
Climbing Wall club
Yacht Club
Breakdancing Club
Christian Fellowship

There is a kinda cool-looking gospel choir thing but they talk a lot about the Black Church in their description so I kinda get the impression that I wouldn't be that welcome, due to the color of my skin. Same with all of the ethnic clubs except for the Swiss one and the German one. Maybe the Celtic one, but those people tend to be rather exclusive, too.
Christian Fellowship would be cool, but I happened to know that one of my former students goes to that pretty regularly, and I wouldn't want him to think I was stalking him....

Sucks that they don't have a drawing club. Or a movie-making club. That would be RIGHT-ON. So now that we've gotten a list of potential clubs, let's discuss the kind of people I would likely meet in each of these clubs:

German Club
Huge nerds
Argentine Tango Club
girls who are very full of it/sketchy guys/guys who don't brush their teeth
Salsa Club
Same as above; possibly no guys at all
Taiko Drumming
Japanese people/very pale white Japanophiles slightly more athletic/social than those in the Anime Club
Mariachi de Brown
Mexicans/Trumpet players
Climbing Wall club
Hippies
Yacht Club
Yuppies
Breakdancing Club
Koreans
Christian Fellowship
*Super* *Nice* people/People who say obnoxious things like "How is your Walk?"

Hmmm....

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Too close to home... a little too close to home.

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When the sun shines
We’ll shine together
Told you I'll be here forever
That I'll always be your friend
Took an oath I'm gonna stick it out 'til the end
Now that it's raining more than ever
Know that we still have each other
You can stand under my Umbrella
You can stand under my Umbrella
(Ella ella eh eh eh)
Under my umbrella
(ella ella eh eh eh)
Under my umbrella
(ella ella eh eh eh)
Under my umbrella
(ella ella eh eh eh eh eh eh)


.... yeah... it's raining.

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Ok--- survey time!!

My roommates are fighting (again). These are the ones who are going out with each other. He is running the Boston Marathon. For part of the race, the runners run past Wellesley College, her alma mater. It's a tradition of the girls of Wellesley to stand out there and cheer on the runners and go crazy if someone runs by wearing a Wellesley shirt. She has given him a shirt for this purpose. They decided it would be fun for her to go up there and cheer him on at this point, and also so she can visit her school and some of her buddies (she just graduated last year).

She has been harping on him to figure out when the race actually starts, because he keeps saying 11, 11:30 and she is afraid he'll miss it. Plus he has to take public transportation, because he locked his keys in his car and he hasn't yet paid to have the car opened. She could just drive him, but she says she has to plan a lot for that and it would be a pain to fight through traffic and drop him and then drive all the way back to Wellesley, so he said that he can just take the bus and it will stress her out less. But then she thinks maybe they should take the bus together, but then he says that he would like it if she would be at the finish line when he comes across. She says, "WHAT! I have to come and watch you in TWO places?!" and he says, "You aren't going to come to the finish line?!?" and she says that she doesn't know if she can because she has to "do this thing". He asks what it is, she says that it's "just this thing for work". He asks about it and she gets mad and asks why he has to be this way. He says, "FINE! DON'T COME TO THE FINISH LINE IF IT WOULD BE SO INCONVENIENT!" She says ok as if she didn't catch the sarcasm there. She says, "aren't your friends going to be there? Aren't your parents going to be there?" knowing pretty much full well that they won't. She says that she wouldn't be able to find him there anyway because there will be too many people. He says that with cell phones, it's easy. They end with a decrescendo of saying the exact same things to each other only in a nicer and more reasonable way. He says that it would really mean a lot for her to be at the finish line, but if she really can't, he doesn't want it to be a thing. She says that maybe she will come to the finish line, she just doesn't know right now. They look up the time of the race online and it's about 11 or 11:30, depending on what wave he decides to run with.

SO NOW THE QUESTION:

IS SHE CHEATING ON HIM!?!?!?!

YOU BE DA JUDGE.

Ok, you didn't think that was going to be the question? You may also answer the question, "Who is being more unreasonable... him, asking her to do all of these things on a Monday (aka a work day) or her, for not supporting him in his race?"

And perhaps most importantly...
"WHY DO I HAVE TO LISTEN TO ALL OF THIS CRAP??"

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So I slaved away for hours and hours, studying for my exam, doing my hydrology problem set, agonizing about fluid dynamics, getting snarky emails from my professor, reading in the handbook about how one goes about dropping a class in the final weeks of the semester, justifying it to myself in my mind and thinking of how I could justify it to my advisor, going to the library to check out more books on programming, etc. Mostly studying for my midterm which is tomorrow. I even cleaned my whole house for when K shows up tomorrow. So I get done at 3:00am. Pack up, go outside, it's about 3:02. Oh look, what's that crammed in my door jam??



a parking ticket.

15 bucks, overnight parking violation.

Ticket says it was given at 3am. Oh, that's funny, because whoever gave me this ticket wouldn't have had time to walk away since 3am! I should still see them, tearing the little envelope out of the book! They must have a INVISIBILITY CLOAK! This is the coolest parking ticket I've ever gotten because the person who gave it to me was INVISIBLE!

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