I can't believe the semester is very rapidly drawing to a close. This semester has definitely flown by. Freshman year seemed to almost drag on, but since the onset of Sophomore year, the semesters have gone by increasingly faster. Anywho, in some regards I'm glad classes are ending and whatnot, but otherwise I still enjoy the school environment. I'm not exactly looking forward to going home and working at the Radisson for a week or two until Christmas. Hopefully, though, I will be able to work every day from the time I get home til Christmas, so I can take my mom''s suggestion of only working until Christmas so I don't work New Year's and get dicked over in pay like last year and so I can hang out with Clabaugh since he's not often in the area. Then, after New Year's I'm absolutely not going to want to work on or around my birthday. I may work a couple days after my birthday until we come back to school, but we'll see.

Anyway,

This last weekend was a fun time. Caitie wanted to get her drunk on, so after dinner on Friday, Brooke, Katie Ruch, Caitie, and I drove to the "adult candy store" (aka, liquor store) to pick up some goods, then to Weis to grab some snacks and lemons/limes and whatnot. I was in a cracked out mood, so I was in retard-mode the entire time we were in the car, and while we were in Weis. I had everyone practically peeing themselves. Heh, I get so into "character" with the whole retarded thing, it's kinda scary. After we returned from getting supplies, we each took a shot of 99 apples (well, I took two in a row because Katie Ruch had no one to take a shot with), then went to Bitler's recital. I was still silly, so a bit of my retarded side came out during the breaks of the recital, and of course I amused some more people in turn. After the recital we gathered up the goods and came over to my room. Caitie, Brooke, and I took a few Citron shots followed by biting into sugared lemons. After a few, we went downstairs to join everyone in Ryan's room watching Wizard of Oz while playing Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon album. I think we were all feeling pretty good by that point, eating Honey Wheat pretzels and drinking those oh-so tasty Khalua Mudslides. After the CD finished, we didn't stick around to finish the movie; we instead came back up to my room and decided to play Kings. Brooke made some Vodka tonics for the three of us, and I put on some Sigur Ros to provide nice, ambient background music. Man, we were all nicely drunk at least by halfway through the game, if not somewhat before we even began. Heh, thanks to my rule semi-late in the game, the three of us all ended up in our underwear, so that lead to funny moments when we'd leave the room to converse with the people over in Yorty and Kara's room. It ended up being a ridiculously silly, fun night.

Saturday started off with everyone's favorite thing to do--rehearsal for the Masterworks concert. Once that was done--come 4pm--we hung out for a bit, then hit up dinner, then I almost blew off practicing with Yorty for her recital piece, but she kindly reminded me at dinner. So, after practicing, I went over to Sass. and a whole group of us (me, Brooke, Caitie, Katie Ruch, Jeff, Lindsay, her friend, and Andy) drove over to Sunbury to go ice skating. Heh, once again, since we were in the car, I guess, I was back in retard mode, cracking everyone up. I had never been ice skating before, but I used to be all about inline skating and whatnot, so I picked up on it pretty quickly. Of course we were all being silly and being American at times, so it was fun times indeed. Afterwards, we came back and kinda hung around for a little, then came back to the SPAA house to have some hot chocolate and tea and hang out in the common room since we hadn't at all all semester. Jon Masters and eventually Yorty ended up joining us for a bit. It was a nice, relaxing time.

Sunday was sleeping in fairly late (relatively, of course, since "sleeping in" this semester amounts to maybe 9 if you're lucky), then waking up and getting ready for the Masterworks concert. The concert went really well. It was filmed by WVIA, etc., blah blah. Heh, the Messiah portion was first, and I arrogantly sat in the back and read a book for the entire thing. After the intermission, I went up to play the Holiday Poops portion. Afterwards, I was a good section leader and helped moved the equipment back over to Heilman. After that was done, I met up with Brooke and we found her parents and went out to Applebee's. Man, I love the Chicken Parm. they have there. It's fuckin' huge! It was a nice change of pace to have real food. After dinner, Brooke parents dropped us back at Sass, where we basically hung around for the rest of the night.

Tonight's the Caf Christmas dinner (which isn't too exciting, just buffet-style whatnot), with the Candlelight service later on. Tomorrow night's gonna be awesome--George Carlin and Dennis Blair, from the 2nd row. What's even better is that I get to go backstage (hopefully). Crossley's comin up for the show, then stayin over, so I'm sure hilarity will ensue. I'm kinda excited about being asked to play for the SU Valley Chorale, since it's a paid gig. There are two rehearsals (thurs. and fri.) and two concerts (sat. night and sunday afternoon), and I'll be paid $28.50/rehearsal and $32.50/concert. So, I'll be making some much needed cash.

There's more I could continue writing about, but I'm gonna head to dinner and start the evening of whatnot. So, until next time...

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