Wandering Aimlessly

It's crazy how loooong weekends (as in, amount of "stuff" packed in, not necessarily in number of days) fly by so quickly. I can't believe it's already noon on Sunday. Last I checked, it was noon on Friday!

Friday night Meg and I went to Eastern to visit Tammy and Dorothy. It was an adventure, let me tell you. We started out at 7, met the most incompetent Subway employees ever, and got on the road. All to the wonderful musical backdrop of all the radio stations howling about tornado warnings (yeah, not watches... actual warnings. Oops). Looked nice enough out... until we got onto the expressway. It turned black in a matter of minutes and sideways lightening started darting across the sky. We turned around. We returned home and perched in front of the Weather Channel, hearing about flash flood warnings and tornado warnings until it all got downgraded to Severe Thunderstorms. We left again.

At Eastern, we went to this bar, Stix. It was fun. Tammy's boyfriend Darkeith works there. So we danced, had a few drinks... the usual. When we got back to Tammy's, Meg wanted to go home. This is 2:00 in the morning, mind you, and an hour's drive. Oh well. We did it, exhausted.

Yesterday we went to the Tuscola Outlet Mall, which is about halfway between U of I and Eastern. That was fun. Got a new shirt at Gap and a pair of shoes (actually, this is the third time I've owned this pair... I keep breaking the soles from wearing them too much). Then Emily and Tricia came to U of I with Meg and me.

Aarti and I had to work the MTV Campus Invasion Tour. Injected, Default, and Nickelback played. They're not really my cup of tea, but it was interesting. Injected is from Atlanta. They kept saying "Thank y'all." I thought of you, Carolyn. =) They were kinda cute. Default wasn't bad. They had cool backdrops that made them look like they were standing on docks by the ocean. And I knew that one song of theirs, which is escaping me now. Then Nickelback came on. Turns out I knew two of their songs!

Oh, did I mention I was on the floor? It was General Admission down there (as in, no seats, just wristbands). It was all good until the crowd surfing started (I almost got kicked in the head, thank you very much). And then the lead singer (whatever his name is) said "Are you guys hot?" to which I was like "no, no, no, no, NO!" as they brought out these huge fire extinguisher-looking things and proceeded to give us all showers. Ack! I didn't sign up for that, let me tell ya.

The one cute thing was that the lead singer brought out his video camera and said it was a tradition to film the crowd. He said he couldn't see the people up in back, so he jumped off the stage (into the middle of the people on the floor) and ran all the way up to the back, filming everyone, and then back down. I had the camera shoved in my face as he ran by me on his way back to the stage, so that was fun. I'll be on his home video. =)

The only other eventful thing was that we had this pair who were either drunk or stoned. Or both. They wouldn't get in their own seats and refused to show me their tickets. They just kept moving around whenever someone came with tickets for the seats they were in. My supervisor was unsuccessful at getting their tickets from them, either. The guy finally got kicked out after Default, but the woman stayed. She had on a short black strapless velvet dress with silver trim around the top, and a silver collar that connected from the back of the dress. She was in nylons and high heels. At a Nickelback concert! She kept unhooking her collar and flashing the band. Security was finding it hilarious. They'd radio each other when one saw her opening the collar, and they'd all tell me not to look. Lol. Mr. Hottie Security Guard hung out by me for a while, too. <.g> Security makes these things fun, I tell ya.

After the concert, we were supposed to go to High Dive, one of the clubs that's off-campus. But by the time I got home, it was midnight, and bars close at 1, so we went to Greg's fraternity's Swampwater Party. I remember why I stopped going to frat parties after my freshman year. Since the date was 4/20 (national smoke-out day), the band they got was smoking weed on stage (and singing a not-so-inventive song about it). The band was actually really good, once they started doing real songs. We drank Swampwater, which is Ecto Cooler (remember that stuff? Green Hi-C, I think) and sprite with something alcohol-y in it, and a piece of dry ice to make it smokey. All this fog was coming out if it. It was cool. Lol. I was a little unsure as to whether it was safe to drink, but no one looked dead yet, and I feel alright today. Ha ha.

So that was my weekend. And now I'm doing laundry, which just oozes excitement, don't you think?