Ultimate Crazed Birthday Weekend!

OK so on Thursday night my mom dropped me off in Northridge to Cristina and her mom's place. It was great because Cristina's mommy's birthday is the same day as mine so we kinda celebrated together. It was cute! I love Tina's mom! She rox!

Then on Friday morning I got up at like 6:45AM. I drank a cup of coffee and watched Tina's mom get ready for work. Tina woke up and we were off on the road to pick up Michelle at around 9:00AM. It was great that we were early because we had to pack the truck with all of Michelle's shit!

When we get to Rialto I call Michelle about a million times and she doesn't answer. We have no clue why because she said that she would be awake and she wasn't of course. She was up all night packing and unpacking and repacking and once we finally got in touch with her we had been in Rialto for about an hour. Now we're no longer early but right on schedule, which I hate but ... whatever! We get to the house and I can tell she's been crying but I don't say anything because we've got to get cracking on packing the truck. We get everything all squared away and Michelle needs to make a couple stops. We see her grandparents and cousins and then we stop to get her perscription then finally we're on our way! We take the route Michelle's mom has mapped out for us and it's crazy changing highways but by evening we make it to the city! I'm so excited I can hardly contain myself but I'm also really tired.

We went to Jenn's place to park the car and Michelle and I crashed there for the night. Anil was there to steal Cristina away for the weekend. We went to this restaurant Q for my birthday which was great except for the fact that the food didn't agree too well with me. How awesome was it to sit at a table with a tree growing out of the middle?! HAHA! I read about it on Citysearch and was so excited when they sat us there. Once we got back we all watched the Opening Ceremonies for the Olympics and that was fun to see all the HOT Greek boys. Tina and Anil left and I crashed!

The next morning Chad (love Chad) came over and Michelle Jenn he and I went to lunch at Squat and Gobble on Haight. I bought the new Slum Village album at Amoeba and then Saturday afternoon went to Macy's with Reve and did a little shopping until I got ahold of Makeda that night and stayed in the dorms. That was cool. Every night just got better and better as far as sleeping arrangements went. That night, Tekk and us went over to see their Loyola apartments. Makeda's living with 5 other girls! I told her she could come visit me if she ewants to get away from the drama for awhile.

Sunday I went to mass at 9:30 AM and then I talked to Gina (a sophomore friend) at the front desk of Phelan until her shift was nearly over. I hung out with Makeda for a little while until Cristina called to tell me that they were at Loyola Village and ready to move Michelle in. It was pretty quick and painless. Michelle is crazy about the apartment and she kept flipping out about random things like closets and light switches. Her apt. is pretty nice because it's a one bedroom. Really cool!

I can't remember much of what I did between about 3 and nighttime but eventually I ended up back at Michelle's place after running into a few of my friends. OH! I saw Megan from Oregon which was very cool. She bought me Lundin with her abundant amount of Flexi. And we gossipped for awhile. Then I saw Molly and that was fun! Molly always entertaining. That night she took me to In-N-Out (YUM!) and for some reason she thought it would be a good idea to get food for other people. So we had 3 orders to take care of after we ate and got ice cream at Ghirardelli's! She almost killed us holding drinks in her car (WHERE ARE YOUR CUP HOLDERS!?!) We finally got back to campus around 10. We went over to the Village to see Jack, Katt, Janice, Gina, Michelle, and Laura. IT WAS A PARTY! They're all O-Teamers and were doing their thang thang. It was so surreal to be back and not have anything to do except say bye to people. Laura (the sweetest sweetheart) let me borrow a blanket and pillow to sleep over at Michelle's. Then I went back over to main campus with Molly to grab all my ish out of Makeda's room and grab a public safety escort back to Loyola Village. That was fun! Never been in a Campus Police car before. I talked to Theo that night (insert lovey dovey music here) and his grandparents are doing better. They were sick and he was working and doing classes and just generally stressed and that's why I hadn't been recieving any phone calls. Whatevs! I'm leaving! I don't have time to stress about boys. Right?

I feel like I've been typing forever but the weekend was really eventful. Monday I ran into some more people. Maria, Zack, and Erika from Erasmus. OH and I saw Lucy the day before. I went shopping on Haight. I participated in the Student Panel for Foreword. I love Foreword. It was the best thing that ever happened to me at USF. Another Jennifer and I went to dinner together at Happy Garden Restaurant on Clement. I went back to Molly's room and helped her cut out Palm Tree trunks (you can do it Molly!) Watched a good portion of Mona Lisa Smile and got another PS escort back to Michelle's.

I was expecting to leave the city early in the morning so I woke up really early but apparently Tina wasn't quite ready to go so I sat around waiting for about 4 hours. It sucked. I gues I hate not leaving when I expect to leave. She finally called me at about 1:30 and was like let's go. Anil was there and he handed me his digital so that I could take a picture of the two of them. It made me want to hurl. Then I listened to them make out while tears streamed down my face. I don't ... well I do know why I was crying. Jealousy, Anxiety, Happiness, Nervousness, Exctement all rolled into one big ball of emotion finally caught up with me. I sort of talked to Cristina about it after we took off but for the beginning of the trip I was just silent and wiping tears away. I haven't cried in a long time. It felt good.

FINALLY ... after talking about everything for hours we make it to her dad's place and chill. Now I'm home for only 2 more weeks and I'm more ready now than I've ever been to leave this country! There's a sense of urgency for everything now and I've just got to go.