02 February 2002
It's been a long wekend! I went out of town.
Summer and I went to Detroit! I've never been there before.
Her friend Leighanna lives there, and my friend Emma lives
nearby in Ann Arbor, so we went up. Leighanna's sister Rabecca,
and three other girls (Melissa, Maia, and Carrie) came also.
It was fun! Friday night we went to a restaraunt in Royal Oak
called Sangria's. Guess what we drank?... It was my first time
ever trying sangria. It's pretty good! It was so exciting to
see Emma! Dinner was pretty fancy. After dinner, all the girls
wanted to go back to Leighanna's except for Emma and I. We
went to a bar called The Rock or something for a beer, and
it ended up being somebody's 30th birthday party, which was
weird! EVERYBODY knew each other there! It was fun, Emma had
her laser pointer with her, and she has cool attachments for
it like skulls and flying saucers. So we kept pointing the
laser pointers at people and pretending it wasn't us. And it
was fun! Nobody really noticed except this one guy that looked
like Hulk Hogan, and he was trying to be funny, but he wasn't.
After that, Emma dropped me off at Leighanna's
apartment. The next morning, Rabecca made everyone pancakes!
MMM! And then
we went to the Detroit Zoo! That was GREAT! They have this
amazing polar bear exhibit. It is so cool! It is a glass
tunnel INSIDE the polar bear environment, so they swim right
over
you and stuff! They were wrestling the whole time it was
so cute! Cute, but they are the most viscious animals in the
entire
zoo, and would eat you in a second if they could. But that's
easy to forget when there's four inches of specially made
glass between you and them! I got some pretty cute polar bear
ears
in the gift shop. We ate lunch at a place called Smoky Bones
or something. Then I took off with Emma to go to Ann Arbor.
All the other
girls went to a club in Detroit called Clutch Cargos. I was
going to finally get to meet Emma's boyfriend Dave!! And
see Emma's house. She lives in a Frank Lloyd Wright house!
The
Palmer House! It was AMAZING! Wow.
Then we went shopping
downtown, and went to a bar called The Brown Jug. I had some
pretty disgusting
pasta, and some beers! That's where we met up with Dave.
He was playing a show that night at a little student union
place
called the Halfass - he was playing for the first time
with this band called Saturday Looks Good to Me, which I guess
has several members and they change often? Or something.
But
he's
a good drummer! It was fun! Then we stayed in Dave's parents'
basement, which was funny because it was COMPLETELY seventies!
There's even a roll of saran wrap in the basement kitchen
that's from the seventies! Bizarre! Sunday we made the long
trek back.
When I arrived home, Adam had a few friends over
to watch the Superbowl. One of those friends was Jay, who I
went to
highschool
with, and who was down for the night from Columbus — his
mom made CUPCAKES! They were AWESOME!!!
Then today started
off pretty shitty, when I skidded off the road on my way
to work. My office is in an old Lunatic Asylum, "The Ridges," and
I was turning off the highway onto the long Ridges driveway
and I didn't know it was icy and I skidded right off the road,
narrowly missing the ditch. Ugh. So I had to walk up to the
office and get Tracy and Dean (the only two guys who work at
NBIA - they get stuck with a lot of fun tasks!) to come and
help push me out. I drove my car up to the parking lots and
as I was walking to the buildings, Adam drove by!! I said "How
did YOU already know about this!?" I guess Sergio had
driven by my car on his way to work, saw that it was skidded
out on the side of the road with nobody in it, and called Adam.
I thought that was funny. One thing's for sure about Athens — you
do something stupid, and within ten minutes, everyone in town
knows about it! Great start to the day!
Then after work I decided
to go to Kroger's, because I needed lunch stuff, and
knew that once I got home, I wouldn't want to go back out.
So I went
there, and while I was there, I decided that I would
make lasagna!! I've never made it before, but for about 2 months,
I've been
saying that I will try. So I bought the ingredients,
and made it!!! Adam's brother Jared stopped over
right
as I finished, so he stayed to eat too. He got seconds!
Everyone loved it. I am very proud. That's about all I have
to say for
the first installment in February!
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