Saturday, October 2, 2010

8:40 AM

This is earliest I’ve been up since SPOT (got up at 7:15)—I’ve actually been less sleepy since I started sleeping less. (Used to sleep 8-10 hours), now closer to 6-8.

Things have gotten better since last writing.

Went to Xanadu with Julia and her wonderful Gaviloro friends—listened to Avril while drinking cheap wine before; got there at ~10:15 or 10:30.

Not too crowded—was a drinking and talking party.

--> Sigma Chi to dance.

Had one margarita too much and threw up (first time from alcohol ever and first time generally in a while—sucked, but it was quick.)

Ultima sera, went to Happy Hour again, this time with Alondra friends; met people I knew/new people more easily.

--> FloMo and ate with WestFlo. Chilled in Gavilan lounge; played Apples to Apples and Taboo.

Planned to go to Pajama Party at ΠΣΨ, but didn’t plan to go in PJs until right before—went in my robe, no shirt and Guess jeans.

Planned to leave with WestFlo, but missed them; met up with Julia & co again.

è ΠΣΨ—fun (had 4 beers)—feel alc as a crutch, but NEED TO MEET A GUY!

Now, on the way to SFO for Scavenger Hunt. [Comment: It wasn’t until June that I realized SFO meant the airport and SF meant the city…] I love the people here.

Also, Skyped with Heidi yesterday—so good to see/hear a friend.

21:00

On the CalTrain from SFO with Mary, Sarahi, Miguel and Dewey—scavenger hunt was fun. It exposed me to some of SFO (still so much more to see) and I got to know some other people way better.

After hunt over, went back to Fisherman’s Wharf with above co. for dinner.

It was so nice to be in a real city, but also ~frustrating not to know the city at all.

Used my camera for the first time since arriving on campus—felt good to get back in the groove. Got some great color accent photos, some cool detail shots and once cityscape photo I really liked—of the gray Bay Bridge stretching into gray fog with blue and gray on either side of the street—the combo of this latter fact and the fact that the street dropped into a deep decline in front of me made it appear like the bridge came out of and went into buildings and emerged out of nowhere from the street.

Was able to finally think of something productive for my SLE paper.

I love the prompt and that it’s a 4 page paper and that I have to submit a draft a week before final due date and am so excited to write it—just don’t know my argument.

Over dinner, watched the Stanford-Oregon game and was glued to the screen/plays/screamed in excitement when we scored—like that I’m warming up to football. We had a great 1^st half—leading 28-24, but I believe we lost 45-31.

Very exciting, though. Oregon is #3 team nationally and we held them off for a while. I am very happy to be here.