The Kids Aren't Alright

Oh man, this past weekend was nuts. I guess my "weekend" technically started on Thursday, even though I had classes the next day. On Thursday night, I had to go to this event called Fresh Formal where all the Freshman Leadership Organizations (FLOs) would get together and get a chance to meet each other and dance. Well, a group of friends of mine decided we would go out and grab dinner beforehand and then pregame before going to the dance (as everyone was planning on being drunk to this thing). We ended up eating kind of late, and meeting up at a friends frat house and I had a few drinks. The dance was lame, so I was glad to be somewhat tipsy just based off of how awkward things were. Afterwards we ended up going out again and drinking some more. I was pretty much fine all night, but I decided I would mess around with my roommate Nathan some and make him think I was totally gone. I will admit though, I had a mad case of the giggles, and would laugh really hard at funny stuff.

On Friday, I thought it would be a relaxing night, and I ended up hanging out with Nathan again. We went to the GT baseball game against UNC, and we lost, but it was fun to watch. Afterward, we ended up going to the Varsity and had my second dinner, which wasn't really smart of me. I ended up getting some mad heartburn later in the night, but it didn't really matter much. After hanging out with the roommate, I ended up going out with a couple of my buddies David and Michael to check out some of the frat parties. Man, that was a good decision. We mainly checked out two big parties, and after a while, we realized we really needed some girls to dance with, so we called up a few of them, and only really managed to get my friend Meghan to come out. We danced for a while, and then went inside the frat house to try to find some drinks. Lo and behold, we found some damn strong Bourbon. Not a smart choice, but hey, we had quite a bit of it, and while I was perfectly fine, my friend David was completely gone, and Michael was pretty drunk. The night was really great, it was the first time in such a while I had gone out and enjoyed myself. As luck would have it, I ended up finding a new friend Zach who I had just met that day, and we had an even better time doing some social drinking.

The next day (Saturday) I didn't really plan on doing any partying, but I ended up getting my mind changed.. AGAIN. The night started out great and ended.. alright, but my cousin Ivan came down to Tech to visit me and chill out. We ate dinner with a bunch of my friends, and walked to the nearest movie theater in Atlantic Station to see the new Fast and Furious movie (which wasn't really that good in my opinion). Now, even though we got back around midnight, I still went with my cousin to show him what the life was like at tech when it came to parties and stuff, and luckily there were some huge parties going on. We were sober the entire time we were at the band party we went to (shockingly, I know), but ended up going to David's frat house and drinking there. Nathan (my roommate) was feeling kind of down and had wayyyyy too much to drink, so we had to carry him back on our shoulders, but he was fucking hilarious. He ended up puking that night, and while I was a bad influence on my cousin, he had a good time. He got to see what college life is really like I suppose, and that's always a good thing. We got back into the room around 6 AM Sunday morning, and I only got about 3-4 hours of sleep.

Sunday sucked. I barely remember anything, just because I was so sleep deprived. I know I dropped Ivan off at his car, and I had to go to audition the bands for the Battle of the Bands I'm organizing, but besides that things were blurry. I think throughout the entire week I got somewhere around 25 hours of sleep, with about 6 or 7 of those hours over the 3 days I partied. I got very sick because my immune system was sucking from lack of rest, and thank goodness I had some friends to take care of me. I'm still feeling sick, but at least I'm doing better than Sunday. I slept 15 hours straight that night, so that's pretty epic. And that's not counting the 5 or 6 hours that I was sleeping on and off before that (right after I finished those auditions).

Life is busy as ever, and this Battle of the Bands deal is quickly approaching (it's next Thursday), so I hope it's a success. Classes are as rough as ever, and I just got through a decently difficult Calc II test (I actually think I did pretty well). I know I've sucked at keeping up with the blog, and I'm sorry. Life is just busy, and this weekend I wasn't exactly on the computer much, I was just having way too much fun. :P

Wow, I've just realized it's April 7th. My birthday is in 10 days, and I didn't even realize it til now. I'm not really a big fan of my birthday or anything, but this just kind of shocks me. It feels like it hasn't been a year since my last birthday, and that's how I know that I'm getting old. Time is going by too fast! I'm going to try to keep up with this better, and sorry for making such a long post! Hope to hear from you all!