Rather Full

Alright, I'm too sleepy to study, but I'm not sleepy enough to sleep, so I'm gonna do something for all my readers out there.

I'm posting!

Alright, so last weekend (after my glorious victory) I went home. You'd think it was to study, but no, apparently not.

So Saturday at 4:30 we had a "Christmas party" to go to next door. I remember getting up well before 4:30, but I can't remember an inkling of what I did. Anyway, our next door neighbours own a bed and breakfast, so their house is a rather stately affair. It's furnished exactly like the set was at "The Importance of Being Earnest" though that reference will only help Jordan. For the rest of you, think late 19th century British upper class house.

I forget our neighbour's names now but I did remember them for the time being at this "party" though I'll use the term loosely for the benefit of my readership's demographic. Their house was cool to see, it reminded me a bit of the Resident Evil mansion, except that it was full of Christmas decorations. The only other people my age there were two attractive young ladies that were working the bar and the kitchen, so they must have been the daughters of our neighbours. My dad kept getting me to get him more wine, so I saw them pretty frequently throughout the afternoon/evening, and even got a good laugh when I returned the glass and said "I'm cutting him off, he's still got to walk home you know." But that's not the point of this post.

In each living room there was a table full of food, appetizers in the "fireplace room" and deserts in the "piano room." From my experience on cleaning out said foodstuffs I would like to offer the following advice on "eating everything without anyone knowing it was you."

1. Pace yourself. You've got all night to eat, and if you're not eating your going to have to listen to some old windbag give his opinion on politics or art or something like that. Plus, if people see you stuffing your face they'll get wise to you.

2. Never fill your plate to a noticeably large amount. You can fill your plate as many times as you like, so keep it light and refill often. Better yet...

3. Hover over the food, like you're trying to decide what to pick. People don't notice how many things you eat just standing there, as long as you don't stuff in anything too big.

4. If there's more than one food area bounce back and forth. That way people don't always see you standing over the same food.

5. Lastly, beware of foods that leave evidence of your crime. Shrimp tails are a good example, people can get a rough idea of what you've eaten by looking at your "spent shells" so to speak. Dump said evidence in the garbage often, maybe integrate it into your back-and-forth bouncing.

All I ate that day was breakfast and appetizers, so I felt proud. I'm sure as hungry students you're all probably experienced enough at said practices, but I thought the advice sounded funnier when explained seriously.

Tuesday was eventful. From 5:00-6:30 there was a Spring 2007 Dons... er... event I suppose. We got some info, but really I think it was to meet your donning team. There were some awesome sandwiches too, totally worth going for the food. Plus I met Rachel, my don partner at Minota for spring. She's a first time don too, I even recognize her from the carousal interview day. I'm actually getting pretty excited for the Spring term now, I think it's going to be pretty good. I've still got a lot to do before then, but it's looking up. Winter should be damn fine as well, so if we could just get these exams done with I'd be set...

The Sake ceremony was also on Tuesday, from 9:00 to .... well... er... I got home at about 2:30. I won't bore you with details, but the one first-year drunk guy I found extremely entertaining. At McGinnis he was asking people if they thought Sensei Jaime (Jay-Me) would date him (luckily after she had left) in an extremely overt fashion. It went something like "Hey, do you think I should ask out Sensei... wasser name? Jaime! Yeah, should I, 'cause she's HOT! And if she says no I'll be like... fuck you!"

Imagine that, with slurred words, and with him struggling not to fall off his chair. See folks, that's why I don't drink, that could just have easily been me under the right (wrong) influences. I'll admit Jaime is an attractive young lady, since my readership doesn't know her and it's relevant, but honestly! It's kind of like asking out your TA, it's not technically against the rules and they might say yes but they probably don't look upon their students as date-able. (I would imagine.)

I was going to say "it's like asking out your don" but I don't crush dreams folks. Well, not anymore.

Jordan, you're a good writer, keep at it!

-Danger