thursday nights in eugene are becoming quite entertaining.

it was lydias 22nd birthday yesterday so we went out to red robin and then back to her place for cake and singing and turbo cranium - man that game is intense. anyway, me and amy had waaaaay too much to drink during the game. after an hour and a half of some good cranium action (go blue!), 3 glasses of wine, 2 shots of nasty vodka and a beer, we headed over to rockin' rodeo to see what all the buzz was about. the alcohol really started to kick in on the drive to the bar.

i mean, it was alright, nothing too special. me and amy tore it up on the dance floor together (dancing drunk is so much better than doing it sober and being all self conscious). after a few songs songs, we were all danced out and as soon as we stopped dancing, we both immediately felt sick. birthday girl wasn't doing too well either - it was time to go home. a big thanks to sop, john and wannita for being our sober saviors =)

you know, even when i'm drunk, i'm thinking pretty clearly. i know exactly what i'm doing, but even though i know i shouldn't be doing it, i do it anyways. its crazy beans i tell you.

anyway, got home at like 2, asleep by 2:01 and up this morning at 6 to shower and get ready and have some good old fashioned oatmeal - I hate coming from the bars all sweaty from dancing being too drunk to shower and then waking up sticky and feeling gross.  

I work at 7am on Friday mornings. it's torture. i woke up slightly drunk and still feel like my face and body are warm/pink from the alcohol. my eyelids are puffy and my eyes are bloodshot. if you're reading this, bring me coffee and some aspirin. i'm at the business lab. HELP. SOS.

sorry there were no crazy encounters with rude/racist people to tell you about. i'll work on that for next week. now, time to decide whether or not i want to go to portland for the weekend - i wonder what everyone is going to do...i miss home, but i know i should learn to tolerate eugene...

okay well, i guess i should work/do my hw. until the next time i'm inspired to write, au revoir.

This entry is seriously lacking a good intro, some solid transitions and good organization. I'm working on my businesss writing so please bear w/ me.

my friend and i had altercations with two different groups of people on two different occassions yesterday. it was also our first night out at the bars in eugene and the first time i've ever won something cool in a raffle (albeit ugly, it's still cool i won).

first fight: we are simply walking across the street, a car is coming at us (hello, yield to pedestrians - it's a college town). it looks like they're coming right at me but i continue walking anyway when I hear the people in the car yell something (either sorry or hurry) so I said "did you say sorry, or hurry?!" then this ugly B. (okay, so maybe she would be considered pretty, but only if she wasnt such a rude snatch) in the passenger seat looks at me and sort of does that attitude-y thing w/ her neck n says "HUR-RY". I was like oh no you did not, so I yelled "YOU B*&%!" rather loudly as her and her bf drove off. Man was I mad! I was so mad that after walking a few steps I decided I wanted to go find her, but alas, she had already made it to her sorority hide out and I was unable to kick her in the face. Lydia was proud of me, as I am usually rather timid, but that girl had it coming.

amy and lydia go exploring: sadly, lydia and i are quite the antisocial butterflies in eugene - we're more like accounting butterflies. anyhow, we took our first venture out to the two campus bars/clubs and actually had a decent time - even though most of the usual Thursday night crowd headed over to this country bar place.  We got a pretty good buzz going, consumed 5,000 calories in beverages and cheesy bacon fries dipped in ranch and talked a lotta nonsense. at our second stop, we were entered into a drawing to win a snowboard. lydia let me have her ticket since she already has a board and we felt our chances to be quite good considering there were about 22 people in the entire bar. anyway, after much anticipation, i won! which leads me to our second encounter...

round 2: as we're walking home, snowboard in hand, laughing, being silly and in a very jolly mood, we encounter another situation.  There are a group of people walking on the other side of the street speaking rather loudly.  Lydia hears them say, "F&^%$*# Asians, they win everything!" along with some other stupid stuff - or something to that effect. BUZZ KILL.  We recognize them from the bar and after hearing their comments, Lydia was fuming.  So she says, "WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?!" and you know...what follows was rather interesting. we start yelling at each other across the street and the girl has the nerve to say, "I'm sorry, I wouldn't want you to do your KUNG FU on me"....EX-KA-USE ME? We then proceeded to tell her that we'd hit her with the snowboard if she didn't shut up. Anyway, Lydia did most of the talking on this one and we got into a debate about stereotypes and how it shouldn't matter that we're Asian and you know, Lydia just gave her a nice piece of her mind - it was my turn to be proud.  Anyway, the girl was just really trashed and she tried to apologize and her friend was saying sorry and all this stuff, but still, NOT OKAY. that's like the second time in a week that people have mocked our culture here. anyway, a very interesting night. The end!

VEGAS!!

the girls at the hotel: vir, me, tia, cat, luna

nasty 2 dollar drinks at the yummers buffet

my seesters, vir & tia

before the yommy cheeseburgers!

playing with the dragon

the girls at LiGHT in Bellagio