this week was a bit of a fail

so this week went by both rapidly and very slowly in weird ways, and two days of it were spent lying around sick, but also in different ways.

-monday: after medieval culture class (boringgg) and work, i had a long long serious talk with amanda about life and so many other things. catharsis x infinty. then we went on a valentines day date! minus celeste, who bailed on us in favor of actually doing her job as a ta and holding office hours. how utterly responsible of her! went to lebanese taverna which was so so delicious! we shared spinach pies, roasted garlic humus (complete with whole roasted garlic gloves on top which were kind of too roasted and brown in color, which made me think they were dates or prunes and i was very confused), felafel which was decent but not the best, and haloumi cheese which was the best thing ever. i am a haloumi addict for sure! and everything was consumed in conjunction with enormous amounts of their pillowy, puffy fresh-baked pita. the staff and other people at the restaurant definitely thought we were lesbians on a valentines day dinner, and were giving us weird looks. even if we were a gay couple, what's it to them!? we had excellent luck with the bus schedule timing though!

- tuesday: french class was boring, we're learning about the political system of France which i already know all about and so basically, the theme of that class seems to be doodle while the professor tells me things i already know. then i had poetics and politics of sex, which is an interesting class, and we discussed casina and lysistrata which we had read for that week, but by discussed, i mean he lectured and occasionally posed questions which he then answered himself. he definitely likes to talk, but what he was saying was interesting at least. he didn't give us a break though and that class is from 1:30 to 4 so i had to run out in the middle so i could go to the loo. i wish someone would speak up and be like hey nils, we should have a break in this 3 hour long class no? then i came home and started my laundry and lazed about the house a bit, if i recall.

- wednesday: didn't go to medieval culture class, just didn't wake up and that class is a major waste of my time. ughhhh. i know i should go, but i didn't. who owns culture was very interesting this week, although rodini also spent most of the time talking to us instead of having a discussion. it was very interesting though, we talked a lot about UNESCO and the relationship between the art market/art dealers/art collectors and the art or cultural objects themselves and also the relationship to archaeology. a few archaeology majors in the class definitely enlightened us on some really interesting concepts, like the art historical provenance concept versus the archaeological provinience concept. Then i taught at Tench for Art Brigade! it was great, we did a civil rights themed project since its black history month, we didn't have too many kids and the volunteers on my day were great. Harley and Ham were there too and it all worked out quite well. then i went home, did work and made pasta.

- thursday: woke up with a ginormous ginormous sinus pressure headache. could hardly see straight and felt like my face was exploding from within. took a bunch of meds and skipped french, thought i would be ok by the time for anthropology and fiction but i was still miserable and in so much pain, so i missed that too and spent the day on the sofa. at night i felt well enough to go to this senior cocktails night, which was fun and weird. we got slightly dressed up, myself embodying both mary poppins and hermione granger while amanda looked like joan jett in her all-black ensemble and rockstar hair. the event was fun, and there was free alcohol, but the food was shmeh and i hadn't really eaten dinner before hand which turned out to be a huge mistake. i thought there would be more food there, but it was all pretty gross and what was good was minimal in amount. i had 2 glasses of wine and then weston's roommate nick asked me to hold his beer while he went to the bathroom i think but when he came back he had another beer so i kept the one i'd been holding. weird beer exchange// he's a weird guy, though he seems nice. then we went to pjs and ginger lunberjack followed us there so he could put the moves on A. s j and i found this incredibly amusing. drank 2 more drinks at pjs --- biggest mistake ever. i'd now mixed 4 types of alcohol: wine, beer, gin and vodka. at some point at pjs, i blacked out.... i don't remember leaving or coming home or getting into bed. woke up at like 7 am in my dress, tights, cardigan and COAT. oyyy veeyyyy.

- friday: spent the entire day INCREDIBLY HUNG OVER. never ever have i had a hangover like this. i couldn't believe i had blacked out and didn't remember the last quarter of the night. luckily i didn't do anything too embarassing, according to jen, except dance wildly in the pub where no one really dances, jovially greet someone i was friends with freshman year but haven't talked to in 3 years, and try to help jen flirt with a tall dude. apparently i also ran around and was hyper and cheerful, and no one could tell i was black-out which is good. sarah was also super hungover so we comiserated and spent the day dying on the couches. eventually i had to go to work at 5 and that was a huge struggle. i have seriously never been hung over this way. it was like extreme hangover: lightweight edition. went to work, rented some dvds and had a movie/pizza/chill night with jen.

- saturday (today): compared to yesterday's total unproductivity, today i am super woman. woke up early and went to the farmer's market with sarah around 10:45/11:00. We got some beets, olive bread, tangerines, green beans, and i got a veggie empenada for lunch/brunch/whatever. delicious! when i asked the guy what was in the veggie empenada he said "the veggie empenada..... it contains.... veggies." UM THANKS CAPTAIN OBVIOUS. "right... what kinds of vegetables are in it?"- me. "ohhh..... *reads lists of ingredients off a piece of paper where he had them all typed out* and cheddar cheese." - empenada man who had ginger dreadlocks. he then proceeded to flirt with sarah. barf. but the empenada was delish. then we went to the bank, i deposited my paychecks (wooooo monayyyy), and then to eddie's to get milk and cereal and a few other things. and then starbucks, because, well just because. accomplished all this before noon! hyper productivity! once we got home we started cleaning the apt because we're having a party tonight, or rather jen is hosting the volleyball teams mixer and its then opening up to an open-party at about 10 or 10:30. im going to a potluck at the ginger lumberjacks house tonight, which i imagine to be covered entirely in rust-colored corduroy and buffalo plaid. trying to get A to go with me, but i think she's hesitant to show up for a communal meal at his house.... awkwardness potential very high. started cleaning my room but it's still a HUGE HUGE mess. oyyyy.


so now i'm just sitting at work, blogging instead of doing the readings for poetics/politics. need to come up with a way to shorten the name of that class, a la maniere de "anthro-fic" for anthropology and fiction, for which i have readings to catch up on. ayyyy. but it's the weekend and i survived a massive hang over so REJOICE.

anndd we're back

it's been so long since i last blogged (haha i almost wrote globbed) but it doesn't seem that way to me. Well, the first few weeks of the semester have been busy and tiring and full of random fun but also beaucoup de frustration. highlights:
- Celesteypoo turned 21!!! We went out to dinner at Mezze aka where the HEAVENLY food comes from
        spinach fritters, greek salad, out of control beet salad with oranges and walnuts, marinated feta cheese, fresh humus and babaganough and pita of course and more but who can remember the details when they are in a food-induced state of euphoria? i want to take my parents and noosh there when they come for my graduation because mediterranean food is our favorite and we won't have the whole meat-eater v. vegetarian tapas issue, except they will eat fish.
- C, A and I have begun dressing in theme every day so we wear things in our warddrobes we normally don't wear and also to combat the monotony that is the school day. So far we've been equestrian, zoological, Norse/viking, soft, russian (but like old country/ fur hat russian), and oceanic. A often wins ipso facto because her warddrobe is ginormous and she has a knack for theme costumes. I'm glad though because without these themes or any other direct encouragement to dress cute i tend to fall into my pattern of a grey shirt (why is half my warddrobe grey???), jeans and my caramel colored cardigan.
- things i've cooked: spinach-zucchini-feta patties, ginger blueberry clafoutis, mac-n-cheese-n-squash. lots of yumminess. and fattiness because CHEESE. i should start dieting/eating less shit soon so i can get in swim suit shape and also so i can snag a fella!
-classes: they're ok. la france contemporaine- ehhh kinda stupid and all things i already know, but ham and renee are in the class with me so that's fun. the radiator melted my shoe last week. medieval culture- so early so early so early, feudalism. poetics and politics of sex- too much reading for my sanity's sake, interesting discussions, hermaphrodites v androgynes. who owns culture- way too much reading, interesting guest lecture today, prof loves to give me the death stare when i come in 20 seconds late or drink coffee in class. doesn't she know who i am? ----> girl with coffee mug perpetually attached to right hand. anthropology and fiction- interesting reading, only had this class once so far, so we shall see how discussion/workshopping goes.
- getting closer to opening etsy shop. weeooooo!
- sleeping a bit more....
- drunken weekends
- picked up a shift at the circ desk since i didn't get as many hours as i wanted at av, interesting change, but involves more real work and less sitting at a desk and doing homework while people think you're hard at work as a student librarian.
- sooooo many textbooks
- dulce de leche amanda brought back from argentina = sex in a jar. speaking of sex, there are ZERO attractive/nice/friendly guys anywhere. got flirted with at av one day by a boy who was clearly a fresher. no thanks, 18 year old, take your little self elsewhere. got eyed by a fellow library worker who was fairly cute and wearing thick-framed glasses (ie sarah magnets) but couldn't tell if it was because a) he thought i was cute b) he didn't know who i was since i don't normally work circ and he was wondering who the new person was, or c) i had like spinach in my teeth or coffee in my hair or writing on my face. all of these things are not rare occurances.
- update complete!!!! also lemme just say this, ITS COLD AS A FUCKING ANTARCTIC WIND TUNNEL. frozen solid inside an ice tornado every time i go outside.