"It's so nice to get away for a day"
--Hollow Man, The Cult

First order of business: MTV aired their 25 Loudest Rock Videos. Some of this was rather cool, and hair band fans could once again hold their AquaNetted heads up high, throw their fists in the air, and chant silly rock slogans. But there were some blatant MTV plugs in the video list. Creed? STP? Kid Rock? In some of the lamest, low volume videos ever? Grrr. Not sure if I agreed with the exact selection, but at least the Metallica and Manson videos were good ones, and GNR's "November Rain" topped the list. Rock \m/

On with the show.

These were a very odd last two days. Finals ended for me (not everyone else, ha bloody ha) and I already got one of my grades back. So go me. That was a very odd statement, three monosyllable words and two of them rhyme. Remind me never to do that again. Anyways, I have to pull my room apart tomorrow so it can be loaded away and go home.

Kate's birthday this year was apparently a really bad one. No one in her family really remembered it, and her dad (who did at least remember) got her a Hello Kitty doll from McDonald's. So that was upsetting for her, and we had to hear about it for a very long time. So we (and by "we" I mean the three people that live in this room) decided to remedy the situation. Mostly we were kind of sick of hearing about it.

The original plan was for us to take her out to Dupont for Chinese food, then for ice cream and stuff. There were to be flowers, and possibly a birthday cake. Presents were to be obtained at the mall.

Finals and papers sort of threw a dent in that version of the plan. So the final version was that we were going to order in Chinese and make her a mix CD. This was easily accomplished. The whole point of the CD was that we'd all contribute a bunch of songs for her. Whether or not she liked them was immaterial - they were songs that should remind her of us. Goth from me, pop and hip-hop from Chris, death metal and industrial from Daniel.

So I make the CD and get her down to the room. We order Chinese food, and we pay in such a way that Kate "has to pay us back later." Haha. Never gonna happen. So we're watching TV, and all of a sudden Chris shuts the TV, and we launch into "Happy Birthday." She cried. Oh my god, she cried. The phrase "Awwww" has never been so appropriately applied. Apparently, we did good.

So we ate Chinese food, had fun. Lindsey (who I had run into while getting the Chinese menu, and was very drunk for the first time in her life) arrived later with ice cream for all. Yay. Fin on day one of the two under discussion.

Begin day two. Kate was supposed to go fly out and see her boyfriend, so the day started with my being woken up so I could make sure to say goodbye to her. She wasn't going to be back here until after I was gone. So stuff going on, stuff going on... I get out of the shower to find out that her boyfriend is once again being a bitch, and informed her that she shouldn't come visit him. Mind you this is an hour before she's supposed to leave to get her plane. So its bitch with a capital bitch. After some debate, she decides to stay, and Chris and Kate set off in search of alcohol. End Act II, Scene 1.

Daniel's parents arrive. I help them load his stuff into the car. Boring stuff. But they decided that they're going to take Daniel and his friends (that means me) to dinner. Cool. Chris, Kate and I are the guest list. So we get Chris back to the room, and then we wait for Kate. The neat thing is, Kate is drunk. Very drunk. I called her to tell her about dinner, she says she needs to change, we hang up, and the phone rings. It's Kate, giggling, saying "And brush my teeth. I need to brush my teeth too. Bye." Very drunk.

So dinner promises to be really interesting. If you want to see a picture of Daniel's father, go to CNN.com and look for pictures of Dubya. He's even got a Southern accent. We requested that he use the word strategery at some point. So here's this guy who looks and sounds like Mr. President, getting all excited about this fish he caught, exclaiming that "It took a lot of work to catch that fish; I had to use strategery." Hilarity ensued. It was lots of fun. Oddly enough, most of the conversation focused around SNL and the Osbournes.

Kate did a very good job of hiding the fact that she was drunk, and I'm very proud of her. She needed to be retold everything a few seconds after people said things, but that was about all. And she had a pig story that she got halfway through and then realized she had forgotten the point to, but she brought it to a satisfactory close. Very, very proud.

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