The Weekend!

Yes, the title echoes another time... that time the event was supposed to be happy but I was sad. This time the event was supposed to be happy... And I'm happy!!

In one sentence...
What a kick-ass weekend!

It started on Friday. Well... actually, ever since Monday, I've been in a pretty darn good mood. But back to Friday. That night there was to be a Capture the Flag game at 9:30 between Mathes (my dorm) and Nash (the neighboring dorm). Although I had never played before, and probably wouldn't have considered had it not been for my friend, Adria (a girl on my floor), who convinced me to play.
The people who gathered for my team were... pretty rowdy. The boys at least. Obviously sports players, as a matter of fact, probably football players. As we watlked out we had someone playing a drum, someone waving a red flag on a broomstick, and along the way we tried our best to think of a chant, but nothing quite caught on with the whole group. We did do that "huddle in a circle and jump up and down" deal, whatever you call that, to "intimidate" Nash. We played on the main lawn on campus, our border drawn with a rope, and our flags very difficult to spot, as it turned out. Our territory was huge... for a while, I was the only one guarding the flag! I KNEW it couldn't be good--if a bunch of people decided to storm the other side. Fortunately, I had a little bit of a safeguard-- The grass on the lawn was covering HUGE mud slicks. Mud so slippery, I had seen no one run all the way across it and not slip. It was pretty funny seeing all these guys' feet suddenly fly up over their heads, and after the game several guys sported mud stains going down their backs, butts, and legs. At one point there was an organized jailbreak (and what I mean by that is that the referees of the game decided there was too few people on either side for anything to happen) and as soon as the swarm of freed Nash prisoners crossed their border they headed straight into our flag, but luckily by then Mathes was ready for them and not one got to the flag! I even got to tag somebody! For that game, that was the most action I saw.
In the end, Mathes won! (Yay!) Afterwards we tried switching sides and playing a 15 minute game. Although that one was more exciting (I got to be part of a decoy attack and RUSHED at the other side!--only to get deliberately tagged and sent to jail), nothing much came of it, but afterwards both teams headed for the Nash main lounge for refreshments.

It was there that my friend Adria and I, while we were standing in line, ended up talking to a Nash resident, and, after we got our pie/brownies/hot cocoa, sat down and hung with her for a bit. Her name was Jen. She invited us up to her dorm to hang out.
Before this I only knew two other people in Nash. The first one I met on the third day, and we ended up hanging out the ENTIRE day. His name was William. The second was his friend Kit, a girl in my Theater class that I had seen William with before, and talked to her. Really outgoing, part of the "Theater/Musical" clique that I was not so fortunate to have in my high school. (Minus, say... 5 people?)
So with Jen, that would make a third Nash resident that I now knew. We walked back to her dorm. She had given us a brief description of the people who awaited us in there; from what I gathered they sounded pretty cool. She opened the door--Sitting on her bed was William, watching something on his laptop. Sitting next to him was Kit, embracing him at the time, I believe.
*Insert dropped jaw here*
Of ALL people that I stand in line next to, I happen to talk to the roommate of Kit, now girlfriend of William--the VERY TWO people of Nash that I had a previous connection with! Is that funny or what?! I said my enthusiastic hellos, and looked to see what William was watching. It turned out that he had downloaded old school episodes of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! I tell ya, this night just kept getting better and better. There was another girl in the room, but she ended up heading out to talk with her parents, and later removed herself completely. Another guy, named Ryan, came to hang out with us. So the 6 of us--ROLL CALL!!--Adria, Kit, William, Jen, Ryan, and me, all watched a few episodes of those fightin' turtles with names of Renaissance artists. And man, heh heh, talk about CHEESY!!! But entertaining, nonetheless.
Afterwards we watched Ocean's Eleven. I will admit, it's not my favorite movie to watch, but it suited entertainment purposes, so I stayed and watched. Fun times with that! Then we talked for a good deal of the night, sharing points of view, laughs, and learning interesting things about other people present. At... somewhere after 3, Adria and I decided to head back. After we left the room, both of us turned to each other and said, like we had just gone to a rock concert, "That was soooo FUN!" For both of us, that was one eventful night. We very much resolved to hang out with Kit and Jen again, they were both fun. Ryan was nice as well, and William was just as I remembered him--very cool!
We got back to our dorms, and found our R.A. Liz in the hallway. She followed us to Adria's dorm, and we talked a little bit more, to a bit past 3:30. Then it was time to finally go to sleep. Somewhere around 4, it finaly happened.

*Whew*

Next day, it was mall day. A girl named Sarah on my floor--friend of Adria's and mine--had a connection with a girl who had a car, and we were to go to the mall that day. I decided to do a bit of Christmas shopping (did I get you anything?! Maybe....). I woke up around 10. An hour later than I wanted to, but in that time I took a shower, so it was not all in vain. At 12 it was brunch time, and at 1:30 we went and malled out. We came back near 4:30, me being very tired, after getting only 6 hours of sleep (I'm used to 8 or more) and walking around all day... I took a little cat nap and then at 5 headed for dinner.
Afterwards, I did a little bit of homework, then met up with Adria outside, deciding that homework was not the way to spend Saturday night. We broke into Nash trying to contact Kit and Jen, but they were out, it turned out, and then we were kicked out of Nash because we didn't have a resident escort (heh heh heh...) with us (later I found out that the RA who kicked us out was rather up tight anyway). We headed back to our dorm to find Liz. The other girls on our floor went to go see Bridget Jones' Diary 2 (I probably would've gone if not for the fact that I haven't even seen the first one), so there was virtually no one else on our floor. We headed up for the TV lounge on the 9th floor, and found Liz, and several other people, watching Elf. It turned out to be the last 15 minutes of it--I wish I had seen the whole thing. Not only do I prefer to watch movies from beginning to end, but I had heard it was a cute movie before from several people... oh well. Adria and I ended up talking to Liz and two other girls from the 8th floor (all of whom were knitting, I might add). A GreenCoat came in (the safety patrol of our school), and reported that our dorm was the "most happening dorm" on campus so far. That was saying something. We talked a bit with him, and then he had to leave to make his rounds elsewhere. Girls talking again, Liz brought up Zach, the new RA in our dorm. Speak of the Devil--he walked right in soon after that! Yet another amazing coincidence. He talked about bringing up some guys to play Halo 2 with. What was really funny was how Liz refered to it as "The Halo." Not video-game savvy at all, or knowledgable in the least, she sounded so... you get the idea.
Some other people came up to talk, and one of them mentioned just getting Zoo Tycoon 2. Alicia, her name was. After I showed some interest in that statement, she invited me to her room on the 8th floor to check it out. The rest of the night was spent with both of us (later joined by Adria) exploring and figuring out the new way to run a zoo. Near 12:30 it was time for bed. Another cool day.

Next day, it was time for some homework to actually get done. I wanted to get it done in the morning... not much luck there. Allie (roommate) turned on the TV and I kept watching what was on. I did get some homework done. I ate brunch with Adria and Sarah again, and then headed back to once agian, get some homework done. Got some done. Allie had a concert at 3, so I went to that. William also sang in it, I found out later. Good concert, very nice vocals heard there. Afterwards I met Allie and her parents and said goodbye to them for a while--Allie's out for the week. For a couple of days I have the room to myself.
Got some more homework done, then joined Adria to invade Nash once again--she had seen some advertisements there for a Family Guy marathon. Saw Jen and Ryan there, and sat and watched and laughed (what a great show!). At about 9:30 we were invited by Ryan to join some friends of his (and Jen, who had left earlier) to watch Mean Girls. Fun times and laughs again. Adria left at 10, and I left when the movie ended, 10:30. Headed here.

So now it's 12:30 and I've just overshared with y'all my fabulous weekend. I'm so glad--I'm doing things, making more friends, not only more friends but meeting people outside my own dorm, having fun--I tell ya, I'm going back up on the wheel of fortune, and it's a fun ride! Yayness!!!
But alas, I need to sleep as well. I hope I can wake up without Allie's alarm tomorrow...
*Zzzzzzz...*