Birthday Weekend

Well I'm 22 now and to many of my friends, I'm old. But I feel pretty much the same
It was a pretty eventful weekend So here's what happened:

It had been an exhausting week of studying and test taking. It always amazes me how professors can get together and make sure they have their tests on the same week. At least it wasn't all in one day. So Thursday afternoon, I was finally free. I walked out of my last exam with smile and my face and a skip in my step as I felt the freedom of the weekend approaching. That night was the championship game for flag football and CCF was in it. So after our bible study we headed over to the field to cheer our team on. It was here that my birthday celebration got started a little early thanks to my roommate, Alex, who was doing everything in his power to make sure everyone knew it was my birthday tomorrow. He tried to get the birthday song going at least 4-5 times during the game. His efforts didn't really catch on until after the game when he picked me and started carrying me around the field while singing. At this point everyone joined in.

Afterward,our large group of us headed to the movies to catch the midnight showing of "Where the Wild Things Are". At the stroke of midnight before the movie had started, I was so lucky to have another friend start the birthday song once more and so I had a large amount of the theater singing to me. The movie was pretty good. We got back home around 3 a.m. and I did my best to get some sleep before my 8 a.m. class.

Most of my birthday was just hanging out through the day. I had to go the parking office to pay a parking ticket and asked if they gave birthday discounts. The lady just kinda stared at me without even a hint of a smirk.

Friday night we took a big group to a place called Ru Sans that has really good sushi. I got what they call the "Gone with the wind" I guess because I'll never go hungry again. It was a pretty massive serving of crab, tuna, cream cheese, avocado, and something else I think, all wrapped in seaweed and then lightly fried. It was amazing. We headed back to our place where we made a fire and just chilled out the rest of the night.

Saturday, we lounged around until game time. It really wasn't the most exciting game until the end. But with our victory over the #4 Virginia Tech, we all rushed the field. It was cool just to be out there but nobody was really sure what to do, so we all started to disperse, at least until I noticed one my friends standing on the goal post. There had been security surrounding the goal post but it's kinda hard to hold off a few thousand students. Putting my small size to good use, I squeezed my way to the goal post. I was too short to jump up on it, but I was right there when it finally snapped. It was one of the most exciting and scary moments seeing it come crashing down. A few people definitely got hurt, several shoes and cell phones were lost, but I managed to come out of the mob untouched. Once the post got low enough, I jumped up and held on with everything I had as it was being carried out of the stadium. People were eventually climbing on me to get on the post but weren't having much luck. I noticed someone was trying to pull my hands off and I turned to see a cop looking at me who politely requested that I "Get off right now!". So I did and made my way to safety.

If you go here, at around 35 seconds you'll notice a girl sitting on the goal post and a guy with a blue sweatshirt and black lines under his eyes jumping on and then clinging for dear life. Yeah, that's me.



The goal post eventually made its way to the president's house where he gave a quick speech and the post was sawed into pieces by the students.

Sunday was definitely a day of rest, as we all slept til about noon and then got our house cleaned up a little bit. I'm really loving this cold weather and I'm looking forward to coming this weekend.

Until my next adventure.