Thursday, January 14, 1999
Welcome everyone to..."MY WEEKEND AT YALE."
This entry will be fully illustrated so don't be alarmed if it takes this page awhile to load. There are about 10 or so pictures, but they are so worth the wait, I tell you. So here we go:
Thursday, January 14, 1999
I didn't exactly sleep Wednesday night due to sheer excitement. Around 4am, I showered and finished packing. I left my dorm around 5:15. I took the BART allll the way to the end of the line and then took a bus to San Francisco Airport. Blah blah blah, the whole blasted trip took about two hours. I checked in and spoiled little baby Andrea got her window seats. :-) My plane left around 8:20am and I got into Detroit at about 3pm EST. Things were absolutely psycho at the Detroit airport, because the 2pm flight to Hartford had been cancelled. The airport people were offering $1200 vouchers to anyone who would give up their seat. Looking back, I probably should have done it, but I was just so eager to get to Joci. My plane was supposed to leave at 5pm, but we didn't actually get up in the air until nearly 7pm which was really annoying. Then once we were on the ground, we SAT there forever, and I don't even really know why but finally I got off the plane from hell and met Joci inside. Hugs, a kiss, and a lot of stares probably. There were a lot of people waiting around. We took the Connecticut Limo (woohoo) back to Yale and--you know what, the first day was pretty uneventful, let me fast forward til Friday.
Friday, January 15, 1999
I'm pretty sure we stayed in bed forever on Friday, but that's okay. We went out to dinner around 8pm or so and then went back to this guy's room and watched the end of "The Breakfast Club." Afterwards, we decided it was time to drink. And drink, we did. We had a full bottle of Absolut vodka and a full bottle of rum. I was drinking out of my tiger foot glass that I stole from the Elephant Bar. Hehe. We were drinking in Joci's room. It was Joci, Meredith and Erin (Joci's roommates) and Joanna, Melissa and Shannon (Joci's other friends). Every once in awhile, some other random people would drop by. There were a bunch of football players in there at one point and this bitch who nobody knew why she was there, but she was. Oh, and Tom. Tom is this guy who took a semester off to write a book about Seinfeld and Puff Daddy. He was telling us about it, and he was stoned off his ass, it was actually quite funny.
There was a big debate over what kind of music should be played. For awhile, it was a lot of disco and old school Salt 'n Pepa. Then I discovered that Meredith had a whole catalog of gangsta music and we were flipping through that. They cut off one of our songs with MADONNA, wtf? So we stood in a corner and pretended we didn't know anybody there. Then we decided to make it clear that we didn't approve of what they'd done to our musical choice by standing by the window and drawing a line of anti-Madonna people. Here is me and my new best pal Meredith:
After awhile, Shannon showed up with her gangsta ways and we took control of the stereo. Meredith taught me the crip sign, check us out. I wouldn't want to run into us in a dark alley.
L-->R Me, Meredith, Shannon, Joanna
Now Meredith--hehe, Meredith has this tendency to mix her medicine with alcohol and has been known to go a little crazy under the influence. I was informed that when she's drunk, she has to stand on things. Exhibits A and B:
There she is with Joci...cute. :-)
And once again up on the window seat with Melissa (who by the way, is not the Melissa from New Year's)
At some point, I snapped a picture of all of Joci's friends
L-->R Erin, Joanna, Joci, Melissa, Meredith and Shannon on the bottom. Shannon is from Ohio too, yay!
This next picture isn't chronological either, because Joci took it and I have no idea at what point it was taken, but I think it's cute.
Melissa and Joanna, they're awesome
As the night went on, the music got louder, we got drunker. Joci's roommate Erin wrapped a scarf around her head. I'm pretty sure she'd kill me if she knew this picture was online:
Half of Erin's face and some of Meredith's too :-)
In this next picture, she's still wearing the scarf, but at least her face is visible.
Clockwise, Erin, Shannon and Melissa. This is such a cute picture.
Who says that Joci's not a closet gangster? Here she is with Melissa and Joanna "rollin with the homies". Oh, and there's Tom on the left--the one who's writing a book about Seinfeld and Puff Daddy. Hehehe...
So after all the drunkenness in their dorm room, we decided to go to a party somewhere, where we stayed for approximately 10 minutes. It was so crowded and so hot that we just left. You know a party is lame if you're drunk and not having fun. So we went back to Joci, Erin and Meredith's room and were chowing on munchies and drinking water and suddenly, Joci got sick. Well, from then on, it wasn't the most memorable night, but until then, I had so much fun. I think while Joci was...ill, hehe, I wrote an email to someone but I don't remember what it said. Oops. :-)
Saturday, January 16, 1999
We slept in forever again, finally got up around 4pm and caught the 6pm train to NYC. We sat near these three black guys who were harassing this girl in front of them, but her and her friends got off after awhile and this other girl got on and sat with them. Hello? First of all, these were shady looking guys. They were also very loud and obnoxious. So they're macking on this girl and she's macking right back and this older woman got off at one of the stops and I heard her mutter "Dumb white bitch." It was funny.
We got into NYC and did some rebellious things like call Joci's parents in Long Island and make sure they were at their country house and hung up on them. Then we went to her apartment to get her contacts. So sneaky, we are. We went out to dinner and then went to meet Sam and his friends who go to Marymount Manhattan College. They're so nice. Sam took a picture of Joci and I:
We all went to Tunnel again, the club with the fur on the walls and the fountain and the DJ who looks like RuPaul. Sam's friend John was in drag that night. They put on a drag show--him and two other...guys? ladies? Anyway, their names were Peppermint Gummybear, Baybay and Asia. Do you love it? Sam was telling us there was another guy named Mable Lean. Tee hee. That night was a lot of fun...some drunk guy bought Joci and I each a bottle of water...that doesn't sound like a big deal but each bottle was $5! Pretty steep, I know. Anyway, we stayed at the club until 5am and then walked back to the subway and blah blah. We ended up getting on the 6:40am train and didn't get back to Yale until about 9am. Then I'd say we slept until about 6pm.
Sunday, January 17, 1999
Sunday night was very uneventful. We showered and went to dinner. We were still pretty tired so we watched "Hook" on TBS...I guess I never realized what a stupid movie it was til that night. After that was over, "Arachnaphobia" came on, which I love. During the beginning of it, we were watching it and I don't know about Joci or Erin, but my skin always crawls during that whole movie. So you can imagine how high I jumped when Erin screamed, pointing her finger at the floor. I didn't even see the bug and I screamed. I envisioned some bigass hairy spider running across the floor, so I peered around the table and saw this big ugly white thing crawling across the floor. In the meantime, Joci is screaming her head off and doesn't even see the bug for about a minute. Meredith was already in bed, but our screaming woke her up. She opened her door and we didn't even see her, but right when the door opened, all three of us screamed because it was so close to her room and she slammed the door. At this point we're in a laughing/screaming hysteria. Joci decides she is going to kill the bug (with Melissa's shoe, no less) but once she gets close enough to it, she decides it is far too big and ugly to kill so she hops back on the couch. Someone decides we should spray it with Raid, so Joci goes upstairs and gets some. At this point, we've lost track of our little bug friend. He's behind or under the futon. Joci returns and we pull the futon out a little bit, keeping our eyes peeled. No one sees anything. I am just beginning to calm down, when "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH THERE IT IS!" I swear to God, Erin has the most spine-chilling scream of anyone I've heard. Once again, Erin's scream causes me to scream and then Joci. Joci starts spraying the ugly white thing, which is now furiously running up the wall. She sprays it for a good ten seconds and then steps back, breathless and says "I don't know where he is, but he's poisoned and he's mad." So that was pretty much the last we saw of him--who Erin and Joci decided it was a centipede ("I'm pretty sure it had 100 legs."). But goodness, that was all the drama for that night. The perfect thing to happen while watching a movie like "Arachnophobia".
Monday, January 18th, 1999
Joci had class, I slept. We showered, went to dinner and got caught in the rain. We scanned a few pictures and watched TV...had sandwiches with Erin at about midnight...nothing too exciting. By this time, our sleep patterns were completely fucked up so I think we were pretty much out of it. Plus it was my last day there, so it was kind of somber anyway.
I left yesterday and the plane rides home were fine, but frustrating. I hate leaving Joci. I feel like I'd become closer to her roommates and friends and we had such a good time--so much better of a time than when I'm in California. But I'm going to spend my Spring Break there and since I have only one final, I'm probably going to be able to be there for about 12 days. I can't wait.
I definitely am not done updating yet, but seeing as how I have to be to work in ten minutes, let's just call this Part I. I'll finish later tonight.
East siders: I thought I told you that we won't stop