Week One: A Return To Form

Tuesday--
-Fairwell McMenamins lunch with Kate then off to the airport
-Awkward man in front of me pushes chair back too far--curse words fly through my head as I try not to vomit on his jerry curl
-Land in Dubuque to a sobbing Mother Abba and a JJohns sub

Wednesday--
-Wake up early and drive to Iowa City, listen to birthday mix from Jessica
-Meet up with baby sister and steal dorm keys
-Go into back office to visit with RAs--Amanda freaked and turned red, got a hug from Jacque (???), avoided Barb and her crazy tinted mom-glasses
-Lunch at Z'maricks with Kristin, ordered Z'pesto and gossiped
-Picked up sewing machine for Mother Abba
-Hit up Joe's Place with Secretary Extraordinaire Jennifer, Amie, Amanda, Justin, Aditi, Ryan, Nick, Chong, Crystal and Bob--discuss the crumbling of Res Life and recreate scenes from Tea Time
-Dinner with Brian and Adam at Oasis--monsoon starts and we wade back to his apt
-L O S T with Brian, Adam, Katie, and Sean--two years in a row, what?
-Drive to Walmart with Nikki to get ice cream and watch bad tv
-Epic fail when blowing up air mattress

Thursday--
-Sleep in? No thanks.
-Visit with Jessica Heacock and Matt French by the piano room--yes, they get two names for being so important
-Get lunch at Hamburg with Nikki and see her office--those computer screens are huge
-Capana with Aubrey and new beau Matt
-Visit Justin in dorm and help him watch YouTube videos
-Java Juice with Elise and David--get the low down on theatre and how everyone's senior year sucks when it comes to casting
-Cheesburger dinner with Kristin, Amanda and Nicole
-Back to Green Gables to watch The Office and other NBC necessities
-Forced to go out to Brothers (yes, I did go back) with Crystal, Amie, Amanda and Justin--ran into Cara Clonch and Rebeka Stein, no where to sit, awkward run in with Burge RAs, left after an hour
-Back to Crystal's room to educate her on YouTube videos
-Crashed

Friday--
-Another monsoon happened--drenched when moving things back to car
-Stole Nikki's ID and ate at Burge--tried to remain inconspicuous, cookies still delicious, I guess I should stop saying, "last time I'll eat at Burge" because it seems to happen more often than it should
-Illegally parked by a fire hydrant to move out Nikki's stuff
-Used RA connections to get a cart and move crap three blocks while crossing Dubuque St.
-Too tired to do anything else we drive home and luckily don't crash
-Dinner with the fam--Happy Joes, you tempt me
-Rewatched L O S T finale

Saturday--
-Up early to get ready for the wedding
-Hit the road at 11:30 with only 3 cds and no caffeine
-Hour later I remedy the caffeine situation and get some Cheez-Its--so necessary
-Made it to the church by 3 to be greeted by Liz Steele, the one and only
-Wedding at 4, sat by Brian and Liz and cried roughly 3 times
-Went to Granite City to get a much needed drink in between events with Liz
-Reception at Hyvee Convention Center was gorgeous--good food, cash bar, Minnesotians across from us hate us for being from Iowa, we all made it in the slide show including a creepy picture cameo by Brian
-Danced to Gaga and the like
-Hit the road, drove too fast, home by 12:15
-Started HP6

Sunday--
-LOW KEY, PLEASE
-Star TREK again--better the second time, more starring at Chris Pine
-Mom breaks the news my room is going to be the new home to Kathy's Kraft Korner--like the KKK needs another meeting room in Dubuque
-We drink two bottles of wine as I begin to move things out and say, "well crap" all of the time

And this was just the first week. I still have 4 left. Oh Mylanta. Iowa--you keep me young.