Would You Rather...

Tuesday morning I woke up at the crack of noon with every intention of actually doing something productive. Basically I just ended up spending the day pouring over all sorts of chemistry problems and washing clothes... productive but lame. In the middle of all my concentration and science, I heard someone knock on the front door. Being too lazy to actually move, Mina ended up answering the door. This charity guy started talking to her about saving cats and dogs from natural disasters and giving them good homes. I listened as Mina chatted up this guy about loving animals and saying how she volunteered at the humane society lol. When he finally, I went to the hall and randomly everyone convened to talk about strange folk coming into our flats. While we were talking and laughing, the guy randomly opened our door and poked his head back in to explain how his organization is registered with the police... we decided to lock our front door after this episode lol. More chemistry work ensued, and due to a severe lack of food in the flat, I scrounged around and found some vegetables and made pasta for myself. It reminded me of what I used to make with my flatmates in Italy :) With my Siena-style dinner, I watched Mulan and sat around. After some well-earned Disney, I went to South House and spent the rest of the night cutting up paper to make snowflakes, and hanging paper chains. That was a lot of fun. I love Christmas decorations lol. Then, for some reason, Bri decided to start reading would you rathers to us. Some of them were pretty nasty, but others were really random and hilarious. Such as: would you rather be nocturnal but always have to wear a cowboy hat, or only be able to walk diagonally but be dressed as a bear. Tough question, I know lol. It was basically just a really crazy evening. Bri came to the conclusion that everyone had an extra dose of crack in the morning... Kelsie commented on how horses love nipples, Christian nearly died when Bri read about the deer vs Krepp street fight, and Eddie misread "cheese grater" as "chinese gator". I honestly don't remember the last time I had laughed so much in one night. It was ridiculous lol.

My 11:00 tutorial definitely came way too early. There was a time in my life when I used to complain about getting up for 8:00 classes... now getting up for 11:00 ones is difficult. My tutorial wasn't all that fantastic, but I met with my professor afterwards and that was pretty exciting. She was really impressed with my essay, saying that it was very enjoyable to read and I seem to really know how to properly write an essay. I was super happy about getting such a good mark on my first essay... until I realized that I'm going to have to actually try on my final one. Blarg. After my meeting, I caught up with Bri and we went to our Arcadia lunch together. That was alright, Hemish (the middle-aged, kind of dopey but really nice Scottish director of the program) is pretty nice and funny. It was just sad to think about packing and leaving already. It started snowing while we were eating, and Bri and I kind of freaked out lol. I just wish that it would have stayed! Bri and I walked back to South House together, and I hung out there with everyone for a little. It was exciting to see their daytime activities lol. I eventually went back to my flat and worked on some random things for my lab classes. After a while, all my flatmates were home and we sat in the kitchen and talked. It was really nice to chill with them lol. When our little pow-wow broke up, a pretty interesting conversation about squeaky doors ensued in the hallway lol. Johanne has the squeakiest door ever. I need to get some WD40 for that... or butter lol you know, whatever works. A little later, Zoe called me and said that everyone was going to order pizza over at South House, so I went over there and had a lot of fun hanging out with everyone. While we were eating, I drank a bunch of pop and kind of blew Greg and James away with my burping abilities lol. Kelsie, Bri, and Zoe think it's absolutely hilarious that I can burp like a semi-driver/bear. At one point during our lovely table talk, Bri said "guys, we're best friends... that's how you know" lol it was perfect :) We all sat in the kitchen talking about all sorts of things, like Nev's Jam Buster, Martyn lawyering people, and how I apparently say things wrong. Everyone really laughed at how I say "pop" and "Baroque". But hey, I can’t help that I spear Amurican lol. Kelsie mentioned going to dinner with everyone next week before we all leave. I said Brig o’ Don so I could eat some more of the sticky toffee pudding!! My amount of enthusiam over the dessert really showed because Kelsie told me to calm down and Martyn said “ya I’m pretty sure you had to change your pants after that” lol. After a little while, we all went to union. Lots of normal things happened, like Kelsie and me serenading Zoe to one D. Then at some point we started talking about Santa and Zoe said that she thought Santa was real until two years ago. You can just imagine how much heat she got for that lol. But I said some pretty stupid stuff as well. I don't think I've ever felt so dumb as when Kelsie, Zoe and I were talking about Kelsie's newest piercing. Greg said that it looks like a pierced banjo string. Then I said something stupid about other sorts of string instruments... I nearly died when I realized that this conversation did NOT involve musical instruments at all lol. Some other pretty entertaining things happened after that, too. Such as Andrew chugging a beer quicker than Eddie! It was another really good night in Hillhead :)

Lab the next day was very enjoyable… I really like having partners who actually talk with you. It’s the best to feel so sciency and be able to joke around. But I made a freaking BEAUTIFUL cobalt metal ligand product. My UV Vis spectrum showed the loveliest peak and consistent baseline. WAHOO :) My chemistry lecture after lab was beyond dull, though. The professor is really a sweet and funny dry-humored guy, but his lectures about metals really kills my attention. Vikings! Was absolutely awful… Stefan Brink mumbled a shit ton and showed lots of pictures of dick shaped “burial mounds” lol. The best part was definitely Bri tagging along. The funny but weird Scandinavian was so confused by the sight of a really tiny American in our lecture. It was completely mingin outside so us lazy people got the bus home… it’s kind of pathetic that we do that, especially since I love walking so much, but sometimes you need a break. Back in the ghetto I had some soup, put on my cat onesie, and worked on my chemistry “exams”. It’s a good thing that I didn’t actually have to sit an exam for those classes. One, I literally don’t remember anything (this blog is the only way I know what I’ve been doing, basically), and two, I can’t be arsed to actually study. There are way more fun things to do at Hillhead. Such as teach my Bulgarians how to properly make potatoes in the microwave, which is exactly what I did to procrastinate doing actual work lol. Mina said how she’s going to be taking all these new things home with her, like microwave potatoes and party showers. Ugh then, while I was in the kitchen with Mina and Toni, people (MINA) started talking about LEAVING (The COMPLETELY FORBIDDEN TOPIC) and she said how all these things will always remind her of me, like chemistry, cats, potatoes, gravy, flowers (lol), and princesses. Ugh I really don’t want to leave! But anyways, apparently Thursday was the Bulgarian student day back in Bulgaria, so you can just imagine how my Bulgarians were celebrating in the kitchen lol. So I stayed with them, chatting about all sorts of things. The best part of the night was definitely relooking at the pictures that Toni took from my birthday and seeing the really hilarious ones of us dancing at Exodus. There was nearly a nipple on facebook, but upon closer look we realized that it was a finger. PHEW. Then we started taking more pictures, and our lovely Johanne joined us after her nap, looking very spry and happy lol. Mina made so many promises about making a fabulous meal for us tomorrow, with pancakes and gravy and all sorts of things lol. Then, Johanne realized how everyone is from the 90s, except me of course lol. But apparently that’s a good thing, because sine I was born in the 50s, I got to party in the 70s lol. According to Mina, that’s the nice thing about being me… you can choose when you are born. My Bulgarians really do have a wonderful way of finishing a full 70cl bottle of Smirnoff vodka between the two of them. It’s really hilarious to see the aftermath. And since it was their student day they really got into it and went to town for the party. Those lucky ducks. I heard stories about when they got home and all I can say is, I’m sorry I missed it lol.

Getting up at 8am for Vikings! tutorial is absolutely awful… especially when you have to climb over a freaking tree that conveniently fell over the stairs down the hill in the foresty bit of rapey park. After Vikings! tutorial I went back home and took a nice 3 hour nap, before turning in my lab report and running around campus doing some things. While walking home, I realized that the moon was absolutely beautiful at 4:00pm. I seriously feel like you can always see the moon in Scotland in the winter. Even during the daytime (like 6 hours) you can see it. When I finally get back home, with high expectations about a wonderful pancake dinner, I find that both of my Bulgarians are very sleepy and hung over lol. The sadness I felt about the lack of wonderful food Mina cooks was definitely outweighed by their funny stories from the previous night. However, I still wrote a friendly (lol) reminder that Mina WILL cook for us on Sunday. Even after my shock and disappointment faded, Mina still felt like I was judging her. She basically couldn’t look at me until she was happily drunk again later that night lol, it was pretty funny :) Since it was my last Friday with my flatmates, and we have a tradition of going to town and acting extra crazy, I decided to make my facebook status one of the Bulgarian phrases that I love “I want to drink”, pronounced “es cum da peeah”. I had no idea how to spell that in the Bulgarian alphabet, so I asked Mina and got an official Bulgarian lesson lol.

Lots of drinking and shenanigans ensued, with my favorite vodka, coconut rum, and orange juice mixture that Toni makes. When Johanne got home it was all excitement, and after hanging out more in the flat, we headed to union for the Christmas party there. The party was actually really awesome. While I was doing my favorite booty-shaking and pop it, lock it, and drop it dance, I completely forget that we weren’t in town already lol. It was really fabulous since all the boys, Bri, Zoe, Kelsie, and Lindsay were there too :) I got a santa hat from the bar, saw Beautiful William the bartender, and was carried to and from the bathroom by Kelsie after some epic hugging :) that was absolutely perfect since people were giving us the oddest looks and we were just acting like crazy people. Then she plopped me down next to Christian who looks at me and asks, “are you drunk??” lol. Good times :) after some more booty shaking to some of my favorite ghetto music and accidentally dropping Bri, who was clinging to a bar stool to prevent me from making her dance, on Greg’s foot, my flatmates, Jordan and I headed to town. I seriously don’t remember the bus ride at all, except some girls tried to talk to us, and thought that Mina’s name was Panini. They were obviously wasted… and stupid lol. Somehow we got separated on the VERY short walk to Exodus from like RGpoo union, and Toni realized that she left her debit card at union bar somehow and Jordan dropped her passport somewhere. I was going to go back with them, but they made me go find Mina with Johanne. Mina somehow got into Exodus and was having a fabulous time dancing all alone… lol Johanne and I found her and had a really great time dancing with her and yelling at guys who got too grabby. We ended up leaving Exodus kind of early, and got into the taxi line. It amazes me each time how long the taxi line ALWAYS is… even when you leave the clubs early it’s still like 5 km long. But while we were standing in line freezing our ovaries off as Mina would say lol, the cutest traffic marshall kept talking with us. When he first walked by, some girl in front of us turned around and said “someone should take him home” lol. He looked at us and asked what we said about him. That definitely cheered us all up. Mina was acting absolutely ridiculous, so Johanne kind of cuddled her and said she couldn’t talk anymore lol. While we were waiting and chewing the gum the traffic marshal lave to us, it started to SNOW! It was so freaking pretty to see the snow really falling in big flakes! Johanne and I were beyond excited, but Mina kept looking up at it falling and saying “the snow is really pretty, but it always gets in my eyes” lol needless to say we laughed at her and basically said she was acting like a turkey that looks up at the rain and then drowns. The taxi ride home was absolutely ridiculous with Mina’s comments. We kept driving past all these scantily clad girls who were walking around barefoot or without a coat. Mina kept pointing at them and saying “hah, dumb bitches, they are going to freeze there ovaries and then they can’t have babies”… Johanne and I vigorously tested her theory, but she firmly defended herself with the idea that if you get too cold you can’t have kids. I said “if you’re that cool, you’re not going to have babies because you’re dead” lol. The taxi driver kept laughing at us and our talk about pregnancy scares and healthy ovaries versus frozen ones. When we got home, I was still really freaking cold from standing outside so long, I put on my nice long underwear (oxymoron) and then fell asleep lol.