Post Mid-Term Detox: Weekend Adventures

Mid-terms officially ended Wednesday evening when I turned in my last paper. I was exhausted. Slept quite well that night. I have spent the last few days detoxing from the whole experience, a downside of being a psycho planner/over-achiever/perfectionist. I guess we will see how I came out this week, no exactly excited to see, but yet not worried.

Thursday: I literally sat on my couch watching hulu.com for wayyy to many hours. Even though I felt my brain turning to mush from the lack of intelligent content, it was needed. Does anyone else love House as much as I do?, his charm never grows old. Then it was small group, a welcome distraction from my television watching. We partook in some amazing homemade mac and cheese and talked about 1 John 5 for a few hours. Deep convos, apples and caramel... what could be better?

Friday: After having lunch and a shopping spree at Target with Linda (I bought 12 movies, ridiculous!... but all worth it, all goodies: Forest Gump, Fried Green Tomatoes, Last of the Mochicans, The Village, Love Actually, to name a few), I made my way to Ebz to meet small groupies (+ friends) for a night at the Corn Maze in the Plains. That's right, a corn maze at NIGHT with only flashlights and Mark's incurably intimidatingly large umbrella to protect us. Great fun! My team, "Team Get off the Phone Dave" trampled the competition team, "(Not So) Awesome". Unfortunately, there was no prize involved but we did get to play on the slide! Yea for sliding in groups! Then we headed back into the city for some pizza, cider and a movie at Amanda's. Met up with even more people and enjoyed one of my all time favorite flicks, Donnie Darko. Now, any one that knows me well knows that I rarely stay awake during movies, much less movies I have seen, even less when it is already past my 10PM bedtime (GRANDMA, I know... it's part of my charm). Therefore, I was doomed from the start. I am just glad I didn't drool or anything too embarrassing.

Saturday: The normal, French class and working production at the services at Ebz... I didn't pull the plug this week but the computer did freak on us causing a panic or two. Oh, well... it was my last week of training, so next time I am on my own. Drove over to Erin's house for a Pumpkin Carving party (sans my own pumpkin) and had some amazing pumpkin cupcakes. Had some more cider and socialized before heading home for the night.

Sunday: I was supposed to met a group for lunch to celebrate Robert's 21st birthday after the 11:30 service at Union, so I decided to go ahead and attend (making it the third time I heard the sermon this weekend, it was a good one!). Lunch at an Irish pub (I had WAFFLES!) with friends = guaranteed fun. I headed to metro center afterwards to kill time at H&M (dangerous) until I heard from Steve about a documentary about Palestinian hip-hop (how could that not be awesome!?). Turns out the movie was sold out (Steve is NOT a 'details man') so we wandered rather aimlessly for about two hours, annoyed a security guard, discovered a leather clad 'gang' of thugs, ate some fake mexican food at Chipotle, and solved a puzzle (well, almost) in a random magazine at Starbucks. Finally ended up at the concert which followed the movie... yes, that's right we saw a Palestinian hip-hop group perform at the Hard Rock Cafe. It was AMAZING. A room full of Middle-Eastern people fist pounding and chanting about who knows what... a recipe for memories. Favorite quote of the night?..."remember that time Steve took us to a free Palestine rally?"...

Anyway, Monday starts a return to the reality of school. Already got a lot done, but I need to get ahead since i will be spending the later half of the week distracted by wedding festivities and burritos. I predict I will not be picking up any school reading in my free time. In exactly 3 days I will be EATING a big jerk burrito!