  I know I've been lax in my updates, but I've been swamped. So here goes the update... Friday Night Went over to Husky Village, where the interns are staying, to party with them.
I didn't realize that liquor stores close at 9pm, so when I left my apartment at 9pm, THEY WERE ALL CLOSED!! Where am I supposed to buy vodka!?!? Nowhere! So I settled on a bottle of shiraz from HEB and was on my way. I had my Kaluah. Those kids are crazy! WE start off with a drinking game, the bounce the coin into the cup one.
But instead they say "Double/Triple to so-and-so" and if them make it, that person now has to either make it or take the shots. If they miss first, they take the shots themselves. Then someone busts out some 50mL test tubes that they yoinked from the lab. At first they were like "20MLS!!! " and they would fill to the 20 with tequila, then the rest with Sprite, hit it on the counter and shoot it.
Then they would yell "25MLS!!! ", and you can guess the rest. Yes, someone at the end actually did a "%)MLS!!! " shot. Was super funny. Then one kid, Inaki (pronounced, inyaki) did a series of really great card tricks for me. Then Roberto did one, and at the end, he just starts yelling, with his hands up and walks off, yelling, with his hands up. A series of weirder things are done, such as, they start making human pyramids in the living room, and we have a handstand pushup contest, then "Cotton-Eyed Joe" comes on and we all start doing the dance.
Then some old song comes on and people start acting like they are at a junior high dance. I mean, just silliness all night. At one point Sergio comes in and yells to everyone that they should speak in English for me, not that I care either way, then he turns to his friend and just starts rattling off in Spanish.
Yeah, way to go, Checo. Well, someone calls in a noise complaint, the police show up and all the girls get to hide in the bathroom cause they aren't supposed to have ladies in the room after 11pm. (Did I mention this apartment complex was on a Baptist university campus? ) Yeah, so then we sneak out, darting into a series of other rooms. I hide in a girl's apartment until I see that the police car has driven off. I hung out a bit more with some of the guys, then went on home.
Saturday I was in the lab by 9am. Then I was at judo practice by 11am. Then to the dad'd place where I learned that their clothes dryer conitues to tumble even after its done. Its this neat little thing they call wrinkle guard. I didn't know this at first, so it took me HOURS to do my laundry. Its okay, I got to take a nap in there and converse with the grandparents. After that, I went to hedish's where Kentesheia and Hebert were already waiting. We hung out for a few minutes and then headed over to Hilcroft to hit up the sari stores. We first went to this place called Roop's Sari Palace, I was like a kid in a candy store.
SO many beautiful materials!! I have a few sari inspired cloths hanging around the apartment, they were about 15-20 bucks a peice and maybe 1x1 yard in size. These were 1x7 yards in size and from 15 to 25 bucks!! I bought two peices, and almost, ALMOST, bought one of the tunic things. I figure that I could wear the top with jeans and the bottoms with a black or white tank. I decided against it.
The material was enough for the time being. Then we headed over to Outfit Outlet. Cheap, chic clothes. Attempts at being chic in some cases. We found this lovely one peice outfit, pink with gray pin stripes. Sleeveless, attached belt, and these capri-ish bunched up pant things attached. Hideaous. But I got a shirt I really liked for about $10 bucks. We headed back to my house. I figured out where to put the sari material and we went to Niko Niko's for some good food.
And in line, there at NikoNiko's I saw a girl wearing a dari tunic top with jeans. OH!!! I should have bought it!! I'll be back, oh yes, I will be back. The food there is delightful, the lamb is just fabulous. Hedish the Hippie wouldn't know though, seeing as how she has gone vegetarian on us. TELL IT TO THE CHEETAH. We got back to Slick Foot's nick of the woods and rented "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun", this movie from the 80's.
It was so great and terrible. The dancing was fun, the plot was, well, there, and the acting, oh my word. "Oh, so you're like the authority on stretching now too? " Yeah, dialogue like that. Georgeous. The dancing though was really great. Slept there. Sunday Didn't wake up until about 11am!! I never do that. SHipley's for breakfast, the only way to go. Krispie Kreme can bite me, Shipley's is hands, feet, and ass down the best for donuts and kolaches and all that jazz.
So I eat and head out to home. I take a shower, put my old clothes back on (well, I change the undies at least) and head to work. I'm there for, oh, three hours, go home, go to mom's to hang with her for about an hour, then go to dad's and hang with him for about an hour, get some paintings from Grandma, and head back home.
There I hang the paintings, hang the saris, and actually CLEAN!!! Whoa!! I still need to vacuum. I hate vacuuming the most of all, I don't know why, I think its the sound. I still don't make it to the gym. I go to bed instead. Monday Lab work, wheee.. I was at the lab until about, oh, 7-ish? I've been putting longer and longer hours in. I figured this would happen as I get further and further into my research. And its only begun.
Partly though cause i'm trying to juggle my experiments, the intern's work, and my more administrative duties. Its all good though. That night Ping hosted a dinner at her apartment for me and the interns. Sergio got lost for about half an hour trying to get to her apartment, and Mildreth was bringing the boyfriend too so they were just late. The food was too much! She made a shrimp pancake sort of thing, shrimp and veggies, salmon, beef, and hot and sour soup. She also gave us veggies and dip for before and had a plethora of snacks for after. After&nbsp;a while Sergio had to pick up some friends at the theater and Ping convinced him to bring them back here and finish off the food.
They loved it too. &nbsp; Around that time Mildreth's boyfriend, Richard, had to leave. Left behind was Sergio and six women. So, as estrogenic environments tend to do, the conversation turned towards relationships and such related topics. I glanced over at Checo and he looked like he wanted to die. I asked if he would survive and he said he needs to be holding a beer or something. Ha! &nbsp; I have pics of Friday night on a new photo album place. I'm going to see if I can get it to link there, cause you might have to sign in or something.
When I get pics of other things, I'll post them as well. urlLink Try This 
