  Friday Night: Went up to College Station, leaving Houston about, oh, 7? A few of my friends have assembled into a band, they are really good, and I hadn't heard them. I take off, and first I go to Bob's to buy a book on judo, then I head to Northgate. They start the show at around 10pm, though it was scheduled for 9:30. I should know this is how it works. But damn, they really are good. I'm in love with this one song, Crimson Melody. Just beautiful. Then we run around to various bars and I watch my friends throw back some car bombs. I didn't have anything cause I had the bright idea to head back to Houston at 1:30 in the morning. I got home at 3am. BED. Saturday: Alarm frightened me awake at 10am. I dragged myself out of bed and over to the dojo for judo practice.
Real smart thinking, Newman. But, seriously, I'm glad I did that. I love judo. Okay, so I fight for two hours, go home, shower, get laundry, go to Madre's and bum. I take an hour nap and then madre and I go to Joe's Crab Shack for the 33 shrimp for 10.99 deal they have going on.
Oh my word, it was so very very good. And I was absolutely stuffed. Then I went and met Hedish, Hebert and Brian over at Danny's. We ponder for a while what to do (I really wanted to check out the gay pride parade. Gay men crack me up. ) But instead we head over to The Volcano, a bar off Bissonet near the Rice Village. It was a pretty nice place. Drinks are so much more expensive here in Houston as compared to College Station, but they use the better alcohol here and it tastes so much better.
I was the DD so I just had a mojito and white russian. Drunk men, oh my word. These two guys came up and started talking to us. One guy is like "I'm a coon-ass! " and startes dancing and singing. His friend acts all embarassed. but then he starts to ask each one of us in turn, in German "Do you speak German? " We all know what he is saying, so are like "No, but he does!
" ang grab Danny. This dude's eyes were like 'oh shit', cause Danny leans over and starts spouting out all this German and the guy just waves him off. We find out all he really knew how to say was "1, 2, 3" and I guess he was using it as a pick up line (?!?!?! ) and we completely ruined his game. Well, thats not all. Brian had been eyeing this cute girl all night, and then got the bright idea to make up a pick up line. You ready for this? "I'm from the future and I've been sent back in time to protect you. I need to buy you a drink.
" Yes, seriously. Hedish thought it was great, but keep in mind, her middle and last names are 'Sara Conner'. Well, she was all like, "No, we're leaving soon" and some guy comes up and is like "I'll have a drink with you. " Brian is just like "well... shoot, okay. " Oh well. Note: Guys, don't use some contrived line. "Hi, my name is _____. " Is fine. "Can I buy you a drink" is okay, just don't use too forcefully.
Sunday: I did not want to get up. I never get enough sleep on the weekends, and I'm too stubborn to take naps during the day most of the time. Its a miracle I did on Saturday for an hour. I had to seriously debate that one too. I got in to the lab abour 10:15 and took care of my stuff. Sergio came in and did his thang too. Mildreth didn't come in and I had no way to get ahold of her. We were gonna do a dinner thing, but we had never set a time. When I left, around 12:30, she still hadn't come in so I left a note for her to call me and left. I picked up Chipotle on the way to Madre's place. We watched Boondock Saints (I still need to get that back to Darby) and Mildreth called around 2:30. She had been having car troubles all weekend, still having car troubles. So we decided to post-pone the dinner thing until a better, less stressfull time.
I half slept and half watched Boondock Saints and Zoolander on TV. Then I went to Target, bought a new CD player for work and The Princess Bride on DVD, and headed home with the intention of cleaning my apartment. I did clean the kitchen, and I put away my clothes, but it stopped there. Then I set the computer to make Wav files from some MP3s, and I went to Starbucks to get a Chai Latte and low fat coffee cake. I returned, started burning music CDs and put Princess Bride on the tube. yay! It was a nice, though not a cleaning night. It was still productive in my book. Today: I think I will start planning out some Western experiments. I've never done a Western straight through from start to end. This can be an adventure with all the interns too. Okay, here they are, time for me to work. 
