whew

and just like that, it's over. emily has gone back to new york, and life is returning to normal around here. or at least as normal as life at tulane ever is. it's strange- i only met her less than a week ago, but already i think i can say emily's a really good friend (if not, well, i'll say it anyway, no matter how creepy i sound). her, me, and jaya just seemed to click. hanging out with those two this past week has been awesome- hard on my liver, short on sleep, but still some of the best times i've ever had. from getting extremely drunk on four bucks at 25 cent night at quills, to being forcibly removed from tucks, to endless hours of food network (why must we torment ourselves like this?), all the while with, through strange cicumstances, fire everywhere (seriously, there was the table on fire at the dorms, the frat guys running around the block with a huge burning torch, the packet of matches i was singularly unable to light without help from jaya). it's gonna be hard to go back to regular life now. though, if the fact that we managed to steal both a box of cereal and an exit sign while doing laundry tonight is any indication, i think jaya and i will survive.
now it's time to look ahead, particularly to the fact that jessy and jim will be here in a little more than a day and a half. so now i just have to get through one more day of classes. tonight i'm going to the baseball game against cal state fullerton, last year's national champs, and then to see sideways. should be a great game and even better movie. then a few short hours later, jessy and jim pull up, and my training continues. that's what i've decided this week and next are, training for spring break. cuz it's not like i'm going to be concentrating on school much. which might be bad in the long term, but i've never been one to look much past tomorrow. i figure it will all work out, just like the housing did. see, we (me, mike, ryan, and jared) thought we had a good time going in, but an hour or so before our time, i got a call from shaun saying that we were basically fucked, that almost all the rooms were gone, and that we needed to get down there immediately so he could try to pull us in with him. we got down there, but he wasn't able to pull us. so we started thinking about offcampus housing, cuz that's what were figured we'd be stuck with. sure enough, when our time came around, everything was gone and we were put on the waiting list. however, it turns out this may have been a blessing in disguise. apparently, 200-300 kids cancel their housing each year, and since we are pretty much first on the waitlist, we get the best of what becomes available. that means it's almost guaranteed we'll have willow, which is what we wanted in the first place. if we had been assigned a time even fifteen minutes earlier, we would have gotten rooms, but in phelps or irby, which are crap. instead, through our seeming bad luck, we'll wind up in the best dorm. unfortunately, it didn't work out quite so well for everyone. stacey and jaya look like they're not going to get oncampus housing, which means they will be living in a ditch somewhere, and i'll come by every once in a while to throw old food at them.
not really. but they will have to get an apartment, where, contrary to what jaya thinks, everyone (or at least me, which is really all that counts) will be hanging out a lot, i.e. passed out drunk.
anyway, i have a test in six and a half hours, and i think i've studied enough, so now it's time for sleep. or something