Back in Winona for the weekend

Heyya! Yeah I'm back here for a while. I decided a few weeks ago that it was nessecary to do so since I do love my friends/family hwew and I do want to do something with them for my birthday, even if it is a week late. I also know for a fact that I dont wnat to get asdrunk as I did last weekend, that's just asking for trouble.

I do want to apologize for not posting all week though. As people in platteville know, I've been in Otts (the engineering building) every night until about 10 pm. :'( I've hardly had a chance to get over to Doudna (the music building) to see my friends. I can always tell how my social life is doing by how much time i'm spending in Doudna, and this week, not so much. I've got two major projects going on right now in my classes. 1) I'm designing a wastewater treatment plant in Wastewater/Drinking Water Design Engineering, and we're designing GAC (granular activated carbon) towers in Solid and Hazardous Waste. All are due by tuesday and are quite involved. I'm enjoying it, but sometimes the classes just want to drive a man to drink. ;)

I did go out last night though to the perfect pint for my friend's 22. It was fun and I was really glad that I did it. I needed to get out of the dorms for a little while. I find this funny, but before we went downtown, we being Nate, Brian and I, I stopped at Dick's to buy a 6-pack of Spotted Cow Beer by New Glarus to have with my mother tonight. This stuff is oh so good :D. Just ask Nate, he's the one who introduced it to me.

So anyway, I'm going to bumming around the house tonight hanging out with the fammy since I will be out tomorrow night. I havent told my mom that I will prolly just crash at emily's house since I dont want to drive home after having a few drinks. I just hope that she doesnt have a cow when I go. That is definately what I dont want.

On a final note: I now have a summer job at Yaggy Colby Associates as a survery crew member! Yippie!! I had an interview in rochester today, I'm so glad that they're willing to work with the fact that I'll be in Colorado for 5 weeks this summer.

Heart Otto

Last night's "adventures"

So last night was my birthday (duh) . So I, like many college students, went downtown with some friends to bring in my birthday on a positive note. We first got to the Perfect Pint at about 10:45 or so. I had a fairly big following with me just on the walk, and about just as many showed up a little later. So at the Pint, I started with a vodka martini, and thats when some people bought me drinks. so in like the course of about 15 minutes, I downed two Jager Bombs, a Rolling Rock, and a shot of tequila. At that point, Marcus bought me a Long Island Iced Tea and I decided that I needed to drink that one more slowly. I finished that, and had a shot of Southern Comfort with Nate just before 12:30 as well as finishing my blue lemonade too. Oh! and before I forget, one of the bartender's there stopped to talk to me on her way out. i win :)

At this point we decide to go to OT's and get my birthday shot and see my friend Chuck who was bouncing that night. There I had the OT's b-day shot called "Stop and Go." It's three things that are either yellow, red or green. I dont what's in it actually. Now to have this shot, they put a bunch of straws into the shot glass and you need to use just those straws to drink them and you cannot touch the bar with any part of your body. So i finished that drink, which was not that great, and we went accross the street.

The next place that we ended up at was Fireside. So I went up to the bar and got another shot of So. Co. with Nate, at which point we also decide that I need to have my b-day shot there too. So the bartender gives me my birthday shot and Lindsay buys me a second one. So i'm walking around the bar just talking to people when Karla, a girl that used to live in my res-hall. Well she bought me a drink too, and I then decide that i need to slow down with a captain and coke. Well.....i didnt really drink it that slowly. it was about 1:30 and we decided to go across the street to Char Bar and get my shot there. The shot I had was 99 Banana's. After I put the shot glass back on the bar, i blacked out and the rest of the story from here is told to me. I do not remember it at all.

So I first want to mention what I do remember. At some point, i remember lying down on the sidewalk outside somewhere for about 2 seconds and sitting up on a couch for about 2 seconds as well. the next thing i remember is waking up in Carmen and Aniela's appartment on there couch at 9:30 am.

What I have been told that happened is that we as a group ended up going to about 4 more bars after I blacked out and ended the night at the bar called Players. Obviously I had a shot or two at each of those bars. outside of players I decided to lean against the wall, and that turned into sitting. Now, according to Nate, I was sitting there looking around when I fell to the side and smashed my head against the group really loudly. So, nate and aniela helped me up, but i preceeded to do it again. at least I dont have a mark on my forehead. At this point, we've decided that we're not going to walk back to the res-halls since they're about 15-20 minutes away and go to Carmen and Aniela's place since it was only 2 blocks away instead. So on the way, i was more or less being dragged to there house and being so loud that I was waking a lot of people up on the way. Nate assumed this because every house that we walked by, a light would turn on :D. once at there house though, they got me on the couch and i was lying down. they got me to drink so water, but when I sat up, I guess I thought it would be smart to lean my head back and smash it into the window frame. and finally i decided to throw up (prolly the smartest thing at that point) and collapse on the couch. I guess at about 3, nicole called my cell phone with phil's phone to see when I was comming back. Carmen at this point was already smashed and decided that someone needed to get my cell phone. Now, my phone was in my pants pocket, and Carmen is a very attractive girl. Why couldnt i have been awake when she was digging in my pants?!?! gah! oh well, so that was a summary of the night everyone! i hope you all found it quite fun like i did.