Happy Sunday everyone!
Because I don't want to read my econ book but promised myself I wouldn't watch "Dangerous Liaisons" for class before I finished econ, I'm going to blog because I really should. It's been an eventful few days on everyone's fronts, particularly romantically speaking. I need to make a list before I leave anyone out: Jorge, Shayne, Shannon.

Friday night was Pratt Prom, thrown by the RCs for the first-years. It's basically an excuse for everyone to get dressed up and look pretty and take pictures in gorgeous Pratt. Salon Javier was in full operation, with a dozen girls queuing up hours beforehand. Javier demanded that Shannon and I be victims of his cosmetic magic, but I decided go to to the Williams-Amherst basketball game first. It was completely packed so that we spent the entire first half standing on the sidelines being constantly ushered back by the police and unable to see the score. We then went upstairs into this room with a glass wall that faced the basketball court and sat with Tim, Greg, and Greg's girlfriend from Yale, Lily. We kept texting people and making hand motions to people in the crowd to see what the score was, and at many points, yelled at Tony Marx, our College president, who also didn't have a seat, which made us feel better, to motion us the score. Williams had an Asian point guard who was one of their star players, whose first name was apparently Wang, which Andrew Kelly found hilarious, so I decided to defend my fellow Asian from their taunts.

I ran back to the dorm, showered quickly, and went over to Magdalena's room, AKA Salon Javier. Javier was sweating profusely, blow dryer in one hand, brush in the other, while he had employed Soo as the official hair straightener in the other half of the room. Javier went through girl after girl, doing their hair and their makeup, working his magic like only he can. It was so crazy. Shannon didn't want to come, having just gotten back from a race (in which she did really well!!) and didn't have a dress. Javier repeatedly had me text her and threaten that "she better get her ass over here in this chair or I will CUT HER." All of Shannon's promises that she would let him make her over another day and that she didn't have a dress were immediately cast aside by Javi, who immediately found her a dress, and even a matching flower for her hair that she thoroughly protested, but then gave in to. Finally, Javier had us all beautified and Shannon and I came back to the dorm, dropped our stuff of, and went to Pratt to meet the rest of our group that had impatiently ditched us. Upon seeing us, Simon pointed and said, "THAT took that long?" Ass. Javier would have eaten him alive. All of our efforts to get Tim and Shannon together, or at least dancing together, failed rather miserably, but I LOVE NORTH BOYS! They're so fun and ridiculous. Andrew, Ricky, Brian from North, Tim, and even Dash, were just all jumping in together and dancing ridiculously, even doing their little "unce" strut across the entire Pratt floor. By the end, there was almost no one else left on the dance floor except Northies and us, but it was so much fun. Finally, we all left, and Dede carried Magdalena back because she couldn't walk back in her stilettos. It was so adorable.

In other, not so happy news, Jorge finally confessed his feelings to Ben, and discovered that Ben was, in fact, not gay, much to our general surprise. :( But hopefully Jorge will be okay. In a similar vein, another one of my friends came out, so now I finally know a lesbian. Yay!

I spent the first half of the day yesterday working on Operation North Polar Bear with Shayne, which, sadly, has not had a happy ending just yet. GRR!!

Yesterday evening, Brian and I went out to dinner. We took the bus intending to go to Chili's, but realized too late that it actually didn't stop there, so we got out at Hampshire Mall, walked around, and then walked for about 20 minutes back to Chili's, where it was completely packed. We put our name down, and then I realized that the grocery store was right next to Chili's. Grocery shopping on Valentine's Day! How romantic! I was very excited haha because we never really get to go to the grocery store and I wanted actual fruit and cheaper food than you can get at CVS. But before we could actually get to the Stop & Shop, we had to go in about four circles, since this is Massachusetts and not California. Basically, the Chili's and the shopping complex were separated by this like... forest covered in snow that ranged across the whole parking lot. A thicket of trees in the middle of the parking lot. This is how I know I'm in Massachusetts. Finally, when we got there, we walked around and bought lots of strawberries and cookies and yogurt, which made me very happy. You know you love someone when going grocery shopping with them on Valentine's Day is fun.

Carrying our groceries back, we went to eat at Chili's, which was delicious! We ordered spinach and artichoke dip right before Brian realized that he wanted chips and salsa instead, and then spent the next 20 minutes staring at every single table around us, which all had chips and salsa. Nevertheless, the meal was delicious, with fajitas, boneless buffalo wings, fried chicken tenders, and spinach and artichoke dip. Yum!

We had to walk a ways to get to the closest bus station, and by the time we got there, we realized that it would probably take just as long to stand there in the cold waiting for it to come than it would be just to walk back, which was about a 20-30 minute walk. I, like the idiot I am, wasn't wearing warm enough clothing (since it's been "warm" here recently, in the 30s), so I was really cold. However, Brian is apparently never cold and always has a high enough body temperature to make you think he has a fever. So as we walked back, one pair hands linked and kept in his pocket to keep warm while the other pair held groceries. Every five minutes or so, the grocery-holding hand would get too cold, at which point we would switch sides. :)

We got back around 10, at which point we all started playing poker, which I FINALLY won, and then Egyptian rat screw. Lots of fun all around. They ordered wings around 1 AM, but for once, I wasn't hungry!! Yay for Chili's! But sadly, we decided today that we went through Pratt Prom and Valentine's Day without getting Shannon and Tim together, which must mean that we all fail at life.

On another random note that was inspired by Jaclyn and Ethan having identical musical tastes to the point where they even like the same random pop song on the radio that they are rather ashamed to like: I've never met anyone with really similar musical tastes as me. Sure, there are lots of people who like Broadway, people who love the Backstreet Boys, etc, but never my combination of all of them.. Oh and Gregory Lemarchal. :)