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Friday night: Justin, Sam, Sammie and I all head out around 11:30pm, looking for a party. We take the bus to west-central Ames, looking for one Sam had heard about somewhere on Story Street. Unfortunately, it was over by the time we get there. Somewhat discouraged, we decide to check out another party we’d heard about in the newly (and poorly) constructed Legacy Tower. We’re less than a block away from the building when I hear someone call my name. I turn around, and some kid grabs my hand and shakes it.

“Rob!” He says. “Remember me? I’m in your class.”

By class, I realize, he means my English 104 class. I’d just run into a student while wandering around looking for a party. Luckily, he’s far more inebriated than me. Maybe he won’t remember by Monday.

Saturday night: Justin is in Des Moines playing poker with a friend of his, so Sam and Sammie and I are bored. We decide to go find a party. After some calling around, we find one on Franklin, which is a block or two from Story. Again, we catch the 11:30pm bus (we happen to live on a shuttle stop of the Moonlight Express (Drunk Bus)) and head to west-central Ames. We get off a couple blocks early and, a bit confused, head the wrong direction. We get turned back around eventually and head the other way. Sammie, however, has to pee. We come across a friend’s house and she sneaks inside to use the bathroom (her friend was already at the party we were going to). Sam and I wait outside. There’s a huge party in the backyard of a house two doors over, so Sam and I decide to walk through the backyards and check it out. We mingle with roughly 100 of our newest friends for maybe thirty seconds when I hear my name. I turn around.

Yeah, I’d managed to run into another student. Two nights in a row. The first weekend of the semester. This cannot be a good sign.

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Don’t think, by the by, that these misadventures suggest I haven’t been doing much work. I did around three hours of homework before heading out Friday night, and at least eight hours of homework Saturday. And now that I’m up, I’m going to do a couple more hours of homework before I go shopping. In fact I’m hoping to finish as much homework as I (reasonably) can before heading out, because on this particular shopping trip, I’m hoping to pick up my new cellphone. And you ~know~ I’m going to spend all night playing with it. :)

PS - Kindly ignore the obvious trouble I’m having stringing sentences together. I just woke up after only five hour’s sleep, and it wasn’t good sleep.