Volunteer, Advocate, Trekker.

What an oddly exciting past 24 hours. And let me just say how proud I am of this blog's title, for reasons I'll explain in a few paragraphs. So what a weird past day I've had? Yesterday, Panda happy to have finally hit payday wanted a night out and I tried to assemble the troops - and Patsy was able to convince Kat to come out! We haven't seen her in forever; and Angela was up to joining us too, so we got some DELICIOUS Mike's Place (I always forget that place exists. It's so weird that Patsy just thinks of it as another place, even had a Birthday party there, but I think of it as a place I discovered for our group of friends in 2006. After a super-delicious and filling meal and drinks there, we met up with Panda and made our way to Bar #1. Which was pretty dead for a bit, so we went for a walk down the street to check the other bars within walking distance. After stopping outside of one bar, I said "Patsy, open the door and see if anyone's in th...

Happy St. Patrick's Day, blog followers! Well, with student teaching absorbing my life during the week -- (and the other waking hours often being used to nap or plan) Saturday morning has really offered my my only chance to catch up on household maintenance. This morning started repairs to the kitchen sink (which is leaking in multiple places, and required a new faucet) cleaned the counter tops to put away things that should have been organized (the Rice Cooker now lives above the Fridge!) and throwing away things that should have been trash (mom, the cheese slice wrappers, seriously!) This is St. Patrick. Little did he know, back in the 4th century AD, that his name would come to mean a time for college students to get wasted and flash people. Also I think something about snakes... And of course cleaning my room and folding the laundry. Usual chores, nothing too exciting. Just want the house to be clean later when I come back from St. Patrick's Day celebrations with frie...

Last night came to Garfield to hang with Amanda and Danielle, boy did those plans fluctuate! Amanda had dealings with a washing machine, so I spent most of the day time at home watching Star Trek DVDs, then went out to Parma Town with her -- bought the Bad Romance (Remixes) which is the Gaga American version of a single I guess? Anyway, got Applebee's with Danielle (who I haven't hung with in forever!) and was joined by Sarah who got out of her friend Pure Romance party earlier than expected, and Panda came too. Then Brit joined us, as we decided to go to some bar called Islanders in Middleberg. That was fun, there were some issues - like I didn't exactly make a friend when I asked the DJ: "Can I request.... No-Beastie Boys?" (Because Sarah hates Beastie Boys) he was like "No, that's my favorite band." So that was a great way to start the night, haha. Then I was doing all the drink buying when it was ladies night, so they got 2$ drinks >>; er...