tripping hoosiers; little five lived up to reputation!

jeff wrote a drunk blog last night, should read that... he was flying-off-the-walls drunk!

what a weekend. judging by all i'm going to write, this probably won't be read thru (it's too long!) but i just want to say thanks to the USI guys from evansville for visiting!! and winding down the year, every new week is better than the last!

marla stubbs ant felipe and i got to the manhammer house around 3:30. hung out with folks and we jumped on the trampoline and watched stubbs play badminton. around 5:30 we went upstairs cramped in a tiny room 23 people in all piled on one another powerhour the game and keystone and miller high life to drink. chris' mix that changed songs each minute for an hour, and i think that was the moment in collge i've been waiting for. an amazing hour, and as the songs became more recognizable by the end, especially third eye blind's jumper (which takes the cake for the all-time drunk song), 22 in all standing up singing along. and jill shared pizza and breadsticks. eli stood on the couch and danced. felipe rapped. matt danced.

the rest of friday night rolled by. the hour's 7 beers were a lot for me by any means. at first i stood on the roof overlooking the backyard with ant and blonde erin for a bit. you know it's a good time when you get to watch a mexican jump as high as he can on a trampoline with no thought of the time. my memory is really bad but i do know i listened to ant and joe go at one another and politics for a long time -- they agreed to disagree.

it was dark out before i knew it. the party was grand, although it's all a blur to me of what i was doing that took up the whole night. it was jam-packed, most crowded house party i've been to. mikey seevs and jeffew arrived and after marta let me have a bit of her pizza (dangling it down from chris' bed hehe) and after ant took me to subway and treated me to a meatball sandwich after he'd just been there, we returned to the party and mikey seevs and jeff had had enough to be drunk, too! jack fedderson, my dad's friend's son who lives a block away from us on st joe river and doesn't even go to iu, was there and seeing him really excited me. dan weggman and kelly klose were there a time, and kirstin and her friend mary came!! i got kirstin hooked up with some beer and she socialized with me and jeff. all i remember of our conversation was saying she's not even a girl to me but a friend lol. pat from my creative writing class was there and i remember meeting up with him at the side of the house looking for a place to go (go potty). the girl he was with was a very attractive, artsy-looking chick. i talked with cool sam from psych class for the longest time, too. another erin we have met tugged at ant's "ants in my pants" boxers constant and he told her not to constant lol. a fat chick ripped felipe's chirt with her toe nail while they were jumping on the tramp hahaha. the night flew. a time!

marla had taken off and my backpack was left in her boyfriend steve's car, so i was locked out of my room for the night lol. got to ant's at 3:00 and mikey and i decided to "trip" on 2c-1. i've never experienced anything like it; of course i was on drugs so that's why i've never before felt that. i recommend it. took 45 minutes to kick in but, walking down by the jordan, i started to feel it and we walked up to the fountain in front of the fine arts school and the auditorium and the moment was something you imagine in a movie. behind the airborn water, there were a a few stoners and i saw them outlined in shadow, with their smoke curling upward. i ask who they are. the girl tells me they're campus crusade (the god parade kids on campus) and repeats, "believe in god, man. believe in god. he's the answer." it took me one to realize it, but she was fucking with me. they left and two of their friends, arie and troy, talked with us and said while we were at it we should trip at dunn woods. the thing is, they had all put 11 bottles of soap into the fountain so it was like a bubble bath. we may have been on drugs but what we were seeing was all real. they took off and mikey and i talked to a 25-yr-old ex acid blotter, and one of them said what we were on is a cross between acid and exctasy as far as the effects go, but i'm thinking it's of course like doing shrooms. and we walked away when security was flashing their flashlight in the yard of the fin arts building, we had no idea what they were up to and we didn't want them to know what we were up to.

i took us to the chemistry building, to the old tree that's build around, and mikey was right, i thought it was pretty as hell. he'd predicted i'd say all night, "EVERYTHING'S SO PRETTY!" and he knows it. it changed colors, everything we looked at morphed, but we didn't see anything that wasn't there. i made mike take pictures so we could look later what was there and compare with what we were seeing. next i took him around campus for 3 hours, thru the period of the morning when it is dawn. the whole time i joked that he was my tour guide for the experience and i was his as far as leading us around campus. it must've been cool to him because he'd never seen any of it normal. at the back of the chem building, i didn't know where to go because it was as if i was seeing different sections of campus all at once: i turn this way and it's swain hall, that way and it's the union; i was mistaking where we were with other places i knew. i felt like we were in abandoned london in the movie 28 Days Later, with the aloneness of it just being us two. and in our state, we blew holes dug for earth day trees out of proportion, seeing the flowers dug up; then we came to two bikes that were locked upsidedown at a bike rack with papers blowing in the breeze and it felt like something had terrorized the area lol.

took us around to the gazebo and the herman b wells statue and what a shifty character he seemed to us, pointing and all (took good pictures), and then circled the buildings up 3rd street and they looked like castles, and basked in the early morning sunlight they were the prettiest scenes i've ever, ever looked at. throughout, white dandelions and roses planted everywhere were wonderful to stare out. just about the best thing we saw were the red, white and blue ribbons tied around a tree bush at the front entrance to the chem buildings. i was convinced those chemists know how to do it; did it just for me, or anyone on drugs, and knew what they were doing when they tied them there. on drugs, what a thing to see!!! i plucked one off to prove that i wasn't just seeing things and took a picture lol. (later i found out a class tied them there on different days.) i'm not doing anything justice, but iu's campus is the perfect place to trip, it's beautiful as is already. i think a lot of people who trip don't go anywhere during; it's a must!! it was the coolest thing i've ever done, and i think sex and tripping at the same time might be the coolest experience one can have that i can think of, ha. "if you ever want to do it, i'll have mikey get us some, i believe in it. god, what am i saying!? ...i'm endorsing it!" ~what i was telling jane today lol

mike and i, feeling like crackheads and a little out of place out in the open and seeing early morning strollers who had no idea what we were feeling, we returned to ant's room at 7:30 and were buggin' the hell out of ant, his roommate dave, and seev and jeff. mike was quiet and beat, but i wouldn't have it. i was squirming all over the place. when jeff said something about ant's black underwear being in his face, i went on: "don't test me, black underwear. don't make me say it, black underwear." i was off my noggin. being the good guys that jeff and seevers are, they distracted me into leading them and mikey to mcdonald's so as to not disturb an annoyed, sleepyhead ant and roommate any longer. to note was that mikey talked more than he did all weekend when he was out with me saturday morning lol. anyways, got there and they didn't open for another hour, 9:00. we sat on the steps of read and i joked the whole time, kinda sitting there leaning with my elbows propped on my knees, face in my hand. it was really good of the USI guys to put up with me. i thought i was so not funny that i was funny; called my act "sit-down comedy" because i was sitting down lol -- it was stupid at the time, too. and did an impression of the latina in latinos class who sneezes 20 times in a row lol.

finally it was close to 9:00 saturday morning, and back at mcdonald's, i rode amber's huffy in circles like old times and kidded, "you guys didn't come all the way to bloomington to watch me ride my bike in circles?!" then the doors opened but the gate to mcdonald's didn't. in a rather large line, i was pretty obnoxious, chanting, "Mcdonald's Mcdonald's Mcdonald's!" and quipping to kids were were getting restless, "mcdonald's or die, bitch! 6-piece, motherfucker! i'll give you a mcribs!" shupidshit stuff pretty much, and half of it in dave chappelle's little john voice (then related how at dave's show at the auditorium he came back out for an encore and for 15 minutes kinda just did, "yeaaaah! ... okaaaay! ... yeeaaahh!" back and forth with audience members who were using his jokes against him). andy with dreads who is my neighbor across the hall was first in line and hungover and i egged him on: "andy, it's fucking 9:05!" and he was furious it was 5 minutes after and asked if it really was, and i said i was kidding, and he went off lol. "andy, what the fuck's going on!?" ... "it's shit," he'd grunt. once the gates opened, we joked about seevers having ant's meal points card and saying if it didn't work "the fucking phi psi frat guys will treat us, right?" they were right in front of us, and so many other guys ordering for entire frats were there. i joked that they don't get their guts from beer but from all the mcdonald's they have. i was kiddingly throwing shit at all of them, especially after one made fun of my made-up frat pi omega tau by doing the animal house frat chant, how's it go? at the same time too i was polite and they weren't mad i don't think, maybe annoyed. as bad as my jokes were, compared to theirs i was funnier. fucking frat kids don't have senses of humors.

the best part of mcdonald's, though, was when we were eating outside the entrance in was locked so everyone who eventually got into mcd's at one point was locked out, desperate to get in. and each time someone tried to get in and couldn't, i laughed and suggested ways to break in: "press the fucking handicapped button," i'd say even though i knew they'd try it and it wouldn't do any good lol. one girl thought i was hilarious when i told her to get attention from inside and she was halfway between two doors that opened one after another and i pointed to one after another making her rush around; before she was in she looked back laughing, "oh you're funny!" the four of us spent $24 in ant's meal points and i'd like to thank him. we did get him a meal, too, though! rode home on the bike with a fruitopia (which after making a big deal about mcd's fruitopia's whlie in line for food, i found out mcd's had discontinued carrying fruitopia by a sign on the fountain drink dispenser. what a relief it was when there was still red fruitopia in the machine after i'd cursed it!!!) and felt like a local yokle with all the out-of-towners in for little five; for example just a mcd's we met dudes from illinois, chicago, hammond, and valpo who didn't even know anyone in-towners.

wanting to feel normal again and with a funky stomach, napped with the guys all afternoon while the litle 500 went on. evidently it was a great race! and we missed! was down to the wire and 300 meters to go there was a wipe-out that took out the top 7 and only two made it out. the cutters won by two inches in a victory that was called by replay. what a race! should've made it to. anyways, matt felipe and seevs (after getting high with my roommate lol) went to a bbq party and jeff mikey and i caught up with them after a bit, going on a long walk to get to hunter and park. the weather'd turned cloudy but it was still okay out. at the party i just sat there listening to the music, talking with the guys, and thinking about what'd just happened and we all just hung out. seevs and felipe had bonded by getting drunk in a beer pong game that had a lot of alcohol involved lol. i lost a 5-dollar bill that ant had loaned me there (man, i owe him!) and left my umbrella behind on accident.

went to the solarium at the union with jeffew and a girl named becca to see green party presidential candidate ralph nader speak; he doesn't call himself a politician but instead a citizen-advocate. he is a dull speaker and that word was in the first sentence he used, ha. it was interesting, though, and jane and wes sat in front of jeff and me and that was cool, and a nice punk girl who is into morrissey sat beside. told her i'm seeing him this summer and never in my wildest imagined i'd be at a morrissey concert. at one point nader mentioned seeing a sign that read: "a vote for nader is a vote for bush," and he said, "i guess that means bush is voting for me." i didn't get it, maybe i will sometime. after the speech and during a question-answer, a girl brought up how he told of all the problems that kerry and bush haven't addressed and said that while he addressed these issues he didn't bring up any solutions. but i think even if the other two guys had solutions i'm not sure i'd believe in them. the thing is, i liked edwards and dean and kucinech better than kerry, but he's so goddamned much better than bushy.

got home and met up with matt ant and seevers (felipe had gone home to watch the play-offs and because he was beat) and we saw john benman in the elevator and i invited him to tag along and so we all got food at the cstore (finding it funny that matt and ant had on felipe's shirts, i had on ant's, and seevers had on matt's) and then everyone but me went to a party (friday night had taken everything out of me heh) -- i slept and it was a wonderful sleep. at one point katie r called ant's cell which he'd left for me, and i was passed out and tired as hell and i said, "katie, i'm passed out," trying to let her know i'm sorry for being short and have to go back to sleep, and she miscontrued it as, "i'm pissed off," and she started yelling at me and that wasn't cool at all and i explained rather angrily that i wasn't pissed off at all and hung up; she starts on me a lot heh. later shannon called in a drunk way to say she was only calling because she wanted to tell us she cares for us, and that was nice of her and i was nice about it even though i was woken up again lol. finally ant drunk-dialed which was a first because usually i'm with him and he went on about the night, how mikey and seevs had gotten stoned and john who hadn't said anything on the way there was very talkative after alcohol and stubbs and jeff were busy hitting on / striking out with the girls (no offense lol).

i let the guys upstairs (jeff mikey seevs ant matt and john) at about 2:30 a.m. and they'd had a ton of fun at a bad party held by sonya's boyfriend, jordan i think his name is. they'd gotten there and it was about 30 guys and 2 girls (girls we know came and left early later on) and they weren't sure if they were at a homo party lol. but they had a lot of fun! everyone was wet from the rain and in the stairwell jeff remarked how the stairs were so comfortable and mikey let us know he was fucked up lol. in my room (got in with a spare key from the center desk), jeff drunk blogged and talked with tony posing as a girl online lol, mikey passed out, and evan kicked him for snoring while jeff threw my stuff on him haha. seevs laughed at everyone and ate granola bars. stubbs told me how marla and marta both called his phone drunk and high wish me a happy 20th birthday lol. i had a dream jeff pissed all over the floor, very disturbing.

woke up this morning at 11:30; jeff'd been up since 9 and was talking with my friends online. got everyone's ass in gear and the whole crew went for lunch at mother bear's pizza. it was a great meal! seevs and mike and evan (who tripped on mushrooms last night at the villas, saying it was like a war zone over there, with trash cans on fire and cops driving past; a fucking "copalooza"!) had gotten stoned first thing in the morning (their weedies, breafast of champions haha) and felipe helped with the tab, picking up more of seevs slack than the rest and i was thankful, after he'd said he wouldn't be babysitting my friends this weekend and that that was my job. haha that last sentence was ridiculous with all the interjections heh. him and seevs really have bonded hahaha. seevs calls the mexican "phil." walking back to forest, the two of them were walking on the otherside of 3rd street as the rest of us and it reminded ant of the evolution of man, homo sapians and homo erectus or something haha funny thought. mikey meanwhile, is great, there are a lot of posers out there but he's the real deal. he reminds me of a hippie-tripping kid from the 70s, with his adidas shirt and messed up red hair lol. jeff is cool, too (notice the multiple 's lol) we had a hot girl take a picture of the seven of us and a guy, in perfect timing, walked by and asked if she'd left her purse, pointing at my fanny pack. seevs got a kick out of it lol and then the USI boys took a right out of here. i had a wonderful weekend and we showed them one. time to get crackin' on a online latinos quiz. college is going fine, this was probably the last great weekend because after the next is finals week. and we'll be home in two weeks.

this writing is unproofed; too long to go back and read thru, heh. it's pretty boring reading, too, i think compared to the weekend this was. little five lived up to the reputation, heh. i had a great time, everyone did. here's to great weekends every weekend from here on out!

--nate

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