There’s certainly a lot to go over. Pretty sure I slept in again on Sunday...I never really did it at all last summer...stupid social life. Hit up the ole MCAT Physics on my all morning coffee break. Upon returning to all afternoon coffee break around 1:30 p.m., Gilbert, Taylor and Fei walked up to the station, returning from the weekend in San Jose. Got the DL on what went down in the big city (nothing epic, so I’ll forego the details).
Some fellow researchers--Justin, Lauren and Stefanie--were also on a weekend vacation to some of the volcanoes here in Costa Rica. As they were enjoying a morning dip in a hot spring, some dude walked up and grabbed their bag, mere feet away from the river, and ran with it. The best part is that Justin took off and hopped in a nice guy’s car and they spent the next hour driving around town looking for the guy. Unfortunately they lost their wallets, cameras, etc. (I know how that feels).
My Weekend, in a picture
Sunday night started out with some cake and music and manifested into a trip to the bar in the rain (again) for Virginia’s birthday. During our last bar excursion, Gil and I sold them out of Bavaria Dark (the only beer worth paying for) (and don’t worry there were only five). But in the week since they hadn’t gotten any more. Thus nursed a Pilsen for about three hours, worked myself into some pretty crazy pictures and sent Deniz to request the Britney Spears video mix. Apparently the Baby One More Time video didn’t change anyone’s life as it did mine that first day on TRL (and...reminisce) (...one more time).
Late night, but made it to breakfast. Choppers (who I’ve decided is my summer big sister) looked at Taylor’s foot and thought it might be infected, so they took off for the clinic in town and Fei and I forewent the field due to the long commute and docked productivity. Robert tagged along and picked up more party supplies at the store. The best part of this story is that on their way back in the taxi, Taylor and Choppers realized they didn’t have any money to pay the cabby, so they had him stop at the BCR ATM. While Choppers was in the bank, the cab driver started arguing with the guy who went before Chops. It escalated into the cab driver grabbing two big knives out of the car and going at his foe. Luckily a car pulled up in between and they drove off. Choppers (and I) missed the whole thing.
The rest of Monday I did some studying, played frisbee, strained my ankle (the one on the bad leg) a bit there and then went to get ready for the party. Shuttled all the party supplies over to the lounge and started cooking up some a-mazing quesadillas (some of my best work, topped with a simple but spicy guacamole). Gilbert, Fei and Taylor worked on the moist cake. We also made nachos, garlic bread, jell-o and patacones late night. Plenty to eat and drink.
The turnout was pretty great with a lot of people staying pretty late. We had some really loud games of flip cup, so half of the pictures look like your average American basement party except for the pouring sweat. Watched the home run derby and Josh Hamilton’s incredible performance.
The party started dwindling away around one in the morning when it was down to six or seven of us. Fei decided to proffer up the last piece of cake and girl musta been way too excited because the cake ended up frosting end (business end) on my leg (the healthy one). My initial reaction was to eat the frosting, but after one lick, I kind of just left it there. After Taylor beat me up we did some cleaning and it was down to me and a stumbling Marvin who I carried all the way back to the river station...a play (in translation)
Halfway to the River Station, 3:30 a.m., on the bridge over the river, Guard 1 walks up
Ben: Hey, my boy’s pretty drunk.
Guard 1: Be careful. The river is dangerous. Watch out for snakes.
Guard 1 exits stage right.
Finally got to bed around 4:00 a.m. and slept in until 9:30 a.m. Woke and felt a lot like “I cannot brain today; I have the dumb.” Got around to more MCAT and downloaded lots of new music (new Nas, new O.A.R.). That night Taylor and I went over to the comedor to use the new TV and watch the All Star Game. First off, the best All Star Game I’ve ever watched and they’re all good since the AL has never lost as long as I’ve been a fan. And major brownie points for Sug for having 15 innings of endurance after the night before. Best moment was every time they showed Derek Jeter telling Terry Francona how to manage and Kevin Youkilis with a sugar-free Red Bull at 1:00 a.m. East Coast. Not to mention, Dan Uggla’s three errors, three strikeouts and one GIDP. Also the conflict of emotion when J.D. Drew went yard.
Forgot to mention we had great dinner on Tuesday. Great rice dish with french fries and got to watch the pregame ceremonies during. Vanessa joined us and agreed to help us in the field on Wednesday in place of Taylor (not that Sug is replaceable). Wednesday went well in the field. We cored over fifty trees before 1:00 p.m. and did all the lab processing that afternoon only to find the oven that I reserved in February was overtaken for the next three days. Therefore, the samples are air drying in the office until I can get them in the cooker.
Wednesday night we made more patacones, watched South Park (“He make no money”), Weeds and Entourage. In bed at 11 p.m. and up at 7:22 a.m., the last possible moment to make it across the river for breakfast allotting two minutes to get dressed and rub the eyes and five minutes to walk over with one minute to spare. Good thing too because they had my favorite eggs.
Today has been a creative day for Team Chazdon. Taylor and I made name tags for our door, I’ve been blogging, Taylor is currently making model frogs for Robert, and we’re beginning to brainstorm a good poster for Saturday’s party (we’re the Party Planning Committee if you haven’t gathered that yet) (the cool one with Pam, not Angela’s). Tonight the women are watching Sex in the City in the lounge and the men (plus Taylor and Fei) are watching 300 in the comedor. We had “Pasta Chop Suey” lunch today, which boiled down to Top Ramen without the salt.
This post has gotten long enough, enjoy the pictures and thanks for reading!
BP
2 comments:
super nice pictures i am slacking i didn't actually read anything cause i have a big day tomorrow and need to go to bed i am getting paid like $25 to drink beer and then going to the 3 doors door stain and hinder concert going to be like the best day ever, i'll make sure to take picture and read yours later.
ohh man i heard about that concert it sounds super good, yeah pics aren't bad but i'm not reading that much for anyone.
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