Things I Did This Past Week

(aka the last half-week when Taylor Swift's "22" could still apply to me)
(aka the week of my golden birthday)

• Watched Captain America: The Winter Soldier in theaters and reaffirmed devotion to Chris Evans as Steve Rogers.
• Watched B.A.P perform live in Chicago with the best cheapest tickets in the house, at the front-row center mezzanine
• Mistook a stampede of screaming and crying fangirls for a mass disaster evacuation, only to realize upon reaching the second floor that they'd been the lucky ones to win the pass to high-five the band members before the show. Said band members were only a couple yards away from yours truly, who was watching the hysterical frenzy next to an open door.
• Accidentally ended up at the front of the crowd waiting for aforementioned band members to exit the theater. Again, esteemed people were only a couple yards away from yours truly.
• Had a food-coma-inducing birthday dinner at Dame's Chicken and Waffles with friends.
• Discovered that the Rando Cardrissian rule in Cards Against Humanity is the most hilarious thing ever.
• Nearly went home in eternal shame due to the fact that Rando Cardrissian was beating all of us until someone finally caught up and surpassed his black card score (that was me).
• Was bequeathed a flower in a paper-cup from sorority little. Flower is miraculously still alive.
• Completed watching My Love From the Stars, the newest and most popular k-drama that has since ruined lives all across Asia as people eat themselves sick on chicken and beer while lamenting their lack of a perfect alien lover man.
• Felt grumpily dissatisfied by the snoozeworthy final episode of aforementioned drama, in which nothing noteworthy happened between the first and last ten minutes of the hour-long episode.
• Felt strangely sad about the end of an era where YY and yours truly watched an episode every Tuesday and Thursday night and commentated via GChat on the absurdities and hilarities of an alien romance, complete with character nicknames such as Marshmallow (secret-softie alien man), Bricks (dumb-as-bricks corporate heir who miraculously grows a brain), Tears (incessantly crying wuss until she becomes a cold-hearted bizznatch), etc.
• Learned how to salsa dance with friends at a Friday night salsa dance social.
• Apologized profusely with awkward dopey laughter to amused/bemused/bored dance partners for utter lack of grace and elegance and dance skill at aforementioned salsa dance social.
• Ordered a Virgin Mary for the first time ever at Saturday brunch with the Koala. Did not regret forgoing the Bloody Mary afterwards.
• Ordered an unsweetened ice tea at Francesca's and stupidly realized afterwards that an iced tea in the South is not the same as an iced tea in California.
• Sat in aforementioned dessert cafe for four hours and churned out roughly 660 words, thus completing Chapter 11 of EP.
• Spent the rest of the evening accompanying the Koala and other young undergrad folks, which included pretending to still be a student and enjoying free midnight breakfast at the Pavilion.
• Teased the Koala for her romantic boyfriend fantasies, which are too hilarious to describe in words and only suitable to be conveyed in dramatic performance with wild flailing and embellished dialogue.
• Presumably gained an enormous amount of weight from all the restaurants I visited and all the slices of Guglhupf fruit tart I consumed in light of the celebratory season.
• Felt very touched by all the friends and family who got in touch with me over the past week to wish me a happy birthday, whether via Facebook or e-mail or text or in person.

Cheers to another good year.