Miss Houston

Saturday. Another hellish study weekend begins. Woke up at around 10:30ish, ate breakfast, then sat outside and read more of "El perro del hortelano". It was too hot outside, so I went to my room, turned on the fan, and read on my bed. It was a struggle because my attention span does not work in my favor if I'm in my own place of residence. I don't know, I just associate my living space with relaxing, not with studying and working (hence why I'm at Starbucks all the time nowadays). But I ploughed through until lunch at 2:30 which was simple green salad, then penne with ground beef and tomato sauce. Not spectacular, but satisfying. More watermelon for dessert (yessssss). Then I packed up and headed out for another fun-filled afternoon and evening at Starbucks (I had a lot to study, so I told Maruja that I wouldn't eat at home). I was really productive; I read more Lope, typed up most of my Iconografia notes, and did some review for Art History. Melissa joined me halfway through my studies. Then the greatest thing happened. At around 5 I got up to use the bathroom (which is in Vips), and on the way out I checked out that Whitney Greatest Hits double disc CD, and saw that it was the last one left. It was so cheap, and had all of her best music on it, and I had been thinking about it for so long, that I just bought it. I had to. I walked back into Starbucks...needless to say, both Melissa and I were quite pleased. I broke open the CD to find that the first disc is called "Cool Down" and contains all of her ballads, and the second disc is "Throw Down" with all of her upbeat songs. Excellent. I then studied to the sounds of Miss Houston. It was fantastic. I am very happy with my recent purchase. Alissa came by and joined us for a bit as she wrote her paper which is her last responsibility for finals! How weird. She was leaving in less than a week at that point. That's absolutely insane. Alissa soon left. Then Melissa and I discussed going out that night. We decided to just have a low-keyed night and not stay out too late, so we planned to meet at Vips that night at 11:45. Melissa left, I bought myself a pavo wrap for dinner, then Stacey showed up. She was equally as pleased about the Whitney CD. I mean, who wouldn't be? Let me also add that the CD has a duet with Jermaine Jackson on it. Excellent. I then typed up some more Iconografia notes until 10:30 when I left to get home and get ready for the night. I got ready and headed out to meet Melissa at 11:45. We walked to the center of town where we met up with Melissa's friend from UMich, Emily, who's studying here on a different program. Then we went to Alfalfa, of course. Alfalfa was FULL of newbies! It's insane. And they're all southern. Once they stumbled over to us, embarrassingly drunk, and were like, "Uhhhh, y'all Americans?? Where y'all frommmmm???" Ugh, newbies. Yeah, I'm obnoxious, I know. At one point Melissa and I struck up a conversation with this cute guy from Emily's program and he and Melissa had a lot in common so I "went to the bathroom" at Robotica, which really entailed me walking to Robotica and standing there aimlessly by myself for awhile. I mean, I went there to also buy a beer, but there were a lot of people there waiting, and I was in no hurry to get my drink right away so Melissa and the Georgetown guy (so I call him now) could talk. After about 15 minutes I got a call from Melissa asking where I was. She was actually concerned; she thought that I legitimately had to go to the bathroom. So she came to Robotica, sans Georgetown boy. Oh, Missey! Just when I try to help her out. Whatever, she didn't know. We then went back out and he had left. Damn. Then at one point we went to a random bar to use the bathroom, and these two Spanish guys stopped us and started talking to us. One of them asked us if we remembered him...turns out he was a waiter at our end-of-semester cocktail party last weekend! How funny! I can't believe he remembered us! That's so weird. Turns out he's a hotel management major at USevilla. Somehow we all struck up a conversation about Spanish politics and that somehow led to my learning that Zapatero, the president of Spain, is revoking all Art History University programs next year. I honestly hope that that's not true because some of the coolest art is in Spain...I mean, this place is an art mecca. What's with that? So yeah, it was a random night, but fun. We left a little before 3, I was home at 3:30 and went to bed. It was a good break from my study madness. I needed to get out.