Friday was unofficial. For those of you who are not from around here, this is a holiday that was invented by local bar owners to compensate for the fact that St. Patrick's day always falls on spring break, when many students are away from campus. To celebrate unofficial, students drink all day and disrupt classes. The lecture I TA for had 4 or 5 police officers and 3 security guards outside checking people's bags. On unofficial, no one is allowed to have any beverages of any kind in classrooms. Last year, around 90 people went to the hospital for alcohol poisoning I've been told. I already knew I would hate this holiday, but several unexpected things made it worse.
First, a student in lecture had a shirt on that was so terrible that it totally ruined my day. I wanted to punch him in the face. I won't go into details, but let's just say he succeded at offending Irish people, Native Americans, and women. Good job, asshole.
After that I taught and had a student get all up in my face about a lousy 2 points on a test question. Then at noon, walking back to my office, I saw a guy stumbling along, drunk, holding a Jones Soda bottle and mumbling "fuck" over and over to himself.
This was too much. I had to go home for the rest of the day.
Saturday was better. Got some grading done and then went over to Katherine's house for a game night. She has some crazy cats. One of them likes to chew on fingers A LOT. Check it out:
The other one just likes to lay on shoes and jackets. Not that weird I guess.
We played a bunch of different games including one that's kindof like balderdashand trivial pursuit combined but with personal questions instead of definitions, if that makes any sense. They guessed it was me whose last words would be "bring my body to the top of Mt. Diablo so I can be eaten by turkey vultures."
We also played Clue: Museum Caper. Here's a thief-eye-view of Lisa.
Today (Sunday) I went back to El Charro for lunch before doing FOUR HOURS of statistics homework. I had two al pastor tacos and one lengua taco. The al pastor is just so so, bu the lengua was very good.
(lengua on top)
