must function at design capacity!

Hey guysss! So I know it has been ages and the nerdy title can be attributed to the fact that I may or may not have been locked up in a hole of SMG for the past few hours studying my brains out. But I am in a good place right now and ready to open a can of whoopass on these exams...hopefully :) PS shawn...studying is not nerdy on a saturday night if you take breaks to do fun dumb shit and you have four ginormous midterms in one week. I'm jussayin :P. So where to begin? Barring the past week of intensive studying I have been dealing with a team intensive semester (good thing I love my team) and the pledge process has begun and thanks to my past experience with the fraternity I think I am well on my way of making this a very professional, successful pledge process. The pledges are being very receptive and respectful (they call me "pledge mistress Patel." HAHAHAHAHA). Things with the dance team are also going wonderfully :D except we haven't gotten our mix yet....which we were expecting last week....so I may be sending a strongly worded email to our DJ in the next couple of days. Or after midterms. But I'm not nearly as stressed as I thought I would be thanks to Simoni, Anika, and the few other people I seem to be practically living with of late.

Just thought of this (sidebar) Simoni and I had a rather hilarious study break thursday on our day off before BDW workshop presentations during which we thought it would be a great idea to go to the salon and pamper ourselves a little. We figured we should go ahead and get it done to be prepared for the festivities that would ensue when our midterms were over. So we (wo)man up, take a couple shots, and head in. All you ladies, I'm sure by this point you know exactly what I'm talking about. All you guys... you prolly can figure it out. Anyways, that isn't even the funny part of this all. I get into the room with the lady and she asks me if I want the normal or the "vajazzle," to which I BURST OUT laughing. Apparently they have an extra added service where if you wanna have a good laugh you can get decorated with gemstones. Because diamonds are now essential to the experience....? After that I really just couldn't stop laughing. I mean seriously. How comfortable would that be?!

Ok so back to where I was going with this before I thought about vajazzleeeee...I guess I have been a little messy with my life lately. I seem to be in so many places at once and kind of a whirl of emotions and feelings and activities. There has just been so much going on that I guess I'm not really quite sure how to process it all between the pace of my academics going so quickly this semester--not that i'm complaining (I am keeping up just fine)--and so many changes in the social atmosphere here and the people i'm hanging out with and the new acquaintances I'm making. I'm going to, however, have to take this week to turn into a robot and function at design capacity. At 10 PM on Thursday night I will resume my human functions when I walk out of the midterm with a bottle of tequila. And yes. I am taking the tequila TO my midterm so I can commence the drinking immediately after. And yesterday a pact was made between Ashwin, Vishal, Simoni, and me, in which the two boys will be waiting outside the building with lime and salt at 10 PM and begin the festivities with us. This is going to be an epic weekend. Thursday night will be the annual CORE post midterm drunkfest. This will be followed by datenight and the annual FTKD welcome to the team newbies drunkfest on Friday. This will be followed by PARTYBUS time on saturday with stops at all my favorite clubs in Boston for Shinjini's 21st birthday. Followed by MY 21ST BIRTHDAY FESTIVITIES commencing Sunday night at either Btav or An Tua Nua....haven't decided yet...and then leading where the night takes us. Like I said. All I have to do is be a robot between now and Thursday night and then I have all the fun I could ever hope for waiting for me.

As for life? good. busy. I dunno how people do it in the real world. Hemal and I were having a conversation last night about this-it is amazing that more people do not go into a depression when they graduate from college and leave the student setting. My life revolves around sutdying, yes, but I am constantly surrounded by friends. There is not an hour of the day I have to be alone if I do not want to be. I can always walk across the street to Simoni and Ankias, Riyas, the guys, or any other number of my friends places and hang out. And the door is always open. What happens when I have to leave them all and go out into the real world where I really am all alone? Who will I find to handle all of my absurdity and dumb noises and sillyness? Hahahaha. Hopefully there will always be someone there to be silly with :) Things tend to work out like that.

Radhi