The end of Student Month

So that's why all the students left at noon yesterday, though with no activities planned, just "Go Home Early Day." I spent the afternoon catching up on correcting papers.

I also took papers home to correct, which I did after eating cedric's quiche with ham and cheese inside whilst having a beer and screaming along with the radio and banging on my desk with my fists (I was excited about hump day).

It was supposed to be a regular hump day, go out around ten, be back by one. alas, it was not so. we left at only 11, and after a while of beer and dancing at Memelis we were ready for anything.

An older man, quite stout in the stomach region, got up from the table next to us and started taking off his sport coat, preparing to hit the dance floor, when suddenly instead he hit the regular floor with his face. taking his coat off was too much for this drunk bastard; he almost had it, but right at the end he toppled over, taking two chairs and an adjacent table with him.

the efficiency of the waitress was remarkable. with exactly zero hesitation she sprinted down the stairs to get a couple guards. the guy was still on the floor when they arrived. he could not get up at all. his buddies had given 20 lits to the guys at the other table to pay for their drinks. the guards dragged him out while he argued some surely ridiculous point, one of his friends helping him argue and trying to call somebody for assistance. it was quite exciting.

more dancing, and cedric talked to a french teacher from KL University. the guy told him that because of student day the place to be tonight was global, a club we'd never been to but had intended on visiting. we were drunk enough to make the trip.

first, though, we had to finish our beers. and one last good song came on, so i got up to dance, and so did cedric--or tried to anyway. as he got up he put so much weight on the table that it tipped over taking him and our beers with it. being the close friend that i am, i pretended not to know him. i kept an eye out in case he needed an interpriter, but he cleaned things up fast enough that nobody bothered him.

we walked to global (20 minutes or so) and had a beer on the way. we talked about various things that to me were totally funny and to him were totally disgusting but sort of funny at the same time.

global was good. ten lits to get in (five for students), but the beer was only five lits, with is good for a club. there were two dance halls, one playing techno and the other paying pop, like M1 style. rather crowded though, but not so much that it sucked.

we danced alot and *almost* picked up women a couple times. since i enjoy dancing all by itself that's okay. we drank several more beers, turned into inebriates, and left unknowingly about to behold the most beautiful thing possible: it was snowing!

we couldn't believe it, it was gorgeous, it was grand. i shouted about it all the way down janonio gatve. i think several people we passed recognized us as winos, but this did not diminish our fantastic mood. this was only the third time in cedrics life that he had seen snow.

we got in a minibus that took us only to the end of our street, leaving us half a kilometer to walk. the snow was still beautiful, but now it was cold and combersome (if you're drunk) to walk though. so for this entire walk home i tried hailing several cabs to drive us to the end of the block, but none stopped.

finally hit the sack at 3:45. My alarm went off at 7:00, and now it was my turn to knock something over. in my hast to turn it off, i tumbled over a chair doing a summersault while holding the chair. i laid on of the ground for a bit, unable to comprehend what was going on.

but i made it to work on time-ish.