The traumas and tribulations of living at home. And just for the summer!!! My mom got home from work and saw that I had a huge pile of STUFF in my sister\’s room. STUFF that I intended to pack, but was just sitting in a huge pile. She had a fit. Not to mention, both of my parents have been on my case about getting home really late at night. About 1 am or later for the last week. Considering how when I was in high school, I was antisocial and went home straight from x-country practice or peer tutoring…yeah. Note, the garage and my bedroom are on the other side of the house. However, the shower (I MUST TAKE A NIGHTLY SHOWER BEFORE I SLEEP or I feel all unclean and can\’t sleep as well as I would) is in my parents\’ \”suite\”. I can\’t use the one that\’s near my room for \”cleaning\” purposes. Sigh. I am leaving in 4 days though…

But my going away party pictures! A big thank you to everyone who came! Especially those who were able to find the place themselves. :) And a slap on the wrist for those people who could make it but flaked because they were too intimidated by the fact that they didn\’t know anyone. And a bigger smack for those who WENT to another party instead of mine! *cough* And now for the LIST of events (guilt trip for people who missed out):

Norman telling me right after I send the evite to him…that he won\’t go because he won\’t know anyone except me even though I had asked him three times prior…GRRRR

Shinelun never responding to my e-mails, phone calls, and ims.

Karen and Thomas calling me separately around 10:30 reminding me to bring things from home. I tell Karen that I don\’t think I have butter…then when I go downstairs, my mom reminds me sternly that she has a full kitchen. I swipe a whole bag of parsley, potatoes, butter, chicken, Chinese cooking wine, black pepper, punch bowl, huge pot, paper plates…

Franctically preparing our salmon pasta and fruit salad about 2 hours before the party started

Karen \”freaking out\” by the fact that I brought Chinese cooking wine (whoops) and me driving all the way to Chris\’ place to get two bottles that got used up for non-cooking purposes later…

Many people were confused by the fact that the party was hosted by yours truly and two of my friends (I am going to CMU, Karen is going to MIT, Thomas is going to UCSB)

Using my laptop to play music on the DELL speakers I jacked from work, realizing that LOTR soundtrack is not appropriate music for a party and Kyle switching to Robert Miles for 5 hours straight

Misplacing my phone, my purse, and my digicam more than 10 times in one night

Almost putting up a sign that said \”Party –>\” but deciding against it when a guy rode up to us on a bike and asked if we were interested in mango-flavored weed; we ignored him and I muttered \”oh that\’s the bad thing…\”

No cellular reception (especially Cingular) in Thomas\’ house

But my cellphone kept ringing…I never knew I was that popular; Kathy asked me at one point WHO I was so desperately waiting for…

Making 3+ trips to drive people up – I am never doing this again

KINNSEY the guy who hit on me at CKC last Tuesday did not show up; people made fun of me as a result of my dismay

Dimas and Vikas made some (lame) dirty jokes about computers and usb keys. You wouldn\’t think they would.

Having Noah walk all the way from BART to his apt on Southside all the way up Euclid to the party

Hearing the I have only known you for 5 days and you guilt-tripped me into coming into the party omg you took me to the bart and now I feel obligated to go blaaaaah

Kyle can…talk to anyone!!!

Shong\’s magnificient ability in chopping wood. Big question by everyone – \”why is he chopping wood?\” the answer – \”because he can.\”

Spiked punch. I had only a sip because I was drivingggg and also I don\’t drink. Not that it made a difference by the end of the night since I was so tired by then.

People wanted to kidnap me to go to game night initially

I ditched my own party for Rescomp Game Night for about 2 hours

No, nobody can convince me to go to Cody\’s party unless Kevin Fox is for certain there

Seeing the lovey dovey biting interaction of Sean and his gf when I mentioned that the \”RAs were too good to sit with rescomp at the DC\” – awwww how cute!

I really don\’t talk that much

Ratio of guys to girls at the party = 7 to 1; mostly because I invited rescomp people and my friends invited engineers; majority of people who didn\’t go were coincidentially neither rescomp or engineers

Over 37 people RVSPed, but more than 40+ showed up; approximately 15 people declined, the majority of wich were people I had invited and were…girls

Cliff calling me and denying that he knows Chris – what\’s up with that

Chris (HAH, WHICH ONE?) spent 30 minutes trying to get a picture with me – this is called dedication :)

Presence of 4 Chrises and 3 Thomases

Receiving lovely French wine from Pat

Kyle made me a necklace out of puka shells. It\’s blue how did he know my favorite color!

Kathy\’s stylin\’ blue \”purses\”

Why did people keep writing in the middle of my book rather than chronological order?! *cough* vikas, chris, dimas.

Kathy didn\’t seem that happy that I was using her pens to have people sign my book when I still have yet to sign hers!

Using my FREE dell speakers to play music at the party through my powerbook, people couldn\’t figure out how to use my computer because i had turned the brightness down and they got confused

Strawberries got mold. :(

Shong\’s MOSFET cake, that not many people understood…

One guy Anthony (who I haven\’t spoken to since freshman year) still believes I hate him. I never did.

Jonathan is the only person that knows Thomas, Karen and me

LAM LAM LAM LAM LAM LAM…

People dragged out two TVs next to each other to play dreamcast and Xbox. Where waas the ps2 and the gamecube???

Yup, I don\’t play games

When arriving at the game night, a few people who I had invited apologized immediately for not going to my party.

Several people accompanied me in the CA area because the multiplayer version of Doom 3 looked…uh idiotic or maybe I don\’t see how killing other people in a game really increases bonding

Visiting Kyle\’s suite which is completely empty…I loved the layout of his room plus his desktop LEDs…yeah!

Meeting Stephanie the new (GIRL) rcc again

Watching Vikas play a ripped/cracked version of Madden 2004 purchased (legally) from India by his family

He was the only one playing because he only plays sport video games. He also only watches sports and no other TV shows (well I think he does watch Simpsons?) Not to mention, he also eats and drinks sports. He swings his arms like swinging a bat during the baseball season and mimicks a basketball throw during the b-ball season every five minutes. ESPN sportscenter or FOX center with 10,000 screens anyone?

It really seemed like there were two parties going on like in the same place, same food, because my people didn\’t really mingle with the rest of the engineers…my people stayed around the food table while everyone else sat on the couches…

I really don\’t care enough about my cellphone

Angie bringing her almond jello!!!

Noah is evidently a heavy sleeper (for almost 2 hours) because he barely moved while we vacuumed around him and cleaned up the table/counter.)