this weekend was a pretty busy one for me. no idle sitting waiting for the cows to come home this weekend. no siree, bob.

it all started with shirley’s hawaiian bbq. it was pretty fun to go out and meet new people and just have a good time. i had a few drinks at the constant behest of trang and shirley. shirley’s first challenge was “you aren’t going to let a little girl outdrink you, are you?” to which my reply could only have been, “i have no problem with that.”

but still, between her and trang, i knew that it was going to be a bit of a drinking night. not too bad though, i got a little warm, quite flushed, and a little silly, but not to the point where i got sleepy. alcohol for me is much like a sleeping pill. if taken in excess, i start to get quite drowsy and mellow. it does none of that liquid fearlessness that i hear about. it doesn’t do anything to make me less uninhibited. no, it just makes me sleepy.

one of the things that i told myself long, long ago was that i would never drink myself to the point where i would not be able to remember what it was that i was doing. my college roommate used to go booze it up all the time. apparently he was quite the character when he was drunk, but otherwise was a pretty mellow guy. but to have fun, he needed to drink. and i think that’s where i draw the line. i don’t want to have to drink to have fun, but i can definitely have fun while having drinks.

but anyway, the party was a lot of fun, i was able to meet some people and i learned some new things about some people that i already knew. it seems that i’m meeting more and more of the berkeley aphio gang through these parties. it’s almost as if i knew them with all the connections drawn out here and there.

because of the hawaiian theme, i made spam musubi for the party. i was afraid that it might not have been met with as much excitement as i had hoped, but it seemed that people ate it up and one guy seemed to really enjoy it quite a bit. i also made miso salmon which i don’t think was finished up, so that must clearly mean something about spam musubi and how good it is.

sunday was spent playing volleyball. first in the park and then later in the evening at JACL. i’m not sure if i will do the double volleyball play thing. it’s a lot of volleyball and i’m not sure if my ankle is really ready to take that kind of wear just yet.

there’s a big break for JACL now. i think it’s something like 3 weekends off, so i think that i’m going to have to find something to do on those sundays now. maybe i’ll have a sunday dinner. i haven’t had one of those in a long while.

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