Update Time!

I have no idea why, but I feel like updating this mostly forsaken blog tonight. I'll chalk it up to playing way too much Zelda and not feeling sleepy (which is a pretty shitty idea given that I have to be up early tomorrow to go see a doctor. Alas).

So I've graduated. I have two degrees now, which is incredibly baller. It still makes me smile when I look at my transcript and see two categories for degrees conferred (for those of you who don't know, I went balls to the wall in my undergrad and graduated with a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania). My best friend Eric and his girlfriend Amanda managed the same thing. It's a pretty cool club to be part of.

Speaking of Eric and Amanda, a bunch of the old MSE crew went to Amanda's shore place last weekend to hang out/hit the casinos. Amusingly enough, no one hit the casino to gamble (we just went to a bar where I almost punched a drunken moron. I'm sure he was president of his fraternity at some point [eye roll]). But it was a really fun time. My ridiculous tolerance once again manifested, but we were all gone enough to decide to go jump in the ocean at 3 AM. In case you've never done this, it can be really fucking scary. The water is pitch black, the beach is pitch black, and if you have no glasses on (like I did) everything's blurry to boot. Thankfully, my white friends are more or less fluorescent in the moon light, so I had something to go off of. Chase this with a couple of stogies on the beach, and you have a pretty fantastic gents night out (Amanda was there too, but she sat out most of the ridiculousness).

I've got less than two weeks before I leave for France. I'm not sure if I'm excited, terrified, or kinda ambivalent about the whole thing. I'm leaning excited. I know a couple of the other kids who are going, I've looked up the swing dancing info in France, and I really am expecting this to be a perfect interlude between the doing-absolutely-nothing that has been my summer vacation (well really, that's a lie. I've been dancing so much it's likely criminal), and the ridiculousness that will be a PhD at Princeton. I have to take classes in France, meaning I do have to actually wake up early, but I figure that should be fine once I get used to it. Words cannot express how awesome I expect this to be.

I really wish I could channel my swing confidence off of the dance floor though. There was this girl sitting alone at the bar when we went to AC, and Tarun was trying really hard to get me to go and chat her up. I just couldn't work up the initial cojones though, and by the time I had, she was gone. I'm going to make it a goal to chat up at least one girl I don't know at each social gathering I end up. Hopefully that, paired with my diet and exercise, will turn some results.

In either case, I'm starting to feel sleepy now, so I'll close off here. I'll try to intermittently update this while I'm in France, though I may just make a new blog for the time that I'm there. I'll let you guys (all 0 of you) know.