February 5, 2004
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…a fantasy weekend…
I went down to SoCal this weekend and had the time of my life! The past couple of weeks up here hadn’t been the best of times for me, so this past weekend was definitely something that I needed to rejuvenate me. I fly down Friday evening and met up with two of my old high school friends, Thery and Courtney, and then met up with Eric, John, and Jimmy to go clubbing. Jimmy and I did a little pre-club drinking and once we were all warmed up, we headed out to GAMeBoi to join Eric and John on the dance floor. The music was great as usual, and I had a blast just being able to chill and dance with my friends. I spent most of the night dancing with Jimmy, it was really nice. The evening went well and we all came back to Thery and Courtney’s apartment to have some late night spaghetti and didn’t wind up going to bed until like 5am, it was crazy, but sooo worth it!
Saturday was a pretty full day. Thery, Jimmy, and I went to The Grove–a posh outdoor mall kind of like 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica, but a little bit more yuppie-ish. Then we went to OutFest and saw my film screening. OutFest was fun, a lot of incredible films were shown and we got a pretty warm reception from everyone. We went to Buca di Beppo’s afterwards and had a huge family style dinner. The fried calamari was soooooo good! We were kind of undecided on what we were going to do afterwards–it was kind of a toss up between bowling and clubbing again, but in the end, it was neither. We went to Ralphs to buy some wine coolers and decided to go back to Thery’s place and play some drinking games. By the time we were all done, we had all passed out! LOL. I don’t really remember when, but at some point in the evening, I just fell asleep, and when I woke up, everyone had fallen asleep too. Anyhow, I spent the rest of the evening sharing a lounger with Jimmy; it was really comfy and felt really nice to be able to cuddle with someone again…
I woke up around 2pm today though, and really didn’t do anything. We all just chilled at the apartment until it was time for me to leave for the airport. Thery and Courtney drove me to the airport and we said our goodbyes. It was really sad because this was the best time I’ve had in such a long time–I soooo didn’t want to come back. UCLA isn’t all that bad. There are some genuine people out there, and I’m proud to be able to call them my friends. I’ve a lot of work to catch up on now, but it was all worth it!
