Burned the midnight oil last night finishing up a presentation board for the ASUC w/ Rebecca. But today was not a day for sleeping in. I woke up bright and early for Calapalooza, ready to recruit eager new Freshmen. I was met by Brett on the lawns of Memorial Glade, where we schmoozed with the various campus community organizations. I ran into a lot of hallmates from last year (yay!). As lunchtime rolled around, Brett and I cruised into the Asian Ghetto, scavenging for food. We settled on Japanese food (hey, I wanted rice!) and had a nice meal and break away from work.

After lunch, we strolled back to Calapalooza, where I found Teresa. FYI: Teresa (my roommate from last year, and perhaps one of THE best roommates in the world, next to Zairel, of course) will be the new Sex on Tuesdays' columnist! I think I'm more excited than she is! Brett and I finally parted our separate ways, while Teresa and I continued to admire all the different tabling groups, with the company of Paul and Derek.

As soon as Calapalooza was over, I called Caleb, who was kind enough to drive me around for the day. We ended up taking a nice scenic route to go pick up my free concert tickets. (Yay, Dan Miller!) The place was so freakin' ghetto that we kept missing it. But FINALLY, with tickets in my hand, we headed over to Whole Foods Market where Caleb picked up some lunch. He actually trusted me to drive Constantine while he ate!!!! I managed to maneuver the car over to IKEA by following commands barked out by Caleb from the passenger side. IKEA was fun; Caleb spent nearly 15 minutes trying to decide if he wanted to buy a catcus plant for his room! We rummaged around some more and ended up only purchasing a nice quilt for his full-sized bed.

After freshening up, we reconvened, this time with Paul, Ben, Caleb, and me, for dinner at Mel's. It was nice seeing Ben again, I hadn't seen him in ages! Despite the disappointing jukebox songs (I wanted Roy Orbison's "Pretty Woman"!) and the tasteless steak sandwich, dinner was very fun. Still dragging Ben along against his will, we went to go pick Gabs up from the Oakland airport after dinner. Driving at 2 mph off the freeway to get to Terminal 2, we finally met Gabby at baggage claim. The boys gave her grief over the issue of tipping. Hey, if the guy hit on her, why should she tip?! He got his tip just by staring at her amazing beauty. ;) Meanwhile, I received a random phonecall from a couple of the senators, passing the phone around, all pretending to be "Kris." ::very random:: I wonder what they were up to....

We finished off the night with a trip to Ghirardelli Square. (Check out Gabs' Blog.) All in all, it was a fun night. I think the boys were pretty pooped after all the festivities...

Random story of the day: Won tickets, picked up tickets, lost tickets, found tickets...

*See guys, told you I blog about you guys ALL the time!*