Wonderful weekend most definitely. Well worth staying around for Saturday to see Penn State dominate Michigan State for the BigTen title. Came home yesterday afternoon and watched the Raiders offense wake up to rape the Donkeys. Today I went to Katz's and had some most awesome pastrami because thats the only way they do it. Hopefully get to see the jerks and other assorted significant people in my city life.

-Mikhail

I'm still coughing rather violently, needless to say it sucks ass. Anyway, so things are pretty cool right now. FInally got the nerve to start talking with this chick from downstairs in person instead of just leaving drunken notes on her board. I invited her to the hell party, but unfortunately she ended up elsewhere, but I got her number which is never a bad thing. So the hell party wasn't not very hellish at all. They had a band and a jungle juice that tasted like Robitussin and Milwaukee's Beast as my friend calls it. The only thing really hellish about it was its location all the way in carajoland. Saturday had its day set on being absolutely miserable. Rain all morning and through game time. It was hard rain, light rain, sideways rain, and another rain Forrest Gump could think of. Naturally after the game, it was pretty nice out, but later that night, very windy. I went to this chicks 21st and that was alright at best. Then went to my other friend's party which was better, definitely more happening, but until my escort left to go pick up her drunk roommates I wasn't there for much longer. Then I got pizza and on my way out and back to my place someone calls out "MIK!" and look across the street and its a couple of my bros! We caught up on things since initiation, mostly on how they got ritual down, but then we went to this party which was like the other two parties that night, alright. Home in a week!

-Mikhail

I've had this nagging cough for the past three nights and it sucks ass. I've made some good progress this week in just about everything. I'll try and go into detail whenever I'm not coughing my lungs up.

-Mikhail

Anytime things just feel like they're going to get bad they don't or something else compensates for that. Why I'm saying that is beyond me, especially since for the most part things have been going quite well. Last night I got quite fucked up, to the point of throwing up once I decided to call it a night. I really hate when that happens, but I did kind of ask for it by drinking that jungle juice. This morning I got my 2nd ever hangover, first since that second night of freshman year, and it was quite the killer. This definitely was not anything I needed this morning considering I was doing two games today at 12. I ate a bagel and drank some gatorade, but stomach was having a tough time agreeing, fortunately it did enough to not find my head in the toilet again. I get to the BJC a little late but so was everyone else. After we ran down the plans for the day, we got some food which is different from doing the soccer games in which the only compensation we got for that was the hot chocolate on that cold fuckin night (definitely won't complain about that). I felt pretty good by tip-off, which was good because it would have sucked to be throwing up on the court. This was a pretty cool experience overall, in that I hadn't gone to an actual basketball game in an arena and that my first experience was on the floor for a good portion of it, something surely most people don't ever do. Also what is good about doing basketball is since the Big Ten covers alot of basketball games we get to just do more b-roll stuff and things that will be shown on the JumboTron or in a highlight, which also means we don't get limited by the use of a tripod. Needless to say, guess who's pretty excited about watching home games for free (even better if they were really good this season...not likely though). After that I hung out with one of my floormates, even though we were really just supposed to be studying for our test Tuesday, but fuck that! It's been a while since I was able to just bullshit with someone and of course I'm someone that needs to do that.

-Mikhail