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First off, I was re-reading my last post. yea.... that doesn't sound exactly as it should. Every time I say, "I don't remember this, I don't remember that night," it is solely because of my horrible memory. It has nothing to do with alcohol. Most of you know this, but I don't drink.

With that being said, What a weekend!!

Thursday:

Long day of classes and meetings and this and that. It was late thursday night and I was on the phone with amanda. She was talking about how her roommate, ashley, would have her boyfriend up for the weekend. For some reason, I came up with the idea that I could maybe arrange to pick her up from UVA for the weekend and bring her down here to Tech. We could see each other, and it would give her roommate and bf some space. Well, I imed Andrew to see if he might be interested in a spontaneous road trip. At first he was like.... "eh, I dunno man." But all of a sudden he changed his mind and was like yea let's do this. So I tell amanda the plans (we would leave Tech around 4pm Friday afternoon, pick her up, then head straight back to tech). She was fine with that, so we decided to give it a shot. Oh yea, Andrew plays into this because he has a car at school and I don't. He was willing to just drive there and back twice this weekend just so Amanda and I could see each other. What a friend. I went to bed.

Friday:

I woke up and went to statics. I decided to skip physics because I completely forgot that I had to read about 50 pages of my English book by 1:25. I figured it was a friday physics class that wouldn't get much covered. I came back to my dorm room and read the 50 pages in like 20 min. I was so mad. It was 50 pages... but they were these very brief poem things. I was mad that I could have gone to physics... oh well. So I cleaned my room and did some laundry so that Amanda wouldn't be too disgusted when she got to Tech (not to say that she wasn't anyways). I tried my best. David and Derek got back from class and I was still cleaning. I told them about my plans for the weekend and David gave me this look like... "dude, how is that going to work?" And I explained everything and he was like "dude... you know its supposed to snow 6-10 inches this weekend... how are you going to work around that?" And I was like WHAT snow?!? what the heck man. So then I immediately started looking up the weather and all... yea... they were calling for some serious snow. But all the places I looked contradicted each other - they all had different predictions. So after a day of debating whether we should take the risk of bringing her down here, we decided to go on with the plans (it was risky because we didnt want her to get snowed in on sunday and not be able to get to classes on monday morning- that's the last thing I wanted to have happen). Andrew and I left around 5 or so to find his car in the cage... yea... it took us a good 20 min or so of walking around aimlessly to find his car. We didn't really get on the interstate until like 5:30-5:45. It was a pretty quick trip.... ok just kidding. So I got us lost on the way going into UVA and we added a good 20 min to our trip. My bad. So we picked up Amanda :-D and started back for Tech. After another 2.5 hours or so, we were back. We actually made pretty good time.
Once we got back to Tech, we chilled out for a few min, then I went around the dorm and introduced Amanda to all of my friends. I think she liked them. I know they all liked her (they all mentioned it after she left about how great she is- I know this :-) ). After that, we went to Dx so that I could have some dinner. We spent the rest of the evening hanging out and stuff around the dorm.

Saturday:

We woke up early cause I can never sleep in late as you recall. It pretty much started snowing when we woke up. We went to Owens for a breakfast/lunch after waking up and everything. After that, we hung around the dorm for a while I think. Then, I took Amanda to the breakzone to play some pool. She hadn't played much before, so I showed her my horrible rendention of the rules of the game and we played a game. They were having a tournament at the same time and I felt like everyone was watching us to see our skill level and all. We left after a game. It's too bad that I didn't have my access to the ware lab yet (haha - because I was always too lazy to go get the swipe card) because I would have liked to show amanda around that stuff and everything. She would have liked that. Alas, I didn't have the access, so I couldn't show her. We went to a very early dinner at West End so that I could show her the place before it wasn't too incredibly crowded. We got some pasta and stuff... it was ok. The pasta just didnt taste that great. Oh well, so west end didn't demonstrate its superiorty to the other places to eat that night. I think amanda still liked her food enough to actually eat it all :-) We got back and waited around here for a while until everybody else got back from dinner.
Then....

SLEDDING!!!

Man it was awesome. A whole bunch of us- andrew, me, amanda, derek, casey, dan, jason, jason, abby, david, and andy- all went. I may have left a few out- i don't remember. We all went over to the honors dorms and used our cheapo 4 bucks from walmart sleds. They worked quite well actually. It was such a fun time. The only problem was that there was this giant tree in the middle of the sledding path. I think all of us had at least one very close encounter with this tree. We would go down by ourselves, but we also started going down in groups of 2-8 or so people. Haha it was so awesome being in this long line of sleds all linked together by our feet. That's when the tree really became a problem because some people wouldn't let go of the people in behind them... yea that was scary at times. But we picked up good speed. I had a great time. I think amanda did too, so that was good. "Who doesn't have a good time sledding." :-)

We did that for a while, then came back to the room and we were exhausted. We hit the hay.

Sunday:

We woke up and Andrew came knocking on our door to see if we were ready to head back to UVA. We definitely were still in our pajamas and stuff haha. So we took a few minutes to get reayd and all and went on our way down the highway. It was a nice trip to Charlottesville and we didn't get lost this time... haha. We dropped amanda off :-(

After that, Andrew and I stopped for some subway. Man, we were hungry. We both realized we were wearing VT clothes and stuff when we got in there. We were like oh man... thats funny. We totally did not do that intentionally. We both got huuuge subs and huuuge drinks. I was mainly thirsty, but we were both hungry from not having any breakfast or lunch. Haha.. so we got in the car and ate our food as we headed back to blacksburg. Haha it was definitely a guy kinda moment. We were like....aaaah food... yum and made a huge mess and everything. It was hilarious. So after that we made it back to Tech in very good time (cause andrew was going about 80 mph) haha. we were like "dude its 81 miles to roanoke.... that's only one hour!!! Haha... it was funny (you had to be there). So we got back to Tech around 4:15 and I took a few minutes to talk to amanda before I started on my load of homework. I had a lot of work to do, but I worked really hard and got it all done in pretty good time. Jill called me around 12 for some trig help since her exam was the next day. I tried helping her on the phone for a while but I still had some homework to do, so I had to go. I got off the phone and felt bad for not helping her enough, so I just made a big review study guide thing for her instead of doing my homework. I hope it helped her. I'm not sure how well she did on the exam. I guess we'll see.

If you just read all of that mess, you are awesome. It was such a great weekend :-)

Good day.