Well, instead of hitting up the three parties tonight like Em, I have decided to hole myself up in my room and have an introvert night. I have been astonishingly social so far this quarter, and I can't even begin to describe how proud I am of myself/weirded out by myself I am. Today was a veritable estrogen fest. I started out this morning by getting up early to go down to the music center and practice for a while before my ear-training and piano classes. My friend Katelyn came in, and we played Fiona Apple piano music together. Then after ear-training, Katelyn, Catherine, Maylan, and I were girly bonding. All of us (minus Maylan, cause she had RA duties) went to the College 8 dining hall for lunch. Oh, John H. came with us too, but he's not a girl. He's a super sweet guy, shy to the point of being painfully cute. We all talked about, you know, iii half-diminished 4/3 inverted 7th chords for a while.... and once the boy left, we talked about vegetarianism and sex. Yep. Once I got back to my room, Emily called and I went over to her room. I helped her with her Multivariable calculus for a while, then we went out for a girls-only sushi dinner at Pink Godzilla. Rachel, other Rachel, Sophia, Em and I had reserved one of the fancy rooms where you take off your shoes and sit on the floor. We had a spectacular dinner. After driving downtown and searching for parking for about a half-hour, we got some Coldstone. I can't do coldstone. I've re-discovered that, no matter how much I like the IDEA of coldstone, the actual product... i'm not so down with. The first few bites are like, orgasmically good. Then, I just get over it and want nothing to do with it anymore. Then Em and I went back to her room to just chill and chat. By the way, in case it's not terribly terribly obvious, I LOVE EMILY. Love Love Love.

So yes. Today is the most time I've spent with girls since 9th grade. I shit you not. I had such bad experiences with groups of girls throughout my life, that I sort of avoided them for years. I just had a couple close girl-friends, and pretty much the rest of them were dudes. Dudes were just safer. But I really enjoyed myself today. When we finished eating, Sophia and Rachel started singing NSYNC's "Pop", and when I joined in for the "It doesn't matter" chorus, it was really fucking loud and we laughed long and hard (and probably scared all the restaurant patrons) and continued singing until all of us girls were singing. Em said: "see, THIS is why I love girls-only dinners!" and I couldn't have said it better myself. I honestly really have missed bonding with girls, and it has taken until now to realize it. I still love my boys, but you know. You can only talk about vibrators with your girls.

Sorry about that long recap, but I felt the need to share it. I just enjoyed myself so much. And if you're reading this Sophia, I have to say that singing Backstreet Boys downtown with you was damn fun. You're great.

Speaking of Backstreet Boys, I managed to download the "The Hits: Chapter 1" album of theirs... and I listened through the whole thing the other night while laying in bed, thinking, and staring at my ceiling. I seriously felt like I was 13 again. Except my ceiling at home has cool glow-in-the-dark stars and my ceiling in my apartment bedroom is blank. And the things i was thinking about 2 nights ago were not as juvenile and asinine as the things I thought about when I was 13.

Well, I have an "Intensive Saturday" tomorrow. Orchestra rehearsal from 10-4. Not exactly the way I'd choose to spend my Saturday. But we're mostly focusing on the Schubert and Beethoven tomorrow, and since both those pieces are kick-ass, it shouldn't be bad.

Yep, that about does it. I really wish I could write about interesting stuff on LJ, but apparently, that is not possible for me.