Saturday, Mar. 27, 2004

crazy night

so last night was one of the most surreal nights i've had since coming to AU. let me tell you about it.

ahh i love DC in the springtime . . . everything is verdant and blooming and the weather is just perfect. last night was one such perfect weather night. I went out with my roommates Micki and Sedira and their friend Fari; we were going to this GW campaign to end the death penalty fundraiser at this place called Singapore Bistro, this bar type place. Well we were walking around trying to find it, and i was soaking in the surroundings beautiful night, the blooming trees, flowers, what not . . . so micki and I were standing on the corner of connecticut and M street when i feel someone tugging at my back pocket . . . i swing around and this shady looking man is smiling at me. I said, excuse me???, and he replies something like, "You're excused . . . and you're looking quite lovely too!" So needless to say we run away. we catch up with sedira and fari who were possibly more mortified than i was.

Well we eventually found the place and it was kind of lame -- not really much to do and everyone there was from GW, so we just talked with a couple people we knew and then left to go to this bar called Café Servino or something like that in Dupont Circle. This place doesn't card you at the door, and Micky knows the owner and Fari says she goes there all the time, so i figured it would be okay. we sat down and everyone was ordering a mango martini or a chardonnay or what not, and of course, i am the only one who gets carded. so i just have to sit there and sneak sips of everyone else's drinks. yeah the story of my life . . .

so ANYWAY, what happens next is perhaps just retribution against the male gender for sexually harassing me earlier that night. so we finally got back to AU at around 2, and we forget to tell the bus driver to stop at ward circle, so we get off on campus. we're walking across the quad, and surprisingly, there are a lot of people out at 2am playing softball or what not. Micki really has to pee, so we say, here, just go in Kay, the door's open and the bathroom is right downstairs. so she goes and we wait for her outside. we are waiting . . . and i hear sedira say, "oh my god . . . they're taking of their clothes!" i look over and sure enough there are these two boys hiding behind a trash can stripping naked. then they take off running. We yell to micky to come and witness this, there are boys streaking across the quad!!!!!!! she runs up to see, and someone yells, take their clothes! so micky does just that. she runs over to the trash can, grabs all their clothes, runs with them, and throws them in the bushes. All the people on the quad start to applaud her and cheer. by this time the two boys are about finished making their rounds around the quad. And we don't want to stick around to find out what happens next -- i mean we were the ones guilty of taking their clothes! so we start to run fast away and back to our apartment to safety.

so . . .yeah. that is the story of perhaps the most interesting night i have had at AU.