9/26/08-9/30/08

Friday started off slow, after a very long day on Thursday and the lack of sleep from Wednesday night we pretty much slept Friday away. We got up and went to Tesco to buy supplies for the night, which featured Jake's 21st birthday at midnight. 21 is not a big deal in Ireland because the drinking age is 18, but I wanted to make sure to do it up big for him. So I bought some Jager and energy drinks and we headed back to the apartment to eat dinner. After dinner we started drinking to prepare to hit the pubs. Some people came over to hang out and drink with us and we had fun. We decided we weren't going to catch the 12:30 LUAS home and instead take a taxi, this was a great decision. We went to this pub off Grafton Street called the Porterhouse, it was cool because it had its own microbrews. I tried to get girls to dance with Jake saying, "It is his birthday, dance with him!" Sadly this failed to work so instead we just drank and danced with ourselves, which was productive because there were girls with us. It turned into a pretty late and awesome night, I think it was fitting of Jake's 21st.
After the night we had on Friday we all slept in on Saturday and just hung out. I bought ESPN360 which led to me spending my day watching college football, it was very therapeutic. We were just going to hang out at the apartment, but we ended up going over Sarah, Nellie and Holly's apartment late on Saturday night to watch some football. We were pumped because Penn State's game against Illinois was being broadcast live on TV that night. I was finally going to get to see my boys play. I was in awe of the white house and it made me miss Penn State pretty bad. I just wanted to be there, especially with how well they played (I think there are legit National Title hopes this year!). It was a great game and the offense looked spectacular, Illinois is a legit team and unless we have any mental lapses I think were going to go undefeated. After the game I headed back to my place to go to sleep, it was great to see some football.
I woke up on Sunday and just read up on the news online, along with getting my fantasy team ready, I knew I wasn't going to be going out because I wanted to save money. Life is expensive, and with Jake's birthday it was even more so than normal. Since I am going to Amsterdam this weekend I wanted to save up so I can fully enjoy my experience there. So I spent Sunday watching some TV shows online (I watched the entire season of Undeclared, I am pretty proud of myself, it was hilarious) and hanging out with my roommates. Sadly that is how I also spent my Monday, sans going to Tesco. Dundrum is so far away from the city center which is the cowards way out of not doing anything. So along came Tuesday, during which I did substantially more. Then the previous couple days combined! I got up and got all pretty and headed to Saint Stephen's Green which is where the European Business School is (my Tuesday afternoon law class). I got there early so I went to the Saint Stephen's Green shopping center (its like a mall) and made the great decision of buying a DVD player for our TV. As I write this post I am watching Animal House!!!! I went to class which was interesting, then walked with Jake to Subway and then the IES center for our 4:30 class. We had about a hour to kill so we just hung out in the basement, class was interesting, but I have to do a presentation about Ian Paisley in about a month, after reading his biography (I despise Ian Paisley) so I am bummed about this assignment. The class is cool except that I am not done until 7 pm. Jake, Derrick and Brian are all in my class so the commute home (its such a long commute) isn't that bad. We stopped at Tesco where I bought some bread from my delicious breaded chicken and spaghetti with sauce dinner! I'm going to spend the rest of my night watching Animal House and hanging out with the Besties.