Girls' weekend

After several month of planning, this past weekend some of my oldest friends and I had a UNC mini-reunion!  My junior year roommate from Granville, Laura, was gracious enough to volunteer the use of her family's amazing beach house near Beaufort.  She, Sara, Erika, Shelly and I met up in Goldsboro and caravanned down for a long-overdue weekend of relaxation.

I think the dolphins we saw in the sound right after we arrived were a good omen for a wonderful weekend.  The weather was lovely, and the company could not have been better.  We all had such a great time -- reminiscing, laughing, and catching up.

The plan is for us to hopefully do this again semi-annually, if not annually.  Certainly not once a decade!  That's just far too long between visits, and as Laura said, we'd all be in menopause the next time we got together! 

A little Ben Folds Five story

Jon and I are sitting around tonight playing our respective games (me: Civ, him: hockey), and Ben Folds Five comes on the iPod player. That got me thinking....

One time, back in college, must have been my sophomore or junior year, I was hanging out with Erika and Jenny maybe? I'm not sure who was there, b/c there was some drinking going on.

Anyway, we were in my dorm room, hanging out and drinking and listening to Ben Folds Five. Ben Folds was from Chapel Hill, where I went to school. I got the bright idea to pull out my phone book and see if his name was listed, which it wasn't.

Then I had the even brighter idea to look up the names of the other two guys in the band. Robert Sledge wasn't listed...but Darren Jessee was.

And then, in what was my brightest idea of all that night, I decided to call him.

Oh yes I did. At about 2 in the morning.

I had no idea what I was going to say if he picked up the phone.

He didn't answer, but his machine did. And I proceeded to leave a long, rambly, slurred message about how much I loved Ben Folds Five and I wasn't a stalker or *anything* like that, along with my phone number.

Needless to say, Darren Jessee never called me back.

Let's go, Tarheels!

Really, there was no logical reason we won that game last night. We were down, what, 15 at the half? Hansbrough barely touched the ball all night? No.logical.reason.

Now we have to play Georgetown tomorrow night, and Jon and I will both be at work during the game. Ugh. Lots of refreshing of the box score will be going on.

I'll be hitting the refresh button tonight too, for the Canes game. I really wish we were playing someone other than San Jose. We'll see.