Last night was interesting. Dinner at Valerie’s was good, but it was weird to be at a dinner party with a dozen people when I only knew two of them. That kind of thing always makes me feel dumb. Anyway, I was amused to find that “parties” here are like “parties” at Tech — at some point, someone always manages to find an excuse to look something up on the computer, or talk about classes.
After a few hours the party degenerated into one of those “half of us will sit bored on the couch while pretending to enjoy watching the other half swing dance” events. I can only watch people dance for so long before I start to get tired of it, so I left. I had really wanted to go to the Mausoleum party to check it out, but everyone at Valerie’s seemingly forgot about it, so I rode my bike over there to check it out alone. It was ok. I saw a couple people there that I knew, other Aero/Astro students, but I didn’t stay long. After I left I just rode my bike around campus for a long time. I am really enjoying my bike.
I was supposed to go to the football game today, but Valerie wasn’t feeling well and though I could have called Tico, I didn’t. I dunno, I just didn’t feel like football, unless it was at Georgia Tech with my Harris crowd. Anyway, I can hear occasional cheers through my open window, and I’ve heard the train whistle blow a few times, so hopefully Stanford is playing at least decently.
Think I’m gonna go run some errands.
(4:31 p.m.)
Yeah, yeah, I should’ve gone to the game. Stanford won big — we beat No. 5 UCLA by ten.
I was headed home when Iffy and Alex called, and so I talked to them for a while. It’s funny how Harris people can always just pick up where they left off. I enjoyed talking to them, even if they did distract me and I ended up getting temporarily lost in Santa Clara. Eventually I just headed for the hills, knowing I’d run into the highway at some point.
It’s overcast here today, which made me realize that I don’t know if there has been even a single overcast day since I got here. I have only seen it rain here once, and that only lasted for a few minutes. But now we are approaching November, and people who have been here for a while tell me that the rainy season will soon be here and the weather will get yucky for a few months. I bet a lot of people get the winter blues here, if all it ever does from November to March is rain.