Whoo to the Hoo

We know a little about a lot of things; just enough to make us dangerous. Dean Winchester

So some super exciting news (for me anyway) came in yesterday. The CW released a list of six of the shows that they are renewing for the fall, and my boy Jensen’s was one of them!!! : ) Yup that’s right, Supernatural is back for a fourth season, which weirdly enough I think is due in part to the writer’s strike. I can’t wait to hear about the fates of the other two shows I care about (Bones and House, which I think will both be renewed.)

Anyway on to slightly less trivial things lol. Yesterday was quite amusing. First of all I had my presentation on Polanski and The Fearless Vampire Killers for my film class. I think it went ok, we went after our professor and she had all the same information that we did, so hopefully we’ll get a decent grade.

After class I returned home and did some serious grocery shopping. I was thinking about going on a run, but then I looked outside and realized it was snowing/raining/hailing, so I revised my plan and opted to stay inside.

That night we wanted to go out on the town and settled on going to Paradiso. Sarah had heard that a really good DJ would be performing. Now that sounded good and all, but I really don’t know anything about the art of DJing, as my experiences with them have been limited to high school dances and ‘oh do you have the latest Britney Spears.’ But I was game.

We realized about the time we were ready to leave that the bus was coming in 5 minutes so we sprinted hard core out to the bus stop, only to the realize we were going to Leidseplein and needed to take the tram instead. However we didn’t have to wait long, so it worked out ok.

The only problem I have found with Amsterdam’s nightlife is that Europeans don’t dance. I had been super stoked for our plan to go hear a DJ and dance, but when we walked into the room everyone was just standing there. Bopping their heads every once in a while, but for the most part, still. Well, we would have none of that, and proceeded to make a minor spectacle of ourselves by dancing wildly in the middle of everyone. The DJ really was good, from what I could tell. He was funny too, a bit of a mook. Even though we were the only ones doing it, dancing was really fun as well. It’s something I look forward to doing more next year, even though Amanda and Angie probably will leave me high and dry (lol.) Anyway eventually his time was up, and another group took over after a wildly unique scratch off between the performers. It was interesting, more because I felt like I wouldn’t experience it many times in my life (being smack dab in the middle – literally – of a DJ battle) than because I could really tell who was better. However after the main DJ left (I mean really, apparently he’s like really famous in the DJing world) most of the people cleared out and in the end it was just our little group dancing on the floor and Tim and Nick looking on awkwardly. Eventually even they left and for about the last 10 minutes it was just Sarah, Christy, Alex and I and the DJs in the main room of Paradiso … it was pretty bad ass.

Anyway eventually the lights came on and we realized we should probably peace and headed home.

Today I woke up relatively late but justified it by the fact that I had gotten very little sleep the night before. I got ready for class, headed into PHK and made my way up to the designated classroom. Keep in mind, this is the class I’ve had one time (in the classroom – apart from excursions) and has been cancelled more times than I can remember. Well, you guessed it, after all of us had filed into the classroom and waited around for about ten minutes, an office worker came by to tell us, due to sickness of the lecturer the class was cancelled. Blarg.

So it looked like I had a free afternoon. I decided to wander over to find Dana’s hotel, so I could make it there easily tomorrow. It is in an awesome location and was super easy to find. I hope they make it there ok! I had about three hours before I had to meet Sarah, Tim, and Nick for our writing group (I’ll get to that in a second) so I decided to do what I do best – wander around and look at all the pretty. I found an awesome bookstore in the process that sells paperbacks for five euro, which is banging. I found some cool little side streets, but eventually made my way over to Singel around 2:30. I called Sarah and we ended up meeting up on the street. We made our way to the café, Greenwoods, which we had picked for our first meeting. We sat outside and shared a pot of tea and waited for the boys. At 3 (the designated meeting time btw) Tim called for directions, and called again at 3:20. At tops he should have been five mins away by this point. Sarah and I continued chatting, but every once in a while Sarah would look around and ask if we should be worried Tim hadn’t arrived. My standard response was, no if he can’t find the Singel it’s his own damn fault (lol.) Anyway, for all concerned, he eventually did, after cycling aimlessly for a while. Nick arrived shortly after because his class had run later than expected, not because he had gotten lost. And then our first meeting commenced. And it was interesting.

We stayed there until about 5:15, when Sarah had to leave for class. So after a productive day I decided to head on back to Funen.

So tomorrow kicks off Brianna’s crazy month, with Dana’s arrival. I’m very excited to see them and for them to see Amsterdam. I also am ridiculously stoked for Paris. But I know the week is going to fly by and then they’re going to leave and it will be sad … until I leave that Friday for Berlin and then it will just be crazy again.

My internet has been going crazy lately. Like it will stay on for like twenty minutes but then it will lose its connection – that’s kind of annoying, and also impedes my use of skype and or AIM just in case any one was wandering

Anyway, Dad I hope the ski trip was awesome!! I can’t wait to hear about it from Dana.

Stay tuned for some awesome tales about two sisters (plus Chris and Adam lol) in A’dam!

Much Love!

~ by Brianna on March 5, 2008.