A Ruined Latte Ruined My Night

I clearly stated that I wanted a Vanilla Latte with only half the usual Vanilla. For some reason they made it with the regular amount (way too much) and only half the espresso.

Idiots!

Now its got twice the sweetness with no bitter to cut through it.

I want to complain but Java City is all the way downstairs, and it seems like a lot of work. So maybe my night is just ruined. Ugh.

A Series of Unfortunate Events

Friday night was sort of a parade of accidents that kept sort of turning out fine.
Background: Dana is up visiting from ATL. JD and Melissa plan to join us for some fun.

Unfortunate Event 1: Abby, Dana and JD try to go to Sonic for dinner. Some downed power lines have traffic in Anderson backed up for blocks. Three lanes are condensed to one with no direction whatsoever. Anderson's finest were just sort of standing around doing nothing.

U.E. 2: As it turns out Abby and Dana don't actually know where the Sonic is.

Redemption: JD has a hunch about the location of Sonic. We bravely turn off the beaten path and charge through the middle of nowhere. Miraculously there is a Sonic. My friends Phil and Greg show up and hang out with us.

U.E. 3: After dinner we stop by my room to grab a sweater and then head downtown. We walk all the way down the big hill and I realize I forgot my license. We trek all the way back up and all the way back down and when we get to Nick's they don't even card me.

Redemption: I did get a delicious Yuengling

U.E. 4: Melissa calls us at Nick's to tell us her car won't start. We abandon our revelry to save her. We walk all the way back up the hill to Dana's car, drive out to her and spend an hour trying to get the Kia going. No luck.

Redemption: After giving up on the car we drive out to Bloom's to try and make up for the tragedy. There we make our own six packs (3) and get a bottle of Sake. We also order a pizza for good measure. We go to Melissa's and play Trivial Pursuit 90's edition as a drinking game. We finally decide to call it quits at almost 5am and crash on Melissa's floor (well, not me, I slept in her bunk bed, but the boys had to sleep on the floor.)

U.E. 5: We all get up after less than 5 hours of sleep. Things to do.

Redemption: After hauling the battery to the car place, we find out all Mel's car needs is a new battery.

So lots of bad-ish things happened, but we managed to spin them all for the best.
-Abby

The Country of Italy Loses it Charm

You know how sexy foreign accents are? How many movies have we seen when the girl falls in love with a mysterious, exotic man whose english is atrocious. We all love it. The time of day sounds like sweet nothings with the right accent.

Well, I have found the way to break this trend. If you no longer desire to become lovesick at the sound of an accent, simply follow these instructions: Have an Italian lecture about thermodynamics.

Today was the first day that our actual thermo professor, Dr. Massa, of Italy, did our lecture. And for the first 15 seconds while he gave his intro about 'speak up if you have questions' and 'stop me if you get confused', I went ahead and swooned. Then he started putting that accent on words like 'heat transfer', 'energy balance equation' and 'constant pressure vs. polytropic processes'. Just like that he killed it. Suddenly Italian-English was just the same as Korean-English and Indian-English. Not sexy at all. Its just the sound of a person who is much smarter than you trying to explain things you will never understand.

Way to kill the fantasy, Dr. Massa.