Roommate Adventures

Today was the last day of classes, and it was absolutely heavenly. The last day of classes is always a special time, the brief calm before the storm of finals when you can relax a little before (theoretically) throwing yourself into the fury of studying. To commemorate this wonderful partial day off, Maren, Hanna, and I completely lost our minds.

First, we decided to watch Jurassic Park. However, when we turned on the TV, the channel it was on happened to be having a marathon of The Office, which of course we had to watch. We managed to tear ourselves away from Jim and Pam's cuteness after only two episodes and started the movie. I'd never seen Jurassic Park before, and was quite impressed with the quality of its special effects. Did you know it was made in 1993? That's practically a whole century ago the way technology has developed since then.

Anyways, after the movie, we went on a cleaning spree. For some reason, the filthiness of our apartment got to us (well, it's been getting to us for a while, but today we had time to do something about it). So Maren and Hanna unloaded and reloaded the dishwasher while I cleaned the table and straightened up the living room. This cleaning involved lots of laughter, nasty chunks of food, and human oreos. "Hanna, are you black? Because I'm black!"

Once that was finally out of our system, and the apartment was looking much more presentable (though I'm not sure it will ever be fully presentable; the awful paint job and permanently stained appliances tend to detract from the overall attractiveness), we decided that another movie was in order. This time we chose Hairspray. As we started to put it in, Maren remembered the watercolor set she got for Easter, so we rearranged the living room to accommodate a painting adventure. Unfortunately, I remembered that my Spanish homework (which I hadn't begun) was due at midnight, so I was unable to actually paint, but it was quite entertaining to watch. There was only one brush, so Maren watercolored while Hanna fingerpainted. They're quite artistic, even with mediums meant for elementary school kids. This part of our evening also included a large bowl of homemade popcorn, which has become it's own food group in our apartment since I received a homemade popcorn maker for Christmas. Relatively healthy, easy to make, and extremely cheap - what could be a more perfect college-student snack?

Now here we sit, watching the end of Hairspray, thoroughly exhausted from our fantastic roommate adventure, but more so from the entire semester. It's times like these that make me grateful for awesome roommates who are willing to veg on the couch with me till all hours of the morning. Boy will I miss them next semester.