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it was a beautiful day. sun shining, short-sleeve-and-you're-still-kinda-hot weather. you could have not asked for a better day to kick off college tour 2002: destination sexy.

at 11 or so, katie called me and i went up to lyons to drive her and adam to go rent the vans. we went to the airport for adam's minivan and then katie and i went to harvard ave for hers, but sean didn't give her the paperwork so we had to go back to school and find sean and then send katie back. I was pretty hungover from a lot of drinking the night before. then i had mcdonald's.

We were supposed to meet at 2:30 to leave, but with all the van nonsense, i was in the shower at 2:05 and still hadn't packed. i met the group at 3. we found out that megan is a smoker and that set of people cheered victoriously. then everyone arrived, we played in the sun a little bit, and loaded the two minivans and my car and set out for sunny new jersey.

my car was megan and john. and, reprising his role as one of the funniest people to be on a long car ride with from last year's spring retreat, john was a blast. getting megan all to ourselves was a lot of fun, because it was really easy to get to know her pretty quickly and pretty well, whereas fighting for the freshmen's attention in full group settings can get a little difficult. we drove and drove and the beautiful day turned into nasty nasty rain. Our car split off and actually went to john's house in NY to pick up his suit and get fed pasta. then we headed back on the road and got to rutgers at 9 or 9:30 or so.

We met at deep treble's music director (and also ex-boyfriend to tara's) frat house. There was some beer and we drank it and hung out. I talked about tara and aviva (ex-girlfriend to me, former member of deep treble) and then at like 11 or so went to go sing. we sang outside the student center and really only for the members of deep treble, but it was still fun. apparently we were wicked excited or something because every song we sang went nearly a whole step sharp. but still fun. and it was weird, because we basically sang right across the street from where i took my spanish classes two summers ago, so like, the whole area was familiar to me.

after singing, back to the frat house. amy lost her purse and megan casey dimo and i hit the grease trucks, a collection of trucks in a parking lot on campus that sell cigarettes and sandwiches with names like "fat bitch" (ingredients: hamburgers, mozarella sticks, cheese, french fries all in a sub roll) to students until 3am. the greek men running the trucks were hitting on our girls and told me that they could get me high in 5 minutes, if i know what they meant. very fun, i just got a steak and cheese, but i have decided BC needs to drop chichi like a bad habit and get one of these grease trucks.

then back to the party. Now, we all had a beer or two before we left to sing. AFTER we sang the guys in deep treble were like "alright, let's go get drunk." by the time i got back from the grease trucks there were about 6 mike's hard beverages and a 30 of busch and part of a 12 of bud. riiiiiiight. luckily, i found other ways to be entertained, with the help of one of the frat's pledges who made a run for us. i hung out in john's (tara's aforementioned ex) room with some of the stoners, and enjoyed a favorite rutgers' pasttime. we finished, i came down and people were going to sleep and i started, as casey kept repeating, "cheesing out," and by gum, i was. i couldn't get through half a sentence without completely breaking down. well, that passed. I did however manage to coin something that'd stick around all tour, i just went around saying "that's so sexy" about anything much to casey and amy's constant amusement. one room went to sleep pretty much and the other room stayed up with my antics. and then me rich and john went out and hotboxed the car, and john had some vodka in a coke can and john and rich were drinking it but i was convinced john had ashed in the can and that they were pretending to drink it so that i would do it for real. turns out it was just vodka and coke.

and THEN, i went to a couch downstairs to sleep, sean was down there. stephanie came down and talked at me for a while and then i went to bed around 5 to the sound of john upstairs pressing buttons on a microwave.