Phil Collins Etc

This weekend is my LAST at St. Lawrence this year, and it's kinda weird. Everyone has these 'finals' things lurking over them, and respond to it in different ways: going to sleep at 10 or becoming exceedingly drunk. Wasn't really in the mood for either extreme tonight, however, and when a friend told me that she was going to a bar to watch her friend's boyfriend's band play, I leapt at the chance to accompany them, despite the rather tenuous connection.

Mistake. The bar was in Hannawa Falls NY, which called itself a village but only qualified as such under an exceedingly liberal definition of the word. The bar wasn't as grim as it might have been, or was at least dimly lighted enough that its worst deficiencies were hidden. Amusingly, when the band called out "This one goes out to all of you who who grew up in a small town in the middle of nowhere," I was LITERALLY the only one not to respond with a cheer and fist pump. The band, I must say, was interesting: I can now cross off Hear a Metal Version of "Something In The Air Tonight" from my things-to-do-before-I-die list... Still though, two things prevented the evening from being a total waste. Firstly, I owned a lot of grizzled old guys at fooseball, which made me feel really good about myself. Secondly, I made the decision earlier in the night not to wear a hawaiian shirt, and thank goodness. It would have been thoroughly jarring next to all the locals with Slipknot t-shirts and John Deere hats (which qualifies as jarring in its own right, I'd say).

It all got me thinking about college in general (although I can't say how exactly I arrived there). I'm completely pumped for schoolwork to be over with in less than a week, but less certain how I feel about being home for the summer. On the plus side, this summer looks to have old friends, family, lots of concerts, lots of frisbee, lots of free time, money-making, and lots of sleeping in; all of which sound outrageously pleasant. I reckon that if I can work in enough visits with current college friends, it should be pretty much the complete package, and totally worth being excited about.

I still can't believe I spent two and half hours at a bar in Hannawa tonight.