So got freshened up and whatnot, then drove over with half a tank of gas (this becomes important) to Johnson to meet with everyone. When I got there, turns out Steph and her group already left, and I was driving down with Lin and her group. I did find one person though, Tony, who was supposed to be in my car. Now this is interesting because despite never meeting the guy before, I had known him indirectly, because he was the boyfriend of my childhood friend for a month or so. We chatted it up and soon Lin came back from picking people up, turns out my good friend Nick, aka Mohican, of Pi Delta Psi was coming along for the trip too, which was great since finally there was someone I knew well. We also picked up Joey, his girlfriend, and John. In Lin’s car was Nick, Lin, Nick’s roommate Kevin (?) and his girl. We left UMass around like 8:20-ish, stopped by a liquor store so Lin could get some stuff to pre-game, and then we finally left.
There was this one point on Route 9 when we were behind Nick (he was driving Lin’s car), and there were 2 cars in front of them. He decides to pass them despite the double lines, and I decided to follow. The instant I get into the other lane, I see oncoming traffic, so we both floor it. He makes it around fine, but I barely manage to squeeze by oncoming traffic… now I see why I don’t do it more often. It was good though because Lin paid for all the tolls on the Pike, which if you add it up in total turned out to be about 10 bucks back and forth. While on the Pike, we decide to check up on the score of the UMass-Ohio State NIT finals, and the lost! 92-85 or something! It was so close, but we always seem to end up losing in the finals of some sort of championship (see Lacrosse, Football, Soccer).
Anyways so we finally make it to Boston with about like 20 minutes left before the club opens for us (we reserved it exclusively). Instead we head over to MIT’s frat row to drop off some tickets so their people could come too. Their frat houses were all big dormitory styled buildings linked together, it looked truly amazing compared to the crap we have at UMass. Being in the MIT campus, Asians left and right, really made me feel kind of inferior. Anyways we left to go eat a bit before the club, can’t remember the name of the Chinese place we went to, but it was some of the best Chinese food I’ve had in America for as long as I can remember. Finally we left and headed over to the club, about an hour and half late… fashionably late.
I wasn’t expecting the place to be in a Hotel first of all, but the bouncers outside looked like they’d beat into a pulp anyone who looked them in the eye. We got in and I was really impressed. The Foundation Lounge was more than I expected, it was fancy, Asian-themed, and pack with lots of hot Asian girls (and loads of Korean guys O_O;;). It was awkward though because we didn’t know anyone, so we mostly hung around our own guys. We finally found Steph and the UMass girls that came ahead of us, and they were happy to finally see some familiar faces as well. I made Nick buy me a Heineken, it was good but I was shocked at the price, $7.50!!! We mostly danced and chilled with our own group, though we found Fu and Calvin, friends from Bentley. I had a Sam Adams afterwards, but damn it was a totally different taste, and honestly I don’t think I see myself drinking it ever again. We then took shots of Sky and it was beautiful, I was so warm and happy afterwards. The rest of the club was a blur really, we danced some more, drank some more, and then for the duration of it we just chilled outside the club and smoked and talked, it was a great feeling and I felt like all my worries float away.
After the club we split up again, I had been drinking and Joey hadn’t, so he offered to drive, so my car and Nick’s car went over to another restaurant in Chinatown to eat (Lin’s boyfriend joined us later), and we all ended up getting tickets from this meter maid for obstruction of road for the street cleaner… such bullshit. I was actually chasing after the car that the meter maid was in, cursing at her and stuff, but Nick, Joey, and Lin grabbed my arms and whatnot and held me back. So $120 of the profit that we made for our University’s TSA goes out the window to pay for parking fines… NICE.
Anyways we finally leave Boston, and Joey insists on driving because he doesn’t want to drive, though both Tony and I were sober. We had about a quarter of a tank of gas when we left Boston and I suggested filling up at a rest stop or something, but Joey said we would be fine, and I went to sleep after that. I get woken up like a hour or so later by Joey, sounding frantic. Rain was pouring so hard that we could barely see, I had no clue where the hell we were, and Joey was telling me that we had been running on empty for about 15 minutes an the car was starting to shake. I was just thinking: please let us make it to a exit or something. Amazingly we were really close to our exit, and 10 minutes later we were at a gas station filling up; we got really lucky this time. So we finally get back around like 4 something and everyone gets dropped off, and I sleepily drive back to my dorm.
So that was Thursday night/Friday morning. I had work at 1 the next day, but I ended up sleeping through my alarm and everything, waking up at 3. Luckily my boss was kind enough to accept my apologies, understanding what I had done previous night, and allowed me to come to the remainder of work without scolding me. I need to buy an alarm clock so I can set multiple alarms and not solely depend on my cell phone. Anyways here are some pictures from the club, hopefully during the summer I’ll visit my friends in Boston and NYC and we’ll go clubbing some more.
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