Busy Ass Weekend

Okay I've just been insane busy with work stuff for the last few weeks. Like...in the office at 8:30 am and not leaving until 9 pm, to just go home and work until midnight. But, things have slowed down a teeny tiny bit, and I'm working hard on getting un-sick, so it's time for an update.

So this weekend was amazingly fun but crazy busy.

Friday was day 1 of recruitment weekend, where all the new prospective students come in for the weekend and we figure out who rocks and who sucks. So that involved cocktails followed by small group dinners Friday night. Following this we all did a super quick costume changed and went to our winter semi-formal. That ended at midnight, at which point I met up with The Klapper and his two best friends from NY because it was his birthday! So we were up until 4 am, and then didn't get to bed until 5 am, and then we got up at 8 am. So..pure exhaustion.

Which sucked, because Saturday was spent at work being plied with free food (awesome) and getting to know all the prospective students. It was fun, and there were some really cool people who would be great fun to have around next year, but it's really tired to try to be engaging for 9 hours. And then there was a dinner that night and people all went out for drinks to show off the Hanover night life *giggle*.

And this morning, I woke up early to sneak over to The Klapper's, crawl into bed with him for a bit, and then head to brunch with his friends (who love me). Brunch was great, and then we decided to go hiking..because...apparently you do that in the snow? So..the trail was packed down ice and incredibly treacherous, which made for a lot of hilarious falling. Winning moment of the hike: Klapper was sliding down a particularly steep slope and basically got raped by a stump extending up through the ice. Tore out his jeans and boxers and his ass was literally hanging out. HILARIOUS. So then we drove back and his friends said goodbye and we spent a little more time together. And then I went home and tried to reassemble my home/life in prep for the week.

So it was a great weekend but I'm super tired from all of it and not prepared for a busy week with another prospective student, tons of scanning, and lots of work.

Also, things are going really well with Klapper and it is making me very happy. We had a really sweet valentine's day where he came by and we made a complicated dinner that neither of us was qualified to attempt (we literally used every pot and pan in the house....and definitely didn't need to) and watched 30Rock and then made lazy man's fondue. It was also super sweet because I threw together a cute little present the night before that I thought would make him laugh (I wrote a full-out academic article about how amazing he is, using empirical data, references, figures, etc.), and he read it and started crying. Which was so cute, because I think he really appreciated that I put time and thought into our relationship and really care about him. Adorbs. I know many of you hate him, but he's been a really positive thing in my life lately.

It was also nice to spend a weekend with his real friends because he's just such a different/better/happier person around them. And it doesn't help that they think I am the best and SO Much better than past girlfriends. I feel like if we decide to do distance next year, they will be my biggest allies for him not acting like an idiot.