Adventures a la Ripon...
Why is it that Ripon has been more fun for the, what, three weekends I've been there than it was for all four years?? (Okay, definitely not true, but it seems like it sometimes, haha).
So, as you could maybe tell by the title, I spent Friday in Ripon...which was much much fun!! I got to Rodman (my home!) and caught up with Jean, then met Jhenny! Yay! Much fun! We went to Big Stella's for dinner, then went to see the, um, string trio (WITH OBOE!) concert. The string trio was awesome, the oboist was pretty awesome. They even did the Mozart piece (but the whole thing) that I did on my recital. But, as Tom and I concluded, we had them beat, well, almost. They had a very tall Asian man playing violin, and we had a semi-tall white boy with funny hair. So they had us beat there, and their viola player made better faces than Krysta, so I guess that's a plus there too. But aside from that, we had them beat!
After the concert, we caught headed over to Miller's. At first, it was sad that it was Friday night because as any Riponite of bar ages know, Friday night is Townie Karaoke Night. Nevertheless, Ripon cheap drinks won out, and we met up with the whole crew of many people I never got to drink with (Ben, Travis, Krysta, Allison), as well as Buddy and Steph J. Sadly, no Motz, no Natti, no Buttface (aka Chris). But we had fun. We gave Krysta her first shot, and we listened to many townie renditions of good and not-so-good songs, including the worst rendition of Kung-Fu Fighting (an already bad song) done by a very drunk townie. Complete with Kung Fu kicks. It was worse than the actual music video. Yes, it was that bad. I wish I'd had a camera. Or better yet, a video camera.
The thing about Ripon that you don't really learn until you leave is that the free entertainment never ends. I've never even seen a wind-up ass slap by a drunk townie before. Only in Ripon. :)
- posted by L. @ 10:22 PM