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I had another eventful weekend!

Friday night was tropicanaomega's Hamilton-themed birthday party. When I saw Hamilton last year, I thought it was okay but didn't really fall for it like a lot of people, but I think this party changed that. When I say "Hamilton-themed," I don't mean costumes or food or anything, I mean that we all sat around and sang every single song in the libretto in order. A few people took the lead on some songs, and the audience joined in when they wanted to or knew the words. It was amazing! I drank The Federalist wine that someone brought, sang along, and understood why it was that everyone else appreciated Hamilton so much. I didn't listen to the soundtrack before I saw the show, but most of my friends listened to it for months (or years) before seeing it, singing along and learning the words by heart. They had the right approach, and I should have listened to them when they told me to hear the soundtrack first. I would have appreciated the show more.

Afterwards, I joined several people who went out for burritos at Arturo's Tacos, and half of said burrito is in my fridge awaiting consumption tomorrow. lisekatevans offered me a room in her apartment (her roommate was out of town) due to the amount of whiskey I had drunk, but I declined and went home. I then slept horribly, so I think I should have accepted her offer.

Saturday a friend who happened to be in the city treated me to lunch at Sun Wah and we ate a bunch of duck and then went back to my apartment and just chatted for a while. This was actually a mistake, because I had completely forgot that I had game at 1 p.m. instead of 3 p.m. Since I was talking I didn't check my phone, and I ignored multiple messages and calls to the point where the other players showed up to see if I was okay. I felt incredibly irresponsible--I never screw up appointments like this--but there was no way to get the time back, and I went along with them and we played Betrayal at the House on the Hill instead of Call of Cthulhu due to the shortened time. mutantur has the new version and the expansion, so there was a lot of content I'd never seen before, and Betrayal is always fun even if it's totally unbalanced and almost impossible to strategize for.

Then I went home, had leftovers for dinner, did some more coding practice, and went to sleep.

Another terrible night--this time due to nightmares--later, I woke up and had a quick breakfast and then did a bit of laundry before I went over to veryroundbird and faypire's apartment at their invitation. They asked me what I wanted to do, and I said a tea party would be nice, so we talked over several varieties of tea (the chai was my favorite), watched their cat's enchantment with bird videos, ate take-out Japanese food, discussed World of Warcraft, and they introduced me to Yurukyan △ (ゆるキャン, "relaxed camping"). It's extremely 癒や系 (iyashikei, "therapeutic, soothing"), about a girl who enjoys camping alone, the Outdoor Activities Circle (野外活動サークル) at her high school, and a lot of tasty-looking food and wilderness scenery around Mt. Fuji. After dinner at a coffee shop on Clark where I felt like I might have made a mistake by not getting a Macbook (though one lone guy had an ASUS laptop), I said my goodbyes and went home. faypire had been falling asleep at the coffee shop and I had chores to do before Monday.

I used to value weekends where I just did nothing, but I'm trying to avoid that now. I didn't get in as much coding or Japanese practice as I might have liked, but I had a wonderful weekend.