First Friday in Knox

I was much overdue for lunch by the time 2:15 rolled around and my last class of the day finally ended.  I stopped by IHOP and got a stuffed french toast platter (I highly recommend this.  Not only was the french toast delicious, but the eggs and bacon were just right as well.  They were fresh; made-to-order.  Not like the eggs and bacon that have been sitting under a heat lamp for hours in the dining hall.)

After scarfing down my food, I went to my uncle's.  He lives about ten minutes off campus.  I visited a little bit and checked out the bike that I wanted to borrow.  Then I ran to Turkey Creek to pick up some posterboard and orange computer paper for my campaign for MHRA. 

My Nana called me as I was leaving the Walmart parking lot.  She had seen on the news that there have been two reported cases of West Nile in Knoxville and that they're cautioning everyone to wear bugspray.  So I spent the next fifteen minutes assuring her that I would wear insect repellent if I so much as stepped outside for any amount of time, day or night.

When I got back to the dorm, I crashed.  I don't even know how long I was out.  I got back around seven, and I woke up to my ringtone *They climbin' in yo windows, they snatchin' yo people up...* when my roommate called me at nine.

My roommate and her best friend returned to our dorm room so we could have a "Girls' Night" watching Mulan.  Our Girls' Night ended up consisting of five girls and seven boys watching Mulan in a 14x12 ft dorm room.  After the movie, I suggested that we paint The Rock in honor of our friends' birthdays.  My best friend's had been Thursday and my roommate's best friend's was on Saturday.  So we all threw in a few bucks and sent a few of the guys to the store to get spray paint.  Even though they were back by 12am with the paint, we had to wait until 3am to actually leave to paint.  See, if you paint The Rock too early, someone else will come and paint over it.

So we split into three groups for the next two and a half hours.  A few went to grab some food from one of their dorm rooms, a couple others went to play COD (Call of Duty for those of you who aren't gamers), and some of us stayed in my dorm.  By three o'clock, we were all on the elevator, each of us holding our own can of spray paint.

It didn't take us long to get to The Rock and we soon began our masterpiece.  Someone had painted actual graffiti on The Rock earlier though, so we almost felt bad that we were going to cover it up with our scribbles.  We painted a giant cupcake with "Happy Birthday Cole & Steph."  It was a great night.