(USC) Life According to Elizabeth

So I thought I'd just give a brief summary of my weekend thus far...it's been a little crazy. First, to get things started for Halloween, from 11PM-1AM Thursday night, my church group played our annual Broomball game. It's like hockey, but with brooms. I've heard it is supposed to be played on ice, but we don't have that in LA. So we just ran around the church courtyard. It was pretty nuts. Most of the brooms broke, and everyone was being checked all over the place. All in good fun of course. Then we had a pinata, I know, we're real mature. And it was Dora the Explorer, so I felt kind of bad hitting it.

Then came Halloween on Friday. I wasn't feeling it. I was functioning on very little sleep thanks to Materials Science and Bio exams Thurs/Fri, but I had volunteered to work at this carnival, so I couldn't go to bed. The carnival was actually pretty cool and fun. It was a few block away, put on by a church for families/kids in the neighborhood to have a safe place to trick or treat and play games. All the kids were in costumes, so cute, and super stoked about the free candy everywhere, so even though I was dead tired it was a good time. But then my friend made me go out with her and all her other friends that I don't know. I helped her do her costume (I didn't have one, not enough time to go shopping), and then proceeded to play designated driver for the night since I was the only minor. Awesome. But whatever, it was a riot.

Yesterday I went to the men's water polo game against UCLA. We beat them 6-3. Wasn't even a contest really, but super fun because the guys are so good it's incredible. Obviously I'm biased since I play polo, but seriously it is such a better sport than football. It takes more coordination, brain power and fitness, has constant action instead of all this stupid downtime, only takes about an hour instead of all freaking day, and is free to watch. Plus the guys are beautiful. So that was fantastic. Then I went to the first half (barely) of the homecoming football game. Mostly I just went because it was against UW and I have a ton of friends who go there, so I wanted to be able to give them a hard time.

Finally, today I was planning on getting up early and taking the bus to this huge flea market/swap meet in West Hollywood because I wanted to find some funky jewelry for my mom for her birthday. But I missed the bus after running to catch it in the rain, had to wait an hour for the next one, and then ended up not knowing where I was when I got off. And to top it all off, when I was about to cross the street from the bus stop this crazy chick going way too fast blew through the red light (I thought she was going to hit me so I jumped back onto the curb) and nailed this poor guy who spun completely around and smashed into another guy. I had to stay for an hour to give a statement, didn't end up making it to the swap meet because I had way too much to do, and luckily caught a ride back to campus with 2 other witnesses of the accident who happened to be fellow Trojans. Ridiculous.