Happiness is... (and a UPenn recap tagged onto the beginning)

Happiness is Mel. :3 I got home from Penn a bit before noon today, and she came to visit me at 2pm. ^_^ She hung around after lunch/dinner for a bit while we cuddled on the amoeba, in my bed, and played Mario Kart. (We suck balls at Rainbow Road.) I treated her to Shino Express sushi, and won two sushi bets because she couldn't stomach the Unagi Avacado roll and managed to spill all the Flying Fish Roe in her lap. :3 That means she gets two nights as seme for beating me at foosball, and I get two nights as seme for winning the sushi bets. ^_^ <3

Mel is the sweetest thing in the universe. :3 My day has just been totally awesome because Mel came and visited me. :3 She's such a good cuddler, and we just work together so well. *so much love* She made me a cute little Raito plushie for my birthday, and if my camera was still alive I'd show you guys all pictures of Plushie!Raito cuteness. ^_^ <3 I will cuddle it all night long. *raburaburabu*

Anyways, onto the Penn recap, for those of you who've managed to stick through the public display of affection I have for my girlfriend. ^_^

So I got to Penn at about 8pm on Wednesday night, and immediately I got off the plane and checked the voicemail on my phone. That's when I found out that UCLA had called me back home and admitted me. ^_^ Huzzah! (Hopefully something will be coming from Penn soon.) There was a door-to-door van that picked me up from the airport and was taking to me to the Inn at Penn (this gorgeous four-star Penn hotel run by Hilton) when Andy Vosko, this awesome friend I met at UCLA when I interviewed there climbed on board.

We found out when we got to the hotel that we were too late to join the rest of the Penn dinner mob, so we went out together to this asian fusion restaurant because they had a kaitenzushi corner. =_=;; It was expensive, but hey, at least Penn was paying for it, or so we hoped.

After that we went back to the hotel and unfortunately me and Andy were both very ill-prepared for our interviews, because we'd only brought one interview outfit for 2 interview days. >_> Yeah, not so hot. So I borrowed one of Andy's shirts to wear for the next day, since he was about my size anyway. My roommate looked at me sketchy, but that's okay, she's actually a really awesome person. XD Go Room of Asian Lesbians! *grin*

Anyways, the interview process went pretty well. I only screwed up once, when I admitted to Michael Robinson that no, in fact I didn't know the technical details of how to assay for hyaluronic acid in my experiment. This is because I haven't been to lab in about two weeks. >_> Yeah, not so good. He was a great guy anyway, came from New Hampshire and we touched bases about how awesome it was to see the Sox win in the fall. ^_^

I guess the stories come from Friday night, when the Penn grad students threw a party for us recruits, and I learned how to play flip cup. East coast represent. XD We East Coasters ended up being the undisputed champions of the night, and I spent most of the rest of it underneath the beer pong table, totally passed out from way too much Pabst. :3 More fratty points for me. XD

On Saturday I met up with Takeaham and Anthony Schrauth from high school had lunch, and then Anthony and I headed out the Philly Museum of Art to catch the Dali exhibit. It was sold out, but we had a good time seeing the rest of the museum. The rest of the evening was spent talking on the phone with Mel and hanging out with the last of the grad recruits. ^_^

My impression of Penn is that some of the classes are really tight and the people are really interesting, and I get the same vibes from UCLA. They treated us recruits better at Penn, but UCLA was amazing too. Basically they're the same on pretty much all the social levels, except that UCLA has more peopel doing what I want to do, so I'm still leaning that way for now.

Phew, that was quite an entry. Heads up to Alex One-Hand who is coming down this next Friday and crashing at my place. It'll be great to see him again, and I hope we'll have some more good times. ^_^

Anyways, it's almost 3am and I'm dead and beat. =_= Love to my Mel, and the rest of my peeps. ^_^