Weekend Update

So I came back from Thailand and as soon as I got to my house I had to order $600 worth of parts on MY credit card for my office. They will reimburse me—but damn, that is a decent chunk of change.

Immediately after that, I had to run to the hospital to get a light outer-ear infection taken care of. About an hour later, I came back with some drugs I had never heard of from a clinic full of people who could not speak English. Right after that I took my first shower of the day and hauled it out to meet two friends for dinner.

The next day was pretty epic. I woke up very late and headed straight to the Danshui subway stop north of Taipei to meet some people for a huge weekend concert on the beach. More accurately, I should say music festival (one hip-hop stage that sucked and sounded like any club, one trance stage, and one house stage—not sure of the difference between the last two).

The group I was there with got in about 6pm. The concert was held right on the beach. I had a great time—until it was over.
The music ended about 4:30-5am. Now we were really far from Taipei so catching a cab back to the city would have been prohibitively expensive. So I was cool to hang out with the group I was with—except for the one big, drunk, and very obnoxious dude. Problem was that everyone was gathered around him and ended up falling asleep in the sand.

Lightweights. I was still going strong (relatively speaking) and I was not ready to go to sleep at 5:30am in the sand while there was a light rain falling. So instead I just caught an expensive taxi to the nearest subway stop and took the subway home (note—by home I mean I fell asleep and missed my stop and had to get off at the end of the line and catch a cab with one of the least-friendly drivers I have ever met to get back home). I got back at 8:30am.

The next day I talked with one of the girls in the group. The first thing she asked was, “Were you angry last night? You just left in the morning without telling anyone.” My bad on that one. I was not angry by any means, but I was not in the mood to sleep in the sand and rain and wait until 7am for bus to take me on a 45 minute ride to the subway. Then there was also the fact that the people I was with were grad students without jobs so a cab was too expensive for them—oh the joys of my job.