UCLA SUCKS!!!!!

HELLS YEAH, USC. 66-19! Do YOU smell the roses?

The USC London alumni association puts together game viewing when the North American Sports Network broadcasts our games, usually at Bodean's, this BBQ place on Poland Street, off Oxford Street. We've been wanting to go to one since the season started, but the first time it was canceled, other times we were busy or out of the country, and the last time (Fresno St.) we got there just as the game ended. So this time -- the most important one -- we made sure we got there.

Jeff Blattner from the association sent me an e-mail that said we should get there early so we MIGHT be able to get seats, so Aaron, Erika and I went at 8 p.m. to claim seats for the 9:30 p.m. GMT game. Kate and Brian joined us around 8:30, and Matt got there at 9:30, and Jim, Sara, Greg, Dave and Heather (British friends of theirs) got there some time during the first quarter. We first only got 3 seats, but as the Texas people left (their game was just before ours -- they beat Colorado something like 70-3), we gradually claimed their seats.

It was awesome, although I think we scared Dave a little bit with our enthusiasm. HOWEVER, he was also the one who let it slip ... something about we couldn't find the Sports Cafe because we're "dumb Americans." haha. :) He also corrected us when we said "restroom," which we all knew was wrong, but we're at an American football game! At a BBQ place!

Anyway, it was a great game; we never trailed. But hey. I'm not here to give you the play-by-play (besides, it's 3:43 a.m., and I am tired). If you really want to read about it, though, here's the LA Times' gamer.

Bodean's only open till 11 because it's a pub/restaurant, so we USC people headed over to the Sports Cafe at Piccadilly Circus to join the UCLA crowd. There was a 5-pound cover, though, but it was totally worth it.

We stayed at the Sports Cafe until about 2 a.m., when they started showing the Florida St. and Va. Tech game. The bar also started playing dance music halfway through the fourth quarter because even they knew the game was over at that point. I mean, Pete Carroll put in John David Booty and we STILL scored. And plus, UCLA people started to leave anyway.

So Dave (really cute, btw.) played some people, other people danced, I sat and watched the game because I don't really dance/like dancing/bad at dancing. And so Erika, Aaron, Matt and I left at the Sports Cafe after Sara, Jim and Greg and after some random guy started to want pictures with us/of us/etc. We're all gonna be nameless in his photos. Dave stayed to play some more pool.

We walked to Leicester Square for some late-night food, then to Trafalgar Square to catch a bus to Tottenham Court Road to take No. 25. BAD IDEA. No. 25 is ALWAYS crowded. I can't remember the last time I actually SAT DOWN on the 25. See, other people's great idea was to take it in the direction we need to go in the first place because it'll take less time. BUT if we had gotten on the OTHER direction -- aka the end of the line -- we would've gotten SEATS. Because the bus was SOOOO crowded, people were swearing, squished like sardines and literally one on top the others in some cases. At one point, I was literally standing on one foot. I also bumped into Shari from U.S. history and some girl from Society and the State on it too. I think they got on around Holborn. What's in Holborn this late at night, I don't know.

My clothes smell like cigarettes and bar, but anyway, USC is going to the Rose Bowl to face University of Texas on Jan. 4. And that is all that matters.

On a different note, I have officially accepted -- although not yet signed the contract -- to be an RA at Parkside Apartments next semester -- taking over for Rebekah Sanders, who is going abroad. Training for RAs start Jan. 4, so I will be home for about 10 days before I have to take off again. Feels like Tampa/Florence/London.

It is late now, so I will crash. Tomorrow we're going ice skating, part 2, and tomorrow night is the Midori concert!!!!

Next week is going to be HELL.

Good night!