Ted's Birthday Junkett

One of my finance group members had his birthday on Friday, but we had 9am class the next morning so we decided to have the party on Saturday night instead. We then found out that another classmate's birthday was Thursday, so a big joint celebration was in the works for Saturday night. We had some hiccups in planning, including a joke for dueling birthday parties that went terribly awry (one person didn't get the joke) but at last the plan was settled to eat pizza at the Kro's Nest, a delicious and very non-Chinese style pizza joint near Beida (it's owned by an American, so that makes sense) and then head to Vics for some partying.

The dinner was a huge success, with pizza pies all over the place, and plenty of beer and gambeis. We managed to get almost everyone to come out to Vics with us, even the non-drinkers (a real surprise, but a nice one). We had a table and were able to have a really good time just hanging out and dancing. One of the birthday people, Ted, was running on 3 nights of partying (as was I) because we had all finished up our Finance midterms on Thursday night at midnight, and gone out for a drink to celebrate. I went home at 1:30, and Ted went home around 2:15 or so.

The next night, our French friend Dorothee came to visit (she was in Shanghai for her spring break) so we all went our for fondue and then went to a bar for a concert. Ted joined us at the concert; it was Cordell's British friend's indy rock band called "Girls Are Waiting To Meet You." Long name, but a decent band, actually. After the band finished up, we went dancing at Propaganda down the street due to Dorothee's request for dancing. Propaganda is this basement dance club in the student area Wudaokou and it's just as you imagine: dark, sweaty and full of drunk college kids. The music is good and it's always a giggle to go inside and see the ridiculous get ups people are wearing and just feel like you were 19 again.

As it was, the joint party was a great success, it seems like the bad feelings were smoothed over and Ted had a great 3rd birthday wearing a Superman shirt with a light up logo in the front (Yashow special!). What more could a guy ask for?