i'm tired of weekends

You know, here's a new approach that I should stick to more often: I hate weekends. Allen blogs about having one good night a week on the weekends and talks about having that joy on the weekends. Personally, I don't think my joy in life ever comes from the weekends. I felt much more strongly about this at JMU, I have more fun in my daily life than I do on a day where I'm supposed to go out and "have fun." And no, I'm not a dork who loved going to class but I connected to people more at D-Hall, on the ski slopes, at URec, walking on the quad between classes, than on a day when we're all supposed to have fun. I also found it easier to just do pretty much anything I wanted to do in my daily life. Besides, so many things are closed on the weekends, it's frustrating

The weekends are basically an exercise in animalistic mating rituals. I mean, seriously, there's very little difference in watching the flock of ducks by Newman Lake go about their mate-inducing quacking than watching college students in a party in Ashby a quarter of a mile away grinding it out on a dance floor. I'm sure tribes in Africa have come up with less seemingly bizarre and more efficient processes for how to go about expressing your desire to have sex with each other. Was I above this in college? No. I did go to a lot of parties at JMU, same as everyone else, becuase, well, there was little else to do and yeah, I probably felt I'd have to learn to play the game to get the same results. Also, most of my friends went to those parties, so where else could I go.

Was a weekend night at JMU all about sex? No, it was also about getting drunk, but I'd argue it is slightly easier to get drunk on a weekday, in order to make sex (with another person happen) you'd need other drunk people in your vicinity, so sex has a large part to do with why we go out on Friday and Saturday nights. I'd argue that this is no new discovery, and JMU is less hyppocritical about it. I also know there's a lot more to it than that. The idea of going to parties with friends in a group effort to try to score is a really memorable bonding experience. There's also hanging out with friends and there's also birthday parties but as best as I can remember, that would be the same as any other party except only about half of the people at the party knew it was a birthday party, and only about 20% of the people at the party personally knew the birthday boy/girl. The rest are just doing the same thing at every other party.

That's why I didn't go down to alumni weekend this year either. Saturday nights aren't what I miss about JMU. Never mind that I disastrously struck out last year and feel emotionally scarred by people at one party being like "Dude, what are you 25? 30?" But there are things I miss about JMU but they weren't those parties. There was a slight bit of pleasure that I got from those parties on rare occasions (probably too rare to make the experience worthwhile) and sometimes the fun of the chase could be interesting, but you can do that anywhere. In that same spirit, you can have that same amount of fun any day of the week. Not just a Saturday or a Friday night.