I met Shi my fifth year state through, can you guess it? Kirsten. Another member of the Wharton crowd which I have learned to be one of the wildest group of coworkers I've had the pleasure to meet. The first time that I met Shi, it was on Halloween and pretty much consisted of her walking into my house covered in glitter while I was walking out and us saying a quick hello to each other. Glitter which I might add can still be found in our living room, and that to me just reaffirms the whole "herpes of craft supplies" idea. So yeah, it was a very in-depth introduction, but since that time I have spent a fair amount of time with her and have learned that she's pretty damn cool.
As I said early, the Wharton crew is wild, so naturally they had a bar crawl like three weeks into the semester, and it was while crashing this bar crawl that I would say I had the best time hanging with Shi. They were a few hours into it when I showed up, and since I didn't really know anyone that well besides Kirsten who was being her lovely, social butterfly self, I gravitated toward Shi. She had to drive as did I, so since we couldn't focus so much on liquid fun, we made fun other ways. The bar we were at was Dublin Square, which is a place I dig...except when it's like 8:30 PM and where there's usually a dance floor, there's a birthday party with a bunch of adult looking people sitting down. I think Shi was in the same state as me because she brought up how weird it was being there without music or dancing and whatnot, which led to us coming up with ways to try and get the tables and old people out of there. We came up with a few gems, including getting everyone in the bar crawl to crowd around the table and just stare at them until they left. It was pretty fun just observing stuff that was going on then commenting on it...it was just amusing. The music did eventually come on and we danced a bit, but while this certainly wasn't the wildest night I spent with Shi, it was the one when I feel like we became more like friends than just two people who happened to know Kirsten and went to the same places sometimes. Here's to hoping there will be more times like this to come.
Cheers,
Andrew
