Turning 21

This weekend, after many long long years, and then many more long long months of being the only one in the house thats NOT twenty one and therefore of legal drinking age, I finally am 21!

Two of my roommates (the nice ones) turned in August, and have been enjoying the bars for awhile now, and my 4th ACTUAL roommate (who is studying abroad in england right now) turned in January before he left, so for the last few months I've gotten to enjoy the feeling of having a few drinks, then watching as they left to go out to the bars to have a good time while I get to stay with the subletter freshman and his foolish friends.

So my birthday was last friday, the 18th, and on the thursday night earlier, I had a test in Liner Signals and Systems (for those of you in the know, it was fourier series and transforms... a bitch of a topic) at 7:15 pm.  So I spent all day studying with my fellow students.  I was talking to some air force rotc guys who were in the class, and they said they were going out drinking that night, and when I mentioned that I was turning 21 at midnight, they convinced me to go out.  So I went out to a few of the more popular campus bars with them and some friends

DRINKS:
1.  2 1/2 Miller Lites
2.  Three Wise Men
3.  Jagerbomb
4.  Shot of Wild Turkey Whiskey
5.  Landshark (Jimmy Buffet version of Corona)
6.  Bud Light

So I only felt mildly nautious all next day as punishment.

Then comes the actual going-out of my birthday.  At 7 we head to the Nitty Gritty where I've invited a bunch of friends to eat and meet before we all go out drinking in my honor.  Even my married friend showed up (who is naming his upcoming baby girl Peyton... is it just me, or is that a little weird?).  So while we were waiting for people to show up and eating I had three beers.  After we finished eating, we bought some drinks downstairs, then went out to 3 more bars.

Drinks at the Nitty Gritty:
1.  2 x Guiness
2.  Miller Lite
3.  Shot of Oatmeal Cookie
4.  Guiness
5.  Shot of Liquid Cocaine
6.  Irish Car Bomb

Then we went to a few more bars... unfortunately I don't really remember much of it, and am waiting for my new camera to arrive as my old one is broken, but heres a general idea of what happened:
Went to another bar, met up with two more friends, had a beer and a really really strong rum and coke
Went to another bar?
Went to another bar?
Went to another bar and somehow my friends thought I was going to the bathroom when I just got up and left and walked home blackout drunk ALONE BY MYSELF in a city that had seen a sharp increase in murders recently (great friends, yeah?).
Made it home unmolested and puke/passout/repeat for a few hours in the bathroom?
The next thing I'm sure about it that at 5 am I crawled into bed, then I woke up at 9 am still drunk, I stumbled into the bathroom and got some water and ibuprofen and went to bed until about 1.

So yeah, it was a pretty successful night.