UVA

Ian and I have been corresponding via email about Weeds today so as to not spoil anything for those not lucky enough to have not caught up on the current season yet. I got a little off topic and started telling him about my weekend and figured I might as well translate it to the blog.

Jackie and I went down to charlottesville, va/UVA just for the weekend. It's a pretty cool town and we both have a friend each that lives down there. I kinda hate UVA... all the students are preppy and the whole place is so nice I think it makes everyone, especially the athletes, soft. That's why UVA has good teams in a lot of sports but they never actually win anything important. I have to say, I really got started thinking that a few years ago when Beans sent me a link to this Colin Cowherd rant bashing UVA in comparison to Va Tech. Now I'm not a Cowherd fan at all, but this rant is priceless, even though I'm sure most of you could give two shits about either school. I'd include a link, but I believe it's only available on youtube and I don't have access to that site at work. But do yourself a favor a search for "Colin Cowherd Virginia" or "Colin Cowherd UVA" on youtube and listen to the whole rant (it's over 15 minutes if i remember correctly).

Anyway, Charlottesville is up in the blue ridge mountains and there are these really nice wine vineyards all over the fucking place. You can do ridiculous wine tastings (like up to 20 different wines, equating to probably 3.5 glasses) for as little as $0 to $3. We went to 3 places over the course of Saturday while seeing some pretty sick natural, mountainous scenery. Walked to the top of mountain that I wouldve loved to have boomin on that morning and laid out for a few rays before enjoying the wineries. We were all pretty krunked after the wine sesh's and then we tailgated for the UVA-Pitt game, which was alright (tough to enjoy given my cowherd-engrained opinions). Didn't go to the game but the bar scene was pretty cool a couple miles off campus in the little downtown area. A bunch of bars and restuarants in this corridor called the downtown mall, which is cool b/c all the bars spill out onto patios within the corridor which makes for a nice atmos'. We were at a bar called South Street Brewery that brewed all their own beers, which were all delicious and sold for $2 a pint so me and this chick's (jackie's girl) boyfriend and I got absolutely rip-roaringinly cocked to the point that we did a lap around the bar as we left and snagged scraps of food off of unattended plates. Came away with 3 slices of pizza and a handful of nachos personally. Only bad part of the weekend is that Jackie and I had to sleep on a single bed in this chick's guest bedroom that had the softness of a fucking brick fire place (not to mention my car not starting again when we went to leave sunday afternoon, hence the previously reference car troubles). The bed really fucked up my back and is a small hinderance on my training for the half marathon im trying to dominate on the 13th. I think I'll address my training for that in a later post. I've got 10 days left to get ready that the 13-plus miles are looking pretty daunting right now.