Wellington Weekend

Thursday, after my sort of cynical post, I went to Stephen's where Chris and Stephen had a little jam session. It was nice to just lie on the couch reading "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles" listening to my friends play.
As it got dark the 3 of us went and got dinner at a Malaysian take-away and brought it back to Stephens. We sat watching T.V and talking for a little and made plans to see a play called "The Intricate Art of Actually Caring" around 9. The play is based in Wellington and surrounds the journey of two college boys to the grave of James. K Baxter, a NZ poet. It's set entirely in a bedroom, but the characters utilize the setting for not only a bedroom, but a car and various other locations across the North Island. It turned out to be a very fun and interesting play to watch. Both actors were pretty fantastic and the way they used the props and stage was pretty cool. After the play we went to Stephens for a little and then called it a night.
Friday it was really rainy and miserable. Chris and I went to a pizza place for lunch and then I spent the remainder of the afternoon writing a paper for my religion course. After I finished I met up with Chris at the public library and we met up with Stephen, bought tickets to the new "Star Trek" movie. We had time to kill so the three of us went to the "Malthouse" for some beers and talked.
"Star Trek" ended up being really good, which surprised me because I've always been really skeptical of "Star Trek." But, I think the series benefited from J.J Abrams and a group of good actors. After the movie we got Burger Fuel and met up with Brian. We attempted to meet up with another group of people and we ended up just going to about 3 different bars until we actually met up with them. We played pool and had a beer until about 12:40 and then Chris and I decided to call it a night after the rest of the group wanted to go to the "Estab," a bar that neither of us like.
Saturday, Chris, Stephen and I watched the Lakers v. Rockets. Chris is a big Lakers fan, so we sat at the restaurant "Chicago" for a long time. I ended up getting tired and went back to Stafford for an hour long nap. When I woke up everyone in my flat was getting ready for the big Stafford Ball (which I didn't want to go to.) Chris came over and we went to a pre-game that Brian and some of his friends were having in a room down the hall. Chris ended up feeling sick (with a headache/feverish) so we left and went to find some soup for him. Stephen joined us downtown and we struggled to find a restaurant to eat at because everywhere was packed! We had forgotten it was a Saturday night, when Wellington is at it's busiest. We ended up finding a good, cheap, Thai restuarant with chicken noodle soup and ran into our friend Jon and a friend of his.
Chris, Stephen and I didn't feel like hitting the bars too much because it was cold and rainy and none of us wanted to spend money so we rented a bunch of movies and watched "The Royal Tennenbaums" and the beginning of "Howls Moving Castle."
Sunday, today, Chris and I planned out his and Stephen's trip to the east coast and looked at airplane ticket prices. Later, Chris, Stephen and I got Nandos for lunch and then all agreed we needed to do homework for the rest of the day.