Wow. Columbus is kinda okay! But glad I only came for the weekend.
Right now, I am waiting for my friends so we can all do brunch at the Blue Danube on High Street before I have to get on the plane this afternoon.
I went to a party last night at CBR's in the Brewery District. (I learned this weekend that I can't say rural or brewery.) CBR's was okay -- a lot bigger than I expected it would be.
The party was thrown by the Student National Medical Association, so I met lots of med students, mostly people of color. But the crowd was very diverse in general. I enjoyed myself. Although the DJ was so-so, it was a cool evening.
I went to the Barnes & Noble/OSU Bookstore. It was okay. I am a Borders kinda guy, though.
Went to the reggae music store called Roots and picked up a few t-shirts. Although there were only three, that was the most white people I've seen with dreadlocks in one place.
Went to Spirit Concepts and parked in the lot behind the store (Not the McDonald's lot) as was suggested in the other thread. The store is nice! I got some OSU stuff and spent WAY too much money on para. I got the makings for some paddles -- the prices were a LOT cheaper than ANY of the stores in DC. The NPHC section was nice -- larger than I expected -- and all the NPC stuff was nice, too, though there were some things the NPCs had that I wished they also had for NPHCs.
Had lunch of Bento Go-Go, a sushi joint that was really good. Shrimp Tempura: off the hook.
My first night there, all I really did was tour the city and attend this function by a black grad student alliance. We watched Rosewood (until the DVD messed up) and fellowshipped with each other.
The Deltas at Epsilon Chapter were there (in the Hale Cultural Center) doing some sort of service project. That place is NICE. Maybe I sound like a freed slave, but I was like "Are you serious??? This is all for US???????" We just don't have anything like that for the colleges in the DC area. (Maybe at U Maryland?)
All in all, this has been a great weekend away that I really needed. Out of the four friends I have here, I was able to meet with two, one more is coming to brunch, and the fourth....well, haven't tracked him down, so maybe next time.
And by the way....OSU woulda been toooooooooooo big for me! It made me appreciate my "medium sized" alma mater a lot more.