Who says there isn’t anything exciting to do in Sacramento?

You could jump in a pile of leafs that took someone hours to assemble or go into a fancy restaurant and bark like a dog whenever the waiter asks you if there’s anything else you’d like.

It’s so amusing when you purposely make an annoying impression on people.

Those antics may seem juvenile, but they’re fun and more people should commit acts like these to remind us not to take life so seriously all the time.

Everyone says that Sacramento is two hours from where you really want to be. Hogwash! Sacramento can be a great town in its own right, but it’s up to you to enjoy it.

It’s time we take responsibility for ourselves and not depend solely on a city for entertainment.

Now let’s pretend that you met some cool people and you all went to a caravan of parties. After you guys spent weeks touring the party circuit, you then went out and did the whole movie and dinner thing. Now what? Just like with old friends, if the people that you’ve met were really cool, you’d never have to worry about finding things to do.

I have a type of friend that everyone should have. One day about two years ago this friend of mine and I were beyond bored. We didn’t feel like getting glamorized to go anywhere, nor did we feel like drinking. We lived in the dorms at the time and wandered through the halls whining about how bored we were. (Which by the way was the passive aggressive approach of saying that we were depending on someone else to lift our spirits.) Well, after seeing that no one cared, we decided to do something different.

As my friend was putting on purple shorts over her multi-colored pants and a sports bra over her shiny fire-orange shirt, I was putting curlers in my hair and a leopard print bra over my lime green and bleach stained shirt.

My friend then put her hair up in a couple of ponytails while I put on my smiley face boxer shorts and Victoria Secret hot pink bedroom slippers.

After we got dressed up, we decided to go grocery shopping at Safeway on Howe Ave. Mind you it was still daylight when we did this.

You should’ve seen the facial expressions we got. We tried not to laugh because we were pretending to act like nothing unusual was going on. “What’s the big deal?” we kept asking.

Now what added more fun to this adventure was the fact that we were with two “normal” guys. They tagged along because they wanted to see how people would react to us. They were bored too.

As my friend and I were slowly roaming around Safeway, we decided that we wanted to embarrass these guys. So we chased them down the aisles saying how much we loved them. If that wasn’t enough, I ended up swinging a loaf of bread over my head singing that Tom Jones classic, “It’s Not Unusual to Be Loved By Anyone.”

Now that example may be a little too much for some of you, but I’m sure you can find other outlets for your creativity in this conservative city.

It’s too easy to blame Sacramento for the cause of your social problems.

I mean, there’s no main attraction and now it’s too cold to go out.

Excuses, excuses. Listen, there are plenty of things to do and many people to do them with. It’s up to you and your attitude to decide if you’re going to make it a Blockbuster night or not. So stop complaining that there isn’t anything to do here.

Besides, it’s not where you are but whom you’re with.

Georgette Todd is a Journalism major. She can be reached by e-mail at [email protected] or by mail c/o The State Hornet at 6000 J St, Sacramento, CA 95819.