The weather Sunday was miserable. It was cold and rainy and annoying. The kind of day that makes you wish you had a cat to curl up next to you while you snuggle under your covers and watch reruns of ‘Entourage.’

And yet, Sunday wasn’t that kind of day. It was Juice Jam, the day that supports everything I stand for — day-drinking, fist-pumping and Passion Pit. But I wasn’t there. Instead of waking up at 9 a.m. to take shots and shotgun beers, I rolled out of bed at 2 p.m. and spent the afternoon on the couch, too bitter to do anything but watch ‘Four Christmases’ and ‘I Love You, Man’ with my roommates.

Paul Rudd’s hilarious awkwardness did slightly brighten my mood, but not enough to get over the fact that I wasn’t at Juice Jam.

Yeah, I was too lazy to get a ticket. I woke up every morning with the belief that I could take care of it the next day. Seeing how Juice Jam has never sold out, I didn’t think it was something I had to worry about.

I get there were all sorts of safety regulations, including something that involved getting a helicopter if capacity surpassed 5,000 people. But when you combine Lupe Fiasco, Passion Pit and Super Mash Bros., you should know that at a school of almost 20,000 students, more than 5,000 would have wanted to attend.

I heard there was a guy in a banana suit there. I would have loved to see that. I would have been giddy if fellow concertgoers, drunk with vodka and the pure pleasure of life, accidentally knocked me to the ground. I would have laughed and popped right back up, happy to be part of such a belligerent, carefree afternoon.

But I was robbed of this experience. Hopefully, this will teach me a lesson: I need to buy my Block Party ticket the first chance I get. But this should also teach University Union a lesson to not put together a killer lineup and then only allow a quarter of the school to attend.

Ultimately, I blame you, freshmen.  You’re all so eager to live your college life that you infringed on mine. Watch out for drive-by snowballs this winter.

Lauren Tousignant is a junior communications and rhetorical studies and writing major. She is the opinion editor at The Daily Orange, where her column appears occasionally. She can be reached letousig@syr.edu. 

Published on September 12, 2010 at 12:00 pm