I love J-Term! So much free time to do so many fun things, it’s awesome! Last Friday evening I went to Gaming Society, and played the board game “Civilization” with John, Ben, Nate, Morgan & Paul (a.k.a. Frodo). It’s a fairly complicated and long game, so since it was my first time playing it I obviously didn’t win, but it was still heaps of fun.
Saturday afternoon I went to the GAC-Augsburg basketball game, which the Gusties won by 8. Decent game, but the crowd never got too into it, so it wasn’t all that exciting, oh well. In the evening I went over to Arbor View to play some Trivial Pursuit with Jolene, Zach, Seth, Johanna, Carl, Stef, and Kate, who had come down for a visit, it was fun seeing her again.
Sunday morning I went to church with Erin, Luke & Jenna, we went down to First Lutheran. It was my first time ever going to that one, but I think whichever church I end up choosing, I think I’m gonna try to make a habit of going to church on Sunday mornings this semester here at GAC. Then after watching the Vikings predictably screw up and lose to the Eagles, Zach, Ben, John & I went to play some racquetball. It seems to be a habit we’re starting, playing every couple of days or so, but it’s definitely a fun habit. It’s giving me a nice and sore right arm and shoulder though, oh well. Sunday night we had a ton of people over here in 202 to watch the extended edition of “Return of the King,” since quite a few people haven’t seen it.
Monday, being Martin Luther King, Jr Day, was Science Day here at Gustavus, so I was busy most of the day working for Admissions. It was still really cold in the morning when I had to give a tour, but at least there wasn’t much wind. For the Admissions luncheon I sat at one of the Physics tables with Seth, and one of the prospies that came to the table was my second cousin Michael from Tomahawk. It was cool talkin to him and his dad David, I hadn’t seen them since the reunion. Michael’s interested in engineering possibly, hopefully he’ll choose GAC. Monday evening was a pretty good basketball game too, between GAC & Macalaster, which the Gusties won by 8 again. It was a pretty sweet, close game the whole way, and the crowd was fired up from the get-go by Doug Espenson’s nice two-handed jam. Man I’ve missed basketball!
Tuesday night after Proclaim, which was a really nice hymn night, I drove down to B-Dubs in Kato with Loren & Laura, and met a whole ton of people down there for a couple hours. I was sane and got some wings that I could handle, but Zach, who was at BW3’s for his first time ever, decided it’d be a good idea to get 10 Blazin’ wings. Bad idea. 🙂 He only made it through four before he gave up in a lot of pain, hehe. I also tried one of them, which was more than enough to set my mouth and lips on fire for the next half hour. I was curious to try one sometime, and now that I have, I doubt I’ll ever be having one again. They’re just too spicy to enjoy. It also got amazingly warm outside yesterday! Who knew that 35 degrees could feel so warm? It was downright balmy after five days below zero. 🙂 Although I’d still rather take a nice big snowstorm at this point in time.
This evening I played some intramural volleyball with John, Josh, Ben, Matt, Nate, Anna & Megan. Of course we lost the match in two sets, but at least we didn’t totally embarrass ourselves. That’s a plus, especially for a bunch of people who aren’t athletic at all. After that it was time for another edition of Trivia Night down in The Dive. This time we had a fairly large team, including all six of us from 202. There were five rounds, and we won two of them, the Nintendo Trivia and Grab-bag Trivia rounds. The rest of my roommates took charge on the Nintendo round, answering all ten questions correctly, it was pretty sweet (but incredibly nerdy, haha). About the only ones I could even help on the entire night were a couple from grab-bag. For instance, another of the rounds was movie trivia, five questions of which were on “Napolean Dynamite,” and another five from “The Big Lebowski,” neither of which I’d seen before. So when we came back to the section, Josh decided to pop in Lebowski, since neither Lindsay nor I had seen it. So that’s what I’m watching while I’m typing this on my laptop out in the section. The movie’s okay, but so far I don’t think it’s as good as everyone says it is. Maybe if I wasn’t occupied by my computer I’d find it funnier, oh well…
I guess I should be getting to bed pretty soon here. Tomorrow in C++ Ben, John & I have to re-write our code a bit for our “Robots” program, we have it doing the right thing, but our profs didn’t exactly like how we were doing it, sigh. But for a bit of weird news, check out the story on a Colorado man that nailed himself in the head but didn’t notice it for six days. How do you not notice a six-inch nail stuck in your head??
Oh, and I nearly forgot, but I now have several more photo albums online. Over the past few days I’ve gotten several ready to go, so that now I’m caught up to the night before my parents arrived in Sydney, when I saw fireworks at the Sydney Harbour Bridge! So be sure to check all those albums out, and I’ll say it in a post when I get any more albums online. I’m gradually working towards getting some of my New Zealand albums online, I’ll get there eventually.