I am officially half way through my term, and that makes me happy indeed. Classes are still fairly uninteresting, but I am learning some seriously creative thinking from my vector calculus class. As a result of this creative thinking, I destroyed my first midterm (grade pending, unfortunately) so I am fairly excited about that. I also got the highest grade in chemistry I’ve gotten all year (89%, which is an A–) so all is well there. I also finished my first college paper this morning on Moldovan, and I’m pretty proud of it indeed.
In other, more interesting nooz (tis a silly day, just so you know), my hall, Ganoe, had a party a couple weeks ago. It was Joel’s idea, and he is a genius for it. He called it showerpalooza, and it was anyone who wanted to from Ganoe to meet in the third floor (boys floor) showers to listen to music and eat junk food and generally have a blast. But here’s the cool part: we got our RA’s approval. Albert and Ginny are awesome, I’m just gonna say that right now, They said as long as we behaved and wore bathing suits at all times, it was all good. And it was all good, we made a calendar of people there (we are going to print it one day) and I was in September (doing the Captain Morgan stance, because talk like a pirate day is in September, on my birthday actually) and April, miming some Ganja (4:20 – arn’t we creative). And then the RA’s showed up. Now, I know what you’re thinking “but Connor, you said the RA’s were ok with it!” and so I did, and so they did – but they did not talk to the whole complex about it, so the RAs on duty doing rounds through our hall asked what was going on and wanted to write us up for noise violation and having boys and girls in the same shower (more specifically, having girls in the boys shower). I went and got Albert, and he kept us from getting written up (which really, can you blame us for breaking the rules if the person in charge tells you that it is ok?). So the party ended early, and by early, I mean around 10:00, this party wasn’t that late. So we just hung out in the lounge, and I spent 30 minutes recovering from my Mountain Dew chugging competition with Evan (he beat me by less than a second) and this was a 16 oz. Soda. I do not recommend it for those of you considering a soda chugging competition – use sprite or pepsi – the Dew and Orange soda will kill you.
Our group of cards playing friends has gotten larger, we are now playing games of Kemps with at least 6 people, most of the time 8, and it is pretty crazy indeed. We live at carson dining and common grounds cafe, and I am pretty much only in my room to study and sleep (which isn’t that often).
This past weekend, I went to an event called Faerieworlds (note: Faerie, not Fairy – there is a difference, look it up). And yes, it is a awesomely lame as it sounds. Several hundred people dressed up as faeries and woodland creatures (including me) on two different nights. There was Good Faeries night, and I didn’t have an outfit for that, so I just did some face paint, and we listened to a band called Woodland, who were good, and then a band called Delhi 2 Dublin. Delhi 2 Dublin is amazing, and one of the coolest things I’ve heard in my life. I’ve heard of fusion bands before, but this was like nothing I’ve ever heard. They mixed traditional indian music (sitar, this drum called a dhol which can produce different sounds by hitting the two sides of it), celtic (this really sexy fiddle player who can jump around like a rock star and still play incredibly complex melodies without missing a beat), techno and hip hop (they had a DJ guy who did this) and traditional Indian vox. Now, you have to understand, they did not alternate between these styles, they did all of them at the same time, all the time. It was CRAZINESS!!! 300 Faeries dancing all night to these guys. The next night was Bad Faeries night, and that one I dressed up for. My costume was some handmade clothes with fabric hand sewn (by me, over 3.5 hours of time) to the sleeves to look like wings and be fun to dance with. We got to listen to Abney Park, who are classified as Industrial Pirate music – the Genre is Steampunk-esque, and I have no idea what that means, but the steampunk kids came out in force for these guys. Then we got to hear Beats Antique, who were just a techno/trance group, who were accompanied by one of the best tribal belly dancers in the world, Zoe Jakes (http://www.zoebellydance.com/ will give you a good idea about what kind of show we saw).
So then I woke up on Sunday, and decided to go back to sleep, because I had been dancing until 1:00AM both nights previous.
So this week was filled with homework and studying and quizzes and tests and papers, and I am going to be rewarded for my hard work, because I am going to go see Andrew Lloyd Webber’s CATS tomorrow night at the Actor’s Cabaret, and I am very very excited.
Circus still going well, I’m taking it easy this and last week because I worked a little too hard and injured my back. I have really started working on Acro with my new parter Isha, and she is such a quick learner I just kept pushing us, and my body was not ready for the work it takes to be a base. Flying I can do all day, but basing takes different muscles (mind you, neither one is easier, basing is harder on lifting strength, but flying has more to do with core strength and balance to the point of perfection) and I injured my back and have been recovering ever since. Plus, I am fighting off sickness, so it has not been a good couple weeks for me.
But, staying positive, still loving the weather and the people.
Oh! And before I forget, if any of you have not seen my juggling demo video, you should go watch it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8icEfv81RTU, I will be editing/publishing my Aerial (Trapeze and Silks, and possibly some hand-balancing too, I’m not sure) demo video this weekend, so keep an eye out for that.
Except the Nazis. I don’t like them. The Pacifica Forum (primarily white supremacists) are the likely group responsible for the Swastika spray painted on the floor of the LGBTQA (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans Questioning Alliance) Office in the Memorial Union. On the upside, it was a really big unifying factor for the students. Signs have been going up all over the place saying “an attack on one is an attack on all” and there were enough students at the protest in the middle of campus yesterday to fill up the amphitheater and then some. I was in chemistry at the time… and at work the time before that. My life is getting in the way of my activism…
Oh, and amazing(ly depressing) movie that is quite likely to be on my top ten movies very soon (and very near to the top of my favorite gay/lesbian movies list): Lost and Delirious. Staring Piper Perabo (who also starred in Imagine Me & You, another one of my favorite Lesbian movies) and Micha Barton, who plays the aptly named “Mouse.” One of the reasons I loved this movie (aside from the wonderfully depressing aspect, and the good love story, although not great sex scene, I might admit) was how it was told. It was not told from the point of view of the Lesbian Lovers, it is told from the point of view of their roommate Mouse, who comes from a small town and a small world (“Until that night, I had never felt anything, you know, down there, I didn’t know what that felt like” she is 17, you figure it out) and it is her telling the story as she sees it from the outside of this relationship, quite uncommon for a love story – which I appreciated when I got done being upset about the plot…
Kat, Evan and I had a discussion the other day about favorite movies, and I could do my top 5 no problem, so I shall now attempt to compile a top ten. For the most part, they are in no particular order, with the exception of 1 and 2, those are set at the top, and they are equal.
Contact
Pump Up The Volume
Girl In The Café
Boy’s Don’t Cry
Hook
Aladin
The Breakfast Club
Finding Neverland
Moulin Rouge
Lost And Delirious(?)
(Runner Ups: Mouth to Mouth, But I’m A Cheerleader, Tipping the Velvet, Unleashed, The Matrix)
When it comes to my top ten, the last 2 or 3 are always up for grabs and change quite often, but thats the list right now.
Of those 15 movies, 6 of them make me cry, and 8 of them make me angry (in a good, inspired way)…. Woah… what does that say about me? I like extreme emotions among other things, I think.
Well, I’m outta here, that is a blog that is over 1,600 words, and almost 3 pages single spaced, I think I’ve given you people enough to read until I get around to posting another one of these things.
I love you all, Go Ducks, and do your best to keep learning, wherever you are.
“You have brains in your head, and feet in your shoes, you can steer yourself any direction you choose”
~Dr. Seuss (Oh! The Places You’ll Go)
No comments:
Post a Comment