Do you remember when we were super excited to start this blog and share our lives with each other? Yeah, me neither. So I am trying to give this blog a sharp kick in the teeth, much like what this semester is doing to me.
My New Semester Resolution was to branch out and try new things and I find myself spread a bit thin. Like three days a week, Other Rachel and I go to the University Center (UC) and take some fitness classes. I am not cut out for Yoga. Sweet Jesus, I cannot get my leg behind my head and pretend that the jagged gasps of air are really deep cleansing breaths.
I went to the opera yesterday. "The opera" is a loose term. In reality I went to the Purnell (the building where all the theater/drama people hang out) and saw an opera that they put on. A friend of mine is double majoring in Computer Science and Lightning (I never see him), but he got a few free tickets so I went.
The basic plot of this opera is that a boy throws a tantrum after his mother scolds him, so he destroys all the furniture. But HOLY SHIT THE FURNITURE COMES ALIVE AND OH MAN ARE THEY PISSED! So yeah, the furniture attacks the boy and things get crazy and there's a lot of singing. Overall it was really enjoyable...and French.
Despite all of this nonsense going on, I don't really have any anecdotes comparable to Missy's emergency pants story. Nor do I have anything remotely interesting to say. I just miss you guys and I want to hear about your lives and such. So yeah.
Have a song.
Monday, January 30, 2012
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
In Case of Fire (Alarm)
I never keep my pants in my dresser and/or wardrobe at school. Instead, I keep them in an easy-access spot right next to said furniture, in a little basket that is not quite a basket, and therefore is not an object that I loathe with every fiber of my being.
I do this because my experience in college dorms has taught me one very important thing: at any point in the night, or at any point after all your classes have been attended and social shin-digs are over with, when you're sitting cozy in your dorm room with your PJs on (and, if you're like me, you wear shorts. or capris), those ordinary jeans sitting in that unassuming little basket could at any moment turn into Emergency Pants.
Emergency Pants are really only used for one thing: fire alarms, set off at ungodly hours or inconsiderately during one of your favorite TV shows. And last night set a new record for me: it was our first night back in the dorms, and that damn alarm went off at 1:30 in the morning. And since it was winter outside, I was very much pleased that I maintained my Emergency Pants philosophy, because holy crap on a cracker it was cold out there.
Hopefully the rest of you got off to a better-rested start for this exciting new semester. I've had one class thus far and I already love it. What interesting classes are you guys taking this semester? And if you're already done with school, do you have any current projects or other exciting things looming on the horizon?
My classes this semester:
Multimedia and Web Design
Advanced Seminar for publication design
Modern Lit
Spanish
American Lit
I've never actually seen the video for this, so it'll be an experience for all of us.
I do this because my experience in college dorms has taught me one very important thing: at any point in the night, or at any point after all your classes have been attended and social shin-digs are over with, when you're sitting cozy in your dorm room with your PJs on (and, if you're like me, you wear shorts. or capris), those ordinary jeans sitting in that unassuming little basket could at any moment turn into Emergency Pants.
Emergency Pants are really only used for one thing: fire alarms, set off at ungodly hours or inconsiderately during one of your favorite TV shows. And last night set a new record for me: it was our first night back in the dorms, and that damn alarm went off at 1:30 in the morning. And since it was winter outside, I was very much pleased that I maintained my Emergency Pants philosophy, because holy crap on a cracker it was cold out there.
Hopefully the rest of you got off to a better-rested start for this exciting new semester. I've had one class thus far and I already love it. What interesting classes are you guys taking this semester? And if you're already done with school, do you have any current projects or other exciting things looming on the horizon?
My classes this semester:
Multimedia and Web Design
Advanced Seminar for publication design
Modern Lit
Spanish
American Lit
I've never actually seen the video for this, so it'll be an experience for all of us.
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