Wednesday, October 20, 2004
Weekend rundown
My weekend is over now. As is half of the week! I've been a little busier, hence the lack of recent posts. The benefit concert on Saturday went well. I got to see a good band (they played lots of hits that were a little before my time but I knew them) and was basically a roadie when they were done. No biggie. They were appreciative and very nice to us. My dinner at Rachael's Saturday night was just plain awesome. I had a steak that was done to perfection. I had a sweet potato and a bowl of chili too. All of it was great.
Sunday was the Special Olympics. That didn't go as well. When we arrived at the games they informed us that we wouldn't be inside as we were told, but we'd be outside (well, some of us were inside as we had two stations). I, unfortunately, was left out in the cold. I stayed there for about 4 hours. Then myself and the other Blue Key members decided that we'd had enough and joined the inside table. When the organizers of the games realized this they came to us and very snootily told us to go back outside. We refused. They left us alone after that but it really irked me that we were ordered around and that they wanted to make us spend 8 hours sitting out in the cold. That's a little excessive. I'm sure there are other causes that will not be as unappreciative in my future service.
Tuesday was pretty eventful. I had dinner with the president of the university, along with the rest of The Rocket staff. He's very nice and genuinely cares about the students. We had hot dogs and hamburgers (it was planned to be a cookout but the weather didn't permit it). It was fun. Then I went to a Blue Key social meeting where we met a new prospective faculty advisor. Our current advisor won't lift a finger for us and is hardly ever reachable, so we're searching for a new one. We met with Dr. Andrew Colvin who is a new professor in the philosophy department and and all around nice guy. We played a few games and talked about Blue Key. I also got to show of the new website which most of our members hadn't seen yet. Everyone liked it a lot.
Anyhow, that leaves me with today, Wednesday, my busy day. Classes straight through except for lunch and dinner. I have night class so I don't get done until 9:30 or so. No fun. That leaves Tuesday and Thursday pretty open for me though, so it's a necessary evil. Talk to you all soon.
P.S. GET WELL UNCLE BUCK! YOU TOO NANNA!
Sunday was the Special Olympics. That didn't go as well. When we arrived at the games they informed us that we wouldn't be inside as we were told, but we'd be outside (well, some of us were inside as we had two stations). I, unfortunately, was left out in the cold. I stayed there for about 4 hours. Then myself and the other Blue Key members decided that we'd had enough and joined the inside table. When the organizers of the games realized this they came to us and very snootily told us to go back outside. We refused. They left us alone after that but it really irked me that we were ordered around and that they wanted to make us spend 8 hours sitting out in the cold. That's a little excessive. I'm sure there are other causes that will not be as unappreciative in my future service.
Tuesday was pretty eventful. I had dinner with the president of the university, along with the rest of The Rocket staff. He's very nice and genuinely cares about the students. We had hot dogs and hamburgers (it was planned to be a cookout but the weather didn't permit it). It was fun. Then I went to a Blue Key social meeting where we met a new prospective faculty advisor. Our current advisor won't lift a finger for us and is hardly ever reachable, so we're searching for a new one. We met with Dr. Andrew Colvin who is a new professor in the philosophy department and and all around nice guy. We played a few games and talked about Blue Key. I also got to show of the new website which most of our members hadn't seen yet. Everyone liked it a lot.
Anyhow, that leaves me with today, Wednesday, my busy day. Classes straight through except for lunch and dinner. I have night class so I don't get done until 9:30 or so. No fun. That leaves Tuesday and Thursday pretty open for me though, so it's a necessary evil. Talk to you all soon.
P.S. GET WELL UNCLE BUCK! YOU TOO NANNA!
# posted by Brando @ 1:25 PM 
