Saturday, February 21, 2004

Todays's Onion Headline: "Woodland Pals Hold Impromptu Oompah-Band Jamboree"

Music: The Wallflowers - I Started a Joke
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The power has been out for about half han hour already. It totally sucks. I am beginning this entry while sitting in a darkened room with no internet connection, 80% battery power on my laptop, and no heat in my increasingly cold room with no heat.

I don't even have the option of procrastinating on my book anymore. There's nothing else to do!.....except type in this entry field and send post it when we get the connection back!

Let's get down to business.

Last night we made candy houses at Galloway. It was so fun! My group used the box of our grahm crackers as a base and stuck the crakers to the side with the sticky icing. We even made a fully supported roof structure! It was a very pretty house. The other groups made "igloos" instead, by turning one of their candy bowls upside down and pouring icing on it. Cheaters :P. I am happy to announce that our house won Best in Show.

While we were looking at everyone's house we were continually cracking jokes. Ken made a few cracks about one house that really wouldn't be funny if I wrote them down. Suffice it to say I was laughing so hard by the end that I felt sick. It was great.

After the judging, Ben, Ken, and John thought it would be a fantastic idea to take the gingerbread cutout trees and people and stand in the middle of Sixth Stree, pitching them to one another so as to hit them with a wiffle-ball bat. Even the drunks thought they were nuts.

Okay I just got totally teased. The electricity came back for about 2 seconds and is now gone again....the heater didn't even have a chance to start...

Back to the story.

After the candy houses, we played video games on the wall screen. Mario Kart was so hot on that, and everyone really enjoyed Mario Party. After MP, most people left the house to go play Bachie Ball on the academic quad. It was cold so I stayed in...with the wall screen and a hooked up Gamecube...

I will never love SSX3 so much after that. What looks cool on my tiny TV looks amazing on the wall. It was incredible. I can't wait to move in there next semester.

By the time I was done with that, it was 2 am , so I slunk back to Edwards, completely sketched out by the fact that the parties had spilled out in to the actual street, and the fact that there were random people hanging around the first floor.

I locked myself in and woke up this morning just before noon...then I made some scrambled eggs....damn...I'm not going to be able to stretch this out any longer, am I?

::sigh:: Back to work, I guess.

*Later addition - Total time without power: not quite two hours*

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