A Late-Night Update

"There is nothing on this earth more prized than true friendship."
-- Saint Thomas Aquinas
(Thanks to David’s brother John Kartzinel for posting the quotation)

I was completely ready to be shut down, going to bed, and planning to post tomorrow, but at 2:20 am, ready to sleep and returning from the bathroom, I was interrupted by a ringing cell phone.

My cell phone, which was recharging, happened unfortunately to be under the stack of the new issues of the Cardinal & Cream I brought back to my room, and I didn’t get to it in time to answer. Being after 2 am, I was a little bit worried about what might be going on, so I bring up the number that just called me and called back.

I was greeted with a reference to this homestarrunner.com cartoon. Apparently, Kyle was wondering why my light was still on.

The conversation that followed was only half-sensical, but highly entertaining, ending in the agreement that we both really needed to get some sleep.

This is why I love my friends. You can actually do stuff like that.

My cold thing keeps getting better. I don’t like this slow recovery that I’ve had with college colds, but it’s nothing serious. I ran out of Advil Cold & Sinus and bought some Sudafed Multi-Symptom, which seems to be working wonders.

Still no word on a summer internship, though I sent an e-mail to the magazine in Atlanta. I’m also going to be looking at some other possibilities closer to home in case that doesn’t work out. Hopefully, I won’t have to end up putting in applications at Burger King, though I suppose if it comes to that, I’ll have to do what I have to do.

I presented Nic with a detailed shot list for “Chick Flick 101,” so we should start work on that any time now.

Commedia dell’arte is about to hit the full run-throughs for rehearsal, and we’re still having too much fun with it. Julie Palmer and I even made up a design for Compagnia dei Gelosi T-shirts. We finally figured out who Andy Morris sounds like: between the lowered old-man voice and the spaghetti-Italian dialect, he sounds like Watto from the Star Wars prequels, and it’s almost creepy how much the voices actually resemble each other.

Speaking of Star Wars, Revenge of the Sith hits theaters in less than a month now… and even though it actually premieres during finals week, I already have two people offering rides to the midnight opening.

Thursday night, the Student Activities Council held a “The-Price-Is-Right”-like event (called “Right Is the Price”), and my name was called to “Come on down!” I made it up on stage, and played the mountain-climber game for a $50 Best Buy gift card, winning a giant kite, the Back to the Future Trilogy DVD set, and the Law & Order board game in the process. (Did you know there was a Law & Order board game?) Oh, and I also spun a dollar on the showcase showdown wheel, so I won a dollar, too. Woohoo, and yay for SAC!

Nic, acting as my section editor, has limited me to writing two articles for the next newspaper, because, apparently, I’m going to be in charge of laying out a page for the next issue. He then proceeded to assign me two articles. So I guess I have a full plate. This is going to be fun.

My faculty advisor has looked over my schedule for next semester and given his approval… and though he can’t officially enter it into the computer until Friday, he’s got my schedule so he can make sure it works out, and I’ll come by Friday morning to make sure everything’s set.

Well, I think that’s about it for the time being. I’m going to get some sleep now.