Alaska! Alaska!

I was accosted yesterday at lunch for my failure to update my blog recently. Sufficiently chastised, I again set keyboard to digital non-paper, and begin anew.

My second semester at Covenant has been busy thus far. Compared to last semester, I've had significantly more homework, most of that coming from my math course, Finite Math. While it's not the worst time I've ever had with math (anyone else tried to teach themselves Algebra II?) its not fun either. I'll survive though, and by God's grace I might even manage a good grade. Otherwise my classes are going really well, and I just got permission to switch from the oh-so-frustrating software we've been using to supplement Arabic class to my own copy of Rosetta Stone. This has relieved a great deal of stress, since instead of spending an hour a week wondering if I'm using the product of the fabled million monkeys at keyboards, I'll be able to reinforce the stuff I need to know for quizzes.

A couple of weeks ago I found out that I won't be spending Easter Break (not to be confused with my Spring Break in March) sitting around at Covenant. Instead, my friend Mitchell Mitchell invited me to come home with him for the weekend. I'm looking forward to it! More recently I was introduced by the gang to Firefly, a sort-of sci-fi-western TV show. Very funny, and watching it with friends was an awesome way to spend two afternoons.

As we get closer to parent's weekend, and Lucifer's opening, things are getting both exciting and crazy. Exciting, because my family's coming down to visit and because I think Lucifer's going to be Epic, but crazy because getting it Epic is taking a lot of work, and because I'm going to have to clean my room in the near future. heh heh.

Speaking of Lucifer, we've gotten some cool insights into how the whole thing is going to work. Each character will have a different costume depending on rank, which is shown using the do-re-mi scale. For example, I'm a Fa, which means that, using the scale, we can see where my character ranks in the hierarchy. Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So-La-Ti-Do. Basically, I'm a military-caste angel, and that means that I get a greenish-blue tunic, with a white wig which so far reminds me of Haldir's hair in the Two Towers. Cool. Makeup is going to be interesting, since we're supposed to look nonhuman. We'll have totally white faces with lines the same colors as our tunics on our faces, going along with the lines of our facial bones. Kevin Hartzell and Ann Jones were made up during a rehearsal to we could see what it would look like. Definitely inhuman, but totally cool.

Brethren Hall has recently been abuzz on weekends with tournaments of the Gamecube (and as of yesterday, Wii) game Super Smash Brothers. Basically, the game consists of a bunch of Nintendo characters from across all of their games (ranging from Mario to people I've never even heard of) trying to knock each other off of a stage using a variety of kicks, punches, telekinesis, laser guns, magic yo-yos, eggs, or in one case flying bacon. Crazy, zany, and a lot of fun to play when you've nothing better to do.

Other fun events going on include Assassins, which starts on Wednesday. Sponsored by Mac Council, Assassins is a game where participants each are given a water gun and a piece of paper with a name on it. Their goal is to "kill" their target with the water pistol, while avoiding being assassinated by the person who has their name. If a player kills their target, they get the name of that person's target as their new target. The whole game can last weeks, and apparently everyone playing gets crazily paranoid. I was issued, instead of a tiny, easily concealable gun, a massive pistol which is more in line with an action hero than an Assassin. That's okay though, because I've figured out a way to hide my Dirty Harry gun, and I think it's actually kind of cool.

Last week, Covenant was hit by a double-whammy snowstorm followed immediately by an ice storm, effectively snowing us in for a weekend. The campus was beautiful, and in true David fashion I utterly failed to take a picture of any of it. *facepalm* It was also rather dangerous, however, as I learned while walking down to Alysha McCullough's apartment with her, Mitch, Liz Brink, and Katelyn Hickey. Walking under the power lines, I turned around to say something to Mitch, and a six-inch icicle fell and buried itself three inches into the ground about a foot in front of me. Whew! Most of the weekend, we watched movies, and I was very good about having to watch "The Jane Austen Book Club" since Mitch and I were outvoted in a room full of girls. I kept my mouth shut, mostly. I couldn't resist poking fun at the caption at the end of the movie, when a flash forward was revealed with the phrase "The Very Next Year". I believe I commented that it was SO next year they had to have that extra adjective. Alysha glared at me. I am unrepentant. :)

However, sitting through that movie meant that later that night we got to watch "Hot Fuzz" down on Catacombs. I really can't describe this movie other than to say its an absolutely ridiculous parody of every American action movie ever made. No cliche is sacrosanct. Best line: "No! I've never fired two guns into the air while jumping and yelling 'AHHHH!'"

Three or four days ago I was talking with Kevin Hartzell and somehow we started joking that Covenant needed to have a major program in how to hold doors. (he contends I came up with it, but I still think it was his brilliant idea). Highly amused by the conversation, wherin we kept adding classes that would go into such a major, I sat down afterward and wrote it up as a Facebook note, using the catalog entry for the Chemistry major as a template. Kevin thought it was funny, and sent it to the guy who actually writes the catalog entries. I hope that's a good thing. 0_o

Well, I think that's about everything that's happened recently. I'll try to keep this more current than I've been, so as not to leave you in the dark again for so long. Until next time....um...I'm out of ways to say good-bye. Bye? I guess that will have to do.

Good bye!