Rejuvinated.
This weekend was amazing. It just filled me up with life again, and I can't even begin to describe what that's like. Well, I'll try. The old cliche of the sails comes back, the wind being put back into them and the such, but it's more than that. It's just something that's great. It was needed, and now I have the energy to get all this work done.
Here are the highlights:
1) Chris F's Tea Party: This was a nice little gathering of friends that was a very chill way to start the whole weekend off. We watched bottle rocket, drank tea, and ate scones. I really like scones now. They's tasty little treats, and I honestly could just eat an entire container of them by myself. They tasted of cinammon, something that I do not often like, but I made an exception in their case.
2) The Dance Show: Saw Betsy dance at the show. She was really good. She is really tall, and yet she is graceful. I feel like she has to hold back a lot in order to maintain a symmetry on stage, but it was enjoyable. Some of the dances stood out for me. There was one where two men played I believe cellos, so it was instantly one of my favorite pieces. The last dance was good for me as well. The wings were exposed, and that leant a very Brechtian aspect to it. You could see people getting ready to come back on the stage, proper. People spoke, the director danced, an elderly man who was fairly round, but could still shake it. Thoughts were expressed verbally and in dance, and it was genuine. It felt that at least. It was a nice aside for me. Dance is an artform that I never really understood, but I actually got something from a lot of these pieces. Communication of ideas through movement.
3) Larabee. I was there with Jonny Fong, Scott, and PJ. Tim came. We were all there for Adam's birthday, which was a lovely little affair. The high point came when it was discovered that Adam had a nerf pistol. Tim has one of these things as well. It has a little light that acts as a laser sight, and it shoots a single dart really quickly. These things are just amazing little toys, and at 5 dollars a piece, I feel everyone should get one. I did. But back to the story.
Tim and I took these two pistols and had a quick draw competition. He had an advantage thanks to the pants he wore, so we moved to just having firefights. They were pretty straightforward at first, but then became more absurd. We went to the common room, and soon we were rolling around behind cover, taking shots at each other, leaping over furniture, diving, rolling, and shooting still. It was like nerf met john woo. It was exhausting, and we both came back to the party a good 40 minutes later, sweaty.
After that little bit, we took a drunked Scott to the footbridge over RT. 32 and smoked cigars. We decided to try and get cars to honk their horns by waving furiously and making the universal "honk your horn" motion at them. Well, after about a half hour (or was it an hour?) we got 7 cars to honk, and one to turn off their lights. We didn't really ask them to, but they did it, so we took credit. It was amazingly cool, yelling at cars, dancing about, and generally being silly. After that, Tim and I got burgers and talked early into the morning.
4) Saturday morning saw the long awaited college bowl come to town. My team consisted of Ryan, Luthy, Adam James, and Tim (me too). We won our first game by a huge margin, but then we lost the rest of them. We tried to change our team strategy halfway through, by drinking, but it didn't help. We had fun though, and I discovered that Ryan knows a little too much about alternative uses for Guinea Pigs, other than as pets...
5) Once the glow of college bowl wore off, I spent time at the info desk and got to know my good friend sarah again. It had been too long since we had spent any time together, and it was a ton of fun to just be silly around her, and it really made my day that much better. We had been the victim of miscommunications, and I thought she said some things about me that she didn't say, and we really were sort of in an odd place, but it's better now. I couldn't be happier about that. She was one of the first friends I made at Conn, the other being Josh...we all met on the first day here, and have been friends ever since. I would hate to lose such a good friend. I don't think I have to worry about that though.
(I also got dinner with Pete Luthy. He said he would take me on a date.)
6) MOBROC show. This was Saturday night, in order to benefit SAVE, the campus environmental group. MOBROC is the local band group on campus, so all the bands were playing. The highlights for me were the Girl band, as they have so much potential, the Dixie Flatline, for their energy and kickass name, Winslow's band, which was like thei Thievery Corporation, and the Red Scare, which rocked fucking balls. In particular, I would probably pay to hear Winslow's group, as well as the Red Scare. I know the kids in the Scare, and even without that, they were excellent. I also got to borrow Manc's amazing accordion for a week or so, which is a godsend, as mine is at home. MUHAHA. Twas an amazingly awesome show, aided by beer: 2 dollars for as many glasses as you could drink. Didn't have that much, but I was buzzing around the room, saying stupid things and dancing like a fool on my still bad ankle.
7) Handsome Boy Modelling Shoot. I am a Handsome Boy graduate. I posed for Fong on the beach, smoking a cigar. I also posed for him on the street, eating my lunch. I wasn't actually posing. I was just eating. He took pictures. I wonder what they all look like. I can't imagine anything else than myself looking silly, but I really want to see them. Especially this one of a squirrel that almost touched Fong. We tried to give it old french fries and a cigar, but it didn't want any of it. After that was a film club meeting, then relaxation, accordion playing, and work.
It may not sound like much, but there were so many good things happening this last weekend, and it was all needed. I rediscovered an old friend, I made new ones, grew closer to all, and grew as a person. Life is good. In my mind, that means that some horribly bad thing is about to happen. No matter, life shall go on unchanged, as always.
-ccm
ps: This is a fucking blog. It is the most self centered thing that one can do.
This weekend was amazing. It just filled me up with life again, and I can't even begin to describe what that's like. Well, I'll try. The old cliche of the sails comes back, the wind being put back into them and the such, but it's more than that. It's just something that's great. It was needed, and now I have the energy to get all this work done.
Here are the highlights:
1) Chris F's Tea Party: This was a nice little gathering of friends that was a very chill way to start the whole weekend off. We watched bottle rocket, drank tea, and ate scones. I really like scones now. They's tasty little treats, and I honestly could just eat an entire container of them by myself. They tasted of cinammon, something that I do not often like, but I made an exception in their case.
2) The Dance Show: Saw Betsy dance at the show. She was really good. She is really tall, and yet she is graceful. I feel like she has to hold back a lot in order to maintain a symmetry on stage, but it was enjoyable. Some of the dances stood out for me. There was one where two men played I believe cellos, so it was instantly one of my favorite pieces. The last dance was good for me as well. The wings were exposed, and that leant a very Brechtian aspect to it. You could see people getting ready to come back on the stage, proper. People spoke, the director danced, an elderly man who was fairly round, but could still shake it. Thoughts were expressed verbally and in dance, and it was genuine. It felt that at least. It was a nice aside for me. Dance is an artform that I never really understood, but I actually got something from a lot of these pieces. Communication of ideas through movement.
3) Larabee. I was there with Jonny Fong, Scott, and PJ. Tim came. We were all there for Adam's birthday, which was a lovely little affair. The high point came when it was discovered that Adam had a nerf pistol. Tim has one of these things as well. It has a little light that acts as a laser sight, and it shoots a single dart really quickly. These things are just amazing little toys, and at 5 dollars a piece, I feel everyone should get one. I did. But back to the story.
Tim and I took these two pistols and had a quick draw competition. He had an advantage thanks to the pants he wore, so we moved to just having firefights. They were pretty straightforward at first, but then became more absurd. We went to the common room, and soon we were rolling around behind cover, taking shots at each other, leaping over furniture, diving, rolling, and shooting still. It was like nerf met john woo. It was exhausting, and we both came back to the party a good 40 minutes later, sweaty.
After that little bit, we took a drunked Scott to the footbridge over RT. 32 and smoked cigars. We decided to try and get cars to honk their horns by waving furiously and making the universal "honk your horn" motion at them. Well, after about a half hour (or was it an hour?) we got 7 cars to honk, and one to turn off their lights. We didn't really ask them to, but they did it, so we took credit. It was amazingly cool, yelling at cars, dancing about, and generally being silly. After that, Tim and I got burgers and talked early into the morning.
4) Saturday morning saw the long awaited college bowl come to town. My team consisted of Ryan, Luthy, Adam James, and Tim (me too). We won our first game by a huge margin, but then we lost the rest of them. We tried to change our team strategy halfway through, by drinking, but it didn't help. We had fun though, and I discovered that Ryan knows a little too much about alternative uses for Guinea Pigs, other than as pets...
5) Once the glow of college bowl wore off, I spent time at the info desk and got to know my good friend sarah again. It had been too long since we had spent any time together, and it was a ton of fun to just be silly around her, and it really made my day that much better. We had been the victim of miscommunications, and I thought she said some things about me that she didn't say, and we really were sort of in an odd place, but it's better now. I couldn't be happier about that. She was one of the first friends I made at Conn, the other being Josh...we all met on the first day here, and have been friends ever since. I would hate to lose such a good friend. I don't think I have to worry about that though.
(I also got dinner with Pete Luthy. He said he would take me on a date.)
6) MOBROC show. This was Saturday night, in order to benefit SAVE, the campus environmental group. MOBROC is the local band group on campus, so all the bands were playing. The highlights for me were the Girl band, as they have so much potential, the Dixie Flatline, for their energy and kickass name, Winslow's band, which was like thei Thievery Corporation, and the Red Scare, which rocked fucking balls. In particular, I would probably pay to hear Winslow's group, as well as the Red Scare. I know the kids in the Scare, and even without that, they were excellent. I also got to borrow Manc's amazing accordion for a week or so, which is a godsend, as mine is at home. MUHAHA. Twas an amazingly awesome show, aided by beer: 2 dollars for as many glasses as you could drink. Didn't have that much, but I was buzzing around the room, saying stupid things and dancing like a fool on my still bad ankle.
7) Handsome Boy Modelling Shoot. I am a Handsome Boy graduate. I posed for Fong on the beach, smoking a cigar. I also posed for him on the street, eating my lunch. I wasn't actually posing. I was just eating. He took pictures. I wonder what they all look like. I can't imagine anything else than myself looking silly, but I really want to see them. Especially this one of a squirrel that almost touched Fong. We tried to give it old french fries and a cigar, but it didn't want any of it. After that was a film club meeting, then relaxation, accordion playing, and work.
It may not sound like much, but there were so many good things happening this last weekend, and it was all needed. I rediscovered an old friend, I made new ones, grew closer to all, and grew as a person. Life is good. In my mind, that means that some horribly bad thing is about to happen. No matter, life shall go on unchanged, as always.
-ccm
ps: This is a fucking blog. It is the most self centered thing that one can do.
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