Random Drivel

Went out with a bunch of friends Friday night, as can be seen in above picture (thanks Bri). As you can see, I am totally awsome and this picture proves it. No I’m not egotistical (yes I am).

More on why I’m totally awesome. On the way out of the bar Friday night, I got stopped by these three girls. They thought I was cute and wanted to talk. Yes, that’s right, I’m totally awesome. I told them I had to go, though, because my ride was leaving. They seemed upset. Man, I’m a nice guy.

More on awesomeness, Saturday night we go out to Bally (again) for dinner and some beers, and the Miller Lite girls are there, giving out free stuff. I got some of this free stuff, because I am awesome. Then Peyton Manning comes to chill in the bar. There’s only about two dozen people there at the time, but after a few hours it got pretty crowded. I’m sure some other Colts were around. They’re really taking over the campus. Rose-Hulman is getting owned by the Colts and their little golf carts (apparantly, its difficult to walk the ten feet to the field. I had to walk 10 minutes to class in the freezing snow, and these guys ride a golf cart to the field?)

I’m not only the man, I’m freaking awesome for what I just did.

The pool has reached its end. I was swimming today, but I got out and took a shower while Kou and Roser kept swimming. I went inside to make a pizza. I came outside after I pulled the pizza from the oven, and watched the guys for a while. I went inside to cut the pizza when I heard yells and laughter. I went outside, and saw a death most foul. I was inside for what must have been less than 30 seconds. Here is Kou’s account:

me and roser are in the pool, and im down by the tear in the pool, and im tryin to fix it, so i cover it up, and i come up for air, i go back down, and i see the tear getting bigger, i get up and say OH SHIT , and then the pool broke and flooded our back yard in around 10 seconds, all 2700 gallons of it, alll the water poured out the bottom while me and roser were still in it, and im about to get sucked in cuz i was right near the tear, and i try to get away and i did, after all the water left, i look around, my phone was in an 8in puddle, left sandal was 20ft away in the grass, right sandal still not found, net was by the cars, the pole for the net ended up underneath the stairs, and then all the garbage cans got knowcked over from so much water, and yeah,
pictures will be up,

As you can see, this is a most unglorious day for the Taj. We have lost a beloved friend, especially on this hottest of days.

Photo Gallery of the pool’s desctruction

Another good weekend at the Taj. Friday night we went out and had some fun all night, and then came back to go to Taco Bell and get food and go to sleep at 4am. Saturday we got up at 11, only to realize it was a very hot day. That problem was easily solved by getting in the pool and swimming around for a few hours. It’s a great feeling how all of your life’s worries melt away when you have the wonders of a backyard pool!

For lunch we hit up the TGI Fridays, which is currently remodeling to be less Applebees/Chilis/Ruby Tuesdays/EVERY RESTAURANT EVER. I’m thinking it’ll still be just like those other places, but with different wallpaper.

Afterwards we walked around the mall for a bit and went to the university T-shirt store. Since there were 5 of us, and we’re all retarded/smart engineer types, we noticed the buy 1 get two free deal and practically started calculating derivatives right there. We basically wanted to see if they had Rose-Hulman shirts (which, they did, quite a few actually. Hoodies, too), and ended up finding these Terre Haute shirts (front: The original, Terre Haute, Indiana. back: Sin City, grapic of a hautian chick, and Terre Haute, Indiana again.) The other shirt was a Cherry Street shirt, and there were some other random cool shirts. After we’d already picked up seven shirts, realizing that was one too many for the deal, the workers at the store (probably in an attempt to hit on us because, face it, we’re hot engineer dudes who can figure out math in their heads) decided to hook us up with the employee discount of buy one get 3 free. So all in all, we walked out with 8 shirts. Not a bad deal.

We went to see Willy Wonka, which was awesome. I read the book when I was like 7, so I remember a lot of the scenes that made it into this movie but weren’t in the original movie. The movie was more of a remake of the book rather than a remake of the original movie. Very good. The oompa loompas rocked, because it was all the same actor and he was probably the best character in the entire movie. The songs were also much more lively than the originals, very awesome.

Sunday, we went to the county fair. It was very weak, considering there were like 3.8 rides and tickets cost $1 each, with the rides ranging from 2-4 tickets. Again, in a feat of engineering prowess, the five of us decided to figure out which rides we wanted to ride and how many tickets that would require. While we were figuring out if we even had enough money (those carnie thieves!) to buy tickets, this girl who was probably about 17 but was 4′6″ walked up to us asking if we’d buy her tickets from her. We told her we didn’t even know if we had enough money, plus we were going for a discount package. She was like “just buy them!” and Ryan called her a little girl. This got her pissed off, and she called us fuckers. Which was funny coming from a little girl. We offered her a dollar for them, which she replied with “fuck you” and stormed off to her parents/grandparents/old people she was talking to, who cares. When we figured out that we needed three extra seperate tickets, we offered her a buck again. Ryan yelled out, “Hey little girl, we’ll buy you’re tickets!” she told us she didn’t want to sell them. When we walked by later (barreled over, laughing) she called us fags. All the more funny because of the old people she was talking to. Poor little girl, if she’d only had a dollar she could have ridden a cool ride like we did!

Anyway, work today was aiight, and I need a haircut. I should probably have made this three posts, but oh well. I gott swimming to do.

Google.com define:irony.

Not that I don’t enjoy Maddox, but I’m fairly certain his website falls under the domain of “blog”, even though it has been around for several years. He even has a ‘blogroll’. But its still a funny article.

So I come into work today and check CNN.com looking for a surge of happiness and well-being to boost my day, only to find the first six headlines on the page:

• London police identify first blast victim | Watch
• Remains identified as Idaho boy | Watch
• Gunman, baby die in police shootout
• Tragedy strikes two air shows | Watch
• 1 dead, 3 missing after trains collide
• Body of missing SEAL recovered | Watch

Are you kidding me? The first six headlines all have at least one dead person in them? CNN.com, why do you gotta be such a downer? Why is that news? None of those things strike me as interesting articles to read, except for the air show article, and that was the only headline that didn’t explicitly state that someone died (although I strongly suspect someone did). This is the world today, where they survive on bringing us the news that no one wants to read. For some reason, these headlines sell, and keeps us going to CNN.com. Why can’t we get headlines like “Doctor in Topeka, Kansas cures cancer”, or “World peace reached without anyone dying”. Not that these are headlines that would be likely to occur between now and the next ten minutes, but they’d be a little better than death.

I checked the other sections of the website, just to be sure. Sure enough, each section had horrible news. The world section had more about the terrorists in London, the politics section had “Bush: Terrorists ‘cannot shake our will’”, the science section had “Study: Brush fires caused Australian extinctions”, the technology section had “Bombing horror captured on cell phones”, and possibly the worst headline of all, the entertainment section had “Pauly Shore ready for a comeback”. What is the world coming to? NOOOO!!!

What a long and eventful weekend this has been! Friday was my birthday, and I turned 22. Another year gone, and a good one this has been. Frankly, one of the best and happiest I’ve had in recent memory. Since last year, I have made amazing new friends, met my wonderful girlfriend, gone and done amazing new things, and just generally had a great time.

Not enough time to discuss everything that happened this weekend, but here’s a quick rundown:

• Drive to Chicago
• War of the Worlds
• Taste of Chicago
• Golfing
• Six Flags and the Six Flags Waterpark

We spent most of yesterday at the Six Flags. We rode practically every rollercoaster and went on all of the rides at the waterpark. Hopefully I can go again sometime because it was a lot of fun.