Things I learned this week:
- there is such a word as co-opetition, a combination of the words competition and cooperation, and I don't think that it is actually possible. In fact, I kind of expect the word to implode from internal contradiction, eventually.
- I have a "gang-bangah butt", according to Sarah. No ghetto bootie for me. Nope. I'm straight up gang-bangah. Word to all my boyz.
- there is someone on campus with all three Nickel Creek albums on his/her iTunes, and I love him/her for it.
- I'm much worse at pool than I thought I was.
- I apparently have a high tolerance for very little sleep. As evidenced by my being up for no reason at 1:30 AM after getting about 4 hours of sleep a night all week.
- Katy and I are funny, funny kids. Because our ed psych brochure had pictures of Richard Gere and Jennifer Grey (the actress from Dirty Dancing and Ferris Buehler's Day Off) on the cover and a clip art picture of a cactus inside with the caption "Discipline Plan(t)". Probably we aren't funny at all, but it sure seemed like it at the time.
- I am once again in love with college basketball. Nothing like a #1 seed being upset by an #11 seed in the Elite Eight to get your heart pumping.
- Neo-Marxism is really different from the original Marxism.
- there is nothing so boring that a well-placed exclamation point cannot liven up. (!)
I think I'm rambling now. I must be tired. Night, munchkins!

Jesus walks with them...

I find this picture kind of ironic because I hate pirates. But ninjas would never let there be lame wooden statues of them standing around San Fransisco, so my options were few.
This part of the semester is always really lame, because it's all work with the only thing to look forward to being saying goodbye to everyone. Hot. I still have two papers way overdue that I keep thinking about but not really working on. I blame my tuberculosis. Is that acceptable?
Tonight was our home concert to wrap up our two weeks of Choir Tour. I had a great time getting to know some people better and learn to really appreciate them, but I also had far too much time to learn how much I really dislike some of the dipwads (for you, Kathlyn) in our choir. I think that makes me a big jerk, but there's something about being ill and confined to a bus that makes me really know how to hate some people. Especially people with fluffy, digusting blonde afros or young women desperate to score a man any way they can. On the bright side, I'm one half of the Championship Rook Team. Still undefeated, which means it's a good thing that I am NEVER playing Rook again. It was the trip of a lifetime, but I'm glad it's over and I have my own space again. Here's to introverts!
And now I'm going to hit the hay, because I have to be up in not too long to set up a Saturday morning lab test for my sunshine children in my Zoology lab. Oh happy ones, how they will love this test!

What does it take to get a drink in this place

I'm wrapping stuff up around here before heading off on Choir Tour with the Dordt Concert Choir, which will hopefully be featuring my awesome overtones, if I can get over being so congested. I would complain about the two papers I have to write yet before going, but you guys don't care about those and I decided I'm just going to email them to the prof over break anyways, instead of killing myself trying to get them in now, so I won't complain about those. I could complain about how much of a mess our house is and that it needs to be cleaned before leaving, except I can't really complain when I am a major culprit for the mess. I could complain about not being able to sleep in EVER, but I like mornings, so I won't complain about that either.
One frustration I will voice, though, is my limited knowledge. I know that I strongly support social justice and ending poverty and all this stuff. But in Gen 300, when I try to vocalize these convictions, I don't have the knowledge of how government programs or private businesses really operate, so my ideas come across sounding transcendently idealistic. I guess I shouldn't complain about this, but should get to work building my knowledge.
We have very little food in the house, so it's been kind of funny figuring out what to make for dinner every night. Last night we had cheese pizza with green onions and spinach. I could have sliced a hot dog over it, or maybe some carrots, but I decided that was just too weird. So we ate our onion pizza plain. I wonder what tonight will bring...
Love and grace to all of you. For those of you I'm not seeing, have a wonderful week and a half. For those of you I'm going to see, I'm excited!