back again

Hey. Sorry to anyone who was just starting to read this blog for dipping out for so long. I guess I saw that the other two were posting about the exact same things I had to share, since we’re all in Lion Ambassadors together, and didn’t make time to write about something else. But after this depressing lapse was brought to my attention, I decided to use this time (1:20 AM) to enjoy some leftover pizza and the Daily Show in the background to spark my “creative juices”.

Actually, here’s a recap of what I’ve missed:

Boobies Ball (the big on-campus charitable event of the year for LAmbs), was a relatively huge success. The room we got for the occassion was filled the whole time, and people really seemed to enjoy themselves. I even danced in between selling tickets, which is really saying something. More importantly, we doubled last year’s funds raised with over $2500. That’s all profit, folks–straight to the Feel Your Boobies foundation bank account. Congrats to us, and thanks to everyone that participated!

Hmm.. our main lobby entrance for Olmsted finally opened officially sometime last week. It’s really nice-looking, I can’t lie; if you want to see pictures of the ceremony/part of the completed project, I think Jen loaded some. My little bone about it, though, is that it not only took so long to complete and inconveniently diverted so many students since the beginning of school–that’s unavoidable with campus construction, it seems–but today it was roped off again because they were continuing to work on the older molding or whatever it is. Isn’t the point of a grand opening to signify the opening of something?
Don’t toy with my emotions (and paths to class) like this.

After work today I went over to the Student Center in the CUB to help seat for a speaking event on diversity. The man that spoke was Morris Dees, a lawyer and activist of sorts from Alabama who pointedly represents underprivileged and minority clientele. He wrote a book, too, if you’ve ever heard of him–it’s at the bookstore, and it’s the only reason I recognized him, really. Dees was a great speaker, and I felt horrible that I couldn’t pay attention longer because I kept nodding off. I’m really screwing up my sleep cycle lately.. I guess that’s just one of the perks of being a college student.
Part of the reason I was so tired was post-first-IM-softball-game/major-win celebration from last night into the early ‘morn.. really I was just talking to friends until 2AM, but we really really did beast through that softball game. Wooo! Kegs on 2nd has gotten infinitely and miraculously better for no apparent reason, and I like it.
[By the way, DO check out Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center which he heads up--He has his own wikipedia entry, for cryin' out loud. You know that's legit.]

To wrap up: I’m planning my Fall classes right now–I schedule next Monday–but that’s another post; I just finished my last interview for the CA position today, and I’m crossing my fingers; Rock for Change is going down on Friday after classes, and I’m staffing that as well after work (free concert of local bands to collect donations to benefit the Invisible Children); clubs are wrapping up and classes are coming down hard, so everyone’s in a mad rush to study and do well for these last few weeks before finals.. Oh, and the annual Bathtub Races are coming up.