High-school friends are AWESOME!

Special thanks to:
Eric “The Driver” Park
Alex “Only for the articles” McKinley
Peter “Unexpectedly in the loop” Tutanes

Maciej~! “Consummate Buttons” Kasperowicz
Joseph “The Vagrant” O’Connor
Martin “Spontaneous Brogue” Sweeney
Kevin “Inexplicably coatless, but with a spiffy scarf” Altier
Nicholas “Allowed to Touch Her” Kohout
Kathleen “Cutie Katie” Napleton
Timothy “More powerful than fire” Marco

Eric “The much-suffering host” Kurdziel. Tremendous, excellent party. Cannot be praised enough considering the shit he went through for it.

Everybody else I don’t have a humorous epithet for.

The Improv Olympic, and the only unquestionably good thing to come out of Flint.

The makers of “Fun Stones”.

Rolling Stone, for I am newly armed with Disraeli Gears and Rocket to Russia.

And my coat, because it now smells like delicious mountain pine smoke.


And now, back to college, to prepare for the madness of finals week. Whee!

Scene: Room 223A
Zach enters, utterly soaked in a wool sweater, after walking through extreme cold and heavy rain/sleet/snow. Winter is upon us.

Immediately, my iTunes offers up "Here Comes the Sun". priceless.
Zach: "Fuck you, and fuck George Harrison!"


Also, a statement from Shu: "If you blog about me, I'll kill you."

Well, the template will change eventually, beyond changing the background color to a school-year-suitable maroon. But not right now.

After seeing none whatsoever in all the previous course of my life, I have now seen two movie sneak-previews, both right down the street at Ida Noyes. Yay Doc Films! Furthermore, I have seen one sneak preview of a good movie. Let's start with the other one.

Under no circumstances should you actually pay to see National Treasure, starring Nicholas Cage as a dude who steals the Declaration of Independence to prevent the theft of the Declaration of Independence. All this is done on account of an ancient treasure hidden by the freemasons, including the founding fathers. Ben Franklin personally designed old-school 3-D glasses for the purpose. The phrase of the day is "non sequitur." There are brief flashes of goodness, but most of it is unintentionally funny. There are much better movie-going options. Such as leaving the theatre, hunting down Nicholas Cage, and preventing him from ever doing another movie for Disney. But I digress.

The movie you should see, of the two, is Kinsey, the movie that puts the "sex...y" in "clinical sexology". Well, alright, it's not all that sexy or necessarily clinical, but it is a damn good movie. Liam Neeson is supposedly up for an Oscar, and he's very good as the man who invented the scientific study of sex. First, the 50's are just funny for sexual viewpoints. Second, Kinsey is a very sympathetic character without being portrayed one-sidedly. Thirdly, it's just a good movie, acting and story-wise. And if your anything like me, you will cringe more times than you probably ever have in a movie. One caveat: if you go in looking for gratuitous nudity and sex scenes, you will be disappointed, which really makes the movie much easier to take seriously anyway.

Also, I like swords. So I've joined the fencing club team. Up to this point this just involves moving bakc and forth in really weird posture that uses muscles you had no awareness of. These muscles, ?I note, do not like to be bothered. That said, fencing is still cool.

Wheee! Social science paper. A bit hectic around here lately, more updates when things settle down.

But~!
Important news:

Guess where I'll be the first weekend of December?
Yes, that's right, fabulous Urbana-Champaign / Champaign-Urbana, for a College Bowl tournament. See y'all down there.

And... Whoosh! Off to Comp Sci lab.