Death of a Blog(man)

Seems to me we've all settled in, to a new place, a new crowd, a new routine. And thus, the blog begins to die. Really, that's perfectly fine. It's a good symbol of our collective adjustment. I thank everyone for participating, and if anyone ever wants to stick something up here in the future, feel free.

TMNT

A combination of the fact that roomy loves the song and they play it at all UMD sporting events has the theme song stuck in my head. So I decided to foist it upon all of you as well:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Heroes in a half shell -
TURTLE POWER!

There - it's been foisted, enjoy! (And root for UMD tonight as they open the basketball season against Hampton.)

Of COURSE Mock Trial trips involve eating contests!

So I'm in Normal, IL, which is a real city's name, for our first Mock Trial tournament, at ISU. We've had our first trial and we'll have more tomorrow and Sunday.

BORING.

So tonight a bunch of us went to Wendy's for dinner because all the places that serve, you know, food, were closed. And one of our attorney coaches, Mike, came up with an idea: The Wendy's Value Meal Challenge: To eat one of every item on the dollar menu/ Also, you can't go to the bathroom or throw up for the entire duration plus 5 minutes afterwards. You also had to order by asking for "the third board from the right" where the value meal was listed. If all of these happened (you can see I'm still speaking in Mock Trialese) then you would get the respect of everyone there and Mike would pay for the meal and give you a dollar.

Needless to say, I'm an idiot who gives into peer pressure.

So I ordered it. They didn't have any orange cups left, so I foolishly replaced it with a hamburger.

I started with a burger. They put a lot of stuff on it - tomatoes, onions. Stupid deluxe burger. I drank my Dr. Pepper the who time, saved my Frosty for the end ate french fries as I went a long. Chicken fingers I ate towards the beginning and they were awful. I was a little thrown by the yogurt - it was thinker than I thought. Not to mention having to eat the granola.

What's that you say? Could I possible demean myself further? Why, yes! I also spilled honey mustard sauce on my shirt.

Also, all the other guys spent the whole time talking about puke. Which was considerate.

Anyway, in the end I did it. The hardest part was the chicken sandwich, because it was towards the end and tasted god awful. But I did it all, with "all due speed" as was stipulated, and I got the money - a total of $10.76

Do I regret it? No. Was it a mistake anyway? Probably. Am I proud? Undoubtedly.

So now I need to change my clothes, brush my teeth, go to the bathroom and get ready for a big day of Mock Trial and personal ridicule tomorrow. But mostly go to the bathroom.

Ahhh....I'm not sure why this is rotated but it's my finished work.

Hail to the Chili Peppers!!

So to argue over whose school is better than everyone elses, I have a story that will put Michigan in the running, if not at the top.

So last week, in Columbus (for those of you who do not know where that is, that is where Ohio State University is BOOOO!!!) anyways, the Red Hot Chili Peppers played a concert there for Ohio State as well as other people in Columbus. At the end of their concert, they came out and played an encore and to finish up their encore, they played Hail to the Victors. The moment this happened, the entire place errupted in Boo's and and they were booed off the stage and as they were leaving they said if you want an encore come talk to us in a few weeks.

The moral of this story is that the great Red Hot Chili Peppers played our song in Columbus and my guess is that right now, there are very few people in Columbus who like the Chili Peppers, but there are 40,000 people in Ann Arbor who LOVE THEM!!! GO BLUE!