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!

In other news, it is cold.

To continue the debate of whose college has cooler famous people associated with it:



I believe that is Bill Clinton wearing the Wellesley class of 2010 scarf, is it not?

hi guys, I'm still alive

It's been far too long since I've posted. Lots of things are going on, so there's really no excuse for the hiatus. College thus far has been quite the trip.

Classes are wonderful (I'm taking a writing course on civil disobedience, intro to political philosophy, hebrew and intro macroeconomics). I'm even learning things, but by far the most valuable pieces of information from the last 7 weeks are how to iron a shirt and how to do laundry. I learned both skills from my roommate, he's very domestic. The room is in pretty much ship-shape all the time- but when all the parents came in for parents weekend they wouldn't believe that it was like that normally and that we hadn't just done it for them.

I've been going to hillel every week and playing intramural soccer (its very intense and Harry Potter-ish, the residential colleges all play against each other the entire year, and at the end the college with the most points from all the sports together gets the Tyng Cup). But by far the biggest time-consumer has been a capella. Singing basically takes the place of Greek life here- the frats are a joke, but there are 18 acapella groups and a month-long tryout process that they even call "rush." There are concerts and rush-meals and auditions and callbacks and singing desserts up the wazoo. After the whole ordeal I ended up on this all-men's group called the Society of Orpheus and Bacchus (affectionately the SOB's). We tour for a weekend in November and then for most of Winter break and all of Spring break, so there's a decent chance that I will be able to visit people. Unfortunately, the SOBs have a tradition to tell the freshman almost nothing for the whole year. I went to a weekend retreat blindfolded in the back of a car. My mom didn't like that so much. So, I will not know where we are touring until I'm quite literally on the way, and I won't be able to give anyone much advance notice.

Nonetheless, the a capella experience has been amazing. We have two practices and a concert every week, and we just had a big concert at parent't weekend. The guys on the group are an amazing bunch, so I'm willing to put a little faith in the 'all will be revealed' system.

Other than that, I just got my first claim to fame (right.) in the form of being quoted in the Yale Daily News www.yaledailynews.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=33894. It's nothing to compare with being the stat guy on Maryland basketball radio, that is extremely cool.

NATHAN!!!

That's right, peeps - we got a guest blogger all up in the hiz-OUSE! I'll let Nathan (William and Mary) take it from here:

The College of William and Mary - an unpredictable land

From the first day at W&M, I knew it was not going to be a breeze. It was far from a breeze. The 100 degree days and the 5 showers a day to stay cool, where just the beginning.

The first week of school I was being recruited by Aepi for fall rush. I thought the whole idea was cool because I would show up to their events and I would essentially "use" them. However on one dark night, they caught me off guard and attempted to force me to sign their pledge paper. To set up the scenario, they drew me into a little room which contained two aepi recruiters sitting on a bed and they locked the door behind them. They had my name all typed up nicely with signatures of their president, secretary, etc. I became a little reckless and I said some choice words. To paraphrase my comments I said: you guys have a great recruiting strategy - you can only get your recruits to sign if you get them inebriated. Me being my stubborn self, I held my ground and told them hell no. Then when the investigation was over, the dudes were like: I hope this doesn't make things awkward. OK, yea... Basically Aepi here sucks, there are about 20 jews and all of them aren't too socially with it.

Now for a bunch of my favorite stories (not in any particular order):
1) Whenever one of my hallmates sees a cop, he jumps into a bush.

2) One night a drunk varsity swimmer was told by a cop to suck into a breathalyzer, then the smart swimmer pointed to his dick and said suck on this... he was kicked off the team and went to jail for a night.

3) Last night a random sophomore wandered into our hall at 3am and peed on a kids printer.. yea I know wtf. Then he woke up and one of my friends and was like: You have a friend outside. And he feel asleep in his bed!! So we kicked him out.

4) I have been injured many times at W&M, I don't know what this means. I got a minor concussion when we played tackle football and some dumbass decided to headbutt me in the back of the head when i was play qb. Then I was playing soccer and I wasn't paying much attention and I got the ball kicked right into my eye and I fell down and like blacked out for a second. Then I was playing basketball the other week and some kid accidentally stabbed me above the eyebrow with his nail. Then last night one of my roommates was embarrassed that I beat him in an arm wrestle so he wanted to wrestle me. Him being from Brooklyn and me being a white kid, this wasn't good from the start. He accidentally flipped me over his shoulder and of course there was an edge of the door there to cut my back and gave me a large boo boo. But I'm all good, I played tennis today in the 80 degree weather!!! Sucks for you if you're in the North - the South is the way to go. I hope everyone else is doing good and my little stories brought you some satisfaction. Adios for now...

Mr. Nathan (W&M)