life can be beautifully awkward sometimes. that's something to celebrate every once in a while. today was a day for that. first off, i celebrated our collective awkwardness by watching two great shows:
arrested development and
the office. the office is probably best known for it's awkward moments. seasons one and two were filled with them. some were actually turned off by just how awkwardly funny they were. i, personally, love the awkwardness. arrested development, while not as awkward, per se, as the office, is brilliant and does have some awkward story lines (george micheal's crush on his cousin maeby, lucile's relationship with her kids, buster's relationship with lucile two, virtually everything tobias says...). afterwards, i got the chance to experience some awkwardness myself. the professor of one of my pretty important classes gave us an extra credit assignment for today, stating that if we showed up for a "student affairs conference" and stayed for half an hour, we would get ten bonus points added to our final exam grade. since i didn't have anything to do this afternoon, i figured it would be foolish to pass up this opportunity. so i went. little did i know that this thing was (a) supposed to last for 3 hours and (b) it obviously hadn't been well publicized, as there weren't very many people there. i signed in, grabbed the complimentary pen and box of msu mints, and headed to one of the first breakoff sessions. each session lasted exactly (and conveniently) half an hour. so i sat through the presentation on the housing department, and afterwards slipped back into the main hallway to sign out and get credit for being there the required time. then things got awkward. i notice that almost everyone else is moving to sign out as well. it turns out that a good number of people that actually came, did so for the same reasons i did. the people who were running the thing were a little confused and i'm sure a little upset to see people rushing out of their already under-attended conference. one lady even said, in my direction, "there are more sessions, you can stay if you want". i don't know if you've ever been confronted by a situation in which you cared what other people thought and felt about you-- enough to make up a story that somehow validated your behavior and got you off the hook-- but not enough to actually change your behavior, but i have. i felt bad for the people who were running the conference, and i didn't want them to think that i was ungrateful for the service they were providing, so i muttered to a friend who was near me, "i have a class to get to". this, however, was not technically true. but i wanted to get out of there, so i did (quickly).
that may not have been as awkward as an episode of the office and may make me look like an awful person. with that in mind, let's get to the quick facts...
current time :: 6:25 (exactly 3 hours from when i'll *hopefully* be sitting in a movie theatre watching the new james bond flick quantum of solace)
current location :: the apartment couch
recently listened to :: radiohead's album hail to the theif
currently watching :: my roommate michael playing pac man. i just beat my roommate james' high score, now he is giving it a shot. he's good for his first time playing. freaking german, always good at everything...
current rambling thought :: "what is a 'quantum of solace' anyway?"
current atmospheric conditions :: it's raining proverbial cats, dogs and men (although i'm not as excited about it as
the weather girls are. also, the temp is 64°F
number of days until thanksgiving :: 13 days
today in history ::
- president abraham lincoln approves general ambrose burnside's plan to capture the confederate capital at richmond, virginia. now, most people approve of burnside's lesser know plan to grow hair all over their face.
- journalist nellie bly begins her journey around the world in eighty days in 1889. she completes the task in seventy-two days. my only question is, "why is eighty days always the goal? why eighty?"
- czechoslovakia becomes a republic in 1918. they aren't speaking now, and go by different names.
- the bbc begins radio service in the united kingdom 1922. parents started to worry that kids would go deaf by sitting too close to the radio.
- nasa launches the second manned mission to the surface of the moon, apollo 12, in 1969. hollywood decides to make a movie about the next mission instead.
- southern airways flight 932 crashes near huntington, west virginia, killing 75, including members of the marshall university football team. hollywood decides to honor their memory with a super sad movie staring matthew mcconaghey.
- the dow jones industrial average closes above 1,000 for the first time. now, it looks like things might be headed that way again.
born today in history ::
- leopold mozart (composer)
- claude monet (painter)
- julie manet (painter)
- sen. joseph mccarthy (paranoid)
- sherwood schwartz (writer/producer)
- condoleezza rice (secretary of state)
- patrick warburton (puddy)
- rev run (reverend, rapper)
- curt schilling (loud-mouth, baseball player)
strange holiday of the day ::
- world diabetes day
- the start of national children's book week
more to come...
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