I have cool hair. Hooray for cool hair! Hooray for renee's re-entry into the world of the SUPER REDHEAD. With a tinge of black streaking around the face to accentuate the positive! Ok I have the hair, now all I need is the band...frikken-A double frikken!
Body, Blood, and Me. I experienced my very first illegal Eucharist-taking this past Sunday. Attending mass at Christ the King was great- phenomenal gospel choir, Irish-accented priest, cool Catholic hand motion thingys- but then we all decided that we would participate in taking the Eucharist, which Catholics don't really like non-Catholics to do. But after a great sermon on inclusion of all people, I decided, well, I can't NOT take it now, after all that. Plus, as a born-again myself, the act of communion does represent something special and spiritual to me, so I figured it would be ok. It was a little nerve-wracking. I'm walking down the aisle and Ryan is whispering tips in my ear about what to do when I get up there ("When she hands you the bread, raise it in the air like this and then dip it in the cup like THIS"). I finally get up there and I swear that the nun I got gave me a funny look. Maybe I did something outside of normal? I felt like they were all looking at me and that at any moment an alarm would go off and a loudspeaker would boom out, "BREACH OF PROTOCOL! YOU ARE NOT A CATHOLIC!" So anyway, by the time I got back to my seat the nerves were rather frayed. Of course now I'm a veteran. I know all the SECRETS. I could take it anytime I want without being detected! (If I ever get the guts to set foot in there again- they KNOW! they KNOW!)
A week of firsts. I also saw my first drive-in movie this week. I can cross that one off my life list of things to do. What I want to know is, do they purposely pick really bad movies to show at drive-ins so you can entertain yourself by MST3000'ing them in your car? I think our choices were like, Biker Boyz, Just Married, and something I've never heard of. i have to say though, that the overall drive-thru experience was well worth the bad movie. I felt like I was in the middle of "Grease". I kept wanting to jump into the truck next to me and whisper, "Rizzo's got a bun in the oven!" Anyway, it's a great experience. I highly recommend picking it up if you have the means.
The Donnas as inspiration leaders. So on a whim the other day i bought a CD, and it may be just about the best one in my collection. 12 songs with the same 4 chords, hilarious lyrics, and unashamed NorCal rocker bad-girl attitude. Sample lyric from "Dirty Denim", an anthem to poseur depression-rock boys:"You look like you only slept for an hour/You smell like you haven't taken a shower/and your hair, is so dirty, it makes you look like you're thirty/Pants are slung way too low/I see your stuff, I don't wanna know/i wonder why, you're so moody/is it cause you got no booty"
Top Five Things to Say/Do to Piss Off a Lab Assistant (better than being pissed on, baby yeah!)
1. While looking at a printout of the Student Access sidebar, say, "Where's my schedule?"
2. Throw things.
3. Say, "I'm printing this out for a class I'm taking, do I still have to pay?"
4. Try to sneakily look at porn on the professor's workstation computer...without bothering to check if the projector is turned off.
5. Show up naked.
Website of the Week: Home Star Runner (check out Strong Bad Emails)
Quote of the Week: "If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it." -W.C.Fields
İFebruary 20, 2003 by me.