snowflakes... lots of snowflakes

The snowball fight last night was interesting. I was sitting here at my desk with no motivation to go out unless the fire alarm went off, and I had decided that if the fire alarm didn't go off before 12:15 then I would go to bed. Well, 12:15 rolled around and no fire alarm so I took out my contacts and crawled into bed. Two minutes later, the fire alarm went off. I ended up outside with sandals and no socks, Michigan pajama pants, and my Michigan hat without the ability to see in the middle of an intense snowball battle. Bob found me eventually and inspired me to get involved in the fight. I threw a few snowballs... I was hit in the face once by some snow-shrapnel and I didn't even see it coming, surprisingly enough.

Apparently the parents of one of the kids in my German class came from a mennonite colony in Ukraine. Just thought I'd share that with you all.

Today was my first Great Books 192 lecture. It wasn't bad but the place was crowded. Physics lecture was next and it wasn't bad at all. In fact, it was rather entertaining. The professor, Roy Clarke, did a broad overview lecture, demonstrated some physics concepts, and showed us how to work the electronic response things. He is from England and has an accent... so far I have an English guy, a Russian (or somewhere around there), a German, an Indian (or somewhere around there), and I think my physics lab instructor is Asian. German was as bad as yesterday, but thankfully I don't have it tomorrow. I ended up daydreaming much of the time because she talks so fast and with enough of an accent to make following along arduous. The Great Books discussion was a relief. I have the same GSI as last semester and there's not as much writing required. There are about 4 of the same people as last semester. ...And that was my day.

I saw a walking banana giving out smoothie samples and playing guitar. That's a talented banana.

"An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger." -Dan Rather
...if that is the case, then I am an intellectual snob. I've never seen that show. When I was playing Cranium with my cousins we had a humdinger (where one person on your team hums a certain song and the other person has to guess what it is) where all the teams did it, the card called the song "Willian Tell Overture (or the Lone Ranger Theme Song)", and I yelled out "William Tell Overture" at the exact same moment as my counsin, Jon, yelled out "Lone Ranger Theme Song". That was kind of a pointless story.