Mardigreens

May have enjoyed that more than Hallowgreens in some respects. Mostly due to lack of rain.

Cooking

Gonna be cooking next year I imagine, living in Townhouse and all. Want to learn to cook for myself better to prepare for real world and such. Gonna list some meals that would be relatively easy to cook I suppose. Just thinking outloud. Comments/suggestions appreciated.

• Spaghetti/various pastas
• Chicken breasts - easy to cook but more expensive than just buying a chicken probably
• Salad
• Potatoes - cut up and put in stove over frying pan or something w/vegetables
• Peanut butter sandwiches :D
• Baked squash things
• Stuffed peppers - I think these would be a lot of fun to make
• Tacos too, maybe chicken tacos as they would be healthier?
• BROWNIES

Update: Someone commented with this link with some guidelines regarding cooking. There are a lot of great websites with college cooking tips, I should probably look at those.

Also somehow I forgot to include Rice on the list up there. Rice is so cheap and filling, so wondrous.

'Dance Your Shoes off' Email Change

So this was the wording of the original 'Dance Your Shoes off for Haiti' email, which I thought was cool/different because I'm pretty sure a good portion of the people at the Nest have been drinking, so it's interesting that they would acknowledge it.

But then it got changed to this

Taylore sent out both emails, so I wonder who told her to make the change.

Mean Girls Status Day

This is my favorite fake holiday. I went with

"I gave him everything! I was half a virgin when I met him."

Basketball Student Section

Found this on the Facebook a few hours ago. Amir Reda ( plays soccer, probably econish major, nice guy ) talking about Student Section at Seahawk basketball games. Interesting read, my comments below it.

Recently I have been approached by several members of our faculty, most notably Dean Bayless, to try to curve what the student section says at basketball games. Two chants they are concerned about, the "You Suck" chant and, believe it or not the "Safety School" chant. I'm tired of this. This is an e-mail I just sent to our Dean just to make you aware of the current situation.
-Amir

Dean Bayless,

Remembering our conversation last night I decided to look up reasons why the women's shot clock was shorter than the men's. Some of the answers I deemed you might like included: "women can think quicker," and my personal favorite "men are slow pokes." However, I think the official answer comes down to "The women don't have a 10 second backcourt violation like the men do. It kinda still forces the women to get the ball up the court quick because they have 5 less seconds, but they can hold it in the backcourt longer then 10 seconds if they wish." There you have it, I stand corrected, speed of play has nothing to do with it.

On a more serious note, I ran into Shawne McCoy while in the ARC today. He made me aware of a conversation you had with him earlier this morning on the subject of our student section. According to him, he was told to make sure I understood the conversation about cheering and that the message did not go through one ear and out the other. To be more blunt then last night, while I do hear you, I do not understand you. Chanting "You Suck" or even "Safety School" is hardly profanity. That would be certain four letter words that can be heard from the student sections of games that are broadcast on ESPN. Those students get away with capital crimes compared to the nickel and dime stuff we do.

Honestly, if you deemed it absolutely necessary to curve our First Amendment right to speech and really did not want us to support the team the way we do then you know I would be on board 100 percent. That's probably why you came to me rather than anyone else that participates in our goofy way of showing school spirit. However, the problem will be convincing everyone one else involved. While I can tell people not to say this or that, these people are young adults and will make decisions accordingly. Whether this means getting thrown out of a basketball game, or writing an article in the Point News as to why the words Safety and School cannot be said in the same sentence, I don't know.

Concluding, I think you do a wonderful job of being accessible to students, and this relationship between student and faculty is one of the main reasons why I chose this school. Another selling point to me was the school spirit possessed in those that attend our institution. There are potentially two home games left. Don't let something as minor as this be a problem now.

Sincerely,
Amir Reda

So I think it's probably the Dean's position to have to deal with things like this, which is probably annoying. I don't think addressing a single student regarding these sorts of cheers is the right way to do it, because like Amir said he doesn't have any control over the other fans.

That said, 'You suck' and 'Safety School' ( I've yelled this when seeing schools like MIT play Ultimate Frisbee) pale in comparison to stuff like 'Fuck Duke' at UMD games, so I guess I don't really see the issue.

Really though, the Basketball season is almost over, so whatever. Good luck Women's Team!

Dr. Urgo is a fan

Of St. Mary's woo

Changes

Messed around with some color and font stuff on the blog. You might notice, but you might not. Might try to add some sort of nav bar on the left w/boring stuff. Just feel like it is very narrow, lots of white space on the right and left. Thoughts or opinions? Also have a tentative logo, may implement it tonight. Probably violates school copyrights.

NS&M Colloquium Email

"Predicting the future is a dangerous business: despite the confident assertions of past science fiction writers, we don't have colonies in space, shootouts with laser guns, or human clones. "

Someone never went to a lazer tag birthday party...

SGA MEETING 2/23/2010

SGA Meeting, exciting.

Update: Sorry for forgetting to post this last night, got distracted.

8:15 - Ciji Tildwell is here to talk about stuff as our guest speaker. She is an area coordinator focused on serving international students. She is wondering who we think should be considered an International student. I don't really get it. It's regarding students who came from abroad to go here for four years, as opposed to exchange program students.

8:18 - "How can I coax students to become mentors for international students?" - Ciji. Duhhh, alcohol.

8:25 - Now she is just asking us questions about our thoughts on international students and stuff, I don't think this is the point of having a guest speaker. Going back to farmville.

8:27 - Thank you Mark Snyder for showing up so that we got quorum (need a certain number of senators to start the meeting).

8:30 - I like when Alex Walls says 'piggybacking'. I like piggy back rides a lot (giving them obv).

8:31 - Debbie just said 'piggybacking'. I hope someone else says it tonight.

8:36 - Katie Schultz is here to talk about stuff via student speakout. Talking about 'Dance your Shoes off', raising money for Haiti. It's going to be this Friday...somewhere. Maybe in DPC via The Nest.

8:41 - New club, Jiu Jitsu. It's like wrestling or something. Japanese wrestling maybe. Mike Young keeps giggling and I don't really know why, but it's making me giggle.

8:43 - Why is everyone laughing at Alex Walls :[

8:46 - Asked him to perform a Jiu Jitsu move. Got to go up and he showed me a cool Jiu Jitsu move that was very similar to missionary position. I got to lay on the floor and he moved into missionary topping position, and then I defended myself via locking his army behind his back. It was pretty cool. And the club got passed.

8:56 - Finance Board bylaw to fund 100% of referees. More sports should just be like Ultimate Frisbee and not have referees.

8:57 - Boring Finance Board bylaw, blah blah blah.

8:59 - Aww it's Kelly Schroeder's Birthday. Singing happy birthday as I type this.

9:18 - Calvert girl is wondering where the common room furniture is going. Duh, people's rooms.

9:?? Meeting over

Films for the Semester

Jan 22-24: Michael Jacksons This Is It

Jan 29-31: Zombieland

Feb 5-7: Where the Wild Things Are

Feb 12-14: Precious

Feb 19-21: The Fantastic Mr. Fox

Feb 26-28: Princess and the Frog

Mar 5-7: New Moon

Mar 26-28: Sherlock Holmes

Apr 2-4: Youth In Revolt

Apr 9-11: Nine

Apr 16-18: Invictus

Apr 23-25: Book of Eli

Apr 30-May 2: TBD

This the list of films for this semester to be played in Cole Cinema. Got the list from Matt Foerster.

Excited for New Moon and Youth in Revolt. Also I heard TDB was really good and will prob get best picture next year at the Oscars.

Update: Apparently TBD is not a movie, but instead we will be voting on it. Avatar, Dear John, Legion. Everyone vote for Dear John.