The Weather

Oh my gooooooodness it is wonderful outside!

I did not realize this however, because I am sick and I hadn't left my room until 2PM this afternoon. I walked outside all bundled up, and quickly realized it was 60 degrees outside with no wind, so I had to take off my coat.

So it is very beautiful outside, but I can't really enjoy it :/

Also, NyQuil is amazing.

Surveys

If you walked down the path around the campus center this afternoon you were probably bombarded by highschoolers with surveys. From what I gathered, they were in an AP class, probably statistics or psychology.

I completed a half dozen or so surveys. They were pretty enjoyable. One started with the question "how often do you go out during the week". I asked them what this meant, and they didn't really have a straight answer, so I wrote seven since I leave my room every day. One asked about my GPA and how much I smoke marijuana. The GPA marijuana girl asked about my "Nixon Now" pin; "Wasn't Nixon a bad President? With like, that watergate thing?". I told her that Nixon was the most liberal President since FDR, and for that he is an amazing man. Another survey asked about jello and jello shots, and how often the jello I ate contained alcohol.

The highschoolers were annoying at first, but once I realized the surveys were generally pretty funny I started taking all of them.

Thursdays at the Grind

This week during Thursdays at the Grind The Five One Band will be performing. Clint Neil says that they are "Sublime + Gym Class Heroes, but with a better rapper". I find this highly offensive because I love Travie of Gym Class Heroes, and I am really sad that he broke up with Katy Perry. :[. Also a lot of small bands get compared to Sublime and I don't know why, but on the other hand it seems like everyone at SMCM knows the lyrics to all of their songs.

Their myspace page is taking several minutes to load

Under influences they put Halo. This does not bode well. They seem to be the kind of band that has a message and philosophy and such, which would explain why they are a reggae/rap kinda band I guess. I'm surprised they didn't have Dead Prez under their influences, since it's easily the hipsterest rap group.

Ok I am pretty sure one of their songs samples someone from Dragon Ball Z making that sound they make when they charge up to attack or something.

This is a weird band but I think they will be pretty kickin rad.

SGA Meeting 2/24/09

8:09 - Meeting is beginning. Matt Fafoutis said that it is 8:10, but really it's totally 8:09.

8:12 - Student Speakout, but no one wanted to talk

8:13 - Guest speakers! This wee kit's Meredith Epstein and Rachel Clement. They are the sustainability coordinators. There is a student energy fund, where every student pays 25$ towards green energy initiatives. This is about $50,000 a year. We were able to use this money to buy renewable energy credits, but due to some changes (new buildings, increased student population, SMECO failing to charge us for 40% of our electricity because they forgot to read our meters) costs are increasing. What the Sustainability Fellows want to do is move towards Carbon offsets and cheaper RECs so that we can spend more money on on-campus initiatives, like building windmills.

I'm pretty sure it's about keeping the 100% green energy label for the College's publicity, while still working towards more on-site renewable energy projects, like solar panels windmills, and geothermal heatpumps.

8:23 - Cute french guy is talking about on-site renewable energy projects, like solar panels for hot water, wind turbines, etc.

8:25 - College is really into large projects such as a large photovaltaic array, solar hot water for residences, and geothermal system for townhouses.

8:28 - French guy is totally saying ee-cono-meeeee (economy)

8:29 - mon-aaaaaay (money)

8:31 - If you have any opinions or ideas, feel free to email sustainability@smcm.edu with your thoughts!

8:41 - New club! SALT. This is not Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, but is in fact the Seahawk Athletic Leadership Training. They are focusing on triatholons and such. It sounds cool I guess. It passed!

8:53 - I just motioned to vote. SafeRide will be getting a computer to file its information and such.

8:56 - I left the meeting to go to the PowerShift meeting.

9:20 - Just got back, meeting was already adjourned.

radical

Campus Referendum and Senatorial Voting

Campus Referendum and Senator elections are today! Go vote on blackboard.

The referendum is over whether or not the SGA should donate some money to the school to help with the financial crisis. We need at least 30% of the student population to vote for the referendum to have any effect, so please vote.

And kids living in areas with Senator elections should vote too because voting is awesome.

Basketball CAC Semifinals

This Thursday will be the Men's Basketball CAC semifinal game. Exciting! I have never been to one of these basketball games, but last year we did really well or something. This kid is James Davenport, and I think I went to middle school with him.

The game starts at 7PM, and costs 3$ to get in. I don't really understand the whole charging admission thing, but whatever.

Wired for War

There is a sweet lecture coming up titled Wired for War, presented by Peter W. Singer. This guy knows a lot about modern warfare, and seems pretty damn smart. He was even called upon to help Obama figure out his defense policy stuff or something.

I was reading about the book, and it really reminded me of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, because in the game there are lots of robot soldiers.. And then I realized THIS BOOK WAS IN MGS4 OMGZ. Like, they talk about this book in the game.

This real book was in the videogame Metal Gear Solid 4, which means it must be a really awesome book.

I am excited for this lecture.

I almost forgot to mention, this is Wednesday at 4:30 in St. Mary's Hall.

Campus Compost Bins

Oh my goodness it has been too long since I've blogged.

So there are a bunch of new compost bins being placed around campus. The locations include:
-Parish Hall Kitchen
-Campus Center
-Outside the QA Co-Op
-Prince George
-Goodpaster
-Community Garden
-WC dumpsters

Woah exciting! You can put lots of stuff in them like vegetables, eggs, coffee beans, tea bags, and even bread.

But no meat or dairy. These will mess up the compost bins.

I think this is a pretty sweet idea, and hopefully the fertilizer can go into the community garden and make awesome food to eat. I'm also really glad that they put a lot of effort into this by placing these containers all over campus, as opposed to the old compost location that was only on North Campus.

The Sound of Talk is a Radio Show

In addition to running the most successful SMCM blog, I also have a radio show which is hosted with Ben Casto and Bryan Miller.

This show is The Sound of Talk

This week our topic is black history month. We will be answering some challenging questions like:
-Who are our favorite black people
-How much do people that say "why isn't there white history month" suck (for reals these kids are stupid)
-Is the wu tang clan something to fuck with? (preliminary research says no)

We may also discuss
-omgomgomgomg Blink 182 reunion
-Carbon Leaf - are they cool?
-blah blah blah

Okay so listen in tonight at 9 to channel 61 or www.seahawkradio.com

Rain

Yo it is raining outside today. I feel as though it has not rained in a long time here, like maybe two weeks? I guess it will start raining a lot soon though, due to April showers.

April showers bring May flowers. I love flowers so I guess it is worth the rain.

Granted April is over a month away, but I think that it might be rainy in March too. March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb.

I really dislike rain because it means I can't play frisbee.