Monday, January 17, 2005

What would you do for a Klondike Bar?

Well, my rommie has braved the frigid Pittsburgh night for one.

Current Conditions for Pittsburgh, PA (15213)


Fair
7°F
Feels Like
-5°F
Wind: From WNW at 8 mph
Humidity: 57%
Pressure: 30.53 in.
Dew Point: -2°F
He came back from his run crazing one, for some reason I can not fathom. (Note, he just got back from Entropy, halfway across campus. They don't sell Klondike Bars) He was heading out as I was leaving the shower and if I'd been a minute longer in the shower I'dve been locked out of my room. Fun times.
So anyway, today was MLK day, meaning that I didn't have any afternoon classes. Happily, my 11:30 Econ class was canceled as well; the prof didn't want our lecture to get ahead of the 12:30 one. Nothing really of note happened in calc lecture. Vogel did some 'electrifying' static electricity demonstrations today in lecture. I managed to, yet again, fail to accomplish much before about 5:00. Well, I did do something; fend off guys from two different frats who came through 'schlag recruiting.
The first group was from Sigma Tau Gamma. I immediately didn't like them. The two of them came in, thinking they were all cool. One of 'em was wearing a big fur coat. Fur-coat guy asked what I was playing, WoW, of course, and then proceeded to assure me that SigTau has the most World of Warcraft players of any of the frats, "and I don't mean that in a good way" ::metaphoric wink:: Now, I could have said any game, and he prolly would have said the same thing, he had that overly pushy door-to-door/used car salesmen aura to him.
Later, when I was actually doing my calc HW, two guys from Alpha Epsilon Pi came by. I'd met them before and they're nice guys. I took advantage of fall rush to be given free food and go lazer-tagging for free. Now, I have no intention of joining a Frat. Not now, not ever. However, AEPi prolly is the one that I'd join if I were to join. They seem nerdy enough, and they're a dry frat. If that elicits the question "well, what's the fun/point in that?" then I wouldn't want to be in your frat, most likely. Anyway, so the AEPi guys were trying to get me to come along to Gullifties for dinner. I know they were going to pay for me, and I generally don't turn down free dinner, but I was on a 'roll' with the huge problem set I had for calc, and I was hoping to grab dinner with some person/people. Granted, I ended up eating by myself at the U anyway, but that's beside the point. The annoying thing about the guys from AEPi, they just wouldn't leave. They kept talking and asking about classes and teachers and such. I appreciate the attention but geez, go find someone else. They knew I was doing homework, I had a textbook and two notebooks open on my desk and had a page of trig identities (angle addition formulas, specifically) open on firefox, but I guess they couldn't take the hint. It was frustrating because under other circumstances I'dve liked to hang around and talk, but I needed to get HW done. Oh well, they don't know it was a complete waste of their time. Well, I guess they might when I don't show up for any of their rush events.

[EDIT:] Either I need to start proofreading or learn to think/type in more coherent sentences

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