Carnival Day 2
Carnival Day 2 started off with me getting up and coming to campus and updating LJ and stuff.
I went to the lounge and Mobot after that, where I ran into many people. I got to talk to Justin Weisz for a bit, which was cool because I hadn't seen him since last year. I saw Mark Stehlik again, and Kat and Jesse and Trey and Aiton and all, and I stood around with Emilie and Benoit and Jorge and Brian and Rem and Charlie and Cache-Dave and people. There were fewer mobots this year than I recall from years past. One was really great and pretty much sped down the course and didn't slow down until the first decision point... it completed the course in record time, I think, and won. Another one was done by a guy I remember sitting behind in Kiltie Band but I can't remember anything about him except that he played french horn. His mobot had a Froot Loops hood over the sensors and it was also pretty fast and got to like gate 11.
I got really hungry and was going to go to the O... originally with Nick but he still wasn't on campus... so Rem and I were going to go... but then I saw Jason Reed and Martin Hock and Neal D. Martin and they were going to Sam's so I thought maybe I'd do that... but just as I decided to do that, down the hall came Nick and Zach and Babailey and Simon, so we ended up all going to the O with a bunch of other lounge people. Nick and I split a Big O sub and a medium fries, and we sat around a table talking to many people. Pete Sand showed up! He told us stories about his dad, which were really interesting. I swear, I always figured Pete was an interesting guy, but he never really talked a lot back in the old days.
I stopped by the Connan Room for a bit to see the Game Design festival thingy with all of the board games and stuff.![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
skt and rkane (and Eileen, I found out) had games there, but I didn't really stop to play them, just watched a bit. Mark's was piratey-related though and looked pretty neat.
Back at the O, Larry Greenfield was playing Medieval Madness for a while. He's still too damn good. I managed to get a replay, but that was about all I could scrape up.
After Kevin Shiue showed up on campus and showed off his new lack of hair, and Carl joined us as well, we all retreated back to the CS Lounge, where I spent a few hours playing games (what else is new?). Played a couple hands of Mu, then played a game of Medici, which Adam won of course. Dropped out of games to hang out witheiriene and Chris for a bit and talk about Puzzle Pirates. Eventually Carl and I and Jenny and Chris went over to Midway to eat funnel cake. We ran into Kevin Watkins in the funnel cake line! Yay, I'm glad I caught him even if just for a few minutes. We also saw Marybeth and Marc, and people, and I was introducing everyone by their PP names and Chris totally freaked out at me :)
Ate funnel cake with Carl. Debbie Cherry came over to talk to me and we ended up foisting off 1/3 of the funnel cake on her. (Carl and I can't finish a funnel cake. Shrug.)
Went to the UC turnaround to see Django, since he was picking up J&C and he'll be in Seattle next weekend for Sakuracon. While on the way there I ran into Tronstad (err....degauss, hehe) and Tal, and Jason and Helen Rennie, and some other people. Wheeee.
After that I ran into many Asylum-ish people in the UC and more importantly ran into Ben, and he had been over to talk to the drama dept about their production of Assassins... he was like "It's the Sondheim show, and it's a free show, but it's going on like SOON and it's mostly sold out of tickets and stuff." Well, we went over and actually managed to get tickets. Though the show was at 8 and it was 6:45 at that point. So. Ben and I walked around campus a bit; we eventually ran into Larry Greenfield over by the MMA rotunda, and ended up sitting there talking to him for like 15 minutes and by then it was time to go try to get good seats to the musical, so we did.
It was in this little studio-theater like thing in the Purnell Center. I think there were around 100 seats total, if that... three walls had seats on them, basically three rows of 12 seats each, with an aisle between the two sets of 6. We sat in the front row on the right side.
The show itself was... interesting. I have seen many many different productions of Assassins in the last 11-12 years; this one was pretty high on the "weird" factor and pretty good on the "music" factor but kinda low on the "verisimilitude" factor. They had a female balladeer, but she kept switching her vocal ranges around and so some songs ended up sounding pretty weird. Their John Wilkes Booth was a pretty good actor, but he either forgot or booched lines for most of the 11/22/1963 scene and so I felt sad about that. Their Charlie Guiteau was really great though, and most of the rest of them were dead on too, although I thought they really exaggerated Hinckley to the point where he wasn't believable; same for Sam Byck and his Oscar-the-Grouch routine, which might have just been due to the theater and blocking.
I guess the weirdest thing is that they did it with a total skeleton cast. 4 women, 7 men; any time the show normally used the "ensemble", they just had the assassin people come out with clown masks on and sing and dance the ensemble roles. It was impressive but it sort of made the show more surreal too because it made it seem more like the assassin characters weren't really characters. Ugh, it's hard to explain. Anyway. Overall it was still pretty good. And now I will have Unworthy of Your Love running through my head for a week.
After that Ben and I went to the UC where we met up with some people and I ended up riding with Bayani out to the McKnight Mad Mex, where we had um 33 people or so? Yeah, that sounds right. So I finally got my Mad Mex steak burrito, no salsa no guacamole double sour cream, but I didn't really get to talk to people because I couldn't hear anything. I would try to list everyone who was there but that might be impossible: Ben, Bryan, Megan, Rob, Jen, James, Bayani, Van, Dev, Marybeth, Marc, Jason, Julie, Melissa, her guy, Neal, his girl, Barbara, Mark, Chris, George, Eric, Shawn, his girl, Stevie, Laurel, ugh, my head is exploding. Many people. After dinner I ended up going back to Chris and George's house and played some cards until I zonked out and fell asleep on the floor. They have a cool house though. Eric gave me and Mark rides back to campus; I came up here and talked to Carl for a little bit and then fell asleep.
Woke up this morning to find bunches of voice mail from my dad; apparently my mother has found my Livejournal and is freaking out about it. Of course, I don't really have time right now to call her and talk for a while about it, so that will just have to wait. But I figured I'd mention it here so I remind myself that I should probably call her at some point when I'm not in the middle of visiting with several hundred of my closest friends. Yeah.
Hm, I think Carl and I are going to head over to the acapella concerts for a bit, and then the lounge BBQ, and then who knows...
I went to the lounge and Mobot after that, where I ran into many people. I got to talk to Justin Weisz for a bit, which was cool because I hadn't seen him since last year. I saw Mark Stehlik again, and Kat and Jesse and Trey and Aiton and all, and I stood around with Emilie and Benoit and Jorge and Brian and Rem and Charlie and Cache-Dave and people. There were fewer mobots this year than I recall from years past. One was really great and pretty much sped down the course and didn't slow down until the first decision point... it completed the course in record time, I think, and won. Another one was done by a guy I remember sitting behind in Kiltie Band but I can't remember anything about him except that he played french horn. His mobot had a Froot Loops hood over the sensors and it was also pretty fast and got to like gate 11.
I got really hungry and was going to go to the O... originally with Nick but he still wasn't on campus... so Rem and I were going to go... but then I saw Jason Reed and Martin Hock and Neal D. Martin and they were going to Sam's so I thought maybe I'd do that... but just as I decided to do that, down the hall came Nick and Zach and Babailey and Simon, so we ended up all going to the O with a bunch of other lounge people. Nick and I split a Big O sub and a medium fries, and we sat around a table talking to many people. Pete Sand showed up! He told us stories about his dad, which were really interesting. I swear, I always figured Pete was an interesting guy, but he never really talked a lot back in the old days.
I stopped by the Connan Room for a bit to see the Game Design festival thingy with all of the board games and stuff.
skt and rkane (and Eileen, I found out) had games there, but I didn't really stop to play them, just watched a bit. Mark's was piratey-related though and looked pretty neat.Back at the O, Larry Greenfield was playing Medieval Madness for a while. He's still too damn good. I managed to get a replay, but that was about all I could scrape up.
After Kevin Shiue showed up on campus and showed off his new lack of hair, and Carl joined us as well, we all retreated back to the CS Lounge, where I spent a few hours playing games (what else is new?). Played a couple hands of Mu, then played a game of Medici, which Adam won of course. Dropped out of games to hang out with
eiriene and Chris for a bit and talk about Puzzle Pirates. Eventually Carl and I and Jenny and Chris went over to Midway to eat funnel cake. We ran into Kevin Watkins in the funnel cake line! Yay, I'm glad I caught him even if just for a few minutes. We also saw Marybeth and Marc, and people, and I was introducing everyone by their PP names and Chris totally freaked out at me :)Ate funnel cake with Carl. Debbie Cherry came over to talk to me and we ended up foisting off 1/3 of the funnel cake on her. (Carl and I can't finish a funnel cake. Shrug.)
Went to the UC turnaround to see Django, since he was picking up J&C and he'll be in Seattle next weekend for Sakuracon. While on the way there I ran into Tronstad (err....
degauss, hehe) and Tal, and Jason and Helen Rennie, and some other people. Wheeee. After that I ran into many Asylum-ish people in the UC and more importantly ran into Ben, and he had been over to talk to the drama dept about their production of Assassins... he was like "It's the Sondheim show, and it's a free show, but it's going on like SOON and it's mostly sold out of tickets and stuff." Well, we went over and actually managed to get tickets. Though the show was at 8 and it was 6:45 at that point. So. Ben and I walked around campus a bit; we eventually ran into Larry Greenfield over by the MMA rotunda, and ended up sitting there talking to him for like 15 minutes and by then it was time to go try to get good seats to the musical, so we did.
It was in this little studio-theater like thing in the Purnell Center. I think there were around 100 seats total, if that... three walls had seats on them, basically three rows of 12 seats each, with an aisle between the two sets of 6. We sat in the front row on the right side.
The show itself was... interesting. I have seen many many different productions of Assassins in the last 11-12 years; this one was pretty high on the "weird" factor and pretty good on the "music" factor but kinda low on the "verisimilitude" factor. They had a female balladeer, but she kept switching her vocal ranges around and so some songs ended up sounding pretty weird. Their John Wilkes Booth was a pretty good actor, but he either forgot or booched lines for most of the 11/22/1963 scene and so I felt sad about that. Their Charlie Guiteau was really great though, and most of the rest of them were dead on too, although I thought they really exaggerated Hinckley to the point where he wasn't believable; same for Sam Byck and his Oscar-the-Grouch routine, which might have just been due to the theater and blocking.
I guess the weirdest thing is that they did it with a total skeleton cast. 4 women, 7 men; any time the show normally used the "ensemble", they just had the assassin people come out with clown masks on and sing and dance the ensemble roles. It was impressive but it sort of made the show more surreal too because it made it seem more like the assassin characters weren't really characters. Ugh, it's hard to explain. Anyway. Overall it was still pretty good. And now I will have Unworthy of Your Love running through my head for a week.
After that Ben and I went to the UC where we met up with some people and I ended up riding with Bayani out to the McKnight Mad Mex, where we had um 33 people or so? Yeah, that sounds right. So I finally got my Mad Mex steak burrito, no salsa no guacamole double sour cream, but I didn't really get to talk to people because I couldn't hear anything. I would try to list everyone who was there but that might be impossible: Ben, Bryan, Megan, Rob, Jen, James, Bayani, Van, Dev, Marybeth, Marc, Jason, Julie, Melissa, her guy, Neal, his girl, Barbara, Mark, Chris, George, Eric, Shawn, his girl, Stevie, Laurel, ugh, my head is exploding. Many people. After dinner I ended up going back to Chris and George's house and played some cards until I zonked out and fell asleep on the floor. They have a cool house though. Eric gave me and Mark rides back to campus; I came up here and talked to Carl for a little bit and then fell asleep.
Woke up this morning to find bunches of voice mail from my dad; apparently my mother has found my Livejournal and is freaking out about it. Of course, I don't really have time right now to call her and talk for a while about it, so that will just have to wait. But I figured I'd mention it here so I remind myself that I should probably call her at some point when I'm not in the middle of visiting with several hundred of my closest friends. Yeah.
Hm, I think Carl and I are going to head over to the acapella concerts for a bit, and then the lounge BBQ, and then who knows...
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Of course, the additional wisdom of increased age now allows me to see more of my mom's concerns in an unbiased light. And that I was really fortunate that things didn't work out in some horrific way. I should've bought lottery tickets.
Still. Parents reading blogs? That's part of why mine is now devoid of emotional content. The other part, of course, being that there's really no reason to go into it. I'm being cautious; I fully expect my parents aren't reading my LJ.