Chasing but stolen
All things have happened. A pitifully incomplete summary follows.
I fail at French but the teacher feels bad for me and won't let me drop it. When attempting to make the drop, I inadvertently blackmailed her into giving me a better grade, though all I want is relief from the stress the class gives me. My campaign for liberty shall not end so easily.
Um. I have many chem lab reports to do.
Kaki King was amazing and a half, but this is old news.
=== Thursday: 5/10 (2/10 when not including Kaki King concert. Probably would have been worse had I been in a crippling accident.)
Getting up at noon is remarkably refreshing. Classes were probably easy and no homework was due, a refreshing change. 4 pm marked the beginning of Kaleidoquiz 2005. Details on that subject shall be often sketchy and not represented to their full capacity.
I was part of a team designated to create a 3'x4' sign proclaiming our team name, "Marching Through Your Veins Like Giant Radioactive Rubber Pants." Spray paint, index cards, masking tape, and markers were used. Then reception of the first Travel Question. Received: 1 envelope (holding a cd with the song Jane Says by Jane's Addiction but mislabled as Piano Con #1 by Matthew J. Adams), 1 fortune cookie (fortune: Your journey must come to an end by 2 am. Lucky numbers 35-20-151-11), and the property deed to Park Place from Monopoly. Solution: take I-35 to Highway 20, to Highway 151, to Highway 11, and you end up in Janesville, Wisconsin. There, find the bar called Park Place. In front of the bar is a KURE guy. We rocked that question.
During the entire 26 hours, trivia questions were being read on air about every six minutes. Samples: What percentage of Miss Americas were brunettes? What was the name of Napoleon's horse and what happened to one of his hooves? If there are two full teams and a referee on a soccer field, what is the chance that any two people share a birthday? What is the last line of the movie Rounders? What was 63-across in the ISU Daily's crossword puzzle on October 10, 2003? How many candles were around the heart-shaped necklace in episode 1-02 of Twin Peaks? Etcetera. Answers had to be called in to the station within six minutes. This took place in the room of 15 computers and 6-30 people (depending on the time).
One question asked for someone to call the station from the highest possible area code in the next six minutes. We pulled up a list of student phone numbers at some Michigan college who live in the 989 zone, but it was 4 in the morning and nobody picked up. We lost that question, unfortunately.
Other traveling questions were, "Find Grizzly Adams in a bar in Ames. He's wearing a hard hat. You have an hour" and, at 4:30 am, "Jake McCann is working alone somewhere right now. You have an hour to find him."
Scavenger hunts also occurred, seeking items like a Chicago phone book, a red Swingline stapler, a rainbow afro wig, your mother, an 8-inch floppy disk, a four-inch thick textbook, someone with a mohawk, a sex bowl t-shirt, and a Bible on tape. These took place during late evening hours which made finding things difficult.
Every so often they would broadcast a music or movie or literary montage. These consisted of clips from their respective media (songs, films, books/poems) which needed identification within an hour. One music montage consisted entirely of guitar riffs by the band Pavement. The highest score on that one was a 25 out of about 150.
=== Friday: 8/10 (KQ was pretty sweet, but just beginning)
I managed to stay awake until about 10 am on Saturday, drinking hot tea and finding answers using our awesome secret weapon. At this time, Fowler left and I went to bed for a few hours, waking again at 1 to resume the battle. The final few hours were basically us dominating everyone else as we got about 15 consecutive questions and did well in events like "Count the number of bricks in front of Catt hall for which the first letter of the first name of the first person is the same as the brick to its left and add that to the number of stairs in front of the only building facing east on the orange bus route." In the end, our team emerged victorious ahead of 17 other competitors and went to the campanile lawn for the award ceremony.
Traditionally, the prizes for KQ have been pretty crappy, like a giant box of condoms or soap or something like that. This year, after giving the third- and second-place teams their awards, the KURE group directed us to a van in the road behind us. We ran excitedly to see what was inside, but then a guy got out and said, "It's all yours."
So yeah, we won a van. Complete with spinners, a 10-disc CD changer and sweet sound system, and a hood autographed by the KURE staff. It rocks.
=== Saturday: 10/10 (Insane.)
Today I was dragged out of bed at about noon-thirty so that we could put into effect Operation Sneaky. I tore the bedsheet off of my bed, hopped onto my friend Nate's back, and covered up with the sheet. My arms stuck out instead of his, and I was disguised as a hump on his back. We put his meal card in my hand and proceeded down the stairs into the dining center.
The guy swiping cards gave us one look, scanned Nate's card, and didn't say a thing. We then got into the food line and narrowly avoided dropping pumpkin pie and silverware.
On the way out I hid again and carried two ice-cream cones (one for each of us). He would say, "I want ice cream now," and I would attempt to feed it to him but instead stick the cone into his nose.
Best lunch ever.
Today wound down well: seventy-degree weather (record high!) meant outdoorsing, so I played soccer for an hour as it was too windy for frisbee. Dinner was chinese and then watching The Incredibles at dolla-half theater. On the way home, Ian had to park his car at Jack Trice and then we had to walk back, but a super-cool thunderstorm had just moved in and insisted on soaking us. I ran and only ended up 72% soaked.
Scared the crap out of Scott when he tried to go to bed but that is too long a story. He made a funny noise.
=== Sunday: 10/10 (everything is rocking when I ignore school!)
I fail at French but the teacher feels bad for me and won't let me drop it. When attempting to make the drop, I inadvertently blackmailed her into giving me a better grade, though all I want is relief from the stress the class gives me. My campaign for liberty shall not end so easily.
Um. I have many chem lab reports to do.
Kaki King was amazing and a half, but this is old news.
=== Thursday: 5/10 (2/10 when not including Kaki King concert. Probably would have been worse had I been in a crippling accident.)
Getting up at noon is remarkably refreshing. Classes were probably easy and no homework was due, a refreshing change. 4 pm marked the beginning of Kaleidoquiz 2005. Details on that subject shall be often sketchy and not represented to their full capacity.
I was part of a team designated to create a 3'x4' sign proclaiming our team name, "Marching Through Your Veins Like Giant Radioactive Rubber Pants." Spray paint, index cards, masking tape, and markers were used. Then reception of the first Travel Question. Received: 1 envelope (holding a cd with the song Jane Says by Jane's Addiction but mislabled as Piano Con #1 by Matthew J. Adams), 1 fortune cookie (fortune: Your journey must come to an end by 2 am. Lucky numbers 35-20-151-11), and the property deed to Park Place from Monopoly. Solution: take I-35 to Highway 20, to Highway 151, to Highway 11, and you end up in Janesville, Wisconsin. There, find the bar called Park Place. In front of the bar is a KURE guy. We rocked that question.
During the entire 26 hours, trivia questions were being read on air about every six minutes. Samples: What percentage of Miss Americas were brunettes? What was the name of Napoleon's horse and what happened to one of his hooves? If there are two full teams and a referee on a soccer field, what is the chance that any two people share a birthday? What is the last line of the movie Rounders? What was 63-across in the ISU Daily's crossword puzzle on October 10, 2003? How many candles were around the heart-shaped necklace in episode 1-02 of Twin Peaks? Etcetera. Answers had to be called in to the station within six minutes. This took place in the room of 15 computers and 6-30 people (depending on the time).
One question asked for someone to call the station from the highest possible area code in the next six minutes. We pulled up a list of student phone numbers at some Michigan college who live in the 989 zone, but it was 4 in the morning and nobody picked up. We lost that question, unfortunately.
Other traveling questions were, "Find Grizzly Adams in a bar in Ames. He's wearing a hard hat. You have an hour" and, at 4:30 am, "Jake McCann is working alone somewhere right now. You have an hour to find him."
Scavenger hunts also occurred, seeking items like a Chicago phone book, a red Swingline stapler, a rainbow afro wig, your mother, an 8-inch floppy disk, a four-inch thick textbook, someone with a mohawk, a sex bowl t-shirt, and a Bible on tape. These took place during late evening hours which made finding things difficult.
Every so often they would broadcast a music or movie or literary montage. These consisted of clips from their respective media (songs, films, books/poems) which needed identification within an hour. One music montage consisted entirely of guitar riffs by the band Pavement. The highest score on that one was a 25 out of about 150.
=== Friday: 8/10 (KQ was pretty sweet, but just beginning)
I managed to stay awake until about 10 am on Saturday, drinking hot tea and finding answers using our awesome secret weapon. At this time, Fowler left and I went to bed for a few hours, waking again at 1 to resume the battle. The final few hours were basically us dominating everyone else as we got about 15 consecutive questions and did well in events like "Count the number of bricks in front of Catt hall for which the first letter of the first name of the first person is the same as the brick to its left and add that to the number of stairs in front of the only building facing east on the orange bus route." In the end, our team emerged victorious ahead of 17 other competitors and went to the campanile lawn for the award ceremony.
Traditionally, the prizes for KQ have been pretty crappy, like a giant box of condoms or soap or something like that. This year, after giving the third- and second-place teams their awards, the KURE group directed us to a van in the road behind us. We ran excitedly to see what was inside, but then a guy got out and said, "It's all yours."
So yeah, we won a van. Complete with spinners, a 10-disc CD changer and sweet sound system, and a hood autographed by the KURE staff. It rocks.
=== Saturday: 10/10 (Insane.)
Today I was dragged out of bed at about noon-thirty so that we could put into effect Operation Sneaky. I tore the bedsheet off of my bed, hopped onto my friend Nate's back, and covered up with the sheet. My arms stuck out instead of his, and I was disguised as a hump on his back. We put his meal card in my hand and proceeded down the stairs into the dining center.
The guy swiping cards gave us one look, scanned Nate's card, and didn't say a thing. We then got into the food line and narrowly avoided dropping pumpkin pie and silverware.
On the way out I hid again and carried two ice-cream cones (one for each of us). He would say, "I want ice cream now," and I would attempt to feed it to him but instead stick the cone into his nose.
Best lunch ever.
Today wound down well: seventy-degree weather (record high!) meant outdoorsing, so I played soccer for an hour as it was too windy for frisbee. Dinner was chinese and then watching The Incredibles at dolla-half theater. On the way home, Ian had to park his car at Jack Trice and then we had to walk back, but a super-cool thunderstorm had just moved in and insisted on soaking us. I ran and only ended up 72% soaked.
Scared the crap out of Scott when he tried to go to bed but that is too long a story. He made a funny noise.
=== Sunday: 10/10 (everything is rocking when I ignore school!)