1) Dance Marathon is chugging along. Since I'm a Morale Team member, I had the 7 a.m. - 10 a.m. shift this morning. This meant that I showed up early, wandered around, cheered dancers on as they came into the O'Dome, and then ran in with all the other teams for opening ceremonies. We stayed just long enough to watch the dancers stand up, and then ( Read more... )

Tonight was the date/slave auction for Phi Sig/Dance Marathon. My date was "the Life of a Gainesville band groupie" basically. It entailed a trip to Maude's to drink coffee, play board games, act like emo kids and scowl at anyone that walks into Starbucks across the street with a popped collar. Then off to see a local show (either Fick or ( Read more... )

GAAAAAAH. I hate losing entries. That one was important and I have no drive to go back and retype it now. Sooo... bullet form. DAMMIT ( Read more... )

Well, half an hour to go before I return to DM once again...soooo... update! Went to dinner at the Alehouse with Terry, Michael, Shelcie, Elaine, Dalia, Simon and Jorge (sp). good times. We literally force-fed Shelcie a conch fritter...then had to reenact the moment in order to take a picture ( Read more... )

So this morning I went to the ASL storytelling festival... good times indeed. I also submitted an application to become an officer of Signing Gators, so we'll see what happens with that ( Read more... )

Tonight was DM Lip-sync. For the third year in a row, Phi Sig got second place. However, I think this year's was even funnier than last year's... it was an SNL theme. Adam Sandler (aka, Jordan), Ashlee Simpson (aka, Dubo), Christopher Walken (aka, Matt Mc.), the cowbell guy (Oded), the Spartan Cheerleaders (Cushing and Christie), Napoleon Dynamite ( Read more... )

Went to see Flogging Molly last night with Dalia, and needless to say, they rocked Orlando. I'm so glad I'm at least partially Irish... talk about a fun culture ;). There were some crazy sights: the washboard/cowbell player from the opening band Throw Rag (oooh my), the girl with the dislocated vertabrae or something (WHY would you go to a General ( Read more... )