Crazy couple of days! Next January is Dance Marathon, a 24-hour event to raise money for children with AIDS, and though I'm not participating in the dancing, I helped out this week by delivering sing-a-grams across campus - basically, people would buy them for their friends and we would go sing the requested song to whoever the person chose. Our repertoire by the end of last night was:
- Dancing Queen (actually sounded really cool)
- I'll Make Love to You (Boyz II Men song I've never actually heard, so my rendition was a ...very loose adaptation of it
- A Long December (Counting Crows song, sounded pretty good)
- Jingle Bell Rock
- Random Weezer stuff
- Unwell by Matchbox 20
and random stuff like that. I still have to deliver one for Dave out in FloMo, which means learning a Ben Harper song sometime over the next few hours. Also, I'm pretty sure that we (2 Mikes f/ Jersey) are playing for a bit at Dance Marathon, so that should be crazy too.
I have three exams, perfectly spread out a day apart, and one is Psych, where I can pretty much not take the exam and still get credit for the course. Yay for stupidly switching to Credit/No Credit and then getting an A in the class .. . Ling and IHUM I actually care about, the former way more than the latter.
Secret Snowflake ended on kind of a down note - for the last night i was supposed to get into a wedding dress and do Dammit Janet but by then I think my own enthusiasm and everyone else's had just fizzled out so instead me and five other guys performed Yatta! in our underwear plus colored paper leaves. That was actually absurdly fun. Then we had Karaoke night - me and Tianu did 'Something' by the Beatles (sung to mystery member of audience), and Tianu did the best Karaoke performance of anything ever ("All Shook Up" by Elvis) I kid you not Elvis Lives and he's a Romanian college student . . and then I did "More than This", little Lost in Translation tribute there. . it was alright, it was fun at any rate.
I have absolutely run out of money for the quarter, so I basically have to go through the next week without spending any money at all . . it's really interesting actually, but not so much of a problem since means + housing are already paid for. It just means I can't splurge on a Subway sandwitch or such. I also wanted to order
this as a X-mas present to myself but it can wait for next year.
In awesome news, I'll be home in less than a week . . Of course I love it here but I really can't wait to be back in Sampa.