Yesterday's story about trivia reminded me of...yes, it's a Pointless College Story! With trivia!

Senior year, I shared an apartment with captain_squid and a guy who attempted to call himself "Yang." It didn't stick, but it'll do for an LJ post. We had made friends with some young women who lived down the hall a bit, specifically one named (I believe) Molly ( Read more... )

This is not quite a Pointless College Story. It's really more like half a story, half a random thought. Here in southeastern Pennsylvania, we have a chain of convenience stores called Wawa, named after the town where it was founded. It's pronounced just like you think it would be, and it's a remarkably stupid name if you think about it, but it ( Read more... )

Evidently I missed the 10th anniversary of the release of The Phantom Menace. Oops. It's funny, now, thinking that the 16 years from Return of the Jedi to Phantom Menace seemed like such a long drought...of course, as far as we knew in 1983, there would be no Star Wars, ever again. There were kids who grew up in that interregnum who actually ( Read more... )

As it turned out, I didn't see Wolverine over the weekend. I had that surgery instead, and I wasn't really feeling up to it over the weekend. As I predicted, the reviews are rather poor, so any desire I had to see it has faded. It's on the Netflix Queue; I'll get to it eventually. If you're willing to turn the nerd-o-meter up to 11, though, ( Read more... )

I'm sure absolutely nobody has noticed, but I'm not doing Pointless College Stories Week this year. For one thing, there seems to be a decline in population in these parts. For another, I decided last year to adopt a rule of "No stories that could make other people look bad," which cuts down on the options. Finally, I've had an annoying cold all ( Read more... )

This is my official announcement that I'm not going to discuss the election or the economy in this space, primarily because I have no great fondness for sounding like a total idiot in public, contrary to both popular belief and prior evidence. If you're dying for some angry political/economic ranting, check my Friends List, and you'll find plenty ( Read more... )

You know, I thought I had enough of these stories to last a long time, but after ten last year, and seven so far this year, I’m starting to run dry. There are more, but they're of minimal interest after so many years, or they’re too in-jokey, or they're too open to misinterpretation. I had a few more written up, but as I look over them, I don’t ( Read more... )

OK, enough about squirrels; let's have an actual story here. A story filled with Penn State pride, and bleeding blue-and-white. In fact, why don't I finally tell the story that originally made me think of Pointless College Stories Week?

( Everybody loves a parade, right? )

I'm going to steal an idea from fish_tie. I'm shameless that way. Fish told a fun story today about the squirrels at University Park. I was there a little longer than Fish was, so I have a bunch of squirrel stories, but none of them were really good enough to warrant an entry on their own. So let's try a variation on the theme.

( Pointless College Vignettes )

Last year’s PCSW, at least on this blog, featured several football stories. This year, it’s hard to believe I’ve gotten this far without one, isn’t it?

( That’s about to change. )