And back from the abyss!

I feel like I haven't posted in forever, even though it's only been a week and a half or so. However, I have a valid, or rather semi valid excuse - my school issued laptop died at the beginning of last week. The hard drive decided to give up the ghost, and told me that it couldn't boot up. So, it has spent the last week in the tech service, and I got it back yesterday. During that time, I couldn't use the internet in my room, due to the fact that the school is dumb and we have to have a certain security program installed on the computer for the internet to work. A week without internet on a regular basis was very trying. Luckily, I could use wireless on my other laptop, and it cooperated with me. I was glad.

So, an update from the past week - nothing exciting happened until Monday. Haha! Well, that's not totally true - on Sunday, my roommate broke his toe. That was funny. This was during the semi finals for intramural soccer. He went for the ball, and the girl who challenged him missed, and got his toe instead. He had a very acrobatic fall, and then came limping off the field and was like "I think I have an extra toe." It was very amusing.

On Monday, there was the final game of intramural soccer. My team had to play the professors in the coed intramural league. It was a wonderful game. Good playing, clean overall, and a close match. My team lost 2-3. In the middle of the second half, however, I had to leave the game. I challenged one of the professors (a little bald British man) as he was tearing down the field. He cut the ball one way, and I got my foot on it. However, he thought I was going to move with him as he went down the field. That didn't happen. I work like a wall when someone tries to run through me. Unfortunately, this guy was small enough that his forehead was level with my mouth. That hurt. A lot. My roomie was standing on the sidelines, and said that I didn't move at all when the collision happened. The other guy ended up on the ground. However, we were both ok - he had a cut above his eye from my tooth, and I had a huge gash in my lip, and a rather sore face.

After that, we went up to one of the more secluded parking lots in school (it's dark at this point), and tried to celebrate Guy Faulkes Day, albeit a day late. We had a small pumpkin that we filled with gasoline, and tried to explode. However, there was a small problem - gasoline doesn't explode if it's a liquid, and there was waaay too much liquid in the pumpkin. So, it burned for a while, and then campus security showed up. That was very unnerving. At this point, the asphalt of the parking lot had caught on fire as well. The guard pulled up next to us and was like "So, whatcha doing?" Luckily my roommate kept a cool head, and was like "Just burning a Jack-o-Lantern" Security was like "Why don't you go back to your room and not light anything else on fire" We then took off as fast as possible without looking like we were fleeing. As we were driving off, we saw him kick the pumpkin - which was still full of gas, and had a glowing stem. We booked it after that.

So other than that, not too much interesting has happened - still not getting any action, kind of accepting of that, not having to take care of too many drunk people, which is a bonus. However, that might change soon - the frats at my school just got their special use permits which allows them to throw parties again. We'll see how that turns out.


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