OK, what I really need to blog about (You'll understand the italics later.) is the highlights of Wesley tonight, but I realized that I have a lot of non-Bob the Builder-related things to tell about first!
Weekend
Yeah, so on Friday I went ice skating for the first time ever... and didn't fall down! Woot! Steve Gerner emailed me and said that he and some of his friends were going up to Polar Ice, so I tagged along only to find that all the friends who showed up besides me were U of A friends. But it's OK. No violence erupted... lol. Then afterwards I think I came home and watched Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle with Mom because she rented it. (Yes, she rented it.) Or that movie part might've been on Friday. Whatev.
Anyway, on Saturday I went to the Shekinah-Glory conference that The Conference (well, mostly Song of Life) put on at Tempe First. It was muy awesome... too awesome to put into words. Or I'm just too lazy to put it all into words!
Then Sunday, I went to 11:11, spent forever at the Burger King on University as the Beyond the Zone conversation took on many varied topics, played Mission:Imposssible in the church office while Melanie emailed Dave something from her laptop, went to Fry's Electronics with Beth to get a cheap TV tuner card for my computer (So now I can watch and tape TV on my computer! It's so cool!), went home and installed said card, drove back up to Tempe and went to the Taizé service at University Presbyterian, then had like an hour-long parking-lot talk with most of the people from Beyond the Zone that was kinda like a continuation of the lunch conversations!
Week
Then this week, I started work at The State Press as the cops reporter, which has been very, very cool so far. But I'll refrain from going into detail since a lot of the stuff I've been doing would probably seem pretty boring to almost everyone else. Like, ooh, yesterday I was able to log on to the SMNews server! OK, so it does get more intrinsically exciting than that, but I find even the un-intrinsically exciting stuff almost equally as cool!
Anyway, today after spending the morning on campus, I picked up my dorm key from the desk in C and a month's worth of mail from my dorm mailbox and headed up to the Flinn Foundation offices to be one of the current-Flinns-in-the-lobby at Day 1 of the Phoenix set of regional interviews, chatted with some potential '05 Flinns (two of them from CHS) as well as Howard and Katie, who I found out also worked for The State Press while she was at ASU. :)
Then I ended up being done atthe Foundation by about 4:30, half an hour earlier than I expected, so even with the beginnings of rush hour hell I was able to make it to church by 5 instead of 6.
Wesley
So when I got there, I decided to distract Beth from her work because I knew she had come early to work on directory stuff. Plus I also went through all of my dorm-mail and generally spread papers over the half of the table that was not occupied by Beth's computer, papers, and the like. But soon Brian Schlemmer arrived and shortly afterwards, a UTI student who found about about Wesley somehow or another came in. Yes, that's right. Someone new at Wesley! And we thought it couldn't be done! lol
But of course, we say that it's so unlikely that we can coax new people to come to Wesley because over the past couple months things (and people) have been getting progressively weirder. Tonight was no exception. There were the usual things-that-don't-make sense like the fact the Brian rode his bike to church but then left a little before 8, saying that he had to go somewhere and wanting to know if anyone had a key to lock up with. So it sounds like he's leaving and not coming back for a while, right? I thought so too, but like 10 or 15 minutes after he left, I noticed that his bike was still at the back of the Baker Center. Why? Who knows! It's one of those unexplainable Wesley things.
Plus, Joe would not shut up about blogging, Brandt freaked out when Brian complimented his haircut, Joe foot-raped me:
Brian is sitting in the big chair and resting his feet on the middle section of the north-facing couch.
Joe is sitting kinda sideways on the couch.
Joe [Makes some weird comment/threat about how he's going to put his foot on mine (which is better than his previous faux-threats of breaking my legs, et cetera).]
Joe places his foot up against Brian's
Brian: [After a moment of confused silence:] "I just want you to know that I'm not consenting to this... foot relationship thing."
Beth: "Are you guys playing footsies?"
Brian: "No! See? My foot's not moving. ... It's like foot rape!"
And Brandt pointed out like half of the sexual innuendoes in 50 First Dates, which we were watching, by saying, "Oh! Sexual innuendo!" And then trying to Brandt-ify it and make it worse. Luckily, Joe refrained from making explicit faux-sexual advances to Brandt until after 8:00, when Tim (the guy from UTI) left, so hopefully we didn't scare him off.