What a great day!
Wow, today was really awesome on so many levels!
Classes were cool– although one of them required some text messaging to liven it up. I was able to make some substantial progress on stuff at work thanks to some very cool help from one of my very cool city editors. Relatedly, I had the lead story and the lead photo on the front page of today's paper. Also, we had a Flinn meeting today about our service project proposal in which we both got work done and talked about the Eastern European memories of those who've already been overseas.
Plus, I spent the evening with a group of people amassed by birthday boy Brian Schlemmer. We went up to Camelview to see Hotel Rwanda and spent the rest of the evening at Macayo's talking, eating, and making jokes at Brian's expense.
Macayo's moments
Our poor, nearly voiceless waitress
Brian's recurring Godfather/mafia references
All those love triangles... including the one that extends down to Tucson
More discussion about googly eyes
Brian trying to make a mean face
My secret love for Melanie!
Brian Schlemmer: Upset at his inability to make a face we consider sufficiently mean, he says something about how one day he'll prove his meanness potential by just going off on a killing spree.
Brian Indrelunas: "Could you call me when you're about to do that? That would save me a lot of time."
"Prepare to be triangulated!"
How to describe all the soap-opera-esque romance in the group?
The young man and the older woman...
The old man and the cat!
The Parade of the Cat Princess (and her Cat Prince!)
Almost getting killed by Brian about a thousand times
The plan to nuke Texas and its unlikely source
Melanie's and my pen-sharing... our first official "moment" and a big step forward for the relationship that only one of us acknowledges.