Heh... that was one of the skits at the Shenanigans show tonight, which was actually really funny (I had mixed feelings on the previous one; there were some very funny parts, but others were just... eh. This time, though, they cut down on "eh" parts so almost all of it was just funny. Which I'm guessing was what they were going for. XD) But anyway... yeah, they had random silliness (see above), a plunger, goofy video clips of people running and jumping in strange places (sometimes with a plunger), and poop jokes. And though it was absurdly crowded I managed to find a seat that wasn't too bad; only problem was that sometimes I couldn't see what was going on, though it worked better this time since they actually had a stage (so everyone was higher up off the ground, and thus easier to see over other people's heads.)
Also helped out a bit with Michelle's story, reading over a little and finding random typos. I'm guessing Ruth helped a lot more, what with her entire sentences worth of notes along the edges and circled words and such... but my natural typo-sense picked up a few things that even she missed, so me being there wasn't completely pointless even though I hadn't actually read any of it until right then (and I still haven't finished reading through it, since Shenanigans was at 9:00 and it was getting pretty close before we went over the whole thing.)
Earlier today, my mom and Julia randomly decided to come up here and visit me at school (well, okay, not completely randomly--Julia had text-messaged me yesterday asking if tomorrow would be a good day for them to visit.) We went to eat at the Palms in Lexington (which had really good food, as usual--I had an Italian sub, fries, and a salad, while Mom got a burger and Julia got a portabello mushroom burger. Yep, with a giant mushroom instead of beef. I should probably try that sometime, it sounded pretty good... and it would let me say I'd eaten a burger even though I don't eat beef), then looked around at the little bookstore right around the corner... and I ended up randomly buying a bug book. And it just happened to have more information on Grylloblattids (apparently also known as "ice insects," as they are used to super-cold temperatures due to living up in the mountains and can die if exposed to 98 degree temperatures--like your hands--for more than a few minutes) than any other bug book I've ever seen; usually they just get a two-sentence blurb about being related to cockroaches and crickets, and the fact that they're rare and live in mountainous areas only. I had never heard about their tolerance for extreme cold (or death at any significant amount of heat) or the fact that they actually have a common name before. They even had a picture, so now I know what the things actually look like! Afterwards they brought me back to school, with my new bug book and also some snack food, drink mixes, and money (all three of which I had been running low on before.)
Also, I think I finally figured out something I could do about the Iliad/Odyssey essay... reading over the syllabus description again and hearing from the teacher himself, it seems it doesn't necessarily have to be "compare X event from Iliad/Odyssey to Y event from your life" so much as "what can we today learn from them." Which means I may actually have an idea. Y'know how Achilles had two lessons he had to learn? (to give way--basically, that he shouldn't keep being super angry all the time and let his anger consume him--and that death is relentless--basically, everybody dies and you can't really avoid it, only delay it.) Well, I'm thinking that will be the thing I base my paper off of, with examples of how they apply to my own life (mostly for the don't-stay-angry-all-the-time one, since I have no experience with death just yet) and just life in general, instead of trying to fit one event in and vaguely match it up to something from one of the stories. Not sure if I'll have it ready by 8:30 tomorrow, of course... but I should maybe be able to get it done before too long after that.
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