Assorted weirdness

Last night, I stumbled upon people printing out copies of the Paladin (the school's little magazine/newspaper thing) and one of them was printed with the wrong settings and turned out REALLY tiny.  Seriously, they're normally about the size of a regular magazine, but this one was smaller than a graphic novel but still as thin as a magazine (the words/pictures were shrunk, but amazingly, still readable.)  There was also a picture of a gun in there that made me think of a fusion of a revolver and a hairdryer at first glance, though looking at it again I'm guessing the "hairdryer" part on the front of the barrel was just supposed to be the rifling grooves on the inside of the barrel (it's at an unusual angle, not quite a regular side-view.)

Speaking of the Paladin, there's a list of "101 things to do before you leave SVU."  Some of them make it obvious that this list was being built up looooong before this issue of the Paladin was printed (#30, "make a waffle topped with every ice cream flavor in the Dining Hall"--problem: the waffle-makers are no longer in the Dining Hall!), while others (a lot of others) are things that involve actually leaving SVU, and not always to places that are nearby or on trips that are actually required or given as an option for school (such as #58, "take a trip to Virginia Beach.")  And of course, there's Mormon-y things (#51, have a Sunday evening scripture study group on the Blue Ridge Parkway) and things that only people who actually have some luck with girls/dating can do, such as #3 (kiss in front of the knight statue.)  I'm actually surprised that there's only one of those on the list, considering how frequently "instant relationships" sprout up (and then rapidly shrivel away) around here.  Heck, with the frequency it happens at, "get into a relationship that doesn't last more than a semester" could probably be on this list!

I also found out the other day that one of the few people I've met here who isn't Mormon is going to be baptized into the church pretty soon.  Weird.  This happened last year, too, though I don't know the girl who's getting baptized this year as well as I did the girl who did it last year.  If this keeps up, I'm probably going to be the only non-Mormon in the school by the time I graduate.  Or maybe not quite the only one, but pretty close.  I'm definitely not going to be one of the ones who randomly gets baptized, at least!