My rutabaga died. It's a ROOT vegetable. Aren't those things supposed to last forever? I blame my current location (as I blame everything else on, as well). Today I almost was sunburned. It is March and I came super-close to looking like I'd spent the week at a beach in JULY. So, I blame it on where I live.
In happier news, Task 10 (Go without eating fast food for a month) and Task 31 (Volunteer), and Task 17 (Learn how to play a new game) are DONE! I made it through the entire month of February without going to a fast food restaurant. I have now more than caught up on my fast food intake, but plans are underway to maybe go on a hiatus yet again. As for Task 31, I volunteered at the International Folk Festival for a total of about 12 1/2 hours over two days. I worked at a booth selling logic puzzles the first day. There was a part of the booth set up for the students to play with the different puzzles and logical toys (you know: Get the loop off the really-absract looking piece of metal, fit these blocks in a wooden cube without getting frustrated, etc.). What was so funny was the fact that I was thrown behind that booth without so much as a clue how to solve any of the puzzles. So, when asked the solution or even the goal of each puzzle, I simply made it up or shrugged my shoulders. Is that bad??
The second day, I worked for the judges of the International Inventors Competition, which was a TON of work, but really fun. There were about 18 student inventors from Taiwan and the Phillipines and one inventor from the U.S. The inventors were amazing and made me feel academically inadequate. They were all about 14 years old and were smarter than many 50 year olds I know. Needless to say, it was intimidating. But I really did enjoy volunteering and working with them. They were all so kind and polite and friendly. Oh! And there was a folk dance competition, which I got to see bits and pieces of. If you know anything about me, you know how I felt about that. (P.S. Creaves, Kabhi Kushi Khabhie Gham next week??)
Task 17 was completed this past Friday evening while I was at a party hosted by one of my professors and his wife. It was technically for the program he is the chair of, but he invited my program out of pity. He and his wife have such a cool, antique house right on the edge of campus. Upstairs is a room full of games: a pool table, pinball machine, shock machine (I can now literally say I have shocked one of my professors. I can also now say that a professor cheated on a game in order to shock me as well. So funny, but another story...), and on and on. Anyway, I learned how to play Boccer Ball. It's like a mix of soccer, fooseball, marbles, and pinball. Here's a video, even though these guys don't play it the way I was taught (One marble per hand, the soccer ball begins in the exact middle of the field- I was taught by a statistics professor). It is strangely addicting and my professor definitely won all three rounds.
Have any of you, dear readers, ever played Boccer Ball before?
So, a quick recap:
Tasks 9, 10, 14, 17, possibly 19, 22, 24, 31, possibly 39 are all done!
To the PS- YES!!
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