taichi lemons

This is kinda old news by now, but too bad; it's worth mentioning. Last Friday I went to the weekly InterVarsity large group in the Loft (which is cleverly stationed above one of our Jimmy John's). I go to these worship sessions every week, along with small group Bible study every Thursday evening. The speaker was Joe Whitchurch, who was a really good speaker; he talked about people being thinkers. In particular, instead of going along the generally (absent-mindedly) practiced notion to accept everything as it is given to us, we should consider everything carefully. While this doesn't mean to automatically reject everything that is said, it doesn't mean that everything is as it seems at face value. Which is what I've been saying for years, so I was happy to hear a speaker say as much, though it also brought it home that much more.

After a time of singing and prayer, followed by a little downtime of socializing, we had so-called "New Student Appreciation Night," of which I had forgotten about completely, but stayed for it anyways because I like being appreciated :) While there wasn't a lot of focus on new students or on appreciating new students or new students appreciating the veterans, there was plenty of fun. We split into groups based upon general major (us engineering students had to be split up into more specific majors because we would have totally dominated otherwise), so I was with the CS group. (That is Computer Science, mind you, not Counter Strike, as I've had a number of people ask. I wouldn't exactly mind the latter, though.)

Our task was to create the "latest" fashions out of newspaper. We would mold our creativity onto our victim via masking tape and our intellect. As if. So our team decided that we'd go for the business not-so-formal look, and set out to deck our guy out with a suit, dress pants with pockets, and a spiffy tie (which I was the main constructor of; it was quite spiffy if I might say so myself). We also provided him with two essential accessories: a briefcase and the obligitory Taichi sword. When we showed our guy off, he was quite a hit, fending off vicious assailants.

In other news, today was my sister's birthday. Wish her well for the 23 years she's been around and the many more to come. We had a really awesome lemony-type cake made by the Cheesecake Factory last night, and it was totally the best cake I've had in forever. Didn't get to take any home, though, which made me sad. There was still chocolate cake though.