Pictures from Block Break in Durango

here are some pictures, i'll post the story later

My parents should never have let me take that xbox...

I <3 video games.

Over the weekend Goyo, my roommate, went to an undergound salsa bar where he ran into Eva Mendez. He apparently tried to buy her a drink, an offer which she declined, and then, after much failed flirtation, said she was so beautiful she deserved to be knighted. And by "said she deserved to be knighted" i mean he tapped her shoulders with an imaginary sword and dubbed her lady eva mendez.

The Dhali lama is coming to our school in october and I just bought tickets for it so that should be pretty awesome. I've been playing a good bit of tennis against my friend Maddie who is about the same level as me so thats been a lot of fun. She unfortunately caught swine flu, which has been spreading around my school pretty fast. Apparently the dorms are all connected to the same air system or something so all of the kids quarantining themselves in their dorms are still spreading the germs throughout the building. If more than 15 or 20 % of the school gets it we shut down for the semester and finish all of our classes on line which would be really miserable. There have already been 40 or 50 cases and its spreading fast so I've got my fingers crossed.

In da city

So I've been at college for about a month now and am loving second semester. Having an apartment is one of the most amazing things ever, and Goyo and I have done much remodelling/furnishing over the past few weeks. It looks a bit silly with all of the random things people have given us: a bike, a pink fridge that our big TV sits on, weird girls paintings, various pink and blue colored tables, a big green ace ladder, all of which is topped off by a lovely picture of my face superimposed on rambo's body that sits on a samurai-sword our friend gave us.

I'm really enjoying all of my classes this semester, especially the LIT ones. In Writers in Print/Fiction we read different types of books and scripts (including comic books), watch some documentaries, and study a CD. The cool thing is the creators of everything that we study come into the class and have an hour long Q & A session, one of which Sam Smith came up and sat in for.

I'll post more later, I just wanted to make sure I had something up here seeing as I joined so late.

Back to the Mountains

(my desk)

(My apartment building, we are the one on the top right. Those things on the roof are solar panels.)


(Pikes Peak in the early morning)

You can click the pictures to make them bigger.

Been back for about a week, moving was a pain but im glad its over. My apartment is sweet, we (me + 3) have a big common room and I recently bought a stained glass lightbulb for my desk lamp that is really cool. It is also really nice having a kitchen - me and my roomates as well as nikki and some of our other friends have been cooking a lot lately at our apartment. We've had pad thai, chicken curry, bison burritos, pork and potatoes au gratin, and lots of cookies and brownies made by nikki and margaret.

Last friday I went on the Colorado College cruiser ride (its once a month, each full moon). About 400 college students on bikes wearing ridiculous costumes/clothes ride down Tejon (the main street of downtown colorado springs) in a sort of insane parade. We then biked to a huge statue and had a little mini dance party, then went back to campus, all told it was wild and fun.

Ultimate Frisbee is starting up and we have a lot of interest from the hippie kids who like to play without shoes on the quad. Ran a pretty intense practice yesterday and they seemed to like it. They are n00bs right now, but hopefully a couple more months of practice and some cleats should get them in ship shape. Also for frisbee - I am excited to come back to nashville for sectionals and to see people. (Sept 17th ish i think). Did a morning workout today at 630 and it was rough.

TPX Game Design - Markham, Andy, Andrew and I along with Alex Juskiezwicz and Forrest ?? make up this game design group. It has been pretty low key so far, mainly skype meetings every once and a while, but I'm hoping that it gets a little more involved soon. We hope to have our first Warcraft custom game stitched together by the weekend, and then we might start working on a story based adventure game.

That's about it, hmm, also recently read Sam Smith's screenplay, Dodge, which was really tight. We started a book club on our other blog.

beginning of the second half

I don't want to make this too long, because being the first post, I think it shouldn't be a novel or anything. But big things that have been going on for me recently.
I declared my major (Environmental Analysis - Design Track [please don't mention architecture dad, i get it]) and a minor (Economics).
I got cast in the fall one acts, I am the county attorney and I think I know who the murderer was.
I'm a junior in college. Which is weird and cool, and mostly weird.

Other Things
All of my nice clothes are wrinkled because I didn't dry them properly before I left for school. So I have only worn random old t-shirts and shorts. But whatever its california and they go well with flip-flops.
Its hot. Like legitimately hot, and this is the first year I am living without air-conditioning. Its fine at night, but during the day it gets pretty crazy. But everyone says that it cools down pretty quickly through september.
I'm living with Tom, who is this very dedicated to school and easygoing as well as a good party guy. So its a good situation. We each have a single but they are attached. And his has the bathroom and mine has the exit, so its more of a two room double if that makes sense.
I talked to the editor of The Student Life (the paper on campus) who is a friend of mine and I am going to try and do a comic for this semester each week. May ask for advice at some point.

if you have gotten this far, congradulations!

-Galahad

(also i guess I should explain this is, as of now, Markham (me), Nicky, Will, Edward, Samuel, Andrew, and Andy just kinda posting for our parents. We have spread out around the country, but want to do a good job at keeping in touch with the people who care at home. Basically, ting, sophie, mushu, creek, and eliot need to know whats going on)