Ok. Let’s see. 8 showed up, people were here, the left, we slept, that’s was good.
Next day we got on the road at about 9ish. I had a smoothie before we left. We got gas and then went the wrong way on the freeway for a second, and then went the right way, and barely made a couple exits, and then we took a wrong one, but got back on the right way. And then we deviated from the instructions and went towards Yakima. We would have bypassed it, but it was good we went there anyway cause 8 had to use the bathroom and we got tacos. Then we managed to get back on the freeway despite the accident that happened right before we left the restaurant in the intersection we were going to use. We cut through a parking lot. Excitement. Then we made it to Seattle like we were supposed to, but we had to do a lot of spiraling around and such to find the PAX place. We managed though and still go there early to stand in the hugantic line. Once it started moving though it went quick because everyone in our line had passes already. Then we were in PAX, a wonderful fairy-land of and for nerds and geeks. Free DDR and pinball, Xboxs and Gamecubes everywhere, two huge rooms dedicated to tabletop gaming, and a theater with 1,400 capacity to show Gamers and other such nerdy films. So we did the whole run around PAX thing. We saw the Penny Arcade guys talking about such, and then we saw a pianist play Nintendo music. It was awesome, he through in 1ups and coins and such. Blindfolded one song. Then he did the whole “you only have 99 time units left” and played faster. It was awesome. There was some rap and other stuff but we couldn’t understand it very well.
We went to Denny’s and had breakfast at around 2:30 AM. Then we got really lost trying to get to Phil’s house because the people we were following kinda drove way faster than Ody’s car could go. Eventually we met them back at Denny’s though and the second time it worked. So then we got to Phil’s and all seven of us slept in his basement, even though he wasn’t there. His parents are cool like that I guess.
Next morning we woke up, and since the drivers didn’t feel like going back to PAX as early as all that, we slept in some. Thus Kait, Dimitri, Keston, and I missed our D&D fighter duel tourney, which was pretty ok since we didn’t have our characters made, and a character made in 1 hour would be pretty crappy anyway. We went to this breakfast place and I ate half the peoples fruit. PAX was the same. There was more D&D played this time… Dim ran an adventure. There was an Expo room where they were showing demo’s of D&D Online, Kait won a beta account, so come 9-15 expect some talk of that. 😛 Oh, and the Bawl’s. Haven’t mentioned that. People were drinking it by the case load, I didn’t have any except 50 of the free mints they were giving out. Caffeinated and carbonated goodness. This night we saw MC Chris and MC Frontalot. They are teh cool. Chris practically did a stand up routine between his songs, he’s a funny guy. Got everyone doing the black panther thing screaming “Nerd Power!” Fun. Ody did DDR for about 12 hours. Lost like 12 pounds.
Denny’s again. Oreo milkshake. Phil’s much faster this time. Sleep in the basement, all good. Next morning us 4 (8, Ody, Dim, and I) didn’t go to PAX. There was a going early rebellion from the drivers again, and we had to be back to campus by 6. We got some directions from Phil’s parents and got some gas, and then got on I-5 and then found the cheap gas they talked about and filled up and I got free pop for checking my balance on my card, and then we got back on the I-5 from w/o retracing out steps and made it all the way to Linfield w/o getting lost the whole day. It was bizarre. Traffic was pretty good, except for the dead motorcyclist right outside Seattle. They were scrubbing the road… don’t ride motorcycles. Anyway, got to campus and moved in and bought food and cooked and ate and passed out.
Then it was all college stuff. Figuring out books, and classes… and the club fair. The club fair is where all the clubs from campus sit at tables and peddle their wares and try to get the e-mail addresses of the frosh’s so their club doesn’t die. Kait and I are copresidents of LRPC (Linfield Role-Playing Council). That’s the name for the senate, we put Nerd Club up on our sign and got much more attention. We got a full page of e-mails and names, we did very well. Lots of girls too… dunno what’s up with that. Hopefully we can retain some of them as active members. Have to come up with some activities and such.
Then today I went to class. I didn’t go to physics, cause I’m pretty sure I wasn’t supposed to on account of I switched to the hard version so we don’t meet on Wednesday, so that includes the first day right? I went to computer science. He just rambled all day and told us to do our work and such. I have to fill out a little form to tell him about myself. tough. We’re going to be working on hardware for a couple of weeks, which is swell. I could maybe learn enough to build a good computer someday. I’ll try. No other classes today though. I normally would have bio lab, but I haven’t had class yet, so I’m pretty sure we don’t have lab. I’m going to go talk to my independent research advisor guy soon. He was in a faculty meeting. I also have been filling out applications for work study jobs… work… /sigh.
Ok, so that’s a huge rambling post of stuff I’ve missed telling people about since I was internetless. My apartment is internet plush currently, but 8’s in internetless still. Hopefully that situation is remedied soon. She’s going to be at work at the library today though, so maybe she’ll post a bit on this sort of stuff, and make some sense of it.
Nerd power!