It was awesome. I watched it all unfold with about 200 people in one of the giant performance rooms, Emerson Suites. Everyone cheered and stayed quiet at the right times. The speech moved me. It said everything that needed to be said.
Other than that, my soul was crushed today, when I saw that Dean Lynch posted about a internship just for Parkies with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (the owner is an alumnus). Why did this upset me? Because this would have been the best internship in the entire world... until my favorite coach of all time, Jon Gruden, was fired by them THIS YEAR.
WHY?! WHYYYYY???? I don't care if they totally collapsed and need a fresh start, I LOVE that man and his facial expressions.
Oh, and today was also the first day of classes for the second semester. I only had my class on Short Stories and Global Studies classes. Short stories looks like it will be a breeze after having taken IB english. I know this stuff. And I've read quite a few of the stories on the syllabus during high school. Global Studies looks great. My professor is Dr. Soyinka-Airewele, which I will avoid trying to pronounce. She is from Africa (I can't recall which country) but obviously learned english in the lovely U.K so she has a strangely mixed accent that can sometimes be challenging to decipher. But so much of the class is discussion and friendly argument, which is something I pretty much love.
It is so cold here, it's ridiculous. Walking back from dinner I totally had a Calvin and Hobbes moment and exclaimed, classily...
"I THINK MY BOOGERS JUST FROZE!"
College never fails to bring out the best in me.
