I started my college career as a Chemical Engineering major. That ended after the first semester. I placed into Calculus and took it from Dr. Methuselah. I never once spoke up in class and was always completely lost. My poor[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It is a little known fact that I took fencing in college. It was the most fun class! We used foils and sabers (the sabers were wicked hard to defend). Every class, we would partner off and fence one another. One[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I never actually took Russian in college, but my friend did and he asked me to come to class one day to see this girl. Ugh. She was saccharin sweet and chipper. I have NO idea what her agenda was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Every so often, my friend and I would make to 70 mile drive to Pullman, Washington, which was 7 miles away. Something happened that bent time-space and made it the LONGEST drive of your life. But, Pullman had something that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of my favorite movie quotes of all time never actually occurred. We were watching a movie in…1993? Some woman killed a guy in a home office and another woman shouted, “You killed him!” We ad libbed, “…you bitch!” It[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My friend bought a computer from Micron. It was the baddest mofo on the planet. I think it had a whopping 32 megabytes of RAM! Yeah, baby! Maybe a 512 megabyte hard drive. It was blazing! There was no way[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One day (1993?!), the basement of the dorms was an empty room, the next day it was filled to the brim with people on computers. I’d had computers in high school, but this was for something all together different. It[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Aerosmith was a big thing during these years. Pump came out while I was in High School, followed by Get A Grip and Big Ones. I think Nine Lives came out as I was graduating. The quote was, “New album[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Wouldn’t you know? Greenjeans had a boyfriend. Well, not really a boy. He was the lead singer from Fine Young Cannibals superimposed onto a Formorian Giant. That’s why we called him Good Thing, or Formorian Giant. He got wind of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My friend did have a thing for a girl who we called Greenjeans. It might have been her real name. Hard to say. She worked at the record store in the mall, so naturally, we spent a lot of time[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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