I realize its been too long since I've posted on the blog, but college is college, so soak up this post while you can. I'm super busy, but loving every minute of it.
In about an hour I will be performing a rap with ten other members of my fraternity in front of 200+ sorority girls at their house. The point of such a ridiculous display of hip-hoppery (as you can see college English class is expanding my vocabulary) is to entice said sorority to attend homecoming with our fraternity. Basically, this means we have a sorority all to ourselves to party with on homecoming. Our chapter is under 50, theis is over 200 -- you do the math.
Pledging is going awesome. All the brothers are great and I'm loving getting to go everybody. Friday we are having our first big party this semester, themed "Cowboys and Indians" and it will be themed with a saloon style bar, teepees outside, cowboy hats and tumbleweeds. It should be a great time.
I am also working on the school TV network, Trojan Vision. I am an associate producer on a show called CU@USC every Tuesday night which is a live talk show that brings in guests from the David Hasselhof, to Wierd Al, to George Lucas. Last season we brought in Ron Jeremy, which is a little ridiculous. The experience is great, we hold ourselves to a professional standard, and everybody at the station is very cool.
Classes are going great. I absolutely love my Art History class, so much so in fact, that I may want to minor in art history if my major permits. For film class I just watched a 1970s Spanish Western Surrealsit film, El Topo, about a gunslinger who travels across a mystical land murdering the worlds greatest gunmen and their mythological palaces, delves into zen and redemption, and sprinkled with deformed humans, magic rabbits, and crazy monks. It was awesome.
One thing that immediately transitions from high school to college is a person's inability to wake up. Now, waking up at 8 or 9 seems early, I don't know how I ever got up at 6. I don't think I ever slept till noon in high school, but then again, I never really averaged a bed time of 4am or later on weekends before.
One thing I really miss about St. Louis is Pasta House salads. No lie, I would murder for one right now. But having a 24 hour subway by my dorm is pretty bomb.
So if anybody wants to mail me one, that'd be terrific.
Time to go, but feel free to shoot me an email, I'd love to hear from anybody.
Take care,
Joe
