Once again, another week has flown by on the hill and it’s time for another radio show. A quick reminder before I jump into other things, tomorrow (Tuesday) from 2pm to 4pm EST tune in to WHCL 88.7 (www.whcl.org) for another one of my shows. Tomorrow’s theme (if you can even describe my show as being theme based) is somber tunes. There’s going to be a good mix of alternative/indie tunes along with some electronic/jazz pieces. I’m pretty excited about the songs that I picked out and I’ve got high hopes for the show. As usual, the playlist for the show will be available here.
So, what happened this past week? Quite a lot, though mostly inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. Last night, Greg, Grant, and I entertained guests at 4002A. Well, we simply cooked an easy dinner of spaghetti bolognese (w/ real meat sauce), threw together a quick salad, and made sure to have vast amounts of red wine and beverages available. Some friends came over and it was actually very quaint; seven of us sitting around our kitchen table chatting about the latest events and simply catching up. We hope to make this into a semi-permanent fixture of Sunday nights but we’ll see, it’s tough to organize things too far in advance. Also on Sunday, we threw together an EMT training session. As dorky/geeky/fill in the appropriate word here that it sounds, I actually like our hands on skill training sessions. Although I was leading one of the stations, it’s really good to be able to simply take the equipment that we don’t use too often (traction splints, KEDs, backboards) and just make sure we remember how to use it all. I led the traction splint station and it was a good thing too as I learnt a lot about how it works (which unfortunately I’d forgotten about). I also got the privilege to not only be trapped in a KED, but then boarded down, and then used as a weight while Gabe did some curls. Cute.
Friday and Saturday were generally weekend days. I got off campus a couple of times with Greg, visited the cider mill in Clinton, and had a chance to play with the new iPod nano that Apple released a couple of weeks ago. It truly is small; I had no idea it was as tiny as they say it was. Black is a very awesome color and I’m hoping to be able to sell the iPods I own now (40 GB 4th generation and 1 GB iPod Shuffle) so that I can pick up a black 4 GB iPod nano engraved with either “Where words fail, music speaks” or perhaps simply my name and URL. I also had the chance to watch the movie, Crash. Featuring a well thought-out cast, the movie juxtaposed racial tensions with humor to create a shocking movie that brought both tears and smiles. I don’t really want to describe it too much but it was truly a good film. I’d rate it somewhere around a 90 out of a 100.
Not much else is planned for the moment. Friday we’re hosting a gathering here for computer science students and faculty - a simple get together - known as a smash in the department. I’ve got tons of work this week but it’s more manageable than last week. And finally, I also ended up purchasing my ticket for Christmas, so I’ll be spending the majority of the break (Dec 19 to Jan 12) in France!
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