the times, they are a changin'

Highlights of last weekend:
-Zaxby's Buffalo Tenders
-Georgia Southern interview
-Flamingo football ringer
-Taboo domination
-magnetic haiku
So this weekend I went on the CCF TRFKATCR (The Retreat Formerly Known As The Christmas Retreat). It was mostly good times all around. Unbeknownst to me, this retreat is also infamous as the "sex" retreat. Normally this just means talking about relationships, but this time we actually talked about sex. Awk-ward. Between worship and talk times, I spent most of the time talking to anybody and everybody. A group of Georgia Southern CCFers came, and one of them interviewed me to get a better idea of what Tech's CCF is like. That was good cause it forced me to put some definition on my thoughts. Then, Saturday afternoon came the notorious flamingo football game. For those of you not familiar with the sport, flamingo football is guys vs. girls tackle football where the guys must play on one leg. Being 6'6" and fairly athletic, I turned into quite the asset. I caught passes for three first downs and generally boosted morale. However, it was not good enough as the girls went on to win 12-7. The retreat ended and I came home tired and incredibly sore.

THEN last night I went to a belated birthday party for my friend Rachel. It involved a large number of things on my favorites list: Fellini's, Taboo, Catch Phrase, and magnetic haikus. First we played guys vs. girls at both Taboo and Catch Phrase. 3 guys volunteered to be on the girls team, but the competition was still heated. I played with the girls, and we slaughtered the all guys team. We're talking 22-11, 20-12. Catch phrase was a little better as the guys forced a game 3 tiebreaker. The guys were crazy. Every point in Taboo had them out of their chairs, jumping up and down. After we all calmed down and ate some cake, we played with the magnetic poetry. 4 of us sat around a table, and we created haikus. Each person would add the next word to the poem. Once the poem was done (and they were decent poems if I might say so myself) we talked about the interpretation and what we saw in the poem. I'm not English major by any means, but it was just grand fun. English is one of those things that I love but have never been quite good enough at to pursue further.

So yes, good weekend all around. Now it's time to do a little work to balance all the fun.

Thus endeth the reign of the beard.