PocketBlog Vol. 3 (4/5)
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Relay for Life
Yeah, I did that this year for my university. For those that do not know, the American Cancer Society puts this event on around the world to raise money and awareness for the prevention and treatment of cancer. I must say it was a pretty profound event. One of the women who helped run the event was a cancer survivor, along with a handful of others. At the very beginning, they were able to do a "Survivor Lap", where they got to walk the track by themselves. A handful of the younger ones were crying through this. Following that, people from every different organization would be on the track in shifts. Eventually, we did the premiere event of the Relay: Luminaria. The Luminaria was a segment where a series of illuminated paper bags were placed around the track. Every bag was for someone connected to a Relay participant who either survived or passed away from cancer. Again, lots of tears being shed here. The rest of the night after the Luminaria, however, was mostly just fun. Each team had some kind of activity or food they were selling, so on their break different team members could go around and browse everyone else and hang out with their friends. Someone started a massive line dance to one of the awful songs the student radio DJ was blaring. Of course, some versions of Relay are infamous for continuing through the night and into the morning. This Relay was one of these. I started setting up at 4am, and finally cleaned up and left with my group when the Relay ended at 7am the next day. I was so damn tired, but it felt great that we did it. As a school, we raised over $44,000 toward cancer. To put that into perspective, last year the university only raised $20,000. Imagine how much money will be going into cancer research if we have an increase like that every year.
Crunch Week
It really feels like the first of several hellish weeks of homework and studying. This week, I have two editorials to write, and two papers. The editorials are due today, and are very close to being done. I just have to put the finishing touches on them. The other papers need a lot more work, but I expect to get one done today and the other done tomorrow and Thursday. Hopefully I can do it; once again, this blog is a brief break from the writing and then I'm getting back to hitting those hard. I've also got extra hours at work because we lost one of our front counter managers and I'm picking up the slack until I train the new one. Finally, I'm also working on the presentation I will be doing at the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association conference in Salt Lake City in two weeks. That has me pretty nervous.
What I'm Playing
Not much. I've been alarmingly busy these past couple of weeks. It kind of sucks because customers at work have come to depend on me to tell them if a movie was any good, and I have not been able to watch anything recently, let alone play anything. I did, however, set aside some time to play some Homefront and Crysis 2. I essentially agree with what Alex Navarro said: there's a weird disconnect between the action and the drama, which makes for an uneven and unimpressive campaign, but the multiplayer is great. It's like old-school Battlefield combined with what Medal of Honor was going for in its multiplayer. Crysis 2 is pretty fun though. I didn't really care for the multiplayer. Something about the feel of it just didn't sit well with me. Single player is a lot of fun, though. It's exciting, visceral, and really gives the player a sense of power. I do find it amusing that the only awesome, memorable music in the game is the theme, which was composed by Hans Zimmer. The rest was some other dude that no one cares about.
Today is Tron Day
It is. Tron: Legacy comes out on DVD today, and as some of you might know, I have a raging Clu when it comes to Tron. Once I take my next break from homework, I will be going out to get this. I also special ordered from work the album Tron: Legacy R3CONF1GUR3D, the remixed album. Basically, it's Oakenfold, Moby, Crystal Method, M83, and other artists doing the tracks from the album. In other news, Chrome's spell check apparently only has a problem with the "GUR" segment of that title. Weird.
Whatever Is In My Room
Like clockwork, at 2:30 last night the scratching noises started, louder than usual, in a completely different part of my room. This is really starting to freak the shit out of me. What the hell is in my room?
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