What’s poppin’ chief? Here’s the news. I was in my room after a long day of getting up early for econ (10:30AM… it’s a doozie lemme tell ya) doing CORE reading (100 some odd pages of House of Mirth, which ain’t half bad, but it is reading…) and attempting to get this lousy swine flu vaccine (dumb place closes after my morning class and opens right when my second class starts), when I realized I was destined for something better. I was destined for a small break. Just 45 mins to myself to spend how I will. Naturally, I never ask for this, I hate being alone, it sucks cuz it’s so boring, buuuuuut I’ve found a way to spend the spare time I have when hanging out isn’t a possibility:
Laugh if you want but this has to be one of the greatest cinematic feats since Heroes Season 1. This show has class, style, grace, and humor, enticing all of my TV show needs. It made me wish my days as a high schooler were full of Mr. Schuster teaching me to sing and dance. Anywho, I was about 3:17 time units into episode 10 when my cell starts blasting Kung Fu Fighting by The-Guy-Who-Sings-It and I shuttered (last time my phone blasted that song… oh boy. But that’s a tale for another time). Post-shutter, I answered it. My pal Tigran, whose name I didn’t get correct until a month of knowing the guy (I’d substitute it fun little things like “T-money,” “T-Bone,” “Tiggles” simply cuz all I could remember was the T), said he wants to start a frat, Lambda Kai Alpha. I was like “sure man, what do ya need”, and he was all like “Come to Commons, I have a Lambda alum to see us.”
So I did… I had to pause Glee and see this chap lecture on Lambda Kai Alpha and he was pretty cool. All about Integrity and helping people grow as people and stuff. After that I started getting texts from my amigos back home, so as I texted away, Tigran and Edderic (another Lambda Kai enthusiast) led me to some random room where they were meeting their friends. Never really looking up, I kinda felt lost, cuz I had no idea where we were. I averted my eyes from my phone and found that I was in some random club gathering.
I was like, Whatevs, ooooo free food! I sped to the table and had some foreign danish and some apple cider (which I found out is either exactly the same thing as apple juice or Shop&Stop is just real dumb) and I saw someone I knew.
“You take Spanish, Nick?” Liz asked.
“What? Nope!”
“French?”
“I’m waitin’ til next year.”
“Why’re you here? Haha, this is Spanish and French club”
What in the world were we doin’ here? So I continued to feast and Edderic and Tiggles decided to head out. Apparently, you have to be a Language student to be at this exclusive meeting. Whatever, the food’s good, so I stuck around.
Then the competition started.
We made teams of four and we were all asked questions about the history and culture of Spain and French, and I’m no International Studies major so… heck, I haven’t taken Spanish since sophomore year in highschool… So I had to put my superb negotiation skills to work
“Guys, hear me out on this one. What if…I… raised my hand, cuz I can do that real fast! And you answered the questions?”
They bought it. Talk about victory and you’re probably talking about Team 3. We trumped the competition. My awesome reflexes in combo with their superior knowledge made an epic team. Team 1 and 4 were eliminated for being mucho inferior, and we made it to the Finals. It was time to get our game on! They tossed us a barrel of tough questions and my pals struggled, so I decided to lend them my other hand (my first hand was devoted solely to raising). The question was as follows, and I quote: “What year was the French Revolution?” Boom, AP Euro all over again… too bad that class was far from my forte… I froze. So much so that I was colder than the ice that chilled the club’s cider. My raising hand wouldn’t budge. I made a video about this (and aside from my historical narration its HI-larious)! What was that dumb year….
The French Revolution,©2009 CandidoCorp™ in collaboration with Reach for the Sky Productions™
There it was, the other team’s hand judging us, taunting us with its raised-ness. Then their answer was spoken:
“1776?”
HA! Incorrect!! I knew that it was definitely after the American Rev, c’mon guys, shape up! Now was our chance, if we stole those points, we’d have it, but one more wrong answer ans we were finished. 1780…..something 81? 84? pi/12? It was one of them years. 1789! That’s it!
Sadly, as soon as I had my brain blast, my teammate stepped up and took the initiative. “1784.” Defeat. His answer was wrong as mayonnaise on bananas, granting us our third and final strike. Team 2, our competition, won a DVD and some salsa… and us runner ups didn’t get squat. Sadface… Then I had an idea:
“Can I have some salsa?” And with that I snagged some free salsa and even this nifty Queen of Diamonds and the rest of the cider (I kinda just grabbed that on my way out). Then I walked home and typed this for y’all while listening to the Space Jam soundtrack.
Warm Regards,
Nick Candido
nick.diary@richmond.edu
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