County Fair and Zombies

I should be going to bed right now, but that's usually the story, so whatever.  I had a really good weekend and it's not even over yet!  Thursday was a grassroots meeting which I always look forward to and of course The Office, of which I really only thought the beginning was funny, but oh well.  Next week looks promising because it looks like it's just going to be a Jim and Pam cute fest which of course I never oppose to.  But I digress...

Friday my last class was cancelled and then I went swing dancing later that night with my roommate, Paul, and Lori.  Paul invited his friends David and TubaCam and then Reid came later on.  Reid is kind of a crazy guy.  He somewhat reminds me of Hank Green, but that's probably just because he sort of looks like him.  It's sort of hard to describe Reid so I am just not going to try.  Anywho, we did some swing dancing and some two stepping and some cotton eyed joe and some cupid shuffle and it was fun.  I found out two things.  1. I do not mind country music when it is being danced to (other than that I can't really stand it) and 2. I am obsessed with Big Band music.  I've listened to Pandora which has provided me with a lot of songs to go and download on iTunes.  It is amazing.  I'm listening to Everything by Michael Buble which I realise doesn't really fall into the category of Big Band, but he's still in the same playlist as far as I'm concerned because you can still dance to his music... and he makes my heart melt.  

Today I didn't go to the football game.  Instead I went to Paul's and he made spaghetti (again.  It's kind of his specialty) and we had ice cream and left over birthday cake while watching the game and then the last part of Disturbia (we made fun of Shia Lebouf's scream).  Then we decided we wanted to go to the fair which was on it's last night in town.  We tried to get more people to go with us, but as it was kind of spontaneous everyone else had other plans.  The fair was kind of a bust because after you pay for parking and pay to get in you have to pay to ride stuff and play games.  We did ride one ride where you are in a rocket shaped thing and you are kind of acting like a pendulum (accept one that doesn't really follow the pendulum rule) and you go upside down and hang there for a couple seconds before you finally swing back down.  All I could think about while riding it was my iPhone is going to somehow, despite how securely it is positioned, fall out of my pocket and into oblivion, and... Final Destination.  Then we went to look at some of the local school art cause it was free.  Then we left to go see Zombie Land which was, if possible, better than I expected.  Despite the hilarity of the movie and the fact that it wasn't serious at all, most of the upcoming movie trailers were all about horrors.  There was Saw (whatever number they're on now), Shutter Island which is a movie about a Mental Hospital on some island and Leonardo DiCaprio tries to speak in an accent that he doesn't have (which is always funny); yet another end of the world movie, and, randomly, New Moon.  I'm kind of ashamed to admit it, but New Moon actually, and despite my protests to these books and movies being so popular, looks kind of good.  Robert Pattinson has a minimal role which is good and Jacob just looks hot.  

Tomorrow I plan to go to church, make pizza at Paul's with friends, and then going to the Corn Maize.  Lubbock does this thing where they make a maze with really cool designs in corn.  I'm pretty freaking excited.  Mazes are awesome.  I've always wanted to be in a Goblet of Fire type maze.  As if mazes weren't fun enough on there own I was thinking earlier that I'm probably going to get my friends to play a game while we're venturing to the centre.  It's going to be like tag, hide n' go seek, and sharks and minnows (minus the water) combined.  I am going to call it Zombie.  I'm sure it speaks for itself, but basically one person (determined by "nose goes") is assigned zombie and has to count to 50 outside of the maze while everyone else tries to get as far as they can away from that person/ toward the centre aka safe zone.  Then the zombie has to go around finding people to tag and, therefore mark as one of there own (that's the sharks and minnows part).  Then soon there will be more zombies than people, determined on how difficult the maze is and how long it takes for everyone to get to the centre and it will just be fun.  There will be a lot of running in the dark maze.  

Because I was thinking all of these zombie maze thoughts, I began thinking about a game Kristina Horner played on her college campus.  It was zombie based and basically there were zombies and normal people and the zombies had to try and attack the normal people.  Except the normal people were loaded with nerf guns.  I think I am going to try and introduce the friends I go to the maze with tomorrow to this idea and have a designated "Zombie Day" on campus and see how many people we could get in on it.  I was thinking that it would be cool if it was on Halloween, but that lies on a Saturday and I don't think it would be as fun.  It would be a lot cooler if you were part of the resistance and had to look over your shoulder while loaded with a nerf gun on your way to class.  

That's all for now.  I suppose I'll update again tomorrow or the next day with the results of the Corn Maize and pizza making and also if my friends think College Zombie Day is a good or realistic idea or not.  

Currently listening to:  Lot's of stuff.  Michael Buble, Frank Sinatra, Harry Connick, Jr., and Sing Sing Sing.  

Currently reading:  just finished Hunger Games and LOVED IT!!  It was making me a little crazy toward the end.  My college library doesn't have Catching Fire, but I requested it.  I just hope it comes in fast because I am really excited to see what happens next!