Braaaiiinnnsss!

HvZ is going well. The third day of the game and my second day of being a zombie is now. I made two kills today. I came out of Holden Hall from my first class at around 10:50ish and saw my friend Reid. I was about to wave and say hi, but the I saw the pink bandana on his arm. I smiled, put my bandana around my head and started to follow him. There is a rule that you can't devour anyone's corps if they are within 20 feet of a building and he kept walking by buildings. Luckily I finally got him when he was crossing the street. Poor, unsuspecting Reid was listening to his headphones the whole time. He never stood a chance. I'm sure that it must have looked quite amusing to innocent passersby to see someone with a pink bandana around their head follow someone else with a pink bandana around their arm at a very unsafe distance. I would have laughed. After I got his ID I had to hurry off to my next class, but on my way I saw yet another human. He was on his bike and he saw me (pink bandanas on heads can generally be spotted from a mile away) and we kind of glared at one another and I kept turning around, wanting to go after him and he kept watching me walk away, ready to bolt, but quite confused, I'm sure, when I kept walking the other way. I had just eaten anyhow. I'll let some other hungry zombie claim him. That is unless I see him tomorrow...

After all my classes were over I decided to walk through the SUB and enter by way of the music building despite it being completely out of the way. There are always a lot of humans near or in the music building or the common area just outside it (but still indoors, unfortunately). I did end up seeing someone and I followed him down the long hall of the common area (which was quite awkward, because, as I mentioned before, pink bandanas around foreheads tend to stick out), but he just went to sit with his friends. Someone did yell out a warning to him though. I suppose that scenario was quite comical to watch as well. I love the music building. Band kids are awesome, vocal majors are funny, and theatre majors are... theatre majors. I don't know how exactly to explain the latter. Vocal majors are funny, for lack of a better word, because they think they know everything there is to know about music. This past week colleges from all over Texas came for a contest that was being held at my university. My friends Hannah and Kylie just so happened to be among them and while I was sitting outside of a practice room that was being occupied by Kylie I heard a group of vocals walk by and then stop talking to listen. One of them said 'they're pushing too much', in reference to someone in one of the practice rooms and the rest murmured in agreement. As far as theatre majors go, at my university in the common area by the music building you can always find a group of theatre/vocal majors sitting at a table (same table every day) chit-chatting about theatery and vocal stuff. I know it's weird, but I like listening to other people's conversations sometimes. Sometimes I go to the dining hall that is inside of the honors dorm and drop some eves in there. Honors kids are so weird. Their conversations are hilarious. My roommate and I do that a lot. They say the most interesting things. It's crazy the people you meet in college...

Then since I was in the SUB I had a (very good) fruit salad for lunch. Brains for breakfast and fruit for lunch. Today was a good day.

Anyway, I've been getting a lot of weird stares from people on campus today because of the pink bandana. I've learned, however, that if you just stare back they eventually get uncomfortable and look away. Except for this one guy outside of the music building. He wasn't playing, but he had no problem looking at me even though I was staring right back at him. No shame at all. Interesting.

My last kill involved a sort of chase. I was going to meet Reid at the library so that we could hunt together and double team some people, but along the way I met Sam, a boy who had offered to help with the game for next semester. I saw his pink bandana around his head and asked him if he wanted to hunt with Reid and I. He agreed so we went to meet Reid. We found him and he was going to go into the library to record his latest kill on one of the computers, but before going pointed out one of his friends, who was still a human and was also very unsuspectingly reading a book between the two buildings. Sam went around the back way and I started to walk up to her side. She noticed us and got up. I apologised that we were being so creepy at the moment and also for what was about to happen. She took out two nerf balls (not the footballs. More like the snitch sized ones. They were the only weapon allowed on my campus, unfortunately) and started inching toward the library entrance. She threw one ball at me. I ducked. Then she threw the other one at Sam who successfully dodged it and started running toward the library. I caught up with her and received my second index card of the day.

Tomorrow all of the zombies are planning a killing spree by the band practice lot. We are going to attack right after band is released. I'm excited. Before that though, I am going to try and tag Anthony, the guy in charge of CTF and who's been coordinating with me for the HvZ finale on Friday. He posted on the group that he is going to be by the ESC at approximately 9:15 and then by the SUB at 10:30-11. I want to try and get him at the ESC so I am going to get up extra early. I didn't even know where the ESC was so I had to look it up on the campus map. Then I set my alarm to wake me good and early. I feel like kind of a creeper. I'll let you know how it goes though.

Update on the guy thing: he only texted me 8 times yesterday and that was without me replying so as to not encourage him in any way. I responded the first day (Monday) because I felt bad for not doing so. I always feel kind of bad when my text messages go unanswered. But then I realised that it was truly getting ridiculous and he was texting for no reason at all other than to just say 'hey'. Fortunately, Paul and Christine have agreed to go with me to the drive-in. I haven't told Matt yet. I'm not really sure how to. I guess I'm just going to do it really casually. By they way, thank you again to Emily and Elisabeth for your advice. I really appreciate it. And in answer to your question, Emily, I am going to Florence. Specifically APICIUS School for Hospitality.

One other good thing that happened to me today is that Sam Freidman commented on my video on YouTube. At first when I saw the comment notification thing I thought that she had just replied to a comment that I had left on her latest video because she does that because she's cool. But then I saw that she had commented on one of my own videos. Needless to say I was pretty freakin happy. She is cool. I wish I lived in New York. A lot of super cool people (Emily) live in NYC and I feel like I'm missing out. Stupid Texas (I could write several blogs on my qualms with Texas. Maybe I'll start a series).

Currently Reading:

An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

Currently Listening:

Switching between Bad Romance by Lady Gaga, 3 by Brittany Spears, and I've Got Nothing by the Chartjackers.

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!  

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I'm sorry followers (both of you) for not posting in a REALLY long time!  I just saw something great. You should see it too.