Tuesday, October 18, 2005 | by nathan

Two Posts In One Day! You Lucky (two) People You! or “Pass Me Some of That Shit Over There”

Things To Be Happy About This Week:

1. I am going to kick ass on my APA quiz tonight (what a joke).
2. Tomorrow afternoon at the radio station staff meeting, my story about OU Aviation’s lovely new fleet of planes will be finished, polished, and perfectly ready to go, and this makes me happy in pants. I love reporting more than chocolate banana nut bread. Journalism is fun. (Incidentally, here is a conversation I had and what it made me realize:)
Me: I have a bachelor’s degree in religion and philosophy.
Incredibly Stupid Guy (ISG): Oh yeah? That’s so cool.
Me: It was a lot of fun.
ISG: So, like - I have this question about, like, religion, and maybe you can help me out.
Me: (trying not to roll my eyes) Oh yeah? What’s that?
ISG: Like, what do you think about The DaVinci Code? Did you read that book? That book blew my mind. What did you think about that book? ‘Cause that was crazy. I mean, I thought Left Behind was pretty cool, but that book…wow… So what did you think about that?
Me: (lying) I didn’t read them.

And the moral of that story is that from now on, when people ask me what my undergraduate degree is in, I am going to totally lie and say “Subsistence Agriculture.” I wish Jon Warren was here to talk theology with me - it would be like conversational Listerine.

3) Summer Oakes is coming to OKC on Thursday night! YAHOO! I miss that girl like a fat kid misses pie.* We are going to watch old episodes of MST3K and I am going to try to get my house really really clean before then.
4) Did I mention how much I love KGOU? Best.Radio.Station.Ever. The next episode of the show airs Oct. 30 - log in to kgou.org to listen to it. Oct. 30th. Noon.
5) Ana is going to Spain to deal with family stuff next week, so I will be left alone to teach the classes and labs by myself, which is terrifying except for the fact that I really think I can do it. What is amazing about that is that a year ago, all I knew about video productions was what I learned after four years of being a roadie in college. Oddly enough, this made me the most qualified person in the journalism school to teach this class. Apparently I’m the only one who knows his way around an Allen & Heath sound board. Go fig. Pray for me about this, but I’m pretty stoked.
6) This History Channel deal is actually going to happen - the closer we get to film dates (Nov. 10-12) the more I realize that - This effing History Channel deal is really going to happen! Yarg! MEAD! Scary.
7) I have now seen Serenity twice. Gina Torres rules. Joss Whedon REALLY rules.
I just got to have the following conversation (via IM) with Brian:
Brian: you are so cool
me: am I?
Brian: yes, you are.
me: how do you figure?
Brian: i just do. i am completely taken with you.
me: I effing love you.
Brian: i effing love you too.
Brian: more than you realize…. i love you a scary lot
me: are you going to feed me my own cat sometime soon?
Brian: no, I don’t think so.
me: what’s the matter? You don’t like eating pussy?