A Brief History of Most of It

Hello everyone!

Well so I am doubly behind this week I admit. First, I didn't update on that little to which I am up. And second I have two more campus building adventures to report. Oh well - I was actually waiting on the update in hopes of getting pictures from this past weekend, but it looks like it'll be a long wait on those (not my fault!) so I may as well go ahead...

The Reduced Shakespeare Company is a group of three guys who have been doing hilarious abridged versions of the works of William Shakespeare for a long time. It does a zany and wild interpretation of the story with only three actors, and their fame and success exploded. They've been doing other shows in more recent original works, including The Complete History of America Abridged. It is a hilarious presentation of all of the history of the country and land we call the USA and the engineering theater group that I am now apparently president of (College of Engineering does Amateur Radical Theater) performed the show last weekend.

As a group of engineers doing theater, it's very low key and mostly for fun, so we pride ourselves on being able to do silly productions like this. However, no one in our audiences could predict just how wild it would be!

With everything from colonist rap to drag to internet memes to flying spaghetti, we had the audiences eating out of the palms of our hands by the final show. I played Adam, for those of you familiar with the Company, and had a blast with my part! Over the course of the play, I represented as many as Sophia Vespucci (Amerigo's wife), a town crier, Paul Revere, a Minoote Man, James Madison, a WWI soldier, President Obama, George Bush, Lucy Ricardo, Vietnam, and of course myself.

Personally, I had a blast and I think the crowd and other actors did as well. It was a terribly fun play.

Anyway, so my little sisters - who are Girl Scouts - sent my a blank order form for GS cookies a few weeks ago and asked if I could sell some cookies to all my college friends. I think to myself, "What? College kids and Girl Scout cookies? YES." My predictions were correct. Much to the joy of my little siblings, I single-handedly sold 111 boxes of GS cookies over the matter of a week or so. People have been so excited to get them!

Of course, it kind of turned my room into a distribution center for a while, which was actually fairly amusing. My doorbell has been warmer this week than it has since I put it up.

All I'm saying is that I think I should get a badge!


Other news? Well, not much, I admit. Today, we had a breakfast and video games party/throw down/what have you. I made bacon and eggs and helped a friend make French toast. We also had people make loaded scrambled eggs, baked cinnamon toast, candied bacon, and tea. We used my projector on one of the walls and had a nice little get together. It was an idea inspired by the baconous desires of one of our dear dorm friends and it turned into a nice little party. The most exciting part was cooking and preparation and the best part was hanging out together.

I had a really good day today, and especially enjoyed when Maddie, my twelve year old (going on 13!) sister called me just in time to catch me before an astronomy seminar, just to say hey. "I just wanted to hear your voice and see how you were doing," she said. Thank you, Maddie, that made my day =]

Going home with a friend this weekend and going to hang out with some of his buddies in Huntsville. Think I'm going to enjoy it!

That's it for now - hopefully I'll get to post some new, good stuff soon!
Love to all.

I'm Jonathon and this is my life.






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