For all you non-sporties - Tonight, OSU is playing LSU for some championship or another. As we've mentioned, Ohioans get a little nutty, (pun intended) so you can just imagine how an actual campus was today. Everyone (minus me) was wearing gray and scarlet. At lunch there was a free red beans and rice meal (in honor of the game being in Louisiana - home of the cajun food). And, then the choir was going to sing the Carmen Ohio school song. Well, I tried to lay low during festivities, as it seemed more student centric. Laying low didn't work very well. My co-workers are a bunch of joiners and wanted to support student activities and show their buckeye pride and I ended up being dragged along. Everything seemed to be going just fine, while I watched my co-workers give themselves heartburn with the spicy food. Then we went to the choir room. Greeters very accomodatingly handed out the lyrics to the school song. Then the choir director said, "okay, everyone here, get on the risers." I looked around in a panic, trying to get to the door inconspicuously - it wasn't going to happen. We did scale warm-ups, then a practice run through, then the performance piece - complete with hand gestures, and the end with 1/2 the group yelling O-H and the other half I-O. While this all sounds like a nice pep rally type thing, it should be noted, there were only about 20 people there, 5 of which were my office. And then, we finally left the room, met another co-worker who was late for the singing, so the choir director made everyone do the whole thing again. I am not even kidding. I HATE hand gestures. But, for all my griping, it is nice that everyone gets so excited and is so welcoming about their cult-like behavior. :)
Here's a picture of how Brutus the Buckeye has evolved! The middle's my fave.
In other news, it's really nice weather here in Ohio causing possible flood conditions. Say a little prayer that Findlay doesn't flood again. And, there is also a tornado watch out, so you'll have to think of Brian. ;)
And, last but not least, with some of our Christmas money, we got the game Battleship. I've never played before yesterday, but now I'm totally sinking Brian's ships!! :)
