Extra-Curricular (Nerdy) Hillsdale

So...back at college. A glancing look at the first few weeks:

On Fiddler on the Roof:
Brenna: "If you think about it, the guys get progressivly worse. The first was a dork, the second a communist--"
Marie: "A social idealist."
Brenna: "Um...right, Marie. And the third one was an unbeliever!"
Some other girl in the room: "But really cute, you've got to admit."
Marie: "Hmm. So what you'd need is a combination of all three, then."
Brenna: "A dorky communist unbeliever??"
Marie: "NO!!"

On Writing:
Never joke that you'll write "a romance" involving "a dorky communist unbeliever."
a) it doesn't work too well
b) it'll mutate into something completely free of dorks, but with plenty of communistic leprechauns.

On SAI:
I like having my Thursday evenings free. And really need to stop grinning and saying "haha!" whenever SAI people complain about meetings...

On the Enlightenment:
It probably happened. Either that, or it's a grand coverup conspiracy of historians. Like the early middle ages. :)

On a Certain Mercenary Legion of Great Popularity around Here:
Phillip: "You know – if would make a great call on one of those advice shows. Someone calls in all depressed and suicidal, and the guy says, 'Well – that’s really too bad. But before you do something irrevocable and hasty ...have you ever considered joining the French Foreign Legion?'"

On Geography:
There's a playground up by the Academy. With swings. It needs to be taken advantage of at some opportune moment.

On Prophecy:
If you're told that you will die in three days, does it necessarily follow that you will not die before the third day? (If the doom-teller said, "within three days," of course the answer would be obvious. But most of the time they aren't this precise in their prepositions).

On Lawrence of Arabia:
When you can miss an hour in the middle of a movie, and still think it's one of the most awesome films you've ever seen, it's probably pretty good.

On Theology:
Remind me never to write a theological work. Or it will end up with chapters like "God's not a Thundercloud, You Idiot! He's a Lightning Bug Zapper!"