Chili Today, Gone Tamale

Executive Summary: Another good weekend spent in Memphis. And some chili.

Classes went fine on Thursday. Dr. Dekken didn't assign homework, The Flandro was awesome, and Dr. Vakili actually showed up. After class, I had to sit through the bi-weekly Carbon Fiber group meeting. Basically, certain people talked a bunch when they could have talked a little, and Dr. Vakili gave us the first rule of Carbon Fiber Club: Don't talk about Carbon Fiber Club. Also, the fibers that Heather and I have been working can be a little dangerous and we should be wearing masks when we handle them. Thanks for the heads up, Chief.

The drive to Memphis was uneventful. Even leaving an hour late, I dodged most of Nashville traffic (which can be awful). I made it to CBU, and did a little bit of Mechanical Design homework and watched some Smallville. Not their greatest episode, but not their worst either. Mostly, I kept Jennifer company while she was on duty in the RD suite.

On Friday, I met Jennifer for lunch at Memphis, and then went to her Torts class. For those of you not in "the know," a tort is defined as "a civil wrong." Anyway, I don't feel like typing the whole story, but click here for the account. It's the first story.

The rest of Friday afternoon was spent working on our respective homework. Good times. Later on, we went to Comedy TN to redeem the free tickets that we had won. Russell, Nate, Angela, Paula, and John Paul joined us. A bunch of other people were going to join us, like David Tran & Christina, Justin Khuel and Dawn Gullickson (yeah, she's got a last name!) - but they turned out to be losers.

Saturday was Homecoming at CBU. From noon to 2:00, there was a Chili cookoff. At said chili cookoff, I ate what most people might consider an obscene amount of chili (4 bowls). The "Chipotle Off the Old Block" was pretty good, as well as the TKE batch, but my favorite was the chili made by Felix Bishop, one of our chapter founders. That stuff was awesome. Apparently, there was a basketball game too.

We went to J. Alexander's for dinner which was nice (soup of the day: chili!). I got Jennifer some chocolates for Valentine's, and she got me a really neat Rubick's cube that has 6 pictures of us on the sides instead of colors.

Today was Blake's 16th birthday. Watch out, motorists of Memphis. He doesn't have wheels yet, but its only a matter of tme. Other than that, I hung around with Jennifer for a little bit before I headed back to Tullahoma.

In other news, I found out that Troop 261 (my scout troop) has been retired. From what I've been told, its hoped to be only temporary. Apparently, there's only 2 or 3 kids involved now, some are moving away, and none of the dads want to step up and be the Scoutmaster. Its sad. But, I'm told, the cub scout pack has about 40 kids involved. There'll be some boy scout age kids soon.



Looking back, that much chili might have been unwise.