Fun in the Midwest
This past weekend in Michigan is easily defined: fun.
Mathgeek’s Graduation: He’s free! Mathgeek graduated with highest honors from high school, ready to tackle the next challenge: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I took the kid out for lunch on Monday, offering what I hoped was good starter advice for a new college student at a particularly challenging university – do your best but remember to take care of you. Have fun. Make connections. Study while doing laundry – the only sound you’ll have to put up with is the sound of the machines. Talk to your friends who are a year or so ahead of you to see what their tips and tricks for success without going insane are.
As for the graduation ceremony itself: only Midwesterners would patrol the graduation area in a John Deere utility vehicle.
Hanging out with the siblings: Everything from movie watching to Wii gaming was done. I am the first sibling to win a round of tennis (Mathgeek followed me with a win yesterday) and the first to win at baseball (I got a 16 – 0 win against the computer on Monday– sweet!). Watching Big Brother A play Resident Evil is as much fun as watching Mathgeek and Dorkus play Mario Kart (with Mathgeek managing to zap poor Dorkus a few million times per race). The weekend convinced me that owning a TV would be good for two things – the regular hockey season (the playoffs make me nervous, and with good reason, as evidenced by Monday night’s heartbreaker) and a Wii console. The Wii, I might add, is the coolest thing evah!!!!111!!!
We also decided that watching Diary of the Dead was a good idea. Dorkus and I picked up the movie at Target, watching it after Mathgeek’s graduation along with Big Brother A. I was slightly disappointed – the zombies were meh and less than terrifying because they were, by virtue of it being the initial outbreak, all fresh. No decay or terrible wounds to indicate how quickly the world was going to hell in a hand basket. Barely any gory feeding, really. The protagonists were all so stupid – hey, there are hoards of undead that want to eat us and will appear suddenly out of nowhere! I have an idea, let’s run around dark corners willy-nilly! Let’s head home without weapons! The only cool person in the film was Samuel (those who have seen it will know) and the poor guy’s in the film for all of 10 minutes. However, the movie was good for furthering our collective zombie obsession.
Friends: Well, friend. I only saw one person when I was in town. A friend from Dyn-o-mite! and I got together to have some lunch; I brought my sister along because the two seem to get along. While at lunch, I got to sample a cupcake that is a (close your eyes, IP) candidate in the wedding cake/cupcakes sweepstakes, but the cupcake, while good, is only number one at the moment by virtue of being the first I tasted. You can open your eyes now, IP.
The thing that I miss out on during these types of weekends is sleep. We tend to stay up late, just hanging out and kidding around. We then drift away as the night progresses, one by one, until there’s really no one left and you’ve got to secure yourself before the zombies come to get you.
Ah, Michigan. I purposely listened to music on the Metro and steadfastly stared out my window so as to avoid posting a Metro story first.
