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Oct 25, 2004
coming home
This weekend, I got to return to my alma mater, Western Kentucky University for Homecoming 2004. I'm not even sure what the theme was this year. In fact, I'm not even sure if I actually went to WKU. I think so. But so much has changed. My senior year, we got a new president, and his specialty is fund-raising and development, so there are all kinds of new and renovated buildings all over the place. But, I know I was in Bowling Green, and I did recognize a few things, so I do believe that I was in fact at WKu. Actually, it all started in Gamailel, KY. Good luck finding that on a map. Gamailel is the official point that is often referred to as "the middle of nowhere." Why would I even go there. 2 words: Bill Ekhardt. Throughout Friday night, I kept getting my butt kicked in every video game imaginable. I haven't played a whole lot of video games since financial difficulties forced me to pawn my N-64 a couple of summers ago. So, I am a bit out of practice. And Bill actually owns these games. If Jeopardy hadn't kept locking me out for buzzing in too early, I think they would have named that game after me. But, unfortunately, no games were named after me this weekend. Saturday I got to take a tour of the apartment that I used to live in at the CSF house. It's a girls apartment now, so it looks all different. Most would think it looks a lot better, but I think it's tragic. Oh well. Then, we went to the football game. Western Kentucky vs Indiana State. Usually, the homecoming game is packed. But, due to the weather, all of the frat boys and sorority girls skipped the game. And really, they were the smart ones. Before walking to the stadium, Bill said, "Do you want to take these umbrellas?" "I don't think they allow umbrellas in the statium," I replied. Well, it turns out they do. But, by the time we realized that, it was too late. And by about 5 minutes into the first quarter, we were soaked. I don't think I could have been this wet if I had jumped into a lake. So, the whole group leaves at about halftime. So, Bill and I go to the CSF house and buy a dry CSF T-shirt off of Steve, then go to Chad Muth's so we can dry the rest of our clothes. So, I'm sitting around in a dorm room wearing only a T-shirt and a towel, playing Mario Kart and trying to fix Chad's computer. After that, it's off to Denny's. For those of you who know me from other stages in my life, something about being in Bowling Green makes me suprisingly outgoing. So anyway, the waitress kept shooting me strange looks everytime I would say something. I just figured it was because she thought I was goofy. That's fine. Anyway, a couple of times, she kept coming by and asking if anyone needed anything. Nobody would relpy, so after a short period of akward silence, I would say, "No, it looks like everything is fine. Thank you." And she would look at me weird, and after she left, I would comment, "I don't think the waitress likes me." Well, after the 3rd or 4th time we went through this, the waitress said to me, "You don't like me, do you?" And I said, "No, I like you. I thought you didn't like me." Then I felt bad, so I gave her a monster tip. And then as I was paying my bill, I explained to her that I just don't have very good social skills and when I try to act cool I just look like a dork. So, I think we go it all straightened out. Until Bill tried to give her my phone number. The last chapter of the weekend was on Sunday morning, when I got asked to lead worship at Bill's church. I felt like it was a distaster. A lot of it was due to equipment problems. But, I ended up getting rattled by it, and that was due to lack of preparation on my part. Most people involved were more forgiving that I was about it, but I guess the big issue is that I felt like I could have given more. All in all, it was a great weekend. But, leaving a football game at halftime because of rain and trying to stay up until 3:00am just made me feel old. posted
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