And Then There Was Ice...

...EVERYWHERE! We got this crazy cold-snap here in Austin, and it's been all icy for the past few days. It actually snowed a little yesterday. We climbed to the top level of the parking garage and slid down the ramps on cardboard boxes. That was great fun. And we made teeny little snowmen and threw snowballs at each other and stabbed each other with icicles and stole lunch trays from the cafeteria to use as sleds and just generally acted like seven-year-olds because we didn't have to go to class. We were supposed to start on Tuesday morning, but they closed the campus Monday evening and it's not going to re-open until tomorrow at 11 a.m. So we got an extra two and a half days of winter break. Score.

I'm really looking forward to my classes this semester. I'm taking a Bio class that should be very similar to Environmental Sciences, which is the only science class I've ever truly enjoyed. Philosophy looks interesting, but as far as whether I'll actually like it or not is probably going to depend on the professor. Then I have my two film production classes. I've already looked over the textbooks and the syllabus for one and I'm freaking out with anticipation. TEACH ME THE MAKING OF THE MOVIES!!! Looks like they'll both be pretty challenging, but I drool all over myself just thinking about what I'll be learning, so I don't think motivation will be an issue.

I am such a dork.

Umm... other news? I got a new phone. It's terribly confusing. My old one just made phone calls. This one can like, launch missiles and stuff. And I can't for the life of me figure out how to lock the keys, so I'll stick it in my bag and pull it out a few minutes later to find that it's accessing the Internet or authorizing the colonization of the moon or something. To be honest, it really scares me. I'm pretty sure it's gonna turn into a liquid and slip into my brain while I'm sleeping. On the bright side, it's all pretty and purple!

Speaking of phones and ear-seepage, Jon and Michele had this great conversation over dinner. They decided that there should be a movie about a super-intelligent volcano that lives at the center of the earth and kills people by calling their cell phones and shooting boiling lava into their brains when they answer. Because apparently the people it kills actually belong to another dimension in which this volcano is some kind of god. But they don't know that they belong to that dimension because there was some catastrophe that launched them into our dimension and erased their memories. So the volcano has come to retrieve them. And nobody knows what's going on. So it's scary. Or something.

I hereby promise to never make a movie like that.

Well, I'm off. Hopefully I'll actually get to go to class tomorrow. Only time will tell...

-Bell
"They're so predictable. They're like COWS."