Origami

Hide origami creatures in public places.

Nicholson Library, home to all sorts of animals.

Yesterday afternoon, after a very long day, my friends and I created several types of origami animals and hid them in various places throughout the library. As an afterthought, we added encouraging puns to them in the hopes that whoever found them would be cheered by the animals’ cuteness. It was fun weaving throughout the library’s bookshelves hiding things, especially when we ran into people we knew. I witnessed two people encounter the animals and was pleased to see them smile and hold on to it while they were studying instead of tossing it aside.

First (Personal) Pet

Buy a pet (and take care of it too).

Hello everyone, meet Dorian.

Today I went to the store and bought a fish. There were so many fish to choose from! I spent a while deliberating with my friends, but ultimately decided that whenever I have the opportunity to, I will buy an aquarium big enough for the many fish I admired in the store. In the meantime, I chose a beautiful (or should I say handsome?) green male halfmoon betta fish. The tank is smaller than I wanted for him, but we’ll see how the transition goes. I know it will be nice to have something animate around to talk to during late night studying. :)

Pescetarianism

Become a vegetarian.

This past Lenten season, I gave up meat. I thought Lent would be make becoming vegetarian convenient, particularly because the college cafeteria serves fish on Friday. At first it wasn’t a particularly enjoyable experience. Over time, I came to appreciate my body more because of the physical repercussions becoming vegetarian caused. Unfortunately, due to health reasons, I had to become pescetarian. I enjoy seafood immensely, so pescetarianism worked well for me. 

I was fortunate to have very supportive family and friends. They made accommodations whenever I came to eat with them and some even encouraged my habits by joining me. It inspired me to cook more often and to add to the list. 

Overall, I had a wonderful experience with becoming (for a time) a vegetarian. I would encourage everyone to at least try it for a week (health conditions permitting).

Paper Moustaches

Tape a moustache to the TV.

Benny & Joon - The best of friends… plus mustaches. 

Since the beginning of the school year, I have been hosting movie nights almost every Friday and Saturday. I’d like to think that people came more for the company than for the entertainment, but the entertainment portion was not lagging. We would watch a few new movies every weekend and eat any kind of snack food we could get a hold of. At one point we fit over a dozen people in my room, but over time the numbers dwindled (probably because of the lack of space). After fall semester ended, the hype of hosting movie nights slowly but surely died down.

Several weekends ago I hosted another movie night, exclusive to my closest friends. I trimmed two different mustaches and taped them to the television in order to spice things up a bit. Although we enjoyed the movie, the mustaches definitely added to the experience. We counted the times the mustaches matched with the actors’ faces as well as the times when the mustaches looked like uni-brows for a total of 38 instances of complete ridiculousness.

The interludes of uproarious laughter definitely drew others to the scene!