Obsidiana's blog

Mmm...country music.

"Our love never died, it just smelled like it did."

-A song lyric that I swear to God I heard blaring from a pick-up truck that was at a stoplight outside my dorm. Or maybe I was hallucinating.

03.16.04

"OH, JESUS!"
"Actually, you can just call me Mike!"

-My friend Melissa and a random guy as he sprinted across the SUNY Delhi campus. He gets many cool points for thinking on his feet.

1.26.04

"So, did you go out with that goalie's sister last night?"

-One middle-aged guy to another in The Black Bear Restaurant in Warrensburg, NY.

That is just so, so Northcountry.

12.08.03

"...and some girl was in the computer lab and she lost a 25 page paper."

-a guy behind me as I walked across campus right after the power went out. In the middle of finals week.

11.24.03

"...he should be president."
"Yeah! We wouldn't ever have to go to war, he'd just put all the other countries to sleep!"
-two guys talking about our Astronomy professor

It's funny because it's true. Well...he definitely puts me to sleep at any rate.

11.14.03

*throws a coin* "Here, Aaron! Have a penny...'cause you're STUPID!"

-A guy standing outside one of the dorms

10.31.03

"Sticky? Yes. But worth it? Ohhhh, yes!"

-A guy standing outside the dining hall eating a candy apple

10.27.03

"STOP! I NEED SLEEP!"

-written on a table in Yokum Lecture Hall at PSU

Amen to that...

10.22.03

"It's so coooold outside! What are we to do? RUN AWAY! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!! I'm the swamp monster and I'm coming to eat you!!!"

-a girl who was walking behind me on my way to Math

I just don't know...

10.15.03

"I kept asking all these people what they did over vacation, and they all said the same thing...and I was like 'Hey, me too! The only difference is that you did it with another person!'"

-the guy handing out scripts at the audition I went to tonight, as I was filling out my audition form

Three guesses what he was referring to.

10.15.03

"Dude, I wouldn't go to Albany and back for a day and not call it a wasted trip."

-The guy behind me in Intro to Astronomy, sharing his thoughts on the Chinese space shuttle, which is apparently spending less than 24 hours in the Earth's orbit before coming back

(Note to people not from Upstate New York: I'm currently in Plattsburgh, NY. Albany, NY is about three hours away. Unless you take the Greyhound bus. Then it can take up to four and a half hours.)

10.11.03

"You want to know why I haven't used the bathroom in my own apartment for nine years!?"
"Yes!! YES!!!"

-an actor on stage and the woman behind me in the audience when I saw And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little.

As Eve once said: Remember that one kid in your English class who latched onto one insignificant detail and used it to explain everything in the book? The woman behind me was a grown-up version of that kid.

10.08.03

"I've never felt so stupid in my entire life!"

-a guy somewhere behind me as the Intro to Theatre Art midterm started

10.06.03

"...but I didn't wanna go to Russel Sage."
"So wait...you guys are saying you actually got into good schools, but you came here?"
"Well, I didn't want to be $80,000.00 in debt when I graduate. And besides, RIT only has, like, five girls."
"Yeah, and Purchase has lots of weird people."
"Well what about New Paltz? I heard New Paltz is good."
"I didn't really like the campus..."

-a bunch of Freshman art majors who are all in my Math class

This amused me but saddened me because I know people who go to all the schools they mentioned (and I used to go to New Paltz) and getting into the art department at any of them (with the exception of Russel Sage) is a huge accomplishment. But apparently these kids would rather be here at a semi-party school than at someplace with a good art department...

10.02.03

I was walking in the general direction of the dorms with a whole bunch of people from my Intro to Acting class, talking about our professor, who almost always acts like he's on something. One kid said "...and today, he was talking about the music of speech or whatever? I swear soon he's gonna say 'I can taste purple!'"

We were stopped by a wandering English professor, who told us at great length about the literary device that involves using or describing colours in ways that you can't actually experience them. I forget what the actual device is called, but he ended the speech with "...and I'm on sabatical! Imagine the lecture you would've gotten if I were teaching!"

We were victims of a walk-by lecturing.