Hurricane Ike

Just a few days ago, a category 2 hurricane known only by it's three letter name, Ike, flew threw Houston, thrashing all in its path. I am fine, and I don't know of any Rice students who were injured by the hurricane in any way, but it definitely has had an impact on life at Rice for the past few days.

Friday night, each college was hunkered down in a safe location to take shelter from the storm. Jones was sent to our commons, right next to Martel in the north servery. It was a really fun time, but I'm not sure I'd really want to do it for longer than just one night. We watched movies, played board games, and hooked up a projector on a white bed sheet so we could play Brawl. I also played a bit of Rock Band in the Martel section of the servery, and one person said that he'd never seen someone play drums on expert before. Made me feel pretty awesome. Apparently my obsessive playing with the rest of The Festering Pheasants (a band made of myself, and several Martelians which usually include Ian Jones, Bobby Anderson, and Collin Hansen, but occassionally has substitutes) has paid off since I've progressed from medium to expert in less than a month.

The next morning we woke up to find debris covering a majority of the Rice campus. Although we still weren't allowed to leave the building at this time, I later ventured out to discover several downed trees in the south college area as well as the academic quad. The north colleges didn't lose any trees outright, but Brown lost quite a few bricks from the top of their tower. Later that night I went to Wiess to watch the first two Star Wars movies (New Hope and Empire Strikes Back), and it was pretty awesome.

While we never lost power, we did have to deal with a loss of water pressure, so we weren't able to shower for a couple days, and even after we got the water pressure back, it wasn't until yesterday that we got warm water. Ike did a great job of showing how well we as Rice students are able to deal with adverse conditions and still persevere. That fact that there isn't any homework due this week did make it a bit easier though.

In slightly more exciting news (at least for Mithun), my relationship status is very much complicated right now. To the point where I now realize why there is a "It's Complicated" choice on facebook. If you want more information you are welcome to call or email me, but you might get a bit confused.