Today was the moment I'd been waiting for (perhaps dreading is a better word) since the start of the semester--the moment that my thesis was due. By moment I mean a block of approximately 2 hours, but knowing both myself and my classmates, that thing wasn't turned in until at least several minutes before noon, which was the official deadline. As for me? I think I was the only person who didn't have a cover page for the draft (woops) but at least I had a bibliography, which is more than I had on Friday when I finished my last chapter. I think tonight calls for a screening of Star Wars (original trilogy only, please) and a milkshake.
In other news, Theodore Bikel is coming to my Legacies and Memories of the Holocaust class on Wednesday. Okay, I'll admit I'd never heard of him before last week, but I read his autobiography for class and he seems like a pretty cool guy--or at least as cool as you can be for 83. He is a film and stage actor (he tends to do the musical thing) and is also really big into activist movements, like the civil rights movement of the 1960's. Apparently he played Captain Von Trapp on Broadway for The Sound of Music and has been in a number of movies, notably, The African Queen (I think that's on the AFI Top 100 list). He was also in a movie called "The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!" which I'd never heard of before, but they screened it in the theatre on campus Saturday night and it was great. Oh, and he has an awesome beard.
So I decided to drink a cup on chamomile tea to relax after turning in my thesis draft and now I'm getting sleepy. I can't win.
The Founder's Day committee, which I join every year for some reason, is having it's first meeting tomorrow night. Founder's Day, in case I haven't explained it yet, is basically the super campus holiday with a theme (one of the past themes was Alice in Wonderland) where the college books amusement park rides, bands, off-campus food vendors (yes!), and free beer (those over 21 only, like me!). To make a long story short, the Founder's Day committee plans everything for Founder's Day and for some reason I join every year, which means that I have to help out with the event that day. Last year I said I wasn't going to join it again, but now I'm getting that feeling that if I don't join, the whole event will be sabotaged, which is absolutely not true. What can I say? I'm paranoid. Anyways, right now we're working on picking a theme and I totally think the theme should be Yellow Submarine. That would be awesome.
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