I guess I’ll start with the fun part of my week, then move on to the more tragic (read: e/n) side.
We passed the new IST House constitution last week, and the changes went into effect this past Monday. Here’s a copy of it from my server. Most of it is the same as the last rev, but a lot of the roles and committees have subtle changes. We’re already starting to see progress. The new Events Advising Committee (I wanted YAC, but EAC is the closest I could get) is already planning a weekly poker night and a social/dance thing. The WHRA reps are a force to be reckoned with at their weekly meetings. The website has spontaneously generated from nothingness into something that, with a bit of polish, I’d be proud to show off to the world. And we have 2 events coming up this week alone. So, things are running well on the IST House side.
As you one reader (actually, Google puts it around 20, suck it Sell) knows, I bought a PSP with my Christmas money. It finally arrived on Wednesday, and I spent the remainder of the day slowly cutting through the battery casing, disconnecting the proper lead, and hacking the daylights out of it. It’s been “pimped out” with a custom firmware, UMD emulator (heh, no more buying games), video player that uses something other than mp4, ebook reader, overclocked MIPS processor, and a slew of other rather nifty yet insanely boring doodads. I’m almost 10% through the first GTA game for the PSP, and having never played one before, it’s actually pretty fun.
We did have one misfortune this week. One of our residents went missing Thursday night. He had gone out on a date, so we all assumed that the date went better than expected when he didn’t arrive home on time. He and his car were found Saturday in Mifflin County, as my mother always fears I’ll end up, dead in a proverbial ditch. We had a meeting last night to talk about the tragedy and let people know that there’s counseling available, but not that many people actually knew him. He had only been at UP for a month before this happened. Makes me wish I had planned more events at the beginning of the semester. There’s going to be a card pinned up in the Fairy Hallway, anyone on the floor please feel free to sign your name. We’ll send it to the family later this week.
IST SG meeting on Monday, work all week, then off to NYC for my birthday on Friday.
