Valentines and Karaoke

On Monday International club had a pre-Valentines Day thing. We all got together and talked about funny Valentines Day/ breakup stories. They were amusing, I suppose. I did learn about Valentines Day in Japan. Apparently Japan celebrates two Valentines Day type events. The first is for the girls to give chocolate to the guys, and then a month after that they have the equivalent for the guys. Apparently, the guys have to give stuff to the girls who gave them stuff. It was very interesting. I don’t really like Valentines Day. I think it is pretty stupid, actually. Whatever.

Tonight was karaoke night at Commons. It is kind of amusing to see people who think they can sing get up there and sing… interesting….songs. I mean, it would be much more amusing to watch them sing fun songs such as “the bad touch”, “like a virgin”, or something else, but a lot of these people take themselves a little too seriously. There were, however, some highlights of the 30 or so minutes I was there. BSFFA (the Beloit Science Fiction and Fantasy Association) sang Queens “Bohemian Rhapsody”. Someone else sang an interesting song. At first, Krista thought it was emo due to the lyrics (it definitely was not emo), and I spent a lot of time trying to convince her it was actually someone singing about God. Even after the line about “not touching your ecclesiastical skin” she wasn’t convinced…hmmm

For the Duffy class, we have to do a lit review on something pertaining to the community and our work site (I work at an analytical lab at a food science company). We have also been paired with faculty who have expertise in our chosen lit review topic. Because I want to write something about how buildings can be built to promote unity and collaboration, I have been paired with Brock Spencer, a chemistry professor and someone heavily involved in the planing for the new science center. As soon as I walked into his office to discuss my topic wioth him, he started pulling out floor plans of the new building, and telling me all this "insider" information about what it is going to look like, what features it will have, and even which student offices will have the best view. it was really interesting.