Friday, March 19, 2004
Weekend Events.
Just a quick rundown of the upcoming events at Auburn.
In baseball, Auburn, ranked No. 7 in the country, plays its first SEC opponent, Kentucky, at Plainsman Park this weekend. The Friday-Sunday games start at 6:30, 3:00, and 12:15, respectively. Friday and Sunday are also promotional days, with Friday being "Colonial Bank Mini-Bat Night." (link)
Tomorrow, there's the traditional A-Day scrimmage football game at Jordan-Hare at 1 pm, and the Student Alumni Association Crawfish Boil at 6 pm. One can schedule a full day of sports Saturday, with the baseball game following the A-Day game. They try to schedule a home series of SEC baseball for the same weekend as A-Day. In 2001, they actually sold boiled peanuts and boiled crawfish; perhaps they'll do so again tomorrow.
There is no Foy Free Movie this week, in part because of "Tiger Nights" at Foy tonight. I've posted the weekend's movie in a more permanent place in the sidebar. With any luck, I'll remember to update it from week to week.
UPDATE: I was looking at the wrong week at the AU Calendar. This post is now accurate for this weekend.
In baseball, Auburn, ranked No. 7 in the country, plays its first SEC opponent, Kentucky, at Plainsman Park this weekend. The Friday-Sunday games start at 6:30, 3:00, and 12:15, respectively. Friday and Sunday are also promotional days, with Friday being "Colonial Bank Mini-Bat Night." (link)
Tomorrow, there's the traditional A-Day scrimmage football game at Jordan-Hare at 1 pm, and the Student Alumni Association Crawfish Boil at 6 pm. One can schedule a full day of sports Saturday, with the baseball game following the A-Day game. They try to schedule a home series of SEC baseball for the same weekend as A-Day. In 2001, they actually sold boiled peanuts and boiled crawfish; perhaps they'll do so again tomorrow.
There is no Foy Free Movie this week, in part because of "Tiger Nights" at Foy tonight. I've posted the weekend's movie in a more permanent place in the sidebar. With any luck, I'll remember to update it from week to week.
UPDATE: I was looking at the wrong week at the AU Calendar. This post is now accurate for this weekend.
Administrative Miscellany.
I'm back from Birmingham, so I should be posting more regularly. First, a couple administrative issues.
Blogging Resources. If you have trouble finding something newsworthy to post, I suggest going to my personal blog (permanent link in the "Miscellany" links). There, I have a list of links under the heading "Blogging Resources" that you might find useful.
HTML. The buttons above a post's text box can do most of the work for you, if you want to add italics, bold print, or web links. Just be sure to put your text between the tags and don't erase the end tags like </a>.
I shouldn't be able to make </a> visible to the post, but I used the "<" and the ">" codes for "<" and ">". There's a list of codes here, at Webmonkey. Webmonkey's also one of my Blogging Resource links, in case you want to study more carefully how HTML actually works.
"Miscellany." The "Miscellany" category of links in the sidebar are for us, the bloggers, to post links that reflect our own individual personalities. At the moment, there's a link for my blog and a link for Jason's favorite online sportswriter. If you have a page you'd like linked in the same category -- especially a personal web page -- email me at my CMU address, and I'll add it by the end of the weekend.
Finally, I haven't had the chance to welcome all of you to the blog. I'm thrilled you're here, making this place hip and fun.
Blogging Resources. If you have trouble finding something newsworthy to post, I suggest going to my personal blog (permanent link in the "Miscellany" links). There, I have a list of links under the heading "Blogging Resources" that you might find useful.
HTML. The buttons above a post's text box can do most of the work for you, if you want to add italics, bold print, or web links. Just be sure to put your text between the tags and don't erase the end tags like </a>.
I shouldn't be able to make </a> visible to the post, but I used the "<" and the ">" codes for "<" and ">". There's a list of codes here, at Webmonkey. Webmonkey's also one of my Blogging Resource links, in case you want to study more carefully how HTML actually works.
"Miscellany." The "Miscellany" category of links in the sidebar are for us, the bloggers, to post links that reflect our own individual personalities. At the moment, there's a link for my blog and a link for Jason's favorite online sportswriter. If you have a page you'd like linked in the same category -- especially a personal web page -- email me at my CMU address, and I'll add it by the end of the weekend.
Finally, I haven't had the chance to welcome all of you to the blog. I'm thrilled you're here, making this place hip and fun.
Thursday, March 18, 2004
First Deleted Posting
Ok, I just had to delete my first posting as an admin, but it wasn't because anybody did anything wrong. For some reason, Jessica Eastman's double posting about the latest Auburn-related firing screwed up the formatting of the page. I deleted both posts, and it's back to normal. I don't understand, I'm just glad it worked. I just wanted to explain the motivation, so nobody thought there was any censorship going on. There was nothing inappropriate in her post, it just made the blog FUBAR for some reason.
Jessica, please re-post at your earliest convenience, that should have been just a one-time issue, and everything will be kosher. If for some reason it isn't, we'll need to try to take a closer look at why. Either way, a re-post would be very helpful, and informative as always.
As for a blog update, we're currently awaiting "formal" introductory posts from Nathan Pieritz and Grant Shaw. Please pass this along to other former Brounies that you know online, so our membership can keep growing! Even if it's only comments, every new person adds to what we're trying to accomplish here.
Jessica, please re-post at your earliest convenience, that should have been just a one-time issue, and everything will be kosher. If for some reason it isn't, we'll need to try to take a closer look at why. Either way, a re-post would be very helpful, and informative as always.
As for a blog update, we're currently awaiting "formal" introductory posts from Nathan Pieritz and Grant Shaw. Please pass this along to other former Brounies that you know online, so our membership can keep growing! Even if it's only comments, every new person adds to what we're trying to accomplish here.
Cliff Diving
Ok...What the hell? I just heard on the radio today that the 2nd winningest basketball coach in Auburn history was relieved of his duties. The offered explaination? "...we need to move in a different direction." This was said by our dazzling new interim president Ed Richardson. Apparently Ellis was called into his office today and told that he was no longer needed completely out of the blue. Since he still had 5 years on his contract left, this will cost Auburn University somewhere in the neighborhood of $750,000. I wonder what direction Ed wants to take the team this year? Currently that direction seems to be down.
Know I"ve only heard about this on the radio briefly today, but now that I check the AU athletics webpage I find that the story isn't much more detailed. It all seems very strange and very sudden to me and I smell foul play. Of course I could just be paranoid, but that's your call.
Let me know what you think or if you've heard anything more detailed.
Know I"ve only heard about this on the radio briefly today, but now that I check the AU athletics webpage I find that the story isn't much more detailed. It all seems very strange and very sudden to me and I smell foul play. Of course I could just be paranoid, but that's your call.
Let me know what you think or if you've heard anything more detailed.
Wednesday, March 17, 2004
Happy St. Patrick's Day, Y'all.
I want to wish everyone a very happy St. Patty's Day. I'm half-Irish myself, so I feel it's my duty to encourage -- as my favorite restaurant puts it -- feasting, imbibery, and debauchery.
One wishes that Li'l Ireland's still graced the town of Auburn... A hole in the wall that was absorbed into the Blue Room, Li'l Ireland's was the local haunt for the Computer Science Department when I first found out about the tradition of the Friday afternoon "tea," in which the students and a few of the professors would meet to close the book on a long week and kick off an all-too-short weekend.
Sure, it was a dive, but it was a good dive.
So, what can y'all do to celebrate St. Patty's?
You could watch one of the nearly annual "torture O'Brien" episodes of Star Trek Deep Space Nine (now available on DVD), in which the writers would put everybody's favorite engineer and Irish everyman through hell. I recommend Season 4's "Hard Time."
You could listen to some of Ireland's finest music, from the Chieftains, the Cranberries, Thin Lizzy, and U2. While U2 rarely draws from their Irish roots too overtly, there's nothing finer than an hour spent with Achtung Baby (as I discussed recently on my own blog).
You could watch a film like Michael Collins or a DVD of one of U2's concerts.
You could get a pint of Guinness or green beer, or eat something vaguely Irish like steak and potatoes.
Or, if you live near Pensacola or Destin -- like Jared and Lauren -- you could visit McGuire's Irish Pub, the greatest restaurant in the world.
I would recommend the Ernie Burger -- it's no longer listed on the menu as such, but it's still there, nonetheless -- with an Irish Bash Cream Pie.
Jared, Lauren, I'm not anywhere near McGuire's. You are. Don't waste the opportunity.
I'll close with a traditional Irish blessing.
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind be always at your back...
And if the wind comes from someone else's back, may you be far, far away.
One wishes that Li'l Ireland's still graced the town of Auburn... A hole in the wall that was absorbed into the Blue Room, Li'l Ireland's was the local haunt for the Computer Science Department when I first found out about the tradition of the Friday afternoon "tea," in which the students and a few of the professors would meet to close the book on a long week and kick off an all-too-short weekend.
Sure, it was a dive, but it was a good dive.
So, what can y'all do to celebrate St. Patty's?
You could watch one of the nearly annual "torture O'Brien" episodes of Star Trek Deep Space Nine (now available on DVD), in which the writers would put everybody's favorite engineer and Irish everyman through hell. I recommend Season 4's "Hard Time."
You could listen to some of Ireland's finest music, from the Chieftains, the Cranberries, Thin Lizzy, and U2. While U2 rarely draws from their Irish roots too overtly, there's nothing finer than an hour spent with Achtung Baby (as I discussed recently on my own blog).
You could watch a film like Michael Collins or a DVD of one of U2's concerts.
You could get a pint of Guinness or green beer, or eat something vaguely Irish like steak and potatoes.
Or, if you live near Pensacola or Destin -- like Jared and Lauren -- you could visit McGuire's Irish Pub, the greatest restaurant in the world.
I would recommend the Ernie Burger -- it's no longer listed on the menu as such, but it's still there, nonetheless -- with an Irish Bash Cream Pie.
Jared, Lauren, I'm not anywhere near McGuire's. You are. Don't waste the opportunity.
I'll close with a traditional Irish blessing.
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind be always at your back...
And if the wind comes from someone else's back, may you be far, far away.
Terrorism and Scandals
Man, I feel so out of the loop over here. There's so much going on around Auburn. We're all going on about our business here. I really have heard very little mention of the attacks on Spain other than on the news. However, today I received the following in an e-mail:
Recent Force Protection Alerts as of 16 March 2004:
- Two weeks ago the French government received a warning regarding the placement of 10 bombs on their rail system. The threat was an attempt to extort $4 million from the government and one bomb was found.
- Just last week several trains between France and Belgium were delayed because of terrorist threats.
- Web postings on the ali-jihad listserv as recently as 28 February called on jihadists in Europe (specifically Belgium, the Netherlands, and the UK) to fight the enemy here. Here's a small portion of the posting: "The muslims who live in [Europe] have a lot of oppertunity's to damage the enemy, and to support the mujahidien in Afghanistan and Irak... If we take the responsibility of fighting the enemy in our region, and the muslims in the UK take their responsibility in their region, then our brothers in Irak and Afghanistan wil be able to get the power, and spread the Islam and justice in the world. ... We have started to make ready wat we can to terrorise the enemy of Allah in our region...Brothers and sisters, it is very important that we take our responsibility serious. This may be more important than fighting the enemy in the islamic countries. If one percent of the millions of muslims who are living in the west take their responsibility to fight the enemy in their region, we could be able to spread the Islam even in this countries!
I'm not trying to be an alarmist here, but I believe in the near future we will see more acts like those of March 11th, and I won't be at all surprised to see an increase in threat levels.
I don't even know if this is a sort of issue y'all want posted on the blog, but I was just wondering what the general attitude/ outlook was over there. I know we're a military installation over here and we're supposed to be more aware, but I have heard so very few people even mention it, and wondered if it was the same over in the States. (Side note: I still have faith in the rail system here and plan to take tons of train rides over Spring Break. I refuse to let someone else decide how I will live my life.) Anyway, I just wanted to throw that question out to the general audience in the Auburn / Louisiana / Florida area to see what it was like there. I look forward to hearing your comments!
Caroline
Recent Force Protection Alerts as of 16 March 2004:
- Two weeks ago the French government received a warning regarding the placement of 10 bombs on their rail system. The threat was an attempt to extort $4 million from the government and one bomb was found.
- Just last week several trains between France and Belgium were delayed because of terrorist threats.
- Web postings on the ali-jihad listserv as recently as 28 February called on jihadists in Europe (specifically Belgium, the Netherlands, and the UK) to fight the enemy here. Here's a small portion of the posting: "The muslims who live in [Europe] have a lot of oppertunity's to damage the enemy, and to support the mujahidien in Afghanistan and Irak... If we take the responsibility of fighting the enemy in our region, and the muslims in the UK take their responsibility in their region, then our brothers in Irak and Afghanistan wil be able to get the power, and spread the Islam and justice in the world. ... We have started to make ready wat we can to terrorise the enemy of Allah in our region...Brothers and sisters, it is very important that we take our responsibility serious. This may be more important than fighting the enemy in the islamic countries. If one percent of the millions of muslims who are living in the west take their responsibility to fight the enemy in their region, we could be able to spread the Islam even in this countries!
I'm not trying to be an alarmist here, but I believe in the near future we will see more acts like those of March 11th, and I won't be at all surprised to see an increase in threat levels.
I don't even know if this is a sort of issue y'all want posted on the blog, but I was just wondering what the general attitude/ outlook was over there. I know we're a military installation over here and we're supposed to be more aware, but I have heard so very few people even mention it, and wondered if it was the same over in the States. (Side note: I still have faith in the rail system here and plan to take tons of train rides over Spring Break. I refuse to let someone else decide how I will live my life.) Anyway, I just wanted to throw that question out to the general audience in the Auburn / Louisiana / Florida area to see what it was like there. I look forward to hearing your comments!
Caroline
Tuesday, March 16, 2004
Auburn Athletic Director David Housel Announces Reitrement
AUBURN – Auburn Athletic Director David Housel announced today that he will step down as Athletic Director in January, 2005 and will retire from the University in early 2006.
Housel’s contract with the University runs through June of 2008, but because of his intention to retire in 2006 and his desire for a smooth transition of leadership, Housel began discussions of his planned retirement last year with then-President William Walker and continued them with President Ed Richardson, finalizing an agreement in Atlanta last week at the SEC Tournament.
Full Story
I'd imagine that the real reasons for his retirement fall somewhere between the "just wanted a smooth transition" propoganda and the "he's the sacrificial lamb" sensationalism coming from Finebaum and other Bama talking heads. Hopefully there can be a minimal amount of turmoil involved here.
Housel’s contract with the University runs through June of 2008, but because of his intention to retire in 2006 and his desire for a smooth transition of leadership, Housel began discussions of his planned retirement last year with then-President William Walker and continued them with President Ed Richardson, finalizing an agreement in Atlanta last week at the SEC Tournament.
Full Story
I'd imagine that the real reasons for his retirement fall somewhere between the "just wanted a smooth transition" propoganda and the "he's the sacrificial lamb" sensationalism coming from Finebaum and other Bama talking heads. Hopefully there can be a minimal amount of turmoil involved here.
Missing Spring and Baseball
Hey everyone!
This is Caroline, formerly of Broun 110, roommate to Rebecca. I lived in Broun 1999-2000, if by "live" you mean sleep. And I sort of lived in Broun 2000-2001, if by "live" you mean spent a lot of time on the third floor (bouncing between Jason and Bubba's room and John and Grant's room) and in the basement. As some of you know, I'm halfway across the world right now in Mons, Belgium. I'm doing my student teaching at S.H.A.P.E. (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe) American Elementary School. I'm learning a lot and traveling as much as possible. So far I've been to Paris, Brugge, London, Brussels, Bath, Stonehenge, Stratford-upon-Avon, and Oxford. (And, yes, I did get to see the pub where C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and friends used to meet, but it was closed, so I couldn't go inside... grr!) We get a two-week Spring Break here, so I'll be taking in Italy and Greece. Anyway, it's been fantastic up until right about now. Now it's supposed to be Spring. I talk to people at home who say it's 80 degrees. (It was snowing here last week.) We might actually make it into the sixties today, which means I have Spring Fever bad! And with Spring Fever comes... BASEBALL!
AFN (American Forces Network) TV consists of eight channels. Two of them show the same thing. One of them is a program guide. Two others are news channels. So imagine my excitement when I see MLB come across the screen. The first time this happened, they were evil. It wasn't baseball - it was the Yankees. This of course made me quite cynical when I saw it come across the screen again. But this time it was the Braves. So I settle in for a good game of baseball, hoping to take my mind off the crappy weather and the fact that my dad is apparently taking in quite a few games at home! Anyway, can I just say this? Who the heck are the Atlanta Braves? I mean, I know I haven't had TBS in awhile, but I hardly knew any of the players! I spent most of the time yelling at the TV because they were playing like third graders. I'm sure my neighbors loved that. (I'm the only female living in the Unaccompanied Officer's Quarters.) At any rate, I got so disgusted I had to start looking up the Biscuits' and Auburn's schedules. So, I'm with Jason on this... Go Biscuits!
This is Caroline, formerly of Broun 110, roommate to Rebecca. I lived in Broun 1999-2000, if by "live" you mean sleep. And I sort of lived in Broun 2000-2001, if by "live" you mean spent a lot of time on the third floor (bouncing between Jason and Bubba's room and John and Grant's room) and in the basement. As some of you know, I'm halfway across the world right now in Mons, Belgium. I'm doing my student teaching at S.H.A.P.E. (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe) American Elementary School. I'm learning a lot and traveling as much as possible. So far I've been to Paris, Brugge, London, Brussels, Bath, Stonehenge, Stratford-upon-Avon, and Oxford. (And, yes, I did get to see the pub where C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and friends used to meet, but it was closed, so I couldn't go inside... grr!) We get a two-week Spring Break here, so I'll be taking in Italy and Greece. Anyway, it's been fantastic up until right about now. Now it's supposed to be Spring. I talk to people at home who say it's 80 degrees. (It was snowing here last week.) We might actually make it into the sixties today, which means I have Spring Fever bad! And with Spring Fever comes... BASEBALL!
AFN (American Forces Network) TV consists of eight channels. Two of them show the same thing. One of them is a program guide. Two others are news channels. So imagine my excitement when I see MLB come across the screen. The first time this happened, they were evil. It wasn't baseball - it was the Yankees. This of course made me quite cynical when I saw it come across the screen again. But this time it was the Braves. So I settle in for a good game of baseball, hoping to take my mind off the crappy weather and the fact that my dad is apparently taking in quite a few games at home! Anyway, can I just say this? Who the heck are the Atlanta Braves? I mean, I know I haven't had TBS in awhile, but I hardly knew any of the players! I spent most of the time yelling at the TV because they were playing like third graders. I'm sure my neighbors loved that. (I'm the only female living in the Unaccompanied Officer's Quarters.) At any rate, I got so disgusted I had to start looking up the Biscuits' and Auburn's schedules. So, I'm with Jason on this... Go Biscuits!
Monday, March 15, 2004
It's Hot! It's Fresh! It's In The Game?
Ladies and gentlemen, Montgomery, Alabama, is finally on the professional sports map. The Montgomery Biscuits have officially made the jump to the next level of sports fame. They are...in a video game! EA Sports (Their motto = "It's in the game!") has included the AAA and AA affiliates of the Major League Baseball teams in their game MVP Baseball 2004. And not just as rosters, either...you can PLAY as the Biscuits (or the other AAA and AA teams). It's a great feature, AND it's a cool thing to see a real baseball team (even in AA) from Montgomery show up as a playable team in the best selling game on the baseball market. A link to the minor league feature in the game can be found here
Yeah, I'm warming up to the Biscuits.
Yeah, I'm warming up to the Biscuits.
Auburn Baseball Update
CLEMSON, S.C. - The seventh-ranked Auburn baseball team scored seven unanswered runs in the third and fourth innings en route to a 9-6 win over No. 25 Clemson, for the series win at Doug Kingsmore Stadium Sunday. Auburn improved to 16-2 on the year while Clemson dropped to 6-7, who lost its first non-conference series at home since 1999. Full Story
16-2, ranked 7th overall...most impressive. Plus, SB and I have now only witnessed 50% of the team's losses! Woohoo!
16-2, ranked 7th overall...most impressive. Plus, SB and I have now only witnessed 50% of the team's losses! Woohoo!
The wings won't be all they come for...
So, it has come to pass. Auburn is officially getting a new restaurant in the near future (construction is currently underway in front of the old Wal-Mart on College St.). When I first heard about it coming to the Plains, I wondered "What the crap?", but then I realized how genius of an idea it really was. The company obviously realized that there would not be a shortage of "talent" to help make the atmosphere, nor would there be a shortage of the general public who stop from partaking of the breasts (buffalo chicken sandwich that is ;)). I'm sure that some of the clientele find the prospect of the restaurant opening quite titillating, since they don't have to drive to Columbus to get their money off their chests (and onto those of the waitresses). So yes, welcome to Auburn, Hooters. No, I am not arguing against you being here. On the contrary, I think that it is very funny. Set up shop in a college town. It's a good idea. Sadly, I will not enjoy you while I am here, but I wish you the breast (I mean, best) of luck with business.
Moving Pictures
Hello all. Will Kimrey here thanking the powers that be (aka Jason) for letting me post on this blog. I really don't have much to say in the ways of events and news from Auburn, but seeing as I'm way down here in Florida, I'd be more than happy to keep you up to date on what I've been up to.
I graduated in December with a degree in Computer Science. Since then I've been trying to find a job. 3 months later and still no luck. I've moved back home and started working with my dad again as a means to make some money while I continue to search. I make a trip back up to Auburn every 2 or 3 weeks in a gradual moving out process. Everytime I go, I move more stuff out of my old apartment. Which brings us to the title of this post....
When I first moved in, the first thing I did was hang up a picture that was given to me by my girlfriend at that time. It's a picture of an eagle flying over some mountains and has Isaiah 40:31 (favorite verse ) written on it. Many of you who have visited my apartment might remember it. It was right there next to the thermostat as you walked in the door. You really couldn't miss it although after a while, I started to not notice it cause it'd been there for so long. Anyway, upon my last visit to Auburn, which was this past weekend, the picture came down and is now sitting in a chair here in my room back in FL. This may seem like a very trivial thing, but to me it was quite a big event. Being the first piece of decoration that my apartment had, it helped make it my home for 4 years with the constant reminder that with just a little patience, anything can be done. By moving that picture, I closed that part of my life and moved on to the next part. This doesn't mean that I'll never come back to Auburn, but it does mean that I've stopped thinking of it as home. It's no longer a place I return to, but has become a place to visit on the weekend. Maybe that will change in the future, and I hope it does cause I love Auburn, but for now, I return to that state of flux that hit me after high school and will probably stay with me until I settle down somewhere. When and where that'll be I don't know, but thanks to this nifty little blog, I'll keep you posted.
Will
I graduated in December with a degree in Computer Science. Since then I've been trying to find a job. 3 months later and still no luck. I've moved back home and started working with my dad again as a means to make some money while I continue to search. I make a trip back up to Auburn every 2 or 3 weeks in a gradual moving out process. Everytime I go, I move more stuff out of my old apartment. Which brings us to the title of this post....
When I first moved in, the first thing I did was hang up a picture that was given to me by my girlfriend at that time. It's a picture of an eagle flying over some mountains and has Isaiah 40:31 (favorite verse ) written on it. Many of you who have visited my apartment might remember it. It was right there next to the thermostat as you walked in the door. You really couldn't miss it although after a while, I started to not notice it cause it'd been there for so long. Anyway, upon my last visit to Auburn, which was this past weekend, the picture came down and is now sitting in a chair here in my room back in FL. This may seem like a very trivial thing, but to me it was quite a big event. Being the first piece of decoration that my apartment had, it helped make it my home for 4 years with the constant reminder that with just a little patience, anything can be done. By moving that picture, I closed that part of my life and moved on to the next part. This doesn't mean that I'll never come back to Auburn, but it does mean that I've stopped thinking of it as home. It's no longer a place I return to, but has become a place to visit on the weekend. Maybe that will change in the future, and I hope it does cause I love Auburn, but for now, I return to that state of flux that hit me after high school and will probably stay with me until I settle down somewhere. When and where that'll be I don't know, but thanks to this nifty little blog, I'll keep you posted.
Will
Sunday, March 14, 2004
The other half in Baton Rouge
'Allo all...this is wife of Rich, Sara-with-the-long-hair. Though people who remember me by that name will be shocked to know that I never made it across the quad "Godiva" fashion and I cut my hair right after graduating from AU May 2003. (I'm growing it back, I swear!!) I was an Honorary Harperite my first year when I was actually living off campus. I then lived in Harper for a few years and became an Honorary Brounie when I started dating Rich. Then Steven Smith let us both be DAs the summer I lived in Broun, so I offically became a Broun hall resident. Later on I turned to the dark side and was an RA for Little Hall.
I was definitely an odd one - Chemical Engineering honors student and I assistant stage managed several musicals at AU Theatre. So I fit in well with rest of the upper quad...especially Harper and Broun. Some of my fondest memories involve late night Flush or Flush II runs, "study breaks" at Waffle House, anime at all hours in various rooms, debating current states of affairs in the Broun basement whenever you were down there, climbing in windows or helping others climb in dorm windows during and after visiting hours, dragging people out of computer rooms for their own sanity, Niffer's nights on Thursday, reading books at football games (yeah, yeah, so I am not much on sports), volleyball in the quad...I am sure there is plenty that I am missing that will come up in the next few weeks.
So that was then, what about now? As Rich mentioned, I dragged him away from Auburn kicking and screaming for a job I love as an instrumentation and controls engineer for Shell Chemical. I definitely miss the people at Auburn and lack of traffic, but the lure of starting to work was too great. New Orleans is a little over an hour away and I head down most chances I get, though Rich isn't as fascinated with the history and culture as I am. We have gone the American way - into debt - and bought a house a few months ago. We also acquired two crazy cats who can be loveable and cute if they want to be. Thus our doors are open to all visitors, provided you aren't allergic.
As far as my place in this blog, I will most likely concentrate on academic issues relating to AU. I am constantly defending my school (especially engineering) among a veritable sea of purple and gold alum and/or fans, so I keep up with that pretty well. I have also had the pleasure(?) of speaking with the former President Walker at several events, so I feel I can actually have an opinion of the man based on something other than what is published about him and his ideas for Auburn. (though I think it is perfectly ridiculous that it took a visit to check out a football coach for him to be forced to resign. There were plenty of other reasons for him to go...)
I was definitely an odd one - Chemical Engineering honors student and I assistant stage managed several musicals at AU Theatre. So I fit in well with rest of the upper quad...especially Harper and Broun. Some of my fondest memories involve late night Flush or Flush II runs, "study breaks" at Waffle House, anime at all hours in various rooms, debating current states of affairs in the Broun basement whenever you were down there, climbing in windows or helping others climb in dorm windows during and after visiting hours, dragging people out of computer rooms for their own sanity, Niffer's nights on Thursday, reading books at football games (yeah, yeah, so I am not much on sports), volleyball in the quad...I am sure there is plenty that I am missing that will come up in the next few weeks.
So that was then, what about now? As Rich mentioned, I dragged him away from Auburn kicking and screaming for a job I love as an instrumentation and controls engineer for Shell Chemical. I definitely miss the people at Auburn and lack of traffic, but the lure of starting to work was too great. New Orleans is a little over an hour away and I head down most chances I get, though Rich isn't as fascinated with the history and culture as I am. We have gone the American way - into debt - and bought a house a few months ago. We also acquired two crazy cats who can be loveable and cute if they want to be. Thus our doors are open to all visitors, provided you aren't allergic.
As far as my place in this blog, I will most likely concentrate on academic issues relating to AU. I am constantly defending my school (especially engineering) among a veritable sea of purple and gold alum and/or fans, so I keep up with that pretty well. I have also had the pleasure(?) of speaking with the former President Walker at several events, so I feel I can actually have an opinion of the man based on something other than what is published about him and his ideas for Auburn. (though I think it is perfectly ridiculous that it took a visit to check out a football coach for him to be forced to resign. There were plenty of other reasons for him to go...)
The Toughest Seat For Breakfast In Town
What is this world coming to? Some of us have only been away from The Plains for a year or two, and already, landmarks are vanishing.
One of Auburn's greatest culinary traditions, the 70+ year landmark "Auburn Grille", is on the risk of closing its door. This restaurant indirectly led to my attendance at Auburn. It was the first stop for my parents and I on our visit to AU. The food was great and the service was full of Auburn spirit. The waitress' bf stopped in, and we talked for a while (the place was near empty at 3pm). He offered to show us around campus, and we accepted. Although the weather was rather bleak, my first memories of Auburn were formed that day, including the Eagle's Cage (may it rest in peace), the Quad, the RBD Library, and Jordan-Hare.
More on this story can be read at this page at WSFA.
Does anyone have any Grille memories, or favorite dishes?
RF
One of Auburn's greatest culinary traditions, the 70+ year landmark "Auburn Grille", is on the risk of closing its door. This restaurant indirectly led to my attendance at Auburn. It was the first stop for my parents and I on our visit to AU. The food was great and the service was full of Auburn spirit. The waitress' bf stopped in, and we talked for a while (the place was near empty at 3pm). He offered to show us around campus, and we accepted. Although the weather was rather bleak, my first memories of Auburn were formed that day, including the Eagle's Cage (may it rest in peace), the Quad, the RBD Library, and Jordan-Hare.
More on this story can be read at this page at WSFA.
Does anyone have any Grille memories, or favorite dishes?
RF
