[Schumi]

Man I can't sleep. Must be all this caffeine. Two papers due 12 hours from now.


Story time.
I had to take an undergrad class this semester to appease some degree requirements, some humanities course entitled 'Speech and Media systems' or something like that. I'm the oldest guy in this class that I believe consists of a lot of undergrad freshman/sophomores. Guy teaching in is cool as hell, 65 years old, always talking about his party days and whatnot. So in this class, throughout the semester we have to give presentations and what not and are judged on them. For the first assignment, everyone had to get up in from of the class (maybe 35 people) and tell a story about an experience they've had. Anything goes.

So this old professor teaching is a fun guy and everyone knows he's a drinker and what not... so all these young kids (who all seem to be under 21 anyways) get up and tell your typical "when I was in high school me and my friends snuck some 'beers from my dad and got drunk and did ...."... It was just an icebreaker story to see how well you spoke in front of people. I found no amusement in any of the stories. I couldn't remember last week, let alone anything from high school, so I wasn't going down that path.



Instead I get up and break into the story I think I told once on this board about my friend Matt going to Belize. Only exaggerated. And in the first person (me). I told the **** out of this story. I'm talking vivid descriptions.. as if this was some giant rehearsed dialogue from a film. People were on the edge of their seats. It was almost entirely fabricated from pieces of stories, all mashed together in this one giant Hunter S. Thompson monologue.

I was greeted with a near unanimous standing ovation at the end of the 8-minute long epic. I felt bad for the people who had to go after me as those **** high school stories wouldn't hold a candle to the **** I had just pulled out of my ass.

We had to schedule a time to go back and watch a video of our 'performance'... to spot troubles in our speaking structure and what not. I was told that my story was of the most amazing things to be spoken in the 20 years of the class.


I would have gotten the DV tape from the professor and uploaded it to Youtube.. but unfortunately the microphone wasn't the best quality and the audio doesn't come across well at some parts.