open house

my arms and shoulders are feeling the effects of last night...
last night was open house/open dorms. i ended up playing a wonderful wonderful xbox game which involved a motion sensor camera thing, and a motley assortment of tasks such as: kung-fooing obnoxious characters, heading soccer balls, and my personal favorite, washing windows. very good times. there is nothing like seeing nathan appear through a once-dirty window, with a show-girl smile and a lei encircling his graceful neck. there were quite a few of us, and we swirled, windmilled, waved and got those windows clean. and i'm now sore. doesn't say much for my physical fitness.

i did have a go at whacking at a computer with a rubber mallet. i was a little hesitant at first...it was slightly unnerving to see the people you smile at across the dinner table suddenly charging at a disgruntled (yes disgruntled) mass of bent metal and computer chips, and driving a hammer into said mass over and over again. i had several images running through my head. the first involved a 'braveheart'esque scene with men in leather kilts, ululating war cries as they charge headlong into battle. the second was an image of a man in a grass skirt with war paint and a kukui nut necklace, charging...at me.
anyway, i finally decided that i'd rather be on the charging end, and not the one being charged at. of course, i was ridiculous about it. after a couple thwacks i momentarily paused to ask someone a question. an unsuspecting guy leaned over to retrieve something, right at the moment i decided to give the computer one last parting blow. he gave me a look that clearly said "you ridiculous girl you almost put my eye out you are out of control". i thought it wise to relinquish the hammer. during all the excitement i managed to nick myself in the crease of my thumb. it was probably a flying computer chip. so tiny, but it throbs and doesn't feel pleasant at all.