Well I’m knee deep in the ________ of teaching, so free time is found few and far between for me during the week. Yet here we are on a Wednesday night, and I have done as much as I want to do on this lovely evening, so I believe I will push the countdown along a little bit more…
115. Bulls-Eye Washers (August 2007)
Every now and then, a quote comes along that captures the imagination of us all. We were playing Bulls-Eye Washers down at Council Retreat my junior year, and Kyle Craft Jenkins began to show off a style of what would evolve into the Cannon. After a particularly good shot, KCJ rattled off a great maxim for life: “Bullseye or bust. That’s how I date my women.” Wiser words have never been spoken.
114. Olympics at Council Retreat (August 2008)
And then came the next year at Council Retreat, when our attention shifted from bullseyes to Olympic gold medals and the 2008 Beijing Olympics. After a full day of planning, meeting, and praying, the 2008 Council, a particularly crazy group of people, gathered together to watch some Olympic action. I myself became captivated with men’s volleyball, but Michael Phelps stole the show with all his gold. Also it led to some sort of olympic game at Retreat…I cannot recall, but I do remember stuffing bananas into our mouths through pantyhose. Spiritual development.
113. Road Trip to Northern Kentucky (January 2009)
And then came the winter break of my senior year, a lovely time with some great trips. One such trip was to Northern Kentucky to hang out at the Lindsay Bell residence to play Settlers, gossip with Whitney Beil, and see all of what Northern Kentucky had to offer thanks to my tour guides Kelly and Charlsie. I got to see NKU and that was exciting and all. And then I went back to UK and did nothing productive at all my final semester of college.
112. Kings Island + Pirates 3 = Crazy Day (May 2007)
I’ll just go through all that happened, as I can remember. Me, KCJ, Alyssa, Amanda, Kelsey, and Robert go to Kings Island. My contact falls out on the trip up there and is lost forever. Wallace cuts a tire right as we get off the interstate and change a tire out front of the main gate. Half the rides are closed. Amanda loses her cell phone (I think). Girls get sick. We change our tire at Wal-Mart. A classic Robert-Kelsey moment on the way back (his story to tell, and he will tell it and has many times). We eat at Applebee’s in Lexington. We see Pirates 3. Jack Sparrow wins. I leave for camp three days later. The end.
111. Super Bowl Party 2008 (January 2008)
Once upon a time the New England Patriots were undefeated. They were really good. Like the best football team in history good. But then came the Super Bowl, and only the magic of the Thurman’s house and the Calvary Super Bowl Party could take a heavy underdog like the New York Giants and turn them into Super Bowl champions, thanks in part to Amanda Tyree’s cousin David (not really, but how many Tyrees are there in the world? it’s a legitimate point).
110. Mission Trip to Indiana (September 2009)
Mission trips have played a HUGE role in my five years of college, and an often overlooked one came in Columbus, Indiana during the early days of my sophomore year. A BCM group saddled up to Columbus and did some flood recovery action. It was a blast to hang out with other BCM groups from Morehead and…..can’t remember the other one, maybe Georgetown, but the day was spent under a trailer ripping out insulation with Dawn Bailey and one Chris Leeper. The only negative? I missed a football game where the CLAW was introduced. What a moment.
109. Killer Pong Rankings (Fall 2006)
So I am a bit of a dork, and one ways I exceled in this area came during my sophomore year when I devised a devilish formula for Killer Pong rankings. All of a sudden, the phrase “is this a ranked game” and conservative play flooded the BCM’s multipurpose room, but I have never seen more enthusiasm for the GREAT game of killer pong than that period of time. Also, it was during this time when the old trusty U-Shot came to fruition. And I made Tom May cry time after time after time when I stuffed it down his throat.
108. Easter Egg, Red Robin, Blue Steel (or whatever it was called) (March 2008)
Ah, Freshman Focus. There are no words for the worth this event brought me for two years during my time at UK. And then there was the Freshman Road Rules trip to the great American South, and with it came a glimpse into the domestic bliss that is driving a minivan around with seven screaming little kids, err, freshmen. And the personalities that the different vans brought made the trip so memorable. My Easter Egg, Whitney’s Red Robin, and Allen’s……..something.
107. Charleston Apartment Kids (March 2009)
More mission trip highlights, these coming from Charleston, South Carolina with Calvary’s trip my senior year. In one of the wackiest trips of my college career, a real highlight came with the kids we played with in our host apartment complex. The chillins were willing basketball players, and we were willing to show them that there was hoops talent from the Bluegrass in the days before John Wall. My favorite child was Nathaniel, a real winner in my book. So Nathaniel, if you are reading, good form my friend.
106. Interviewing Tom Leach (February 2006)
So way back in the day, I was a journalism major. Yes, it’s true. And one of the things I had to do for Buck Ryan’s Journalism 101 was interview a professional from my “dream job.” I got the chance to interview Tom Leach, UK’s football and basketball radio play-by-play guy. What an exhilarating experience it was on that cold February morning. Even though I was on my way to officially saying sianara to journalism, talking to one of my heroes, as you would figure, is always pretty cool.
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That’s it for tonight. No honorable mention, but a preview of the next ten events…
As the countdown continues, we’ll see Mother Nature drops a blizzard right before Spring Break, an avalanche of debauchary from a piece of land surrounded by water which seems terribly alone, and picking up some chicks on Man Night…
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