10.15.03
Submitted by Obsidiana on Wed, 10/15/2003 - 8:09am. Wisdom
"Dude, I wouldn't go to Albany and back for a day and not call it a wasted trip."

-The guy behind me in Intro to Astronomy, sharing his thoughts on the Chinese space shuttle, which is apparently spending less than 24 hours in the Earth's orbit before coming back

(Note to people not from Upstate New York: I'm currently in Plattsburgh, NY. Albany, NY is about three hours away. Unless you take the Greyhound bus. Then it can take up to four and a half hours.)
10.11.03
Submitted by Obsidiana on Tue, 10/14/2003 - 7:26pm. Um...
"You want to know why I haven't used the bathroom in my own apartment for nine years!?"
"Yes!! YES!!!"

-an actor on stage and the woman behind me in the audience when I saw And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little.

As Eve once said: Remember that one kid in your English class who latched onto one insignificant detail and used it to explain everything in the book? The woman behind me was a grown-up version of that kid.
10.08.03
Submitted by Obsidiana on Wed, 10/08/2003 - 6:30pm. Funny
"I've never felt so stupid in my entire life!"

-a guy somewhere behind me as the Intro to Theatre Art midterm started
10.06.03
Submitted by Obsidiana on Mon, 10/06/2003 - 4:10pm. Tragic
"...but I didn't wanna go to Russel Sage."
"So wait...you guys are saying you actually got into good schools, but you came here?"
"Well, I didn't want to be $80,000.00 in debt when I graduate. And besides, RIT only has, like, five girls."
"Yeah, and Purchase has lots of weird people."
"Well what about New Paltz? I heard New Paltz is good."
"I didn't really like the campus..."

-a bunch of Freshman art majors who are all in my Math class

This amused me but saddened me because I know people who go to all the schools they mentioned (and I used to go to New Paltz) and getting into the art department at any of them (with the exception of Russel Sage) is a huge accomplishment. But apparently these kids would rather be here at a semi-party school than at someplace with a good art department...
10.02.03
Submitted by Obsidiana on Fri, 10/03/2003 - 2:29pm. Bizarre
I was walking in the general direction of the dorms with a whole bunch of people from my Intro to Acting class, talking about our professor, who almost always acts like he's on something. One kid said "...and today, he was talking about the music of speech or whatever? I swear soon he's gonna say 'I can taste purple!'"

We were stopped by a wandering English professor, who told us at great length about the literary device that involves using or describing colours in ways that you can't actually experience them. I forget what the actual device is called, but he ended the speech with "...and I'm on sabatical! Imagine the lecture you would've gotten if I were teaching!"

We were victims of a walk-by lecturing.
10.01.03
Submitted by Obsidiana on Wed, 10/01/2003 - 6:24am. Funny
"...you know, a date rape drug."
"You are a date rape drug."
"Yeah...that's why I date raped your mom last night!"
-Two guys on their way out of my building last night

I am just too amused by the sentence "You are a date rape drug!"