EWWD: A Snack and a Movie

Last Tuesday (gosh, I've gotten behind) was the ice cream social at the new Alumni Center on Beach. As I mentioned on my post on the Kent State game, when I first got a good look at the inside, it's very nice. I got a chance to chat with Jeff Johnson, president of the Alumni Association, who's an all-around great guy, and the staff was on hand to explain various architectural details, such as the pitches in the ceiling designed to remind you of the campanile. I also got a chance to look closely at the university mace, which I believe was introduced at my first graduation ceremony in May '04, so that was pretty cool. Turns out the little gold plates are the names and dates served of all the university presidents. The interesting thing to me was the couple of guys who got stuck doing the interim president thing again and again, and wound up serving longer that at least one regular president. The root beer floats were tasty, too. I wasn't able to stick around for a tour as I had a dinner in Des Moines to get to.

Wednesday Chris and I went to Clone Wars at the Varsity II. As I mentioned in my last "upcoming EWWD" post, we enjoyed the cartoon series, but something was off from the series -- the animation wasn't quite the same, and the darkness that should have been present in Anakin was so toned down that it just didn't seem to fit in the chronology of the prequel trilogy. It also bothered me that they introduced and developed a likable (almost to the point of being a Mary Sue) character that gets killed in Epsiode III as just another Jedi . However, it's not like we paid dodecaplex prices for it, and it is always nice to just walk to a movie, and then just walk home.

Ok, that review was pretty flamboyantly geeky, so I'll move on to researching for Upcoming EWWD for this week.