4.27.10

Hey guys!

This week at Rockhurst is Hawk Wild Week, sponsored by SAB. Today they had a medieval theme for the activities; you could play ring toss with giant hula hoops and a huge inflatable red dragon, and the prize was a jeweled gold cup. I'm not sure if they're sticking with the same theme throughout the week or continuing every day with different themes. It should be pretty cool either way, though.

So I haven't talked about movies that are out in quite a long time, so here it goes!

Everyone has been saying that How to Train Your Dragon is an amazing movie, and judging by the 98% it received from Rotten Tomatoes I'd have to agree. Although I have not seen it, I have heard good things from both friends and reviewers. A chick flick called The Back-up Plan, starring Jennifer Lopez and some actor I've never heard of, was released a few days ago. It received a 22% on Rotten Tomatoes. Romantic comedies never seem to score very well with this website. Titanic only scored 83%, The Notebook only 52% and The Last Song only 18%. I did see Kick-Ass the day after it came out. It was a very good movie. Nicholas Cage's acting has been sliding downhill ever since The Rock and he did a somewhat good job in this movie. The other actors did very good jobs. I really enjoyed watching it. It received a 76% on Rotten Tomatoes.

There are lots of tours going on lately! Bright and early I'll see groups going on tours of the campus or of my residence hall. Sometimes we'll be in the lobby of Corcoran watching Jeopardy at 4:30 (like always) and a tour will walk in. They must think we're totally nuts for trying to shout the answers at the television, and I hope that doesn't dissuade them from enrolling here. Even if some of us are a bit crazy.

School ends in 2 1/2 weeks! I can't believe it! This semester has gone by very quickly. I'm happy and sad to be going back to Texas. Happy because it will be warm (it's about 55 here right now), sad because I'll be leaving all my Rockhurst friends. But I'm visiting St. Louis over the summer so I'll get to see at least some of them.

I'll talk to you guys later!