Friday 2/05

(Tim Lin) - 00:10

So...it's not my shift again. And I'm in K-Ville again. Because of stats. There's going to be a stats party tonight in K-Ville. We are going to have so much fun. It's not even funny. Actually, we won't have fun. I hate stats.

So...upon arriving at K-Ville, I was assaulted by two feminine creatures. Apparently, I have fans. Even though I don't believe in girls. But people tell me that I am obligated to give them a shoutout. So I shall shout out to Sydney and Jen. Ok. They also gave me 2 balloon weiner dogs.

Earlier today, I don't know what I was thinking. But I had a mohawk along with Lewis and Cameron. My mohawk was so epic. We totally distracted Georgia Tech's basketball team with our crazy mohawks. Iman Shumpert was so jealous. The Blue Devil himself loved my mohawk. He fist pounded me. Then, after the game, I shaved my head. So now I am mostly bald. It is a strange feeling.

Also, during the game, we got the journalist person in front of us to blog about our blog on his blog. If you want to see a blog blog about our blog, then click here. So now, this blog blogs about a blog that blogs about our blog. Blogfully.

Also, I just noticed the multitude of Thursday/Tuesday February 4th blog entries. I am confused. I think we're going crazy, but then again, as the Cheshire cat said, "We're all mad here." He's so cool.

Kyle Singler walked by. He was wearing a gray sweatshirt. And his hood was on his head. And he had shiny white Nike shoes. Yeah. That's it. Peace out.

(Lewis Purcell) -00:18

So this night was epic. We whooped Georgia Tech, Cam, Tim and I had mohawks and Zoubek had an awesome game - with second most rebounds, 6 points, and only two fouls. I LOVE ZOUB!!! After the game someone set off victory fireworks, it was epic. 200 Shots from the area of the great hall. Hmm... BTW - I served Ryan Kelly communion and then today he scored a 3 pointer - pretty sure that counts as mine.

(Esther Showalter) -14:14

Why has no one posted anything on this blog today? I count "today" as being "after I woke up" ie, some integer N > 0730. I am in math class right now.

There weren't any tent checks last night. What a waste of staying up all night to do homework.

Thursday 2/04

(Robert Francis) - 11:15

Notice, Lewis has lost his mind. He thinks today is Tuesday in the previous post. Clearly he has sustained brain damage from last night. I can't feel my hands.

(Nick Bodnar) - 13:57

I'm a little behind, but let me talk about last night. My shift started at 7, following Michael Gay, the newest tent Engineer. Michael spent his entire shift fixing the fortress and putting up our other tent, and he did a fantastic job. so my shift started at 7 and at about 8 o'clock Zach White, The Master of Kville, asked me for a favor. What could i do but oblige? We were going to hang signs. We divided into two groups and my group found this room on the clock tower. note: this is the best room on all of campus. It is air conditioned in prime Craven/Crowell location, and it has it's own private porch in the clock tower. This little alcove looks out onto the main quad, and it's her own personal balcony. Anyway, we hung the banner, and then Zach's group showed up (well, just Zach) and he hadn't had as much luck with his banner. So i went with him and we did what i do best: shenanigan. We climbed onto the great hall/loop roof (through methods i cannot disclose here) and hung the banner over the loop entrance. Victoriously, we finished by walking straight out of the great hall kitchen. Job well done Zach. It was my pleasure to help you.

GTHC,

Nick

(Nick Bodnar) - 14:00

Hi again. Now for a story not directly related to Black/Blue tenting, but to Cameron Craziness in general. Cameron, Lewis, Brandon, Michael, Grace, and I are in the walk up line for the GT game tonight. Lewis, Cameron, and I spent the night on the cold sidewalk, while Brandon stayed in the tent. It was so dang cold last night. we stayed up for a bit watching "pants on the ground" and "a peach state of mind" on youtube. both are great videos that i highly recommend. One of thet two mattresses was flat and we decided to sleep across them both so no one would be confined to the dreaded crack, and no one would get a flat mattress. this turned out to mean that we all got a flat mattress at our feet and hips, and it led to an overall not-ideal night, to say the least. Cameo and i jacked another palate last night and it is already falling apart due to constant use. The craziest part so far involved this guy on a bike. He had a sweet corduroy jacket with elbow pads. first he came flying into the walk-up line going over some people's tarps and stuff; then he scrambled through the snow in the direction of Wilson Gym. that was weird. About an hour later he came back and drove straight over our air mattress (the flat one), with his muddy tires. I was like "dude, that's our mattress" and he angrily responded with "get it off the sidewalk!!!" It all happened so quickly that we were just left in a stupor. I'm still not sure Cameron has recovered. It was quite a crippling blow. It was just so weird. i don't get it.

till next time,

Nick

(Robert Francis)- 22:05

A pic of the (almost) final score. GO DUKE!

Scheyer fell into the crowd. Got a great pic.

Tuesday 2/04

(Lewis Purcell) -10:45

Last night Cameron, Nick and I slept outside, even outside of the fortress, in order to get spot 13 into Cameron Indoor Stadium for the whoopin' we're gonna give Georgia Tech tonight. It was to date the most miserable night of my life at Duke. I woke up several times, one of our airmattresses deflated so my sleeping bag was virtually touching the frozen cement. I drew my drawstrings on my mattress too tight and felt like I was suffocating most the night. was horrible. Well I can leave for the rest of the day soon.

Thursday 2/04

(Jonathan) - 01:12

I wish I was in the Fortress. Instead, I am at home in my living room, known to some as "The Basement of Lilly." In the words of someone else, "that is all."

(Tim Lin) - 09:57

oh boy. Last night was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo exciting. Actually not really. But kinda yeah. Robert and I were in the tent. Brandon slept in the Fortress. Cameron/Lewis/Nick slept outside. It was kinda cold in the tent (which needs a name...) last night. I think the lack of bodies was the major contributing factor. Never underestimate the power of body warmth. I am hearing from multiple people that stripping down inside the sleeping bag is supposedly warmer...I don't really want to test this theory. Someone confirm this for me.

Speaking of maroon jackets...I know I said I wanted to expunge all maroon jackets from the face of the Earth. Today, at Morning Man Prayer, Mr. Christopher Ryan D'Angelo walked in wearing a maroon sweatshirt. And I saw him. And I immediately laughed to myself. And he doesn't follow our blog because he's a total loser. So I can make fun of him all I want. And he'll never find out. Unless somebody tells him. I hope that doesn't happen. Ever. For serious.

I like it when I get out of the tent in the morning, and the ground is all hard and crunchy.

And now, I need to get off this blog. Because I have an ECE27 lab due in about...3 hours and 18 minutes. Yup. Ok. Farewell. Adios. Au revoir. Ciao. Zai Jian.

Wednesday 2/03

(Lewis Purcell) -12:27

So I saw Ryan Kelly today at breakfast but didn't note anything stalkerish about him or what he ate. I would like to say that the chapel video of me serving Ryan Kelly communion is up - and it's hilarious - go to this link: http://www.youtube.com/user/dukechapel and watch the 57:30 part - just a 30 second clip but it is both evidence that it actually happened and it shows my facial expression :)

BTW - tent duty starts today at 3. We've been out of the tent 6 nights, whammy!

(Tim Lin) - 17:15

Lewis and I just got off a C-1. Even though we wanted to take the C-1 back to East Campus. Because the bus driver had a UNC hat. Why would you even wear that on campus? I thought he was going to crash our bus. So now we are at the bus stop waiting for the next bus.

In other news, I went to visit the tent about half an hour ago. I saw Jon Scheyer walk out of Cameron. He was talking on the phone, and he was holding an orange Gatorade. He was also wearing a long-sleeved t-shirt with a white undershirt and jeans and Nike shoes.

A few minutes later, Brian Zoubek also walked out of Cameron. Like Jon, he was on the phone, too. Zoubek shuffles his feet so that his shoes make a lot of noise when he walks. I hate that sound. He also takes really small steps, so it took him a long time to walk from Cameron to the parking lot. Or maybe it just seemed like his steps were small because he's just that tall. He was also wearing Nike shoes and jeans. He had a gray t-shirt that said the word "Champions" on it. I couldn't what was on the rest of the shirt, but it must have been a championship shirt for some sports team. I assume this team is from Boston because he was wearing a dark blue hat with a red Boston Red Sox "B" on it. He also had a black rain jacket on. And he drives a black Chrysler. That is all.

I'm so excited for tenting to actually begin even though it already started. I'm not on duty tonight, but I might sleep there anyways. I have an 08:45 class tomorrow, so by sleeping in the tent, I can get to class quicker. Because of this, I can wake up later which would give me more sleep. But it also probably gives me fewer hours of sleep because of the midnight tent checks and the raucous pandemonium of K-ville. Life is full of trade-offs. What to do...

(Cameron James Oswalt) - 22:45

News about our tenting group is spreading across campus. While working on Jonathan's sign post that serves as an anchor for our tarp, a damsel (not in distress) from the walk-up line for the GT game got Nick and my attention by hollering "Hey, FORTRESS." It is quite humbling to be known as "THE FORTRESS" around campus. Another event indicative of our fame across campus happened as well. A passerby noted the prowess of our tarp. He spoke aloud and noted that next year he needed to "remember to use a tarp instead of a tent" and that "The Fortress looks like the best structure out here."

I'm just sayin...

(Robert Francis AND Tim Lin)- 23:18

No it's not a mistake. No you're not seeing things. YES. It is a dual blog entry. The first in what I'm sure will become a new trend here at Nolan's Nest. (Notice the ambiguous 'I' you don't know who it is. Mysterious.) --OH SNAP!! Blue Tenting has officially actually begun. I think I've gotten sick since leaving the Fortress. Sleeping in my room is definitely the cause of that. -- Stay away from me then-- The post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy definitely does not apply here.--I don't know what that means. Anyway, we are sitting here trying to watch the final episode of try-out rounds for American Idol. We are currently letting the video load...--Cameron, Lewis, and Nick seem to be sleeping outside tonight. You might say, "What?! You're already sleeping outside!! How much more outside can one get?!" But this is even more outside than before!! How is that possible? I shall explain. --They plan to be right up front for the 'Tech' game. I use quotes since I do not believe I have the sports authority to actually use such a casual sportsslang term. So they will have no covering above their head.-- They are sleeping in the most outside of outside places!! It's so outside that they're not inside the Fortress. Or the actual tent that we erected today. I like the shade of blue of our actual tent. It reminds me of...--my jacket. It matches SO perfectly. OMG it's like it was made to go with what I wear!--Now, we can tent in matching colors. That's so much cooler than these other people who have ugly maroon tents. Nobody wears maroon jackets. That's just repulsively repugnant. Such maroon jackets should be expunged from the face of the Earth.--I agree. Farewell kind followers. We hope you enjoyed our dual blog. :)

(Cameron James Oswalt) - 23:51

New quote from the dissenting tent next to us... "There's no such thing as being nice." Hear the hatred that exists amongst them already.

On a better note, I just gave my first tour of THE FORTRESS. It was free, but I am going to start charging only $5. An incredible deal!

(Tim Lin) - 23:70

It's actually the next day. But I didn't want to start a new post yet. So now, it's 23:70. I like the case on Robert's computer. Everybody else's Macbook has a lame glowing white apple on it. But Robert's Macbook has a glowing blue apple. It's just that much cooler. Ok that's it. Bye

Tuesday 2/02

(Esther Showalter) - 00:23

Grace til Tuesday night. Best year to tent ever.

(Laura Ezell) - 11:34

Another basketball player sighting, only I think I get more points because it involved actual verbal communication. As I was coming upstairs in Blackwell after doing my laundry (aka the bane of my existence), Mason Plumlee was coming down the stairs and asked me if we had vending machines. I replied with the affirmative and proceeded to explain where they were. I then continued up the stairs. I will no longer complain about doing laundry. (ok, that's a lie, but maybe I'll do it less vehemently.)

The Fortress gleaming in the morning sun. How noble and heroic.

(Claire McIlvenny) - 13:36

We just received another email from Zach White, Head Line Monitor, that grace has been extended to tomorrow morning due to freezing rain forecast for this evening.

I'm very sad about this fact. I miss being in the fortress.

(Tim Lin) - 13:37

I was in the Marketplace eating my lunch. Then, as I left, I saw Mason Plumlee sitting by himself like he always does. He was about to leave. He had 2 pizza crusts on his black styrofoam plate (he didn't get one of those plastic to-go boxes) and a cup that I presume was filled with water (judging by the lack of colored liquid droplets inside it). Apparently, he doesn't eat pizza crusts.

(Jonathan) - 17:35
Ok, so I'm with Claire on this one. I think "Blue Tenting" should be renamed "Invisible Tenting", since it seems quite clear that something that DOESN'T EXIST cannot possibly have color. And not sleeping in K-Ville makes me sick... literally. Studies show that sleeping inside is unhealthy, depletes the ozone layer, kills trees and contains 500 grams of trans fat. Just say no, guys.

(Robert Francis)- 20:55

I used to think I was trapped in that tent. I have come to realize now, however, that it is in the cinder-blocked walls of my dorm that form my true prison. Yes, I may have a clean room, I may be able to wear only one layer of clothes, and I MAY be able to sleep for over 6 hrs...but that doesn't mean I'm happy. I have woken up the past three nights thinking that surely I had gotten far to many hours of uninterrupted sleep. We all thought blue tenting would be easy. How wrong we were...

(Robert Francis)-21:36

Also it has been pointed out to me that our blog uses the word epic with great frequency. At least 13 times now. While this word is most appropriate, I have found synonyms that we (Lewis and Tim in particular) may find useful: heroic, larger-than-life, awesome, "freakin'" awesome, amazing, indescribably impressive, LotR-like, and soooooo cool.

(Tim Lin) - 23:58

I think from now on, my usage of the word "epic" shall be replaced with "Robert Francis-like."

~*QUOTES OF THE DAY*~

(a series of out-of-context quotes that should by no means be taken at face value)

"If you want to be Michael Gay's lover, you've gotta get with his friends." ~Cameron Oswalt

Monday 2/01

(Lewis Purcell) -16:58

We're still not in the tent. My roomate and I decided that Duke could probably make Elite 8 this year, but I'm hoping for better. Our recruits for next year are really good. I was wondering also if UNC can recover in the next four years from the terrible defeats they are suffering - I think not. I found out today that Zach White wants to read our blog - i think this thing is spiraling out of our hands. I love it. We have 5 more home games - I'm pumped - gonna be at all of them. Oh yeah, btw - we're ranked number 1 ACC.

(Nick Bodnar) - 17:42

I am here. Sorry for the delay. I was until recently under an anti-blog curse likely cast upon me by the same scoundrels that tried to destroy The Fortress (undoubtedly the losing frisbee team). anyway, i'm here now.

-Oh Captain, My Captain

(Esther Showalter) - 20:07

I'm sitting here in my room thinking about how nice it is to be wearing too many layers of clothing and actually being warm. And about how nasty it will be to read the word "Lemma" tomorrow night when we're back in the tent and I'm still doing math problems. Coach K, if we don't win on March 6th I might just throw my math book at you.

Well, no, I wouldn't, but maybe a calculator. Or an eraser.

Or maybe I'll just sit down and cry with everyone else.

Carolina, go to HECK!

*QUOTES OF THE DAY*~

(a series of out-of-context quotes that should by no means be taken at face value)

"We don't really practice throwing people into snake pits anymore." ~Professor Norberg

"Wow, that would suck." ~Robert

"I just don't really see myself getting married in less than 3 years." ~Laura

"Oh, it could happen!" ~Will Spokes & Sara Adam