I’m back. I know I said that yesterday’s post was the last of the summer but after the events of last night I have to document my thoughts and feelings somewhere.

As everyone in the office knows, I am both wildly competetive and completely into trivia, so as a goodbye to summer trivia I went to the Marquis last night. Our team was named “the remix to admissions” and it was comprised of myself, Daria, Claire, Ella, and Ellie (the last two also being tour guides). While there was only one other team playing against us the first round was a rollercoaster. Once all the answers were read, the other team was ahead by 1 point. In the second round we made a come-back and tied up the game. It all came down to this final round. Would we win free movie tickets (the first place prize) or free popcorn (the second place prize)? Being that there were only two teams it would be embarrassing for a team of 5 to lose to a team of 3. As Pierre, the Marquis trivia emcee, read off the questions for the final round I was seriously doubting our ability to win and was beginning to resign myself to second place. After turning in our sheet, Pierre looks at both teams and says, “Considering how the answers were going that last round, exactly what I was expecting to happen happened….it was a direct tie! Both teams get free movie passes!!”

After 3 long months of waiting for free movie passes and winning trivia, it finally happened. Maybe it wasn’t the out-right win that I wanted but it doesn’t matter. IT STILL HAPPENED.

Nothing can bring me down, not even moving all my stuff across campus today…ok maybe that can bring me down but the movie ticket brings me right back up. Happy summer everyone!