Day 293: First Meeting Success!

October 20th, 2011My busy week continued with a long string of events today ultimately culminating in what I would say is a very successful FIRST meeting for UCSD Students for Ron Paul. Things got off to a bad start though as I woke up at 9:10 in the morning, ran to the restroom to brush my teeth and get ready, ran to the bus stop, and then ran to HSS after getting off at Mandeville. Through my powerful running abilities I was able to get to class only roughly 5 minutes late. After class, I met up with Barrett, Amy, and Chelsia in an effort to do some group work for COGN150. After skipping lunch I proceeded to work for a short amount of time, before heading over to Geetha’s place to hear her not practice her speech in front of me. I then proceeded to library walk to table with Elizabeth, Paul, her brother, Amy, and Josh. It was pretty fun as we got into some interesting conversations with strangers (Tuesdays and Thursdays are bad in terms of the sheer number of people passing by though). I would however also encounter the only white person in my Vietnamese class who joined, but sadly did not remember me from his class. OH WELL I GUESS HE’LL REMEMBER ME NEXT MONDAY!
After tabling was done I proceeded to Geisel for an immediate rest phase in the day. When the hour approached, I proceeded to Warren Lecture Hall to meet up with Elizabeth and Phil for the setting up of our meeting. We got a box out of her locker and set up the laptop as a record 20 people came to hear us preach. We talked a bit about our mission, gave out some free pizza and drinks, and then passed out posters for them to make. The results are as follows in my picture of the day: success! I especially like the “people who are bad at crafts support ron paul”. YEEEEE. I went home, quickly showered, quickly made fried rice, quickly ate it, quickly charged my phone, quickly washed the dishes, and quickly got ready to bus to AMC. I ended up walking, meeting up with Geetha and Rashika, and ultimately we decided to see the midnight premiere of Paranormal Activity 3. It was a pretty good movie as I was thoroughly entertained throughout most of it.