A Grand Time was Had By All

Last night was the annual Law School staff holiday Party. It's the first time I've ever been invited to it, and it was fun. I got to interact with a couple of profs in a more social environment, see their families, and talk gaming with a couple of people. Good turkey, and the salad wasn't bad, but the rest of dinner was fairly regrettable. Except for the Tillamook ice cream. Awful hard to screw up Tillamook ice cream. I mean, sure, it's no Magnolia (Ice Cream of the Philippines! Try the Corn Cream flavor! Or the Surprisingly Good Purple Sweet Potato), nor is it Bluebell (a nod to the Texans in the crowd), but it's a good ice cream.

Claire and Reeta got their faces painted. And though Reeta tried really really hard to get me to do the same thing, I was able to successfully emerge with my face unpainted. In the process, I realized that I really do know what my Indian name is: Stick-in-Mud. (Trust me, it's better than my college roommate's name, "Screams-Like-A-Woman").

Just prior to the event, I got a huge distraction out of the way. I finished Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Took me about a week of good hard game play to get that done. And I'll admit I had to go through one scene a couple of times to get the ending I wanted. The one annoying thing about the ending was, unfortunately, the end sequence when they pinned a medal on my character. They kept going on about me being "the savior of the galaxy", and telling my story from the "Core to the Outer Rim". And I kept saying, out loud to the computer, "Oh, that's really not necessary".

"We'll tell the story of the Prodigal Knight"...
"Oh, I'd really rather you didn't."

"Here's the Cross of Glory"
"I assume this comes with a large cash prize...? What? No check? Okay, well, I'm taking the ship, then. And don't come knocking on the ramp next time you need the Universe saved unless you've got one of those great big cardboard checks with a lot of zeros on it. I mean, a LOT of zeros".

Jedi's gotta pay the bills, too. Know what I mean?

UPDATE: Name of Texan ice cream fixed.