So if you don't know, I'm a Hall Director of one of the dorms at Auburn University. It's often an odd mix of compleate goofiness and frustration. The frustration comes from the fact that I'm 24 and I continually have to remind myself that the really cute girls in the building, well they are 18. Six years isn't that big of a deal later on in life, but for some reason it seems like a huge time span at the moment. The goofiness is way, way better. Since I'm basically a big kid I relate to everyone really well, especially when it comes down to video games...

We were all pretty bored last night and I brought the ol' gamecube into the lobby to play Mario Party with three other residents of the building. It's a great game because people who are gamers and people who don't know where the "z" button is can all get together and have some fun. As we played, the night took on a game show environment. At first, we all took characters from the game, and whenever one of them said something, we had to use our "funny-voice" to explain the rules of the game and whatnot. (I was stuck with being Toad...who ended sounding like a Munchkin with a Southern Accent).

After a while, people would pass through the lobby, stop and look at what we were doing. But then, rather then continue on with their evening, they would find a seat on one of the many couches and watch us play Mario Party. After about seven turns of the game, there were around fifteen people in the lobby all cheering on a particular player. One of the big guys even chipped in by becoming the voice of Bowser-he did a fine job, too.

People talked about a lot of different gaming subjects. One resident started comparing Fusion Frenzy to the Mario Party series-only to get lambasted by the supporters of Mario. Who knew there were that many Mario supporters in college? One of the girls playing asked about the sex of Yoshi. I stand firm on Yoshi being male, but androgynous. He can't reproduce, but he is still a he. The night went on, we played, people cheered, and it gave Saturday evening an unexpected turn for the ridiculous.-especially for a bunch of 18 year olds who normally just want to head out with their fake i.d.'s and get drunk.

And now it's Sunday and people keep asking me about what game we'll play tonite. I think I created a monster-especially since I won't be able to finish Tales of Symphonia if the cube is in the lobby being used.