Oh brother
I got an email earlier in the week from UGA Food Services, the subject title read “Confection Connection Diner.” I recognized the email as part of UGA’s monthly special event for March. Every month the food services team plans and hosts a themed dinner in all four of the dining halls. Last month, for example, they held a Mardi Gras event including a DJ, stage lights, a crowded costume table where UGA students were making their own Mardi Gras masks and head-ware, and various food lines all with Mardi Gras themed foods, including home made French Eclairs.. boy were they good.
This month, however, the dining hall put on even more of a spectacular event. Personally, I think they outdid themselves, but then again, what do I know? I’ve only been a student here for two months and counting. Who knows what kind of events they have hosted!
Anyways, back to yesterday, The Confection Connection night was a “celebration of candy and sweets.” But don’t let this quote fool you, the dining halls had way more than just candy. The “real” food menu included, cinnamon spiced sweet potato bisque, three sweet pepper salad, mint sugar snap peas, and to top it off, (my favorite) pan seared filet mignon with caramel-brandy mushroom sauce.
Once you’ve tried your share of these entrees, you’d think you’d call it a night, right? Not at UGA. Try your way over to the candy station. Pick your sweet poison among gummy bears, king-sized laffy-taffies, UGA colored M&Ms, fruity Tootsie rolls, pixiestix, and other gummies that looked sour-patch like. Once you’ve got a cup or two of these, head over to the smoothy station and get a cup of the homemade peppermint chocolate chip smoothie. As you fill your tray up, walk over to the caramel apple station, and pick up a hand-dipped caramel apple, dipped right in front of you by the dining hall staff. But don’t forget, right past this, as you continue to walk towards your seat, are three different chocolate fountains, one fountain flowing with dark chocolate, the second with milk chocolate, and the third with white chocolate. Grab a toothpick or five and stab your favorite fruit, sliced fresh on endless platters surrounding the fountains - strawberries, cantelope, honeydew melon, pineapple, and (my favorite) kiwi. You can either slide these slices of fruit underneath the fountain, or just place them on your tray, whichever you like. I just took about four whole kiwis, “un-chocolatted”, back to my seat to enjoy their kiwi-juiciness. When you get to your seat, you’ll notice a center piece on the table holding gum balls and giant size lollipops, with four or five balloons holding it all together.
Once you have all these, it’s probably a good idea to head to your seat, because this tray is going to be quite the heavy one. Looking back on it, it’s probably best that you use more than one tray. But when you’ve finished devouring your confection themed entrees and sweets, don’t go just yet! Head over to all the excitement behind the candy apples and head to the pinata station! That’s right, college kids being spun around and blindfolded are then told to “swing away” and the dangling paper mache animals filled with even more sweets and candies.
This was just a description of one of the four dining halls that hosted the confection connection dinner last night. Major props to the UGA Food Services staff for going all out on these events, and continuing to provide excellence to UGA in their daily endeavors to feed and fuel UGA’s students and staff. It’s no wonder why the UGA Food Service is regarded as the top in the nation, year in and year out. Let the big dawg eat!
Shade and I ate our bellies away. We were so incredibly stuffed by the end of our two hour dining hall adventure. We proceeded to head back and nap for two hours as our bodies digested all that was UGA’s confection connection night. Man oh man, and Shade will totally agree with me on this, that food ROCKED!
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SO stoked, as today is Sheida’s 20th birthday! Happy birthday to my oh so stellarest Sheida!
(To Sheida: I hope you don’t mind the picture! I couldn’t resist!)
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Well.. I had my first UGA indoor game last night. The game was pretty fun. 6 vs 6 including the goalkeepers. We won 8-4, putting us at 2-0 in group play. (I was sick last Thursday so I didn’t play). The only annoying thing is that the game kicked off at 10 PM, and finished around 11. That’s super late considering I had an 8 AM class this morning! Oh well, as long as we keep winning! We’ve got a pretty solid team, so we should keep doing well. We have two more group games, and then based on our standings, we will get a seed for the single elimination campus wide tournament.
In other news, we talked about and debated the court case Roe vs Wade this morning in my political science breakout. Boy did that get my blood boiling! All people are entitled to their opinions, but it’s so hard to think this on an issue that just gets under my skin!
Off to home this weekend for Sheida’s birthday on Saturday and the MUSE concert with my Dad. Very stoked!
Gotta go to class now, happy Friday everyone.
Went to the UGA baseball home opener vs Presbyterian last Wednesday with Shade :)
We won.
The 2010 Quiksilver Pro Australia.
The end of February means one thing for the surfing professionals around the world - the offseason is over, and it’s time for the world tour to start again. I imagine that, if they aren’t already there, the likes of Kelly Slater, Mick Fanning, Joel Parkinson, and my personal favorite, Dane Reynolds, are arriving in Queensland, Australia for the first ASP (Association of Surfing Professionals, basically the PGA Tour of Surfing) event of the year, the Quiksilver Pro Australia, which begins on Saturday. (Ironically, two of those surfers I named are actually FROM Queensland, Australia, which is nicknamed The Gold Coast, do you know which two?)
I would love to one day see an ASP event live as I dig my toes in the sand, the announcer blaring over the loudspeakers on the shore. The ASP actually has an official orthopedic surgeon, who travels with the tour, every single stop of it, all around the world.. that’s not a sweet job or anything..
Anyways, back to reality, I will just have to catch the Quiksilver Pro’s LIVE webcast of the event this weekend and next week, no big deal! Speaking of orthopedic surgeons, that leads me to talking about medicine, and more specifically where I currently am, premedicine.
I went to the UGA premed forum yesterday afternoon for an hour and a half lecture by a guest physician who talked about his personal experiences with malpractice. I feel like I learned so so much. I didn’t lose focus the entire hour and a half, everything from his talks about the malpractice process, to (especially) the details of what was going on in the operating room in some of his surgeries (he was an Anesthesiologist) captivated my attention to extreme amounts. I can’t wait for the next forum next Tuesday, it will be on private practice vs large corporation practices of medicine.
Anywho.. I must be going now, sorry for the rather short update, but I have class in six minutes! Weather and climate, yummy. I will catch ya later, very soon!
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-angels15-2010feb15,0,5206224.story
I like these.