Interview with Kenny.

Got this from Kenny

The Rules

1. Leave me a comment saying, “Interview me.”
2. I will respond by asking you five questions, I get to pick the questions
3. You will update your journal with the answers to the questions
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions

 

Here we go:

1)    You have the lowest purity score of anyone I know, how the hell did you put up with my oppressed, overly religious wackiness in college?

Actually, refraining from physically and violently removing your head from your shoulders and drinking your blood in ritualistic reverie was probably the hardest thing I’ve ever managed to accomplish… 

But seriously, my sister was a Jehovah’s Witness and you were SO cool in comparison.  You were very opinionated, but extremely tolerant and open minded.  You retained the ability to listen and discuss rather than just say, “accept it” as many others have in the past.  I think the fact that you actually possess intelligence (and use it) was a contributing factor.  That and you got me a great job w/ as a computer consultant!

Oh yeah, that and roller-blading at 2AM on a Thursday morning shouting/singing “The Scotsman” song through campus helped as well.

2) Yes, I'm recycling this question, but I'm sure you'll have a different favorite this.. What's your absolute favorite memory of living on the 4th floor at Darkside? Or barring that... your absolutely favorite memory that is fit for public consumption. :)

OH GOD!  There are SOOOO many!  Operation Coyote-Arm, “The Juice is loose!!!!”, condiment fights/sliding contests, Roof Testing, “Mortal Combat!!!!”  (I have photos to prove this!) And soooooo many more.  But On the spur of the moment, here she is:

[For those of you who do not know, I was the Residential Advisor (RA) for the 4^th floor at Parkside at the University of Southern California]

After a gruelingly long day, I step into the elevator alone…  It slowly crawls upwards towards my waiting couch.  Floor 1, 2, 3 the cubical slows, the pale light making me even more exhausted…  Then it comes to a stop, and the doors open and I hear “Woosh…” just like in Star Trek… (Obviously an added sound effect interjected by someone on the other side)  And what do my eyes see, but the vast majority of my residents reenacting the bridge of the Star Ship enterprise, using all of MY FURNITURE as the props. 

They all had a position and acted as if I weren’t even there.  Brian was sitting in the captain’s chair barking orders, and not a one of them broke character.  The entire hallway in front of me was filled with people and props.  I was totally stunned.  That is the only word that can describe it.  I just stared, half awestruck and half trying to assess what I was witnessing.  Then again, “Woosh”… and the doors closed.  Called back to the ground floor and reality by another bunch of weary students.

A second after the doors close my brain has a moment to wrap around what it had just observed, I loose it.  I bust out laughing!  Hysterically actually.  I got down to the ground level barely breathing (to the astonishment and what I can only describe as partial horror and fear of the waiting throngs below…)  All I can get out is, “You have got to see this”.  They board in trepid anticipation…  Finally the small box begins its weary assent.  1, 2, 3…  and creeping to a halt I say, Just wait, these guys are nuts”…  The doors open to……..  An empty hallway.  Brian (Captain of the aforementioned starship) walks by the elevator like nothing has happened had says, “Hey Kody”.

What?  Where?  How did…?  WTF?!?!!?  I bolt out in an attempt to catch the perps returning the furniture to my room…  All in place.  Nothing out of the ordinary. 

Damn guys, that was GOOD!

3) You've got some of the greatest stories. Tell me a _funny_ story from Iraq.

Well, one late afternoon while on duty, a 22 foot long rocket landed about 200 yards away.  It shook the foundation like a short, violent earthquake.  The funny part is I actually witnesses a Lance Corporal (E-3) push away from his desk, leap into the air and turn in one smooth motion; then he actually proceeded to do a Scooby-Do!  His feet began to run in place while still coming down; and to make it better, it continued for about three steps after he made contact with the ground.  Then he was gone like a flash!  All before anyone else had turned around!  It was absolutely hilarious to watch.

Another one is very quick.  We had two stray dogs on the base we kept around to keep the rodent population down (that in-turn kept the snake population down –no cats, the snakes and Camel Spiders would have eaten them).  Well, one was a boy, the other a girl…  and one day they got a little frisky.  Well, it turned out they actually got stuck together, tail to tail like a push-me-pull-you.  (I have photo evidence of this)  They were like that for over an hour.  Doc wouldn’t let us pull them apart as we might “Damage” them.  Ah the price of love…

4) Everyone tells us that we will end up just like our parents. Is there anything that you are afraid you might pass along to your son? :)

Oh God yes!  Everything…  But especially my driving and studying habits!

5) Tell me abut the first time you met Jenny and your first date.

The first time I met Jenny was just after I got to Pensacola.  I moved in with Janel (My ex-Girlfriend (but still friend) at the time) because she was having trouble making rent.  So I went to a school barbeque with her at the University of West Florida.  When I was introduce to her she was laughing at a frat boy who was trying to hit on her and impress her by explaining how much he could drink.  Dude, this is grad school…  Yeah... 

She and Janel were really good friends.  That might have had something to do with the fact that they were the only two level headed and logically driven people in the school.  That and they were both from Boston!  I think they might have been the only two New Englanders under the age of 900 in the Florida Panhandle. 

Now the first date part is rather hard, as we hung out a lot, but were not exactly dating.  In fact we didn’t want to date because the issue with Janel being my x and her friend…  (Yeah, leave it to a guy to screw that one up).

Well, you can’t stop the train that is love.  I remember her mom coming out and we all went out to breakfast.  Mind you this is all before ANYTHING had happened.  After they left, her mom asked her “So what’s with you two?  I’ve only seen chemistry like that in the movies”.  Or something to that effect.  Well, some time after that, in the parking lot of the same restaurant, as we were saying goodbye, I just kissed her.  I don’t know why or how, it just happened.  And it was so right.  A little later I called my mother and said, “Mom, I’ve only know this girl a short while, but I know she’s the one”.  It is exactly the feeling I knew I was waiting for.  It was total self-assurance that this was it.  Like Rome and Juliet or Wesley and Buttercup.  I just knew…