Marrieta College

On the morning of 9/26 we dropped off our amazing GMC Elephant at the Minneapolis airport, flew to Columbus, Ohio, and picked up a vastly inferior Kia Sportage. I'm all jaded now; no rental car will ever impress me again.

Marrieta is in Ohio right on the border of West Virginia, and we arrived with no problems for Parents' Weekend. The problem occurred during set-up: I noticed I was missing the receiving end of the wireless presenter remote I use to advance the slides in the show. The school didn't have one, so I had to go out in search of a new one for purchase. I went to Wal-Mart. Nope. None at Radio Shack, either. I drove over the river, into West Virgina, where I went to the Office Depot, the mall Radio Shack, and a different Office Depot, where I bought something that wasn't billed as being compatible with my system. I bought it anyway.

The venue, which looked as though it had been a grocery store once upon a time, (and was called the Gathering Spot, known as the G Spot of the student body), had an amazing mural that was straight out of the '80s, and in the main rec room, where we were performing, was a Ms. Pac Man machine that Jonathan totally forgot to play, despite the organizers having given him a quarter. We went out to eat Mexican food with girls from the Activities Council, and allowed them to feed us- and by 'us', I mean 'me'- many many Margaritas. The things we'll do for our art.

Oh, and five minutes after we took our final bows, and were packing up our gear, guess what I found?

Right. You knew already that that's when I'd find it.