"It didn't take your mom 25 minutes to score last night..."

I've decided that I'll start every blog out with a quote as the title. More likely than not it will be some obscure quote from a movie that I either saw or was recently reminded of. However like tonight, sometimes it will simply be something I or someone around me said. If wasn't from a movie, than it will most likely be explained in the blog.

So last weekend, the 16th-18th Penn State held their annual THON. If you don't know it's a 46-hour long (they shortened it from 48 this year, but don't get me started on that) dance marathon. It's changed homes a few times over the years but this year marked the first year it was held at the Bryce Jordan Center; Billy Joel and Elton John have performed there, together! Anyway knowing people comes in handy as I scored a tour of THON and gained access to the floor. I was down there at about hour 19, quite early on in the event and the dancers were still full of energy. As you can see from this photo I stitched together the place looks empty. That was partly because the place is huge and partly because early Saturday afternoon is not the most popular time to visit. Speaking of visitors, there was this huge campaign to get Ellen to come for the morale of the dancers because she does so much work with charities and she loves to dance. Unfortunately the committee couldn't get her. :-( Anyway, at 4:00 on Sunday the dancers sat down for the first time in nearly two days and in the minutes following, the amount that was raised was revealed to all. This year THON shattered last year's record breaking amount: the total this year was *drumroll, please* $5,240,385.17. Wow! That's more than a million more than last year! The money goes to the Four Diamonds Fund, a fund set up to benefit families of children with Cancer. I have a couple of videos up on YouTube:
PSU mens gymnastics dancing to "Men in Tights" and
video of the line dance performed every hour by the dancers

Back to this week. Friday I went to the last men's Hockey game of the season. It was bad, so bad that I felt kinda sorry for Maryland's goalie. At the end of the first period, PSU had scored twice and Maryland hadn't scored at all yet. Five minutes into the second period, Maryland scored what would be their first and only goal which prompted the quote by my ever so prim and proper sister. By the end of the night we had scored seven more times, a great way to finish off the season.

Well seeing as it's quite late now, I'm gonna head to bed and hope the ice storm forcast for tomorrow hits AFTER I get to my parents' house.