"The place that I'm from"

My first day of my first business class I slipped into a blue cushioned seat in the second row of Hardacre Hall 232, the same room I would come to call the SIFE room, if I had to name it. Doyle Lucas was teaching my Business as a Profession class. The first of four classes I would go on to have with Dr. Lucas. I slipped into the seat next to Jason Clodfelder whom I had seen before, but didn't know. He recognized me from Myers and introduced himself. He seemed friendly. That was that. We probably didn't talk all that much the first year of school. As Wilbs pointed out in yesterday's comments, I didn't talk much to a lot of the Myers Hall folks. Brian Roberson - didn't know his name. Trent Palmer, just another guy. Andy Eck - the RA that had all the cool people on his side, that we didn't know.

So Ricky Lehman, Josh Campbell, RHC II and I holed up in our little Myers suite most of the semester. We hung out with Rogers some on the weekends, generally the four or five of us going out. I don't think we really made friends with the other guys in the dorm too much until a couple of months into school. I still remember it like it was yesterday. I walked down the hall and heard a comotion in Jason's room. I walked in and people were shooting and killing eachother in what I would later come to know as Chill Out in Halo. I'd played the game once or twice more to see what the XBox could do than to actually play. But these folks were having a blast. It wouldn't be long before we would start joining in these games - eventually putting James Bond aside for good and picking up Halo. Ricky however, having to work many times while we played decided it best to utilize the James Bond controls on Halo. Something that would cause us to restart occasionally in those first years as we could never remember his settings.

I never got into Hoop Warrior. I still don't know how I ever started hanging out with Brian Roberson! But many of the guys that I would come to know as friends, I met through their Halo names. We'd talk about the games in the hallway. We'd pick teams in the hallway. As the years went by the four or five Liberty Christian alums who went out on Fridays started returning to the dorms to hang out with all the guys.