I recently streamed my situation of being burned out from school. I had a lot of frustration with not being able to do some of the Near the end of February I thought of an improvised grill.
Me and my roommates occasionally talk about doing things, but the follow-through was almost never there. I am especially bad at talking the talk and not walking the walk. This was different, it was doable. We needed a kick start. All we had was the idea of rotating meat skewed on a stick. But luckily for us we have cable. Me and my roommates were watching an episode of Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations and would you believe it, he was in Greece roasting lamb on a spit held up by cinder blocks. Walla! All we needed were a few cement blocks to prop up a stick from which we would skewer our meat slices and we would have a rotating spit. After the excitement died down we realized that method couldn't be done. We didn't have a long enough stick or metal pole.
So the next obvious option was thought up, prop an oven rack up with cement blocks. We gathered up our remaining charcoal, lighter fluid, diesel, found some cement blocks and bricks, and bought some inexpensive cuts of meat.
I tried to skewer several slabs of beef and pork ala churrasco (Brazilian barbecue) style grilling. This resulted in us eating half raw, half well done beef and some moist, grill flavored pork. A few steaks and some chicken quarters were also thrown on the grill. The chicken quarters were way too big to cook thoroughly, so next time I'm going to just use legs. 
The evening was pretty laid back. We had rice and sauerkraut to accompany the barbecue. After dinner my roommates busted out their banjo and violin and they had some duel of the banjos and some improvisation going.
After such a fun night there is a plan to do another barbecue. The plan now is to make a grill two times as large, raise the grill up a couple inches, and make a dome cover to smoke the meat.
