On The Move…

What would a Harvard football pep rally be like without a marching band? Unthinkable.

The John Harvard statue was all dressed up for the occassion too.

Taken moments before the hefty football team came charging out of University Hall.

I was sufficiently amused by these posters for the pre-pep rally stein club that I took one of them for my room.

Where’d the week go?  It’s the weekend again, at least for me, and it’s the big Harvard-Yale weekend.  I bought a ticket to see The Game, but I don’t have very high hopes for the event given that it will be chilly, I won’t (want to) understand American football, and I hear our team is a little lacklustre this season.  So basically everything is going to hinge on the quality of the tailgate and the afterparties.  Oh well.  The Dins are singing a joint concert with a Yale group, so that should be fun, sort of.

In any case, I went to the pep rally, apparently the first one they’ve held since the mid-90s.  It was fairly fun, and made for some good photography.

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So.much.work.  Again.  In anticipation of Monday, of course, except this time I have a Very Important Paper due on Tuesday (when am I going to write this??), and my French paper (11 days overdue and counting) is completely stagnant at half done even though I know more or less the rest of what I want to write.

Time to head to bed.

PS: It’s been a pretty good week, just in case that wasn’t immediately apparent 🙂

I think this may be the most extravagant bouquet I ever bought myself. Technically I bought it for Woj, but then I decided to take a nap instead of going to see his show. Oh well. They smell almost more intoxicating than they look.

Overall I made fairly good progress with my weekend roster of things to work on… And now I head to the gym to try and finish reading for French.

So I decided to take a nap last night at about 7.30pm…  which turned into a refusal to get out of bed until about 5am this morning when I got up, fully dressed, to start doing work, of which I have quite a lot for the weekend.

On the to-do list:

– read seminar articles and write response (3hrs)
– finish editing CA article for RH (2hrs)
– read French sourcebook articles, watch assigned film and write response (5hrs)
– read Gov articles and write response (3hrs)
– read “The Things” and finish French paper (6hrs)
– finish Rawls (1hr)

Et cetera.

So I guess I’ll be ok if I can scrape together ten hours today and tomorrow to work.  Hmmn.

That was *such* a good party.  And only my second experience with a Boston club (I love that you don’t leave smelling like an ashtray).  I had oodles and oodles of fun.  But it’s too late right now to talk about the people I saw and the songs I danced to and the things we laughed at.  Maybe tomorrow, after I somehow make it to my early meeting with Prof M.

Goodnight!

Taken out of my window on the first big (freakish) snow storm we’ve had this year. It had been about 70F the day before and was 70F the day after. Notice the *green leaves* still on all the trees! The red brick building is DeWolfe – Doug’s room is the one below the bay windows that’re hidden by the trees. The tower in the background is Leverett ‘G’ tower

The concert’s over, it went fairly well – the audience reports have been fairly positive, and I’m happy with how I sounded (though I’m sure I’ll revise my opinion when I hear the live recording).

All that’s left to do is to pick up the pieces: send my tails to be cleaned, collect all the ticket IOUs, tidy my disaster-area room, drop a couple of those late-night-rehearsal-with-junk-food pounds and play catch-up with my class assignments and required reading.

Starting now.

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And just round the corner: Harvard-Yale weekend at Yale, a couple of days in New York (if the contract pans out) and off to Thanksgiving in Maine with Ryan,  I just can’t wait.