On The Move…

At the Game (20 Nov 2005), originally uploaded by J Y.

I regret not taking more pictures… like at the concert after-party, at the tailgate(s) and in the bleachers. But I guess I was mostly distracted by dancing, looking for food and having the game patiently explained to me, respectively, to be shutter-happy. The hat I got form the Seneca tailgate 🙂

From left: me, Meghan, Ryan

So in case it’s not already clear, this weekend was spent in New Haven not doing the urgent work I have due in 36 hours.

Pomp (17 Nov 2005), originally uploaded by J Y.

But missing just a touch of circumstance. There were powerful revolving searchlights hired to give the event a festive, carnival-meets-the-Oscars atmosphere.

And the band played on (17 Nov 2005), originally uploaded by J Y.

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

All togged out (17 Nov 2005), originally uploaded by J Y.

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

Here they come! (17 Nov 2005), originally uploaded by J Y.

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

It’s true… (17 Nov 2005), originally uploaded by J Y.

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 🙂

A Bliss of Peonies (12 Nov 2005), originally uploaded by J Y.

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!