Recap of events upon resettlement in Cambridge:
- Guy on hall and I decide that a tarantula would be an awesome pet. After locating a boutique at which such arachnids are retailed, we embark into Boston at 6:00 for the Pet Shop that closes at 8:00. Go the wrong way off of the T, end up 2 miles away. The freezing rain is rather a deterrent from walking there, so we wait for the bus due to come in 10 minutes. Time=t=7:20. After 50 minutes of waiting in the freezing rain, we figure the Pet Shop is probably closed, free food is being distributed at Senior Haus, and those spiders are escaping nowhere. We go home, but should go back sometime soon... They also sell hedgehogs...
- After harassing my roommate by waking her up with a Red Snapper (frozen and deceased, obviously, and obtained thusly from Haymarket) in her face, we decide we need to do something nice for her. The same guy and I go the next morning to Burrick's chocolate in Harvard Square, the best chocolate place in Boston, and buy her a large dark chocolate hot cocoa, reheat it at the dorm, and give it to her when she wakes up. Somewhat nicer than a fish. It's sometimes fun to be decent.
- Went to a Celtic music festival in Harvard Square. Had jigs and reels on the brain for the rest of the weekend.
- Played in a Guild game, Athens, written by my friend and an MIT blogger, where I was cast as a feministic, orphaned, double-dealing, pyromaniac Ithacan diplomat. I set half the city on fire, made Sparta and Athens go to war, and resurrected the avatar of Athena. I then went home for some soup. I heart Assassin's Guild.
- Been working with a Mech E. lab, where I basically get to use cool tools and learn about crazy devices. Just finishing a safety cover for a mill, about to help another UROP with stress gauges, and still looking forward to using the 3-D printer...
- This last weekend was MYSTERY HUNT, a three-day long puzzle-solving marathon where sleep and hygeine runs low and adrenaline (cough) runs high. My longest stretch was from noon to 0930. I enjoyed it when it was fast-paced and invigorating, which was most of the time because I signed on with Project Electric Mayhem, a team full of alums and cruft and competent folk from tEp and 4th WAR. There were also points where the insanity of the puzzles was simply and utterly depressing. Don't believe me? http://web.mit.edu/puzzle/www/hunthistory.htm Look at the solutions, and brace your mind.
- Coming soon: a 10-day long Guild game! I'm not playing, since I'll be out of town for the last three days (the equivalent of sitting through the entire Lord of the Rings film series, then leaving right before the battle of Pelenorr Fields. Or learning basic Calculus, but dropping the class before integration. Or learning woodworking, without picking up a power tool. Or... I'm out of examples), but I agreed to help in an NPC (non-player character) capacity. This basically means that I'll be the monster the players must fight, or the random town person who is slaughtered at the meeting, or a general informant. The plot of this game is Thebes, so it takes place in Ancient Egypt, where the pharoh has just kicked the bucket and left no apparent heir. Battles and treachery and overarching selfishness ensues!
- Along those same lines, I shaln't be in town at the end of the month. Why, you ask? SNOWBOARDING, I say! SUNDAY RIVER! SNOW! GLORIOUS! ESG, my study group is having a three-day trip up to Maine, staying in a house close by, and egaging in maximum redonk-o-liciousness (Ashley Nash's word, upon seeing the trail map).
- Also, LSC, a organization that began by wooing famous venerable heads to come and lecture but now shows popular movies because it's more profittable, is doing a SCI-FI marathon, including Jurassic Park, Dr. Who, and Planet of the Apes. Can we say, "WIN!"
That concludes my tirade and wankery. Thanks for listening, and stay in touch!
