Hey guys. My birthday was this weekend, but thanks to great roommates and the band, it sort of lasted the entire 3.5 day weekend. I had a good time on the noisy [read: something else] bus on the way up, and there was a really fun party once I got to Cornell. Actually, part of it was really confusing. This one guy in the Cornell band wanted me to play this game called “lumberjack”, a mercy game. It wasn’t going so well, because he really wanted to hit me hard, and I didn’t have much feeling in my hands, so the game wasn’t going anywhere until they wanted to get a bunch of Harvard bandies to play this game called “Three Man”. Here are the rules:
http://www.webtender.com/handbook/games/threeman.game
I’m pretty sure they were making these rules up to screw with us. Also, they didn’t tell us the rules ahead of time, they just yelled at us when we didn’t know them.
Anyway, on a more wholesome note, when I arrived back home on Saturday night at 10:30, the rest of the blandfill greeted me with a Razmatazz birthday cake from Finale, and we ate it while watching an episode of Firefly and the newest episode of the Office. I think the most exciting part of the weekend was last night, when we all went out to an Ethiopian restaurant, called Adis Red Sea. It was fantastic; Tom found it over the summer from the Unofficial Guide to Harvard (who knew it was useful?). They didn’t really have plates, in the traditional sense; the food was placed on pieces of bread that could be used to eat the food in lieu of utensils. It was also surprisingly filling, considering the food seemed to be all contained in bowls the same size as small cereal bowls. I’m a bad food writer, clearly, considering that’s all I can think of writing.
Right now we’re waiting for Tom to come back so that we can eat the birthday cake my mom ordered for me while we watch the next episode of Firefly. Life is good.