Tired, but must update. :)
Nov. 22nd, 2003 02:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darcydodoI went to the bonfire rally, which was incredibly cool. Well, it was incredibly cold, too, as it happens, though there was a brief five minutes or so when the fire first got lit that it was intensely hot. Muchness of school spirit, and I think maybe I can see why going to the Big Game would actually be such fun, despite my knowing nearly as little about football as I do about cricket. Next year, perhaps. We have some very strange yells, but we also have our own Maori haka, including the wonderful tongue-display at the end. (Like in Whale Rider, remember, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thalassius?) And we had fun and hijinx with candles, some of which got blown out to reveal, still in candles, a display of the letters CAL. Couldn't see it myself, as I was standing somewhere in the center of the A, but apparently it worked. There was a shooting star, but I missed it. Curses. Best part, perhaps? They hacked Spaceballs. ("OK, first we'll do the chant Freshman speed." "No, Freshmen are slow, but not that slow. We'll do it Stanford speed." "OK, we'll do it Stanford speed first, then we'll do it Cal speed." "And then?" "Then... Ludicrous Speed!" "They've gone plaid!")
Went totaurendur's surprise birthday party following this, and discovered them watching the extended Two Towers. Why was I not surprised? ;) But anyway, the extended version is far superior to the cut version, and it works much better both as being faithful to the book (and the spirit of the book) and as a film of something other than just fight after fight after fight. But it was cold, even inside; though it was ever so much colder once I went back outside. I'm glad that I can turn up the heat here as I high as I like (currently 68), and that I have a nice fleece bathrobe and wonderful lambskin slippers.
May spend at least part of tomorrow at the Bear's Lair watching the game, drinking cheap (i.e., reduced price, not crap) beer, and eating pizza.
thalassius?) And we had fun and hijinx with candles, some of which got blown out to reveal, still in candles, a display of the letters CAL. Couldn't see it myself, as I was standing somewhere in the center of the A, but apparently it worked. There was a shooting star, but I missed it. Curses. Best part, perhaps? They hacked Spaceballs. ("OK, first we'll do the chant Freshman speed." "No, Freshmen are slow, but not that slow. We'll do it Stanford speed." "OK, we'll do it Stanford speed first, then we'll do it Cal speed." "And then?" "Then... Ludicrous Speed!" "They've gone plaid!")Went to
taurendur's surprise birthday party following this, and discovered them watching the extended Two Towers. Why was I not surprised? ;) But anyway, the extended version is far superior to the cut version, and it works much better both as being faithful to the book (and the spirit of the book) and as a film of something other than just fight after fight after fight. But it was cold, even inside; though it was ever so much colder once I went back outside. I'm glad that I can turn up the heat here as I high as I like (currently 68), and that I have a nice fleece bathrobe and wonderful lambskin slippers.May spend at least part of tomorrow at the Bear's Lair watching the game, drinking cheap (i.e., reduced price, not crap) beer, and eating pizza.
