moving up in the world

SPECIAL DINNER was on Saturday, a fantastic feast with the amalgamated theme «Have your twin and eat it too: Bring your fuzzy animal (or beetle) to the Grrreat Depression cuz it's the night of the Oscars but inappropriately you enter the Adult Video Awards being held next door with a premier screening of ``the inappropriate divebombing of hippos,''» compiled from inside jokes, Wilde House nuances, and general silliness. With a huge feat cooked up, the dinner was held in our living room and took the form of the ACADEMY AWARDS. I would like to thank princess Jamie for awarding me miss brazil and Allegra for sweetest heteroflexible. It was a great way to end the semester.

Then just yesterday we held the final house council of the semester in which my motion ``to rename the `social manager' position to sexmästare which means something like `social manager' in Swedish but sounds delightfully risqué in English'' passed with resounding approval. The sexmästare, part of the sexmästariet (6M) committee is the arrangeor of parties in the Swedish Nations. My Swedification of the USCA is progressing nicely... bwahaha! I am also running for board representative but offically endorsed the campaign of Allegra and Nick because ``any two people who are willing to strip to resolve their differences are people I want to have representing me.'' So, as you can see , our last house council had a great deal of silliness.

There were also room bids in which Jason pulled me into his room to fill the vacancy left by Jamie as she is moving to Chilé for a semester. (Squatter's rights, w00!) Haley's moving into Jade's room; Jade's going to Japan. Taylan is moving in with Stevie, taking the basement room, and our old room will be left... vacant! until some new people move in next semester. I like this room a lot but I think it will be fun to room with Jason up there in the North Tower.

I still have things to finish up with this semester, and I still have to arrange for next semester (ugh), but I've become newly comfortable with not applying to grad school for next year. I think it will be very good to have a year to figure out exactly where I want to go and to make the preparations for going there. For this summer I would very much like to work at Bell Labs, but I just had the amazing idea that maybe I could work at the KamiokaNDE nucleon decay / neutrino detection experiment in Japan. During Winter Break the plan is to go on a hot springs escapade with Haley (saline valley?? or maybe just Long Valley Caldera, e.g. travertine et al) and I would also very much like to make it to Washington, DC in early January to visit Michael.