My trip to Boston and Yale was fun if somewhat uneventful. Got to Boston just in time to have dinner with two Beast alums, Emily and Nnennia (while Nina couldn't be bothered to ignore her classwork for an hour). Then, I stopped by my brother's frat to wish him a Happy Birthday. As he's just back from Hong Kong and has a new desk at the Burlington office, I gave him a clock for his desk. No, not that clock, but one just as nerdy: it's an analog and has chips, capacitors, and the like for the numbers. I think he liked it. Yet another Beast alum, Monica, was nice enough to put me up for the evening.
The next day, it was off to New Haven, to see my Yale friends. We ate dinner at the usual place, Claire's: as it's both vegetarian and kosher, everyone's happy. (Oddly, all of my Yale friends except Elf are Jewish--not sure how that happened.) Turnout was good, and I got to meet Mara's new cat and her new beau, both of whom were quite friendly :) We went over to Elf's place and played Cranium, where my board game winning streak continued, though this time the deck was stacked in my favor as my team had three players (one more than the other two teams). Who knew Sam would be such a fiend at Cranium? Guess he does more than port ThinkPad fingerprint scanners to Linux all day ;) After everyone left, Elf and I made some delicious pumpkin cheesecake in her new springform pan.
Back at Princeton, Friday night included my first home-court, Division 1 basketball game, as the Princeton Tigers took on (who else?) the Yale Bulldogs at Jadwin. The game was tied 40-40 (deuce!) when Princeton went on a three point shooting bonanza. The Tigers never looked back and took the game 66-49. Their (our?) subsequent win over Brown puts us in second place in the Ivy League standings, behind Penn. We play Penn at home for the final regular season game; hopefully that game will determine whether we go to the Big Dance.
Saturday, I went back into NYC for Fordham Univ's presentation of the Vagina Monologues. All of the actresses were excellent, but the young woman who did the Vagina Workshop monologue just stole the show. Perhaps it was the fact that she actually got down on a "little blue mat," perhaps it was her British accent and the way she pronounced "clitoris" with a heavy emphasis on the second syllable, or perhaps it was just her emotional connection to the audience. Whatever the mechanism, she had complete command of the stage and the theatre. After the show, I attended a party for Sam (who had invited me, and had the role of "Happy Vagina Fact") thrown by her roommates, which was quite humorous and had an excellent gender ratio (10 women, 1 gay guy, and me).
But, alas, now term has started and I'm quite swamped. Hopefully I'll reemerge occasionally to blog.
Penn vs. Princeton. No question that Penn is #1!
We'll see about that on Tuesday, now won't we?
60-14, Penn wins. How about those apples!
That'd be 60-41...but wait! NEWS FLASH: Columbia tops Penn 59-57! Meaning a win for Princeton on 3/7 would leave Penn and Princeton tied atop the Ancient Eight standings. Must read up on the tiebreaker rules.....
According to this page, the Ivy League has an extra tie-breaker game after the regular season. Our relatively easy schedule up until the last game against Penn means that we could wind up with 2 losses going into that final game. Assuming Penn also stays to form, Jadwin Gym will be jumping on March 7th and then we'll see what's what.