Extraordinary Chickens Will Rule The World

Hello everyone, I am alive!
Hello hello hello.

MIT seems to have continued to be MIT since I left. Classes have not started yet (my two-week machining class starts tomorrow at 9am, but proper subjects lie far, far away at the beginning of February), but the rest of the mad, peculiar status quo seems to have been retained.

1. This weekend was...Mystery Hunt weekend! Mystery Hunt is basically a big, complicated puzzle hunt that pretty much the entire MIT campus participates in. It involves solving various puzzles that involve the typical word games/cryptic symbols/lists of names or dates or photos or 1970s Broadway Musicals that are linked in obscure ways, and also ones that involve cooking/dressing up as various things/giant scavenger hunts around Boston etc. There are about 50 MIT teams, some living-group affiliated, some not. I was hunting (unofficially) with the team from Random Hall, basically on a whim after my friend Josh asked me jokingly if I was on their time and I decided to answer 'YES'.

( Mystery Hunty Hunt Hunt )

2. Also - it is snowing! In a wonderfully pretty way. Being from a place where precipitation is rather crystally challenges, I was obviously very ( snap happy )

3. Gig season has started, yay! Yay for using my reduced rent and food money to, er, pay for $8 tickets to reasonably unknown bands at the Middle East. This week me and the gig crew went to see The Rosebuds, a sort of folkier version of the Subways. They were pretty good, and from them I must post one ubiquitous ( crappy gig picture )

4. I continue to have friends that put up with me, bless 'em, and until classes start we are actually able to *gasp* see each other. Here, before the Rosebuds, ( we go to Toscaninis )

Current Mood: bouncy
Current Music: the sweet sounds of Turchwad. "That's gorgeous..." "It's a poodle!"

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