guilty pleasures
Boxes packed today: 1 (full of stuff to give to Dave and EnglishHelen).
Temperature: 73 degrees, and hopefully rising.
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Went to the End of the World party yesterday, traditionally held on the night after the last exam of the year. This was the third End of the World party I've been to, which is rather sad: but on the other hand it has helped me to realize that leaving Darden is maybe not literally the End of the World.
Because of the free bar, the place was heaving like a rugby scrum. I would not have lasted long had it not been for running into the Duncanadian. It was nice to see him. He's just got back from an exchange to a b-school in Barcelona for a quarter, and was telling us about the "Multi-Culti" they have there: their equivalent of Darden's International Food Festival.
I should explain that Darden's IFF, as with virtually every Darden social event, is sadly handicapped by the very heavy handed rules at UVA about alcohol consumption. It is rare for alcohol to be permitted anywhere on university owned grounds (even though we are all over 21) and those that are, are limited to plastic cups of watery Budweiser and Miller Lite, served by the director of student affairs and her sidekick. In fact, there was a major witchhunt following an IFF two years ago when an unidentified guy was seen allegedly urinating over a wall into the grass. With the tact and finesse we have come to expect from Darden, the school threatened to ban all alcohol from all school events ever again.
Barcelona's "Multi-Culti" however, is all about the booze. The Mexican table had tequila, the Croatian had a backpack full of grappa, and apparently the Spanish had a dartboard. The area your dart landed in dictated what bizarre regional drinking feat you would be challenged to complete. In the Duncanadian's case, this was drinking cider out of a five feet long tube. If this had been at Darden, it would have been iced tea...
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PubHound's blog is all about guilty pleasures this week. Let's get them all out into the open. Here are my top five.
1) Watching six or more Dawson's Creek episodes back to back on DVD.
2) Lounging round in bed at the weekends cackling at This American Life on the radio.
3) Ordering nice underwear online.
4) Eating an entire bag of lychees in one go.
5) Reading a whole book in one go, no stopping for anything.
And yours?
Temperature: 73 degrees, and hopefully rising.
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Went to the End of the World party yesterday, traditionally held on the night after the last exam of the year. This was the third End of the World party I've been to, which is rather sad: but on the other hand it has helped me to realize that leaving Darden is maybe not literally the End of the World.
Because of the free bar, the place was heaving like a rugby scrum. I would not have lasted long had it not been for running into the Duncanadian. It was nice to see him. He's just got back from an exchange to a b-school in Barcelona for a quarter, and was telling us about the "Multi-Culti" they have there: their equivalent of Darden's International Food Festival.
I should explain that Darden's IFF, as with virtually every Darden social event, is sadly handicapped by the very heavy handed rules at UVA about alcohol consumption. It is rare for alcohol to be permitted anywhere on university owned grounds (even though we are all over 21) and those that are, are limited to plastic cups of watery Budweiser and Miller Lite, served by the director of student affairs and her sidekick. In fact, there was a major witchhunt following an IFF two years ago when an unidentified guy was seen allegedly urinating over a wall into the grass. With the tact and finesse we have come to expect from Darden, the school threatened to ban all alcohol from all school events ever again.
Barcelona's "Multi-Culti" however, is all about the booze. The Mexican table had tequila, the Croatian had a backpack full of grappa, and apparently the Spanish had a dartboard. The area your dart landed in dictated what bizarre regional drinking feat you would be challenged to complete. In the Duncanadian's case, this was drinking cider out of a five feet long tube. If this had been at Darden, it would have been iced tea...
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PubHound's blog is all about guilty pleasures this week. Let's get them all out into the open. Here are my top five.
1) Watching six or more Dawson's Creek episodes back to back on DVD.
2) Lounging round in bed at the weekends cackling at This American Life on the radio.
3) Ordering nice underwear online.
4) Eating an entire bag of lychees in one go.
5) Reading a whole book in one go, no stopping for anything.
And yours?
posted by alranson | 11:32 PM
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Will post my answers over the weekend, but in the interim.
Buying shoes (ideally, expensive Italian hooker shoes)
Times crossword, Su Doku puzzles
Internet / LJ
Low-fat Horlicks (not because it's low-fat, but because it can be made up with hot water rather than hot milk, which would be far too much like hard work). Failing this, dry Horlicks powder will do.
Sushi (ideally eaten whilst reading a trashy novel)
Creme de la Mer
1. Crumbling ready salted crisps into my girlfriend's mouth while she's asleep.
2. Posting individual menthol twist sweets into my elderly neighbour's letterbox during cold spells.
3. Eating After Eights at 7:32pm.
4. Greet Carol Singers by playing Iron Maiden's "Bring Your Daughter to The Slaughter" at full blast through a massive amp in my porch.
5. Planting a bright flower or plant at night in the middle of unkempt unsightly gardens.
You know, I have dedicated far too much time trying to work out which one of my friends would still have a girlfriend after crumbling ready salted crisps into her mouth while sleeping, and I give up. But I like your list, whoever you are.
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