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So, then, here (LJ-cut for obvious reasons) are all the house minutes from first quarter this year. (Why is the entry protected? Well, just in case. Regardless, once Appie gets her stuff together, all this will presumably be public anyway; I'll set both these to public, and, assuming Appie actually does her job, stop making these entries. Hopefully I won't be able to 3rd quarter anyway.)

As before, these are unaltered, except that the heading announcing what week it is has been bolded, so you can tell where they begin and end.

As last time, much of this may make more sense if read in the context of entries from around that time, but chances are you'll want to just skip straight to the Weenie of the Week stories anyway. Though I don't know that we had many good ones last quarter.

There was no house meeting week 9 because that was Thanksgiving, and of course there's never one finals week.

So...

WEEK 1 HOUSE MEETING MINUTES

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Announcements: Due to weather, apple picking moved to Sunday.

Also, coed bathrooms are go.

Elections!

Sarah Entreken has volunteered for Kitchen Wench.

Kate Harney wants to be on the Dining Hall Committee. Nobody else does.
Kate Harney is the Tufts dining hall representative.

We need a PSAC person! Someone calls for Chris Powers! The mob calls
for Maria! She does not want it, however. Chris Powers volunteers and
takes it.

Also, we now have a Movie Triumvirate consisting of Dan, Amelia, and
Wilson. Send them a list of the movies you have.

Mark is President (uncontested); he takes over from here.

He makes a speech announcing Tufts's superiority. Meet 'n' Greet.

Amendments! Most (the new positions) are accepted, but the change of
"Kitchen Wench" to "Kitchen Facilitator" is rejected.

Vice President! Chris vs. Ginny! Speeches!

Ginny likes to make cakes and things. Kate points out that she is very
good at this.

Chris, on the other hand, made Jello pudding cake. No, it wasn't
optimal, but he tried! Also, he brought chips and salsa!

Emily Tancer is treasurer uncontested, I am secretary uncontested. The
crowd cheers for me.

Girl Alex is uncontested social chair! "She tried to get us to shoot
people." She will be assisted by Sadie, who attempts to recite the
Gettysburg Address.

Appie is uncontested webmaster, Kitchen Wench is already Sarah Entreken.
IM rep is Kate, Colleen is IHC rep even though she's not here yet.

Condom Tsar! Ian vs. Aaron vs. Sam vs. Jacob (a surprise candidate)!

Aaron stays up late, his roommate sleeps heavily. He doesn't drink. He
will always be available to fulfill your sexual needs (or desires?).

Ian points out that Jacob did nothing as Condom Tsar, and it was he who
finally got the condoms, after a quarter and a half of unprotected sex.
"If I can do that unelected, imagine what he can do elected."

Sam points out that people should check their email so they're not
elected for things that they don't want to be elected for.

Jacob actually compares himself to a condom in that he will protect
himself (was this supposed to say "the house"? Oh well).

Colin says condoms should be called "cossacks".

Ian: But then the cossacks would be doing whoever you're doing.
Jacob (pointing to Ian): Do you really want *this* as your Condom Tsar?

Girl Alex is uncontested Condom Tsarina.

House Cheerleader: Aaron vs. Sara Abarbanel!

Sara's not here, but Aaron doesn't want to be cheerleader and says to
vote for Sara.

Social Service Coordinator: Antonia vs. Leslie!

They don't want to fight each other! Aw... last-minute amendment so
they can do it together.

What about PTC rep? Wilson volunteered by email, the mob announces
Colin to be one, he accepts, saying that following Rosseau, he must
follow the will of the crowd, but he'll need to be reminded. Laura also
volunteers.

Birthday Faeries are Eve, Lulu, Colin, and Ginny.

Wait! Sara is here! Now she can give a speech!

We practice the ancient Tufts House cheer: "WHO YOU WITH?" "TUFTS
HOUSE!" That is her speech.

Hilary has an announcement! IM Volleyball! (Marissa insists Flag
Football is better.) Email Hilary for Volleyball!

Blake has more announcements! South Side Bike Trip, Saturday at 10;
Midnight Soccer tonight, actually at midnight this time.

Antonia wants to talk about some serious, defensive, elbow-in-the-nose
strategies. Blake points out the benefits of having an actual ball.

Mark announces house dues - $10... no, wait! Dave announces that it's
gone up to $20. Give it to Tancer sometime.

Antonia: There is a march and rally for affordable housing in the
neighborhood this Saturday.

Sara Abarbanel: If you want to support Chicago theater, uh... I didn't catch
this. Oh, she's just promoting a play she just saw. I really don't
need to add this. It's not a big deal. And her name is spelled without
an 'h'.

Appie wants a new pingpong table. Sadie wants to know about TANSTAAFL;
it will be open in a few weeks.

Blake: There is a big boy's - er, men's soccer game Saturday at Carnegie
Mellon.

Kate: Tomorrow is the RSO fair! Go and join the sailing club, don't
join crew!
Ginny: Also do Aikido and Women's Lacrosse!
Mark: Go, they're closing streets for it!

Sarah M* wants you to sign a petition for Darfur divestment.

Maria wants you to vote for her, and also for the Penny Party, which is
also for divestment. Why is it called that? Because they're going to
spend every penny! That's generally not a good thing...

Eve wants everyone's birthday... oh, the RHs have that. Nevermind.

Harold and Kumar, Saturday at 8! (With White Castle!) RHs' apartment.

Flag Football: Speak to Mark, Appie, or Jason, first practice Monday at
6.

WEENIE OF THE WEEK!

Dan nominates Supriya for stapling a thumb.

Wai Lee: *That's* what the band-aid was!

The crowd has a mixed reaction; Mark points out that Weenie of the Week
is normally *funny*. Charlotte thinks it's funny!

Sarah A nominates Peter for falling asleep on her bed with his physics
book on his chest, moving up and down with his breath.

Kenneth nominates Hilary. So they're returning home from an
all-you-can-drink, all-you-can-eat, and Hilary, quite drunk, attempts to
go to sleep in a gutter and hits on a homeless guy. Also Mark is
nominated for Hero for rescuing them.

Sarah Entreken is nominated for Hero for volunteering for Kitchen Wench.

Also, the girl who put up with Chris Powers, watching a movie for him,
is nominated for hero.

Hilary wins Weenie, Sarah wins hero.

Winners! Ginny is VP, Aaron is Condom Tsar, Sarah is House Cheerleader.
Yaaay! You know who Social Service Chairs are. House meeting ends.


WEEK 2 HOUSE MEETING MINUTES

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Ginny has a house snack, it's... what?

Blake has 3 announcements:
1. Midnight soccer tonight, leaving at 11:30
2. She is doing the Rocky Horror Picture Show... what, all by herself?
Give her $10 if you want to go.
3. She will be showing Serenity in her room tomorrow, and will also
bring out her 3-D Sydney Opera House puzzle.

Bill announces something that I missed.

We've been invited to a participate in a diversity and community
roundtable series... we'll be watching the movie Crash, Saturday at 4,
and then about 7 a discussion about it.

IKEA trip on Saturday, bus leaves at 1, we'll get there about 1:45,
we'll be back by 6 - $5 to go. Also there is IM Flag Football.

Saturday at 11 AM there is a men's Flag Football game against the Red
Army (Alper House). We can certainly do this because we've done it,
waking up at 9 AM, the day after a giant party. Of course, the other
team only showed up with 4 people, while we had 18.

Movie night Saturday - the movie is Election.

Dan: What happened to Barbarella?
Dave: I've seen it 5 times, didn't get through the whole thing... the
fifth time I did, and it was like... wah wah... I don't think it would
sustain your interest.

Chris really likes Wikipedia, he's completely serious. He was addicted
to it this summer.

A vote is taken, Election vs. Barbarella; Election wins, and Barbarella
will be shown afterward for the hardcore.

House Associate applications have to be in by Sunday!

Emily Tancer reports! She is not buying shoes.

There is an RM study break tomorrow (Friday) at 4:30.

Pay your house dues! $20! To Tancer! Or be considered members of
Shorey!

So what's gonna be on the T-shirt? (Also, go to Tancer and select your
size.) Last year's was bad. Let's do same as last year, with the same
names! Also, that would be too many names. We could have either
"TUFTS" or "TUFTS HOUSE" on the front. The former can be confusing, as
we do not go to school in Boston.

Sadie: On the front, "TUFTS HOUSE", on the back, "Who you with?"

Emily likes it. But email suggestions to the listhost, and we'll vote
on them next week.

Flag Football is extremely important; first game for men is 11, co-ed is
at 3, meet in the lounge at 2:30.

Team names: Men's is "Tufts Musical Robot", coed is "3 O'Clock Tufts".

Is 4 during the daylight or 6 in the dark better? Light beats dark.
OK... new plan. At 4:45 we raid the RMs and steal all their food,
*then* we practice.

Colleen reports on IHC: there is a tug-of-war thingy on homecoming day.
We have homecoming? Yes we do, don't kill Colleen over it. It is the
14th at 11 AM. Tell Colleen if you want to do it. Also, if you have a
problem with transportation, just talk to her.

Alex and Sadie, Social Chairs, will be putting up a suggestion box.

Also, if we go to the symphony, we get student discount tickets. And
get those valuable back seats.

Kate has an announcement! Go to http://athletics/ and click on "IM
sports" to get a list of all the IM sports; if you want to start a team,
email the listhost and get people, get their names and ID numbers, and
you can figure out the rest yourself, there's a sign-up form online.
However, if you do this, you'll have to be the manager and go to
meetings. But if you have questions, you can always ask Kate.

There's a deposit you have to make, but it varies; for Backgammon it's
only $2!

Alex will explain about subsidies! Listen if you want money! If you
want to go somewhere or do something with a bunch of people with the
house, you can go the next house meeting and ask (or ask the previous house
meeting...) - you must name a specific amount to be reimbursed for.
Reimbursements come from the house money. The more people you have, the
more likely a subsidy is, so announcing it beforehand helps a lot.

Ian proposes a question and potential vote: Does IKEA sell microwaves?
No, they don't. Ian proposes getting a new microwave, and that somebody
be put in charge of getting it. Getting just the plate would help, but
a new microwave would be better. This will be voted on next house
meeting when Ian has a price. He will not scare people off with stories
about stomach acid this time!

The Social Service Chairs announce that there will be a Social Service
Calendar. Email them with suggestion!

Kate: Where's Africa?!

The Africa map is gone! Oh, Kate has it. Wait, where's the Kangaroo?

Mark: Africa will be reinstored.

Someone asks about Wicked... that's happening Thursday of 10th week.

The greatest song ever submissions close in 49 hours.

Amelia announces, here is a partial movie list! It's great, but not
complete! If you have movies, email the Movie Triumvirate if you
haven't already!

Jim almost accidentally sets off the sprinklers.

WEENIE OF THE WEEK!

Marissa nominates Boy Alex for wearing tights and acting weirdly when
called a Henderson spy.

Colin nominates Noah for walking into the lounge door, twice.

Sadie nominates all the people who slept through the fire drill.

Jake counternominates all the people who got up and went out!

Colin nominates Wai Lee for not waking him up, leaving him to suffocate
and die!

Girl Alex points out that we have fire doors, so you can survive for 45
minutes in your room.

Jake: Who's the weenie? Mr. Dr. Safety Poindexter? Or the people who
understand that we're hot enough that the fire can't touch us?

Colin: I have 4 words: Left me to die.

Wai Lee wins weenie of the week for letting his roommate die!

Hero of the week:

The Birthday Faeries are nominated.

Amelia nominates Ginny for chicken noodle soup.

Sadie nominates Melissa for something complicated; Antonia nominates
Melissa for *not* leaving her to die.

Agnes nominates that homeless guy who was a marine and is Spider-Man.
Also, he tricked Shorey into going back in early, though they didn't
actually burn as a result.

Spider-Man wins hero of the week!

Ginny announces we have root beer floats for study break! But, she
won't be doing this every week... sign up to provide food! Laura will
doing it next week.

And house meeting is concluded. Holy crap, this meeting's minutes are
even longer than last week's!


WEEK 3 HOUSE MEETING MINUTES

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Laura has provided house snack.

The RHs will be putting up a sign-up list for the Crash event, it'll be showing
over at Doc Saturday at 2 PM. Discussion at 7, it's limited to 15 people,
they'll provide food. Also, even if you can't come, the RHs will have the Crash
DVD.

Movie nights will from now on start at 10? Girl Alex suggests 9? A vote is
taken; 9 is apparently greater than 10. (But not for long, as 7 ate 9!)

Mi Tierra (sp?), Mexican restaurant, on the 27th. It's a really fun Mexican
restaurant, too!

Midnight soccer tonight, vs. Henderson! Meet in the lounge at 11:30!

Tomorrow night, Blake will be showing more Firefly. Also Saturday night she is
going to head downtown to see a movie, come with her!

Shopping for Halloween costume - 6 PM next Thursday.

On the 27th, around 6, trick-or-treaters will be here. You'll get a pumpkin in
your mailbox; put it on your door if you want trick-or-treaters, keep it off if
you don't.

RMs will be leading a trip to the opera, namely Salome (sp?) on the 25th, also
they're going to get some guy from it to come here and give a talk about opera.

PAY YOUR HOUSE DUES! THIRD WEEK IS NEARLY OVER, ANYONE NOT PAYING HOUSE DUES
WILL BE CONSIDERED MEMBERS OF SHOREY!

Also, tell Emily Tancer what size shirt you want.

Things to investigate later: effects of people talking on length of house
meetings.

T-shirt sales - apparently, they will happen.

Vote on the T-shirt! Tufts vs Tufts House vs either with "Who you with?". The
two dimensions are voted on separataely. It will say "Tufts House" on the front
and "Who you with?" on the back. "Tufts raise your hand" does not, in this
case, mean everyone raise your hand.

IHC - there have been rumors that recycling does not work. But it does!

Sadie reports on suggestions - Halloween trip, IMAX, dance club, aquarium, other
stuff - probably we'll have one big semi-compulsory (?) trip which will include
a lot of stuff. I agree with the suggestion that we should free our minds from
the cult of the fire sprinklers (though they are almost certainly part of a much
larger conspiracy).

Remember - official house business over email should include the RHs, i.e. it
should preferably be done over the official list. Mark explains the two-list
system. Oh - the official list does not include any alumni? Huh.

Ian is getting us a new microwave! Or toaster oven? $20 for a toaster oven.
As for microwaves - they range from $85 to $118. They will be 1 to 2 cubic
feet, much larger than before. $85 for 1 ft^3, $110 for 1.2 cubic ft^3, $118
for same plus coffee maker.

Kate is anti-toaster oven because it will just be really dirty and burn things a
lot! Dan points out that many things when microwaved become soggy and bad.
Chris and Feldman sing the Pizza Bagels song.

A vote on the toaster oven - we are getting one. Which microwave should we get?
The most expensive one.

Leslie and Antonia are collecting pop tabs. Pop tabs? Pop tabs.

Africa has been reinstated!

Colin: There's a house office we need to choose, and I say we let the people who
catches this apple choose.

John catches it, and it turns out to say "To the fairest" on it. But it's not
golden!

Weenie of the week:

Colin is nominated for attempting to imitate Eris.

Colin is nominated again for trying to poison Sara with eyedrops.

Grant: Is it for failing or for trying?

Sam nominates Appie and Jacob for being pushed home in a shopping.

Also, Emily nominates Maria for winning SG.

Colin wins for his warmongering.

Hero of the week:

Colin nominates Wai Lee for informing him of the fire drill.

Mark nominates Katie and Girl Alex for giving those who were kept out of a
concert by lack of ID, T-shirts.

Ian nominates John -
Ian: I woke up at 5 last night to find that my roommate had managed to fit 3
other women into his bed.
Dave: Who was the original woman?

Also, Tufts Volleyball as a whole is nominated for winning.

John wins for "being a pimp".

Yay, the house minutes are not 3 pages long!


WEEK 4 HOUSE MEETING MINUTES

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I would like here to use my position as house secretary to point out
that those brownies Laura made were probably the best brownies I've ever
had. We need more of those.

Mark is absent so Ginny is acting president for tonight.

We have some guests - another RMA as Tancer is also absent. He says,
sign up for Salome. It is on Wednesday the 25th, you have until
midnight tonight to sign up. You have to go to the talk the previous
day to go the opera, though.

Also, Casey, a Peer Health Educator, wants to talk about the Student
Care Center. It's at 59th and Dorchester. Stuff not done at the actual
SCC or SCRC is not covered by the Student Health & Wellness Fee. You
must make an appointment, it's 8:30-5, M-F. Saturday is emergencies
only. If you go to the emergency room, tell the RHs. Here, the
pamphlet's on the wall.

Missing things: it is suggested that at IM games Aaron will watch over
various belongings so things aren't lost.

Pumpkin-carving study break Sunday night!

Halloween - on Friday the 27th around 6:00, the trick-or-treaters will
be coming. Put a pumpkin on your door if you want to give them candy.

Midnight soccer tonight vs. Woodward. Leaving at 11:30. Blake will be
showing Firefly on Saturday.

After the reaction to Blacula, Ian will be trying to find another one of
his movies to show. Was he impressed or disappointed?

Rocky Horror Picture Show next Friday.

Also Halloween shopping. Agnes has a little robot, it does a dance;
Rick has a hat.

Next Wednesday, yoga study break. Ian suggests yogurt would be
preferable. Also chai afterwards. Meanwhile, Alex and Sadie continue
to think about things.

PTC: Where the hell are you guys? We need more than just Laura!
Karaoke in TANSTAAFL? What? Shouldn't they get their toaster oven back
first? Also, if you see people decorating the lobby, you can help them.
We're also supposed to decorate our own lounge.

Ian announces that the microwave is on its way. He is confused as to
Tancer's identity. Also there is a tray in a cabinet. No, no that
tray!

Also, global AIDS and HIV conference on Saturday. There is free food.
I'm more interested in weaponizing space, personally. Go kinetic energy
weapons!

Ian complains about the lateness of the condom meeting, but don't worry,
it's on the way.

Tyler claims that the title of best song in the world is in a 3-way tie
between 3 songs I don't care to repeat here.

WEENIE OF THE WEEK:

Colin semi-nominates Evette for thinking about stabbing him? Marissa
suggests hero instead.

Alex: Someone knows a weenie of the week story...

Aviva talks about Darfur being moved from cause of the month to a stop
on the train. But she doesn't nominate anyway.

Aaron nominates Joss for making out with some random girl in the study
lounge.

Man, these are all lame. Joss wins.

Hero: Aaron nominates Zafir for waking him up in time for his midterm.

Ian nominates himself for the toaster oven.
Mark: You can't nominate himself!

It's suggested that Ian should be weenie, but we already voted. I want
a revote!

Tyler is nominated for pointing out to someone that his arm was on fire.

Jake nominates me for something that never actually happened.

Alex nominates Joss for not waking up Luke - "That's kind of a big
sacrifice to make, being in the study room."

Even Ian doesn't vote for himself. He doesn't want me to enter this in
the minutes, though. Tyler is hero of the week!

Sara (which one?) has brought us food!


WEEK 5 HOUSE MEETING MINUTES

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Ginny and someone else made pumpkin pie! Kate, was it?

Saturday - no, Friday, 5:30 to 7:30 - the kids will be here
trick-or-treating; you should have gotten your pumpkins in the mail by
now.

Tomorrow Blake will be going to the Co-op and Walgreens at 1:45ish to
get candy and pumpkins and other stuff.

Bill and Dave will be hosting an Orphan Dinner on Saturday to celebrate
our parents' staying the hell away. It'll be at 6:00 on Sunday.
Sunday? Saturday? Dave won't be here Saturday! We'll see.

Movie night is Shaun of the Dead followed by Night of the Living Dead.

Dave will be Tancer and announce there is an RM study break 6ish on
Monday. Also, the T-shirts are in (the ones we sell, that is).
However, we can't sell them immediately because people are selling
"family week shirts" and don't want our competition. What?! Free
market! Parents always want these shirts, anyway! Or the T-shirts
might not be here due to logistics.

Midnight Soccer vs Snell-Hitchcock tonight, it'll be very muddy.

Blake repeats herself about candy.

Tomorrow night, 10:30 we're leaving for Rocky Horror Picture Show. Does
anyone want Mark's ticket? Wilson is taking it.

Leslie doesn't want to scary anyone, but she heard from a reliable
source that there's been 4 muggings in the past 48 hours by John Crown -
what? Henry Crown. Oh, I thought John Crown was the mugger! Between
10 and 2. So be careful.

Aaron and Alex now have condoms, dental dams, lubrication, female
condoms, etc, but no abstinence kits. What?! We want candy! The
condom meeting will be later.

The microwave has been shipped. We need to reimburse Ian for $6 because
he forgot about sales tax; if we don't, he'll keep the 3 and 6 buttons
for himself. It's pointed out that 7 is probably the most useless. The
reimbursement passes.

Wai Lee left a pair of Puma shoes in the lounge, and they've
disappeared. Sam points out that he'd better find them as his feet
stink. There are shoes in the lounge, but they're not Wai Lee's.

Wicked - Thursday the 30th (reading period), $20 due Saturday.

Day of Service - 10 to 1:30, the theme is hunger. It's the community
service project for this quarter. Also, give cans of food to Sara,
because she because she intends to give it away... or because she likes
to season her food with aluminum.

Unaccompanied Women, Ransom Notes have performances soon... University
Ballet will be dancing on the quad tomorrow! It's for inauguration.
What's that? Well, if you haven't noticed the tents, maybe you should
start going to class.

WEENIE OF THE WEEK!

Evette nominates Mike - Aaron tells the story:
Aaron came back from the party and was raving drunk, talking about the
insurgency of reason - Plato is truthful, we are all untruthful, his
pants are inappropriate for his bed. He said we are all marked - he
went and marked all of us, Mark especially. "I can't make out with you,
our moral philosophies are opposed!"

Sadie nominates Grace for locking her out. This is stupid, that happens
all the time.

Sadie also nominates Mark (the Elder) for trying on her bathing suit
(i.e. bikini) bottom. There are pictures... somewhere.

Jake goes to demonstrate - he goes into the kitchen, closes the door,
pokes his head out - "Sadie, how do I tie these?" "Are these on
backwards?"

Mark: We were just calling each other's bluffs.
Sadie: And I lost.
Leslie: I think we all lost.

Sam nominates Jacob - they were talking about some camp he went to in
high school, where they had communal showers - and he replied, "Guys!
Things are different at camp!"

Also Jacob for still refusing to believe that Jake actually has a baby.
Jacob and Feldman were looking at pictures of the baby for 20 minutes,
Feldman says, "Yeah... this is getting pretty hard to refute..."; Jacob
says, "I'm going to have to think about this."

Mike wins; Mark is a close second.

Hero of the week:

Summer nominates Amelia for hooking up with 3 guys at the party and
going to high school with Milsark.

Grant nominates Amelia for trying to impale Ian with a fork - apparently
she hit him several times.

Dan nominates Supriya for convincing Ian that she had never heard of
Bollywood, which I know how to spell.

Peter has a story about Wai Lee - Mark will tell it:
We were watching Zoolander in the lounge and two girls who nobody knows
ask "Where's Wai Lee?". He's right in front of them. "Hey Wai Lee! We
have Chardonnay and want to party! Come party with us!" About 45
minutes later, he comes back, saying "Those girls weren't good enough
looking for me." Sara adds that he has stiletto boots in his room.
Kenneth points out that maybe they would go with the bikini bottom.

Wilson nominates me for my insect impression, which I do for everyone to
see. Laura points out that it's actually centipede impression.

Amelia ties with me! Revote? No, we don't care enough! It's a tie and
house meeting is over! Man, this is gonna be 3 pages again!


WEEK 6 HOUSE MEETING MINUTES

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Colin is beginning to look like Chester A. Arthur, apparently.

Reservoir Dogs and V for Vendetta are movie night, the former at 9, the
latter at midnight.

Second City trip - signup sheet is up. Only about 15 tickets available!

Borat tomorrow. Dan will be getting our tickets.

Capture the flag tomorrow night, midnight on the quad. Remember, wear
bright neon clothing to blind the enemy! Sorry,

Reimbursement for $48 for Rocky Horror passes. ($3 per person).

Also, $96 for Wicked (12 people times $8) passes.

PTC: A Bulls game trip is in the works, early winter quarter. Also
Second City we already talked about.

Social chairs are absent... no, wait, here's Girl Alex! She says she
has a bio exam tomorrow! BSLC room 34 at 11:30! Agnes will be there!
It's a party!

Leslie wants people to sign up for community service day.

Ian tells us that the microwave is disappeared, Sears is doing research
into this anomaly. Also, he is annoyed that someone using an internet
phone service has called his cell phone 30 times - the first one was
just someone going "Wah!", the rest are all blank. Also, he is wearing
two different shoes.

Chris: Why'd you buy from Sears? Aren't they out of business?

Mark wants us to boycott Macy's.

Sarah E likes neither ants nor throwing away other people's stuff. Sara
A doesn't want us to use leaky sinks; Mark points out that sometimes you
need a strong sink.

WEENIE OF THE WEEK!

Colin: Every time Harish and I get together we plot against Mark... it's
not very nice but it's what we do.

Sara tells the story: Basically, they had Colin and John be in
Harish's bed pretending to be Harish and some girl. Colin arranged his
hair properly, Sara and Kat put their clothes on the floor. Mark went
in, thought Harish was just asleep, comes in and out several times,
eventually notices Colin's hair, comes out and says "Harish is in there
with some female!" Colin calls Harish - Harish walks by - Mark sees -
"What?! Who the hell is in our room?!" Then Colin starts moaning...

Me: I'm assuming it's Mark that's nominated, then?

Amelia nominates me for putting up the house notes up on time - i.e.,
when our parents, specifically Amelia's parents, were still here, and
could see that she hooked up with 3 guys at the party.

Chris reminds us of the "MILSARK FLASHED SUGARMAN" signs last year,
which she tore down before her parents visited.

Laura: You're a homewrecker is what you are, Harry.
Me: I'm just a record keeper!

Aviva wants to nominate the phone demon for hero; Chris wants to
nominate Ian for wearing 2 different shoes.

Kate nominates all the people who didn't draw a penis on Rick's face.

Agnes: He left permanent marker on my pillow!

Aaron suggests riding out and killing him.

I nominate Colin, Aaron tells the story: Aaron told Colin he should
shave to look like Chester A. Arthur - mustache and mutton chops, but no
beard. Aaron suggets the following the coin flip to him: Heads, Colin
does the Chester A. Arthur, tails... nothing happens. Colin, in his
drunkenness, agrees; guess which side it was.

Mark the Younger wins Weenie of the Week!

Hero of the Week:

Aaron nominates Colin for Hero for the Chester A. Arthur.

Peter nominates all the people who were singing in the elevator.

Jim nominates Kate Harney: At Psi U, Kate was dancing on a table - a
bunch of non-Tufts people get on the table, and Kate just says, "I don't
want these people here!" and pushes them off.

Dan: How about Wilson for shaving his head?
Ian: He didn't shave his head! *I* shaved his head!
Mark: Wait, Wilson shaved his head?
Ian: No!

OK, Wilson for losing hair.

Kate Harney wins Hero of the Week! Tufts supremacy!

Ginny has made us banana foster, go eat!


WEEK 7 HOUSE MEETING MINUTES

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New Microwave!

Movie night: Donnie Darko, Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Sara suggests an order
swap, but that is not done.

Bill and Dave are done.

Midnight soccer tonight, probably in Henry Crown. Tomorrow we will make
money - going to DRL and being lab rats. There was an email.

Emily reports: Second City trip is leaving 5:15 Sunday, meet in the
lobby. Also, if you're going to sign someone else up for RM events,
make sure to tell them! Also, next week the T-shirts begin being sold,
she has a sign-up sheet. If you're on the first or the last shift,
you'll be setting/cleaning up.

Leslie reports: Vampiric pyramid scheme, Monday and Tuesday in Ida
Noyes. You can just walk in and give your blood away. Also, in the
lobby they are collecting various clean things to give away, check the
flyer.

Alex reports: Trip planned to the ice skating rink when it opens.

Rachel announces: This week is dancer auditions for Rhythmic Bodies in
Motion. Times are Saturday, 2-4, with warmup at 1:30, Sunday 3-5,
warmup at 2:30.

Ian announces: New microwave! Zerothly, it is unclear whether Ian's
correct title is "king" or "queen". Firstly, the interface is weird.
It helps if you hit time cook. Secondly, because of humidity sensor
weirdness, after doing one bag of popcorn, you'll have to wait a bit
before doing another. Thirdly, there is a child-lock feature, do not
use it, we are not microwaving any children. Anyway, what do we do with
it now? Let's decide this later. We're definitely not allowed to
defenestrate it, though. Mark suggests getting Sayer to make it fly.

IM football: Men practice on Saturday about 11, between noon and 3 we
play Henderson. Also Mark will explain to Tamsin how football works.

There's a swim meet, but it's boring. Also you need to tell people if
you want to paint the lounge.

WEENIE OF THE WEEK!

Mark wants Kenneth to tell the story... wait, what story? Did *nothing*
happen worth nominating? Agnes nominates Donald Rumsfeld? Is that
allowed? Shouldn't that be hero, anyway? Blake wants to nominate Mike
for using his lighter? Mike protests that he should be hero? OK, Appie
nominates Mark. Appie and Mark are studying for a midterm, some guys
are taping a puppet show, and Mark gets the idea [Mark to Appie: It was
your idea!] to moon the camera. Apparently they couldn't see him. They
had a lamb puppet. "I can't study, that lamb is making me hungry!"
Also, Jack went and announced to the entire A level that he was going to
take a monstrous dump. So Mark went into the bathroom and threw water
at him... and Jack threw... "something disgusting"... at him in the
middle of the A level.

For hero, Sara nominates Aaron for making sure she stays alive. But did
he show his butt at any time while doing this? Or possibly even use his
butt to do it? Grant wants to nominate everyone who voted. Colin
nominates Donald Rumsfeld not only for resigning but also for being the
2nd hottest member of the Bush administration; Nadja wants a retroactive
weenie nomination on Colin for that.

Also, Kat nominates Sara for covering her boyfriend's eyes when she
decided she wanted to take a shower. [Dave: In the room?!] Well... she
decided rather suddenly. Shouldn't this instead be a weenie nomination
on Kat? Whatever, too late.

Weenie is Jack (what? He wasn't nominated!) and hero is not Girl Alex
as she wants me to believe, but is, in fact, Mark, despite him not being
nominated either.

Also, happy birthday to Ginny!


WEEK 8 HOUSE MEETING MINUTES

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Mark is probably sleeping, so Ginny is leading once again.

If you haven't payed house dues, you owe Blake a dollar. She suggests
going to see Off-Off, Aaron is in it.

Thanksgiving dinner will be Friday and Saturday.

Movie night Saturday, Amelie and Triplets of Belleville. Ian will be
showing Deep Throat, yet again.

Tancer reports: We've made $900 from T-shirts, BUT half of you still
have not paid house dues! And considering how much we're spending on
birthdays... Pay immediately, or
1. You will be considered members of Shorey
2. You will get no subsidies
3. No birthday cake either

Do we really want so much birthday stuff? One for every birthday? That
wasn't really the idea of the birthday faerie. Nothing is decided.

Ginny talks about how a lot of people want a Wii, but apparently she
thinks it's a type of controller. (They come out in 3 days, BTW! Note
that Smash Brawl will not come out until some time next year.)

Mark appears! He takes over.

Saide announces that there'll be a house trip to the ice skating rink
Sunday. $7 for skate rental, but entrance is free. Also, how about a
house trip to a dance club? Some have 18-up night. She says something
about a Latin-themed one, but unfortunately I don't think she's talking
about ancient Rome. Finals week, or is that too bogdowny? Jake wants
me to note that techno got no votes, even with Marissa here.

Sara notes that it is, in fact, possible to turn the sinks off, so
please do.

Tyler announces that the chamber orchestra is playing at the same time
that Common is performing in Mandel, but they're free!

Laura complains that the other PTC reps still aren't showing up, also
there's a signup sheet for a Bulls game. No, we aren't playing.

Community Service day canceled for Tufts. Jake wants to make a van out
of the excess volunteers, but there are some speed issues.

Mark and Nadja want to bring back the sexy.

WEENIE OF THE WEEK!

Laura nominates Ian for hitting a 10-year old retard with a pole during a
Christmas pageant. Note that this didn't happen this week, but long ago. Sara
further adds that he watched Deep Throat alone, and, as a birthday present for
Sara, drank a shot of half-and-half at breakfast and told her it felt in his
mouth like semen. OK, all these are... well, they're not so out of the
ordinary for Ian. However, if anyone would care to recount what happened
Tuesday night...

Mike tells the story: Ian decided to drink alone - or, as he puts it,
he wasn't drinking alone, he was just the only one drinking. Aviva and
Mike were trying to read Aristotle in the study lounge, and Ian comes in
and puts a blanket over his head, singing "I do not worship one god, I
like to get invaded by the Muslims" and similarly pretending he is
India. Eventually he just lies under a chair twitching. Later he
decides that according to Aikido, the best way to get around the hall is
rolling, so he goes somersaulting around the hall, counting in Japanese.

Appie would just like to point out (but it's not a nomination) that Mark
almost made out with Doug, and Sayer, and grabbed a guy's ass.

Mark: It was a dare!
Appie: I said to him, "I dare you to take off all your clothing and
streak this party", and he said, "Is that it?"

Jacob nominates Chris because Gino told him that the dining people have
been watching him, and ever since he got here they've been wasting much
less meat.

Ian wins nearly unanimously.

Hero of the Week: Jim and I are nominated - me for coming to the party,
Jim for bringing me.

Nadja tells the story: The first time the lights went on, it was a cop,
telling them to turn the music down. Fortunately, once this was done,
he let the party continue. But pretty soon, Michael Toney was shouting
again - "Turn off the music, turn off the music!" Oh no! It's the cops
again... "Ladies and gentlemen, we have a celebrity here! I present...
Harry Altman!" Some random kid goes, "Oh my god, Harry Altman!" Nadja
has no idea who this kid is, he ought to just go home.

Kenneth nominates the cop for saying "Party on!".

Colin nominates Wai Lee for saving his life when he had a seizure, much
unlike when earlier this year he left him to die. Looks like Weenie of
the Week actually acted as a deterrent.

Amelia nominates Dave for truly representing the Tufts House spirit in
the dining hall yesterday. Amelia is in line for ice cream, Dave is in
front of her eating a German chocolate cake with his fingers - he turns
around and says to her, "This is really really good cake! I had a few
too many wines at the party!"

Jacob nominates Devin Hester for his amazing record-tying return, and
the government of Kazakhstan for inviting Borat over as he's given them
so much publicity.

Noah wants a late nomination on me for Weenie for the argument earlier
today.

Kate loses, and so do a lot of other people.

Dave and Wai Lee tie, and Dan wonders about this says about our house
values, but there is chocolate now!

Dave: I'm gonna get fired!


WEEK 10 HOUSE MEETING MINUTES

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Jake is Mary Poppins.

Mark and Nadja still want to bring it back.

Dave reminds us of quiet hours. Blake points out that actually, during
reading week, quiet hours are 24 hours a day. Seeing how people don't
seem to even make many quiet-hours complaints during the ordinary quiet
hours, you can be pretty well assured this won't change a thing.

Dave and Bill will check every room after we're gone. All our windows
should be closed and our radiators set to 3.

Movie night: Goldfinger, something else, and Ian will be showing Deep
Throat _yet_ _again_. He'll be showing something else as well
afterward, he won't say what... maybe it's Deep Throat _again_?

Wicked is tomorrow, 6:30 bus, the 173, meet in lounge, 6:15, eat
beforehand.

Ian points out that Handel's Messiah should be after finals so the
"Hallelujah" makes sense. Blake then says this is on Friday. 7:30, was
it? Also on Friday they'll decorate the lounge.

Dave wants to make it clear that Christmas trees are, in fact, Christmas
trees, not X-mas trees. Girl Alex wants a palm tree instead.

Friday the 8th is... something? Pretty unimportant, I suppose.

Dave makes a bunch of bad generalizations, and people talk about parades.
Really guys, I am not taking this shit down. Wait, Jake suggests
filling New York Harbor for bratwurst, and I am for that.

Mark wants to do a secret Santa thing, talk to him about that.

Leslie wants to be the actual Santa Claus, talk to her about that.

EVERYONE: If you see Aaron tomorrow, before 3:00, ask him if he's done
it yet. Otherwise he won't be back next quarter.

Ian will not be going to the aquarium this quarter.

You can still sign up for the Bulls game.

WEENIE OF THE WEEK!

Aviva had everything in her room upside down by Leslie, Mike, Antonia -
Aviva assumed they didn't do it and tried to get them to help her catch
the culprit. She ended up chasing Colin around with tongs.

Kat puked in the toilet for two hours straight on Wednesday.

Noah and Leslie were talking in the hallway, sitting down, Jake suddenly
comes over and *mounts* him, says, "Sh, just let it happen."

Jake counternominates Noah for hero - Jake is just talking on his
cellphone when Noah comes at him, leaps at him, knocking him over, and
causing him to bite down hard on his cheek. Noah will not just allow
rape.

Also there is a vote for Boobtag.

Jake wins weenie.

Melissa is nominated for making curtains? She wins hero.

Also, social chair and their evil twins are now yearlong positions?
That's stupid.

END HOUSE MINUTES

-Sniffnoy, about to go print out the minutes for this week

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