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sniffnoyDid I ever tell you guys about the sword? There's this plastic sword that's been floating around the house. It has a button on it that causes it to make movie sword sounds, alternating (mostly) between the hitting-another-sword sound and the unsheathing sound, but it also makes these sounds if you hit it on something or just swing it hard enough. It also says "TRIUMPHAL WEAPON" on both sides of the blade for no apparent reason. You don't see it very much but every now and then it resurfaces and you can hear the noise of people constantly swinging the thing around.
Well, Mike was swinging the thing around tonight, and happened to mention how he got it from "Old Mike". Old Mike? Who's that? Michael Kinnucan? No, Mike Boylan, apparently. And we start saying about how there is no "Old Mike", because he's the first person in Tufts House since we've been here to simply be called Mike. Michael Kinnucan is Michael Kinnucan, or just Kinnucan, or Kinnuc, any of a number of other nicknames. Mike Boylan, again, is Mike Boylan. Mike Joyce, well, is Mike Joyce or New Mike, though I don't think anyone calls him that now that he's not here anymore. But Mike is just Mike. So, he says, what if next year, there's a first-year named Mike? Aaron answers, you'll be Mike, and he'll be First-year Mike. (And the year after that, you'll be Mike, and he'll still be First-Year Mike.) I of course suggest Mike the Elder/Mike the Younger, to which Aaron replies, well, only you will call him that. So Mike himself suggests that he'll just kill the new Mike (with the plastic sword, of course), and then he'll be Dead Mike. I suggest just poking his eyes out, so he'll be Blind Mike[0]. So Wilson suggests disembowling him - so he'll be Open Mike.
Meanwhile, our microwave is broken. The first sign of its brokenness was when Laura tried to use it and found that as soon as she opened it, it turned on. Yes, it started microwaving with the door open. I suggested simply hitting stop/clear, which worked, except for the whole "our microwave doesn't do anything anymore" bit. So, we need to get a new one. Some people went and did a bit of research and suggested a model, but not a way of actually acquiring one. So, if we're lucky, we'll be able to allocate the money for one come house meeting on Wednesday, but I'm doubtful.
When I first emailed the listhost about the broken microwave, asking for volunteers to research getting a new one (I'm not going to do it, I'm awful at this), Kate Harney's immediate reply was, "Oh no! Harry, please do not starve. You can come to our apartment if you have any mircowavables that need microwaving." Mark replied, "same can come to mine too", and then Jim chimed in, "You can use ours too. It's closer than Kate or Mark's."
Mark: "but jim is always in the reg"
Jim: "Lies! I'm in Harper now. Anyway, one of us is normally around the apartment."
Grant[4]: "Also, our microwave has lived through harsher combat conditions than either of your other choices."
Kate: "NO, Harry, use our microwave. Because sometimes you help me with my math homework."
Jim: "We also have Smash."
Kate: "Tscha."
So now it has turned into a competition between Kate Harney and Grant/Jim as to whose microwave I will use. (And Mark, I suppose, but I forgot about him until going through the emails, and he's also easily the furthest away, so I never really considered it.) So far the score is 2-0 Grant. However, it turns out that their microwave has recently lost its turntable; if the game continues much longer, this could easily swing things in favor of Kate. (Or, you know, in favor of just going up to Hendu and using theirs, which would actually generally be the easiest solution. Today, however, I was microwaving soup, which spills easily, and so I did not want to have to carry it down the stairs from where it was made to where it will be eaten.)
Speaking of Hendu, apparently they're actually not horrible at 64 Smash? I thought the other houses just played Melee, but apparently Hendu could give us some legitimate competition at 64. I heard Aaron and Wai Lee recounting their playing against some Hendu kids. Apparently we're still considerably better than them, but we don't have the sheer dominance we once did. And apparently, in 64 Smash, DK has some infinite-throw technique, which only works against Kirby and Puff. Some Hendu kid used it against Aaron, and took away two of his lives with it; Aaron almost managed to beat him anyway, but not quite. So, I guess I'll have to be prepared for that.
And speaking of house meeting - OK, having spoken of house meeting several paragraphs ago - Sadie is making an interesting secretary. The thing is not so much that she goes for a higher funny-to-accurate ratio than Kate Harney or I did, but rather that half the things she writes have absolutely nothing to do with house meeting. It works, though. (And let's face it, how much of house meeting is really worth writing down, anyway? :P ) (And, while I don't want to imply that this is all she's good for, it's worth noting that she actually shows up, too - I don't think "pull a Tufts House secretary"[5] is in the first-years' lexicons, and I'm not even certain I've heard second-years say it; after all, they had me and Kate Harney before Sadie.) My one complaint is that she summarizes Weenie of the Week. Weenie of the Week, IMO, is almost always worth recording in full. They're supposed to be stories; we get blurbs instead.
To close this entry, then, I present Sadie's version of what happened with Julian, that I said I couldn't tell properly; while it's only a summary, it's still pretty funny.
[0]This was not entirely out of nowhere. Did any of you ever read a book called Wizard's Hall, by Jane Yolen? I read this book back in elementary school, but could never remember its name afterwards, and didn't find it out again until recently. In the meantime, however, I had a hard time convincing Elana that such a book actually existed. "It was this book about this boy who goes to wizarding school-" "Harry Potter?" "No![3] And when he first arrives there, he notices that the gate looks kind of like a quilt and kind of like a monster. And at the end, he has to fight a quilt monster." Elana would not believe there was any such book. Oh, uh, what does this have to do with poking people's eyes out? Yeah, that's complicated...
[3]Harry Potter didn't exist at the time, anyway.
[4]Lives with Jim, for those not keeping track.
[5]Meaning, "simply not show up when expected".
Well, Mike was swinging the thing around tonight, and happened to mention how he got it from "Old Mike". Old Mike? Who's that? Michael Kinnucan? No, Mike Boylan, apparently. And we start saying about how there is no "Old Mike", because he's the first person in Tufts House since we've been here to simply be called Mike. Michael Kinnucan is Michael Kinnucan, or just Kinnucan, or Kinnuc, any of a number of other nicknames. Mike Boylan, again, is Mike Boylan. Mike Joyce, well, is Mike Joyce or New Mike, though I don't think anyone calls him that now that he's not here anymore. But Mike is just Mike. So, he says, what if next year, there's a first-year named Mike? Aaron answers, you'll be Mike, and he'll be First-year Mike. (And the year after that, you'll be Mike, and he'll still be First-Year Mike.) I of course suggest Mike the Elder/Mike the Younger, to which Aaron replies, well, only you will call him that. So Mike himself suggests that he'll just kill the new Mike (with the plastic sword, of course), and then he'll be Dead Mike. I suggest just poking his eyes out, so he'll be Blind Mike[0]. So Wilson suggests disembowling him - so he'll be Open Mike.
Meanwhile, our microwave is broken. The first sign of its brokenness was when Laura tried to use it and found that as soon as she opened it, it turned on. Yes, it started microwaving with the door open. I suggested simply hitting stop/clear, which worked, except for the whole "our microwave doesn't do anything anymore" bit. So, we need to get a new one. Some people went and did a bit of research and suggested a model, but not a way of actually acquiring one. So, if we're lucky, we'll be able to allocate the money for one come house meeting on Wednesday, but I'm doubtful.
When I first emailed the listhost about the broken microwave, asking for volunteers to research getting a new one (I'm not going to do it, I'm awful at this), Kate Harney's immediate reply was, "Oh no! Harry, please do not starve. You can come to our apartment if you have any mircowavables that need microwaving." Mark replied, "same can come to mine too", and then Jim chimed in, "You can use ours too. It's closer than Kate or Mark's."
Mark: "but jim is always in the reg"
Jim: "Lies! I'm in Harper now. Anyway, one of us is normally around the apartment."
Grant[4]: "Also, our microwave has lived through harsher combat conditions than either of your other choices."
Kate: "NO, Harry, use our microwave. Because sometimes you help me with my math homework."
Jim: "We also have Smash."
Kate: "Tscha."
So now it has turned into a competition between Kate Harney and Grant/Jim as to whose microwave I will use. (And Mark, I suppose, but I forgot about him until going through the emails, and he's also easily the furthest away, so I never really considered it.) So far the score is 2-0 Grant. However, it turns out that their microwave has recently lost its turntable; if the game continues much longer, this could easily swing things in favor of Kate. (Or, you know, in favor of just going up to Hendu and using theirs, which would actually generally be the easiest solution. Today, however, I was microwaving soup, which spills easily, and so I did not want to have to carry it down the stairs from where it was made to where it will be eaten.)
Speaking of Hendu, apparently they're actually not horrible at 64 Smash? I thought the other houses just played Melee, but apparently Hendu could give us some legitimate competition at 64. I heard Aaron and Wai Lee recounting their playing against some Hendu kids. Apparently we're still considerably better than them, but we don't have the sheer dominance we once did. And apparently, in 64 Smash, DK has some infinite-throw technique, which only works against Kirby and Puff. Some Hendu kid used it against Aaron, and took away two of his lives with it; Aaron almost managed to beat him anyway, but not quite. So, I guess I'll have to be prepared for that.
And speaking of house meeting - OK, having spoken of house meeting several paragraphs ago - Sadie is making an interesting secretary. The thing is not so much that she goes for a higher funny-to-accurate ratio than Kate Harney or I did, but rather that half the things she writes have absolutely nothing to do with house meeting. It works, though. (And let's face it, how much of house meeting is really worth writing down, anyway? :P ) (And, while I don't want to imply that this is all she's good for, it's worth noting that she actually shows up, too - I don't think "pull a Tufts House secretary"[5] is in the first-years' lexicons, and I'm not even certain I've heard second-years say it; after all, they had me and Kate Harney before Sadie.) My one complaint is that she summarizes Weenie of the Week. Weenie of the Week, IMO, is almost always worth recording in full. They're supposed to be stories; we get blurbs instead.
To close this entry, then, I present Sadie's version of what happened with Julian, that I said I couldn't tell properly; while it's only a summary, it's still pretty funny.
WEEEEEEEEEEENIE julian - depicted male genitalia all over EVERYTHING racing in a t-shirt of shame attempting homicide on Phil over a board game failure to post house minutes cutting of hairs uncontested win.-Harry
[0]This was not entirely out of nowhere. Did any of you ever read a book called Wizard's Hall, by Jane Yolen? I read this book back in elementary school, but could never remember its name afterwards, and didn't find it out again until recently. In the meantime, however, I had a hard time convincing Elana that such a book actually existed. "It was this book about this boy who goes to wizarding school-" "Harry Potter?" "No![3] And when he first arrives there, he notices that the gate looks kind of like a quilt and kind of like a monster. And at the end, he has to fight a quilt monster." Elana would not believe there was any such book. Oh, uh, what does this have to do with poking people's eyes out? Yeah, that's complicated...
[3]Harry Potter didn't exist at the time, anyway.
[4]Lives with Jim, for those not keeping track.
[5]Meaning, "simply not show up when expected".
