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My end of the quarter posting of the minutes. There are some good stories in here, IIRC; I've bolded "WEENIE OF THE WEEK" to make it a bit more visible.
QUARTER 1 WEEK 1 HOUSE MEETING MINUTES
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Good luck balloon and special treats exist! We want to congratulate Jennifer
for making nationals in tennis.
Sarah announces:
The printers here really can't support printing large PDF files, please don't do
that. On Vista, run netreg. Remember the existence of work orders.
For the next few days, Jack suggests taking extra precautions when going out at
night. It's dangerous to go alone, take a sword.
4:30 tomorrow RM thingy, meet 8:30 on Saturday for something with a van? Jack
really wants to drive that van.
There will be smores at the point but there will not be fire here.
RSO fair on the main quad Friday afternoon, 3-6. Talk to Jack about human
rights internships. Winston reminds us of free candy. Nathan encourages people
to check out the Objectivist Society, Winston points out you can yell at them
for an hour.
There are concerts somewhere? And the biggest part is on Sunday? You guys need
to speak so I can hear. Ask Brad about it.
Winston and Kelly's birthday is the day of something crazy? Saturday the RMs
are hosting an apple-picking event. Laura will put up a sign-up sheet. Also
Ikea. The next week, Thompson is attempting to reserve a horse-riding trip?
That sounds bad.
Many things are set in stone. Including the candidates. I don't want to be set
in stone!
Two nominations for president: Winston Gao and... Nora Casey?! Winston compares
Nora to Palin for her unexpectedness. She isn't Mike Steinert! She doesn't
care about women running for office, she has lots of experience keeping people
quiet. Nathan says "racecar".
Winston says, Colin told him, he doesn't do anything and is only president
because Mark made him. He wanted to make Mike president, and Winston thought,
that doesn't sound like democracy! So he's just running because he doesn't like
Mike. But he does like Nora Casey, and supports her.
For VP, we have Mike Steinert and Kurt. Kurt things he'd be good because he
likes to cook. Michelle reminds us of tacos, and Winston of Nutella. But he'd
be one heartbeat away! Mike's speech is vote for Kurt.
For secretary, me and Winston? I make a speech. I don't really know what I'm
talking about. I'm not change, I'm more of the same. Winston supports me?
Jeremy chokes him.
Kitchen Wench: Laura and Winston. Is there anything he isn't running for?
Laura: He can have it if he wants.
Winston really wants to be the candy person.
Peter: Unconstitutional powers!
Winston's job is to intimidate people. And he can pick up supplies when he gets
candy. Laura is fully prepared to deal with cockroaches, bloody corpses,
non-bloody corpses, fridge piss, exploded whales, and other messes.
Community service is Taylor and Audrey?
Jeremy is unopposed for IM rep. "The real winner is Tufts House."
New system for Condom Czar? We didn't vote on that! New system: they'll be by
the fire extinguisher. Only one Czar. Sounds good. Nathan suggests we imitate
Hendu, which we will most certainly not do. Anyway Brad's proposal passes.
Michelle did not nominate herself. She's discreet? And all. Or perhaps
discrete? Kelly works at the hospital, and so can just pick them up easily.
Brittany isn't here, but she wanted to do it.
Birthday fairy: Taylor, Amanda, Jasper. Anyone else joining would be good.
Janet: Does that mean you have to wear a skirt?
PSAC! We forgot to talk about it, they get prospies here. Kurt has been
nominated. He says he could do it again.
Laura: PTC is a good thing we have.
Peter: Propaganda.
Laura: The thing most people don't realize about PTC is we have a whole bunch of
money. And our plan for world domination is almost complete.
Paintball is good. Winston wants to know why we don't have a ping-pong table.
Winston will not nominate himself for PTC. Laura says TANSTAAFL should be
opening next week or so. Meetings are Wednesdays at 7. Laura says it's a good
way to get leadership position on your CV; Youlian and Winston will kill you,
however, if you do it for that reason.
Andrew is on the dining hall committee. Tables meet in a council, and talk
about tably things, like how their legs are bad and they're having trouble
balancing, and how they don't like it when people spill things on them. They
are also quite annoyed at the name "table tents" as they're much too small for
them to fit inside. Or, er, something like that... also there will be new
deserts?
Charlie says he knows a lot about food. His #1 issue: We need more forks at
dinner! Andrew eats a lot because he runs. He says to ask them for more forks
or spoons when they run out?
HARC is not IHC, Brad insists, but he does describe it as an "inter-house
council". You can go there and vote against everything Henderson proposes.
Talk of "Peace Train" comes up.
Email your votes to Brad.
WEENIE OF THE WEEK!
Wait... what happened? Everyone has gone and started eating... Youlian says he,
Winston, and I are the only ones left in house meeting, so we can pick whoever
we want. Winston appoints (?) Ryan Hatten. We don't seem to have anything
better. Hero? Winston nominates himself. Youlian nominates Zeratul. Winston
says other weenie is Sarah Palin. There appear to be No More Heroes, which
Winston thinks is awesome but poorly translated. OK, that seems to be the end
of it.
(Week 2 my computer wasn't quite working and Youlian took the minutes instead.)
QUARTER 1 WEEK 3 HOUSE MEETING MINUTES
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I return as your loyal scribe. Many thanks again to Youlian for bailing me out
last week.
We turn the Daily Show off; Jeremy reminds us of when Wai Lee played Mr. Driller
in the middle of house meeting. (He asphyxiated, and everybody screamed.)
All house associates have been approved, including Marissa. The number of
people that voted was even, which scared Jack.
Saturday leaving at 4 is bike tours, you need to get a bike somewhere. They may
go to That's a Burger, which is not, as Jeremy suggests, a burger. Tell Jack if
you're going. Also 9 tomorrow is Blues and Ribs. You can't drink while you're
there. Ida Noyes, free.
Fire drill! The gray stairs door will be fixed so we don't all burn, but it
might take a while, so use the red stairs in the meantime. Also, if you didn't
hear the alarm, tell your neighbors so they can alert you if it goes off. Also
perhaps if you're leaving you should knock on all the doors on the way out. Ben
wasn't here at the time and wonders if he was one of these people.
Metalocalypse marathon Sunday night in the lounge. It is, apparently, the best
show ever. They're watching more than a full season.
Jeremy: We spanked Wallace's ass in volleyball.
This weekend is football, Woodward, co-ed, 10:00. Winning frisbee means you
lose, unless in fact we win. Luke forgot it was house meeting and got here
before study break. Men at 11 vs Linn.
Study breaks are now on Wednesday rather than Tuesday.
Jasper wants to paint the study lounge. He wants to paint quotes? We will
muder him if they are inspirational. It sounds really dumb. Nathan suggests
something even dumber involving facebook.
Agnes announces all shirts sold! So there are no sales tomorrow. Sign up for
next quarter. Nora asks about things we can do with our money. Paintball
paintball paintball! Matt wants camping. Blech, too much camping... Jeremy
wants us to be Phi Delt? We do have everything we need for camping left over
from last year, though...
Ben reports! $400 for Wii and stuff new, $300 used. Winston turns into a
dragon. Wait! Turns out Matt has a Wii, which he can get here in a week, but
we do need new Gamecube controllers, which are cheap now. Nora has rash
diction. We'll do the insurance thing again. $25 are allocated for 4 new
controllers.
New TV? Ben is on it. Andrew wants to just go Radio Shack and get an RF
converter. We take a poll. Andrews plan gets more votes. Actually we're gonna
do both. $25 are allocated for converter.
Charlie and Ben argue about guitar controllers. Charlie launches an ethics
investigation. We have approved "further research". Into weapons, hopefully?
WEENIE OF THE WEEK!
Matt nominates Charlie for locking the lockbox at shirt sales. He also
nominates himself for locking Marc out of his room.
Charlie nominates Matt for picking up Yola and attempting to drop her on the
seal.
Jack nominates Jimmy. Jack got a call during class, found it an hour later.
"Hey... it's Jimmy... call me back." He doesn't sound good, Jack panics. Turns
out he was doing T-shirt sales.
Nora was at lunch and was going to meet Mike and Nora. They aren't there. Mike
calls - "Hey Nora sorry we're not down there. I made Nora Kelly bleed." Ew?!
Turns out he tried to kiss her and instead hit her in the nose.
Blaise, to Nora: Did Mike hit you again?
Nora tells us of some TV commercial with a blonde girl with brown girl and a
country guitar thing? And Nathan got so angry he threw a cup across the room.
Jeremy calls it the "rage hors d'ouevre".
Jimmy nominates Kelsey. Jimmy steals her sandal; she grabs the football, throws
at him, hits him in the nuts. He wasn't able to walk the next day. A "hero"
chant starts. Jeremy says it's only a weenie nomination because Tampa had
already cut his nuts off earlier that day.
STEINERT WINS WEENIE OF THE WEEK! (Pretty much unanimously.)
Hero of the week:
Kelsey is nominated, see above.
Mike nominates Pat: "For IM football, he ripped off this kid's shorts." "I'm
taking my cell phone! We got 40 yards of penalties and all I did was rip off
this kid's shorts!"
Charlie nominates Mike for taunting Shorey during football. Whoops, it was
Hendu. Apparently he taunted Jacob Cogan? "Mike, I'm on your team!"
Libby calls Libertarianism bizarre, and nominates Charlie for writing haiku,
which aren't here.
Marc for going to the front-desk in a towel.
Mike: I stapled my thumb! "You already won weenie!"
Nathan: Wait, like, I've done that before, and I've never gotten it all the way
through. I've gotten halfway through, never all the way through.
Turns out Charlie's haiku are a lot funnier at 2 AM.
Pat wins Hero of the Week!
QUARTER 1 WEEK 4 HOUSE MEETING MINUTES
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Kids come here to trick-or-treat. If you want trick-or-treaters, put the
pumpkin from your mailbox on your door on the 31st. Also lobby decoration, also
Porgy and Bess.
Hannah made a picture of Tufts House in school. It's very purple. It's going
in the lounge. We are a maelstrom of purpleness.
Free Dark Knight at Doc tomorrow! It's much better than American Gangster.
Also Off-Off tomorrow, you can go to Dark Knight at 6:30 and Off-Off at 9.
Outdoor adventure trip Saturday? And Matt is organizing Six Flags on Sunday.
Mike Baumer says an OAC thing is a hike instead of kayaking. It gets a $20
subsidy.
Nora Casey wants the house to do community service. We're going to donate
animals to villages? Not as interesting as paintball... Josh wants a llama for
us, I kind of agree. It could be the house mascot! Also, honeybees? Huh? The
water buffalo is clearly in the Phillipines, and the llama is in Llamaland.
$150 approved for llama? $124 for getting 10 families agriculturual equipment.
Charlie says buying bees gives you an excuse to eat Honey Comb? Jack speaks of
bees flying around, stinging llamas among the tall trees...
Taylor says stuff I can't hear... something with kids in a doctor's waiting
room? And there's free food.
Halloween concert... don't go for the chorus? Which people are in? And there's
an orchestra with Brita?
Jeremy says men's football at 10 vs Thompson, then 11 co-ed vs Shorey. Jimmy
has a hurt knee. It's his weak point. Hit him for massive damage if he's
asleep on his back. There will be soccer tonight.
Libby tells people to host prospies. They know it's Sunday night and midterms.
Nora: Prospies are really fun because you can judge them really severely based
just on a 20-hour period of acquaintanceship.
Charlie wants to buy a movie-theater style popcorn maker for $75. Also Monday
night at 7, email Charlie, VP of Cato institute is giving a talk somewhere, with
free pizza.
I remind everyone of paintball. New controllers are on their way. They're from
Hong Kong, which sounds bad. Also, Ben is not, in fact, unethical? He can get
Guitar Hero for $32.80. It's approved.
Josh gets a retroactive subsidy, boo. Artis says John Legend is coming? Mike K
says Bulls and Suns.
WEENIE OF THE WEEK!
Baumer nominates the TV for boxfail during The Office. Mike K says things I
can't hear, Steinert and Brad start arguing. Apparently Charlie mistook the
state of the clock, preventing us from scoring.
Charlie nominates Mike Steinert because he probably hit Nora at some point this
week.
Mike: She had it coming.
Winston nominates "that whole spiel".
Jack nominates Amanda's calculus teacher for sleeping through the midterm.
Nora tells of the men's football game, when Ben Gerdes was perfectly set to make
an interception, the ball was going right to him... and then Mike Steinert
knocked it out of the way! And didn't catch it! Winston nominates Steinert
because whenever he walks through the room, people get so angry.
Amanda's calculus teacher wins? That was pretty close, it should have been
counted.
Hero of the Week:
Jeremy nominates men's volleyball for winning despite Mike's attempts to throw
the game. And Luke for participating in house meeting.
I nominate Matt for the Wii.
Nora and Berberian and some people went to Depot. It was too intense.
Mark: I'm so sad you didn't like Depot.
Nora: No, it was good, it was just too intense.
Mark: Would you like it more if you were drunk?
Nora: Maybe next week...
Mark: No! *pulls out hard cider*
They drink. And they passed around a pork chop sandwich, as if it were a joint.
Nathan stole a blender from the girls (Girl Alex, Kate Harney, Katy) and they
(along with Dan, Colin, and Antonia) plotted revenge. I accidentally revealed
Nathan's double agent. They busted into his room, attempt to take the blender -
and Nathan jumps out of his closet and scares them.
It's close; I say we should bring back the practice of actually counting the
votes; Nora claims volleyball wins.
QUARTER 1 WEEK 5 HOUSE MEETING MINUTES
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Nora announces things that are low-key. Smores at the point. We have a kite.
Last year there was no wind. Saturday 8:30. Unfortunately there will probably
not be kite-fighting.
Also Decemberists on Saturday. Pat is going. Silent film Phantom of the Opera
tomorrow at 8 at Rockefeller, The Thing is free (oh crap! how did it get out??)
at Doc as long as you've got a costume.
Second City! Only 10 tickets per house. Ask Sarah? Also Off-Off. On learning
that there's a different show every week, Charlie feels pressured to go every
week.
Who do you want to hear a lecture by? The RMs are trying to organize something?
Jack is on the faculty. My idea of a lecture on the Borsuk-Ulam theorem isn't
met with much approval.
There will be possibly a million or two people downtown on election night. Go
in groups - real groups, not just two or three. Have mass, even if that means
you can't travel at the speed of light. Don't end up in the middle of a riot,
or murdered. Also extra safe mode even on campus; pure command line! Oh, wait,
not that sort. Also something about Obama's house.
Josh wants boom boxes. Actually called ghetto blasters. I think this will
annoy us more than other houses. It's deferred to next week. Remember,
anything we spend is less we can spend on paintball. Opportunity cost, guys.
Dani and Charlie are a T-shirt design committee? Do we really need that?
We have a costume contest? Kelly is Sarah Palin, Youlian is himself, Andrew is
a guy in a tuxedo, and Brittany is red and bicorn-wearing and 17th-century?
Youlian is wearing the traditional Mathcamp garb, which they wear when
sacrificing the still-beating hearts of youngsters, and solving combinatorics
problems.
Andrew is a secret service agent. He's the protecting-Barack-Obama type, not
the catching-counterfeiters type.
Kelly does a really good Sarah Palin voice!
Brittany is Captain Morgan? Of what vessel? It's unclear.
Kurt, Agnes, and Sarah judge.
Friday November 14th, a hockey game. Kate Harney played hockey.
Also a basketball game.
TANSTAAFL should open Sunday night!! (Barring futher disasters.) Cheap snacks
and soda, without leaving Pierce! Cheapest you'll find around. Sarah finds out
about the soda theft for the first time and is quite upset.
Agnes announces prizes for everyone! Er, everyone in a costume, that is.
Starbucks gift cards.
WEENIE OF THE WEEK!
Mike K nominates Woodward House for beating two of our dodgeball players in the
face. Charlie points out that their face-pegging is the only reason we won the
game.
Nathan nominates Joe Beckmann for no reason.
Kelsey nominates Charlie for being a terrible drunk. One, dropping a full
bottle of beer on the floor on bar night. Two, he locked himself in Emilia's
room. Third, he grabbed someone's ass?! Also he apparently tried to make vodka
macaroni and cheese.
Charlie counternominates Kelsey. Yesterday Yola gave blood and almost passed
out in the process, and was still finishing nauseous. Kelsey tried to get her
to drink.
Kate Harney says Nathan stole her subletter's umbrella, but in fact he didn't.
Charlie wins Weenie of the Week!
Hero of the week:
Brita nominates "snake kid". He said, "I have this friend who is obsessed with
snakes. And he's always talking about snakes. And I tried to talk to him about
God, and he said no! He just wanted to talk about snakes."
That should be a weenie nomination!
Yola nominates Jeremy's mom... oh, for a birthday cake. And it sings? A
mechanical, singing, wiggling, birthday cake.
Peter: That makes it sound a lot more dirty than it is.
Nora: No, it really is that bad.
Baumer nominates his neighbors for sending him a Dwight Schrute bobblehead.
Mike K nominates Steinert for breaking two kids' teeth? And making a 3-point
shot, I think?
Brad nominates Mike K for making Thompson's best football player walk off the
field in frustration. Charlie nominates the whole football team for getting 2
excessive celebration penalties, and should they get another...
Ref: Yeah, I can't kick you all out, so if you celebrate again, I'll just kick
Jeremy out.
Brad for getting some kid not to shake his hand after the game.
The guy did an illegal block on him, so Brad told the ref to watch him. Then
after the game the guy refused to shake his hand. Brad goes, "Oh you're from
Frum, I'm from near there...". Nope. You ran into me and told the ref! Just
no.
Jack nominates Baumer for feeding us. Josh talks about shutouts.
Nora actually counted, and there was a tie. Nora displays the cake, and it
really is that bad. Baumer wins in a runoff!
QUARTER 1 WEEK 6 HOUSE MEETING MINUTES
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We start 5 minutes late. Amanda tells us that Saturday is Ransom Notes first
concert. $2 in BARS, at 8. Bulls tickets: Jack's going to order them after
house meeting. Nora guesses that we're going to talk about community service,
then confirms her guess. That was a bit unfair, I think. Jack is going to kill
Pat. Jack says either November 15th, to decorate this place, or the 22nd to
actually serve meals to homeless people. That's the Saturday before
Thanksgiving. Whatever day we don't go, we'll do a potluck in the lounge. 22nd
wins.
Milan tells us about an emergency food kitchen that is running low, give
nonperishable food. She's also talking to the cafeteria about donating meal
points?
Sarah reminds us that we can come to her mother's house for Thanksgiving. It's
about a half-hour south by train. And there are many dogs!
Motet choir in Rockefeller Chapel on... I missed it. Something about ORCSA and
a museum?
Dining hall worker rally, Friday, 2:45, outside of Bartlett!
Steinert announces that Brad is ugly.
Milan is going to go see Quantum of Solace at midnight, Thursday, wants to
organize trips. Also $10 subsidy for Bulls tickets passes. Charlie wants to go
see the Blackhawks, but group tickets are sold out; fortunately, eBay exists.
Ask him for details.
WEENIE OF THE WEEK!
Last Friday some random guy came into Kelsey and Jordan's room and shook her
awake. "What are you doing here?! This is my room! Why are you in my bed?!"
he goes. Then he looked at the door. "Oh, I'm supposed to be on the 6th
floor." Jack reminds you that you may want to wake him up if such a thing
occurs.
Steinert reffed the game between the Law School and the Princeton Med School,
but he was the only ref (they're supposed to have 3). He awarded two
questionable touchdowns, one to each team; after he awarded one to the med
school, a law student goes up to the med student-
"Oh, hey, I didn't know bitching was on the MCAT!"
"Oh, hey, I didn't know the LSAT was a real test!"
They then proceeded to insult each other's weight for like 10 minutes.
Nora tells us of Aaron's stalkers, from Rickert house. They took a video of him
eating in Bartlett. They also made a "Wackiness" Obama poster of him. Anyway -
Nora and Aaron and Brianna were walking along, Aaron was complaining about them,
and he stopped to tie his shoe.
"Wait! Are you Aaron Horton?!" "Yeah..." "I've got to tell my whole house
about this at dinner!"
Kelly tells us that trick-or-treaters stole the condom supply!
Youlian nominates Alaska for Ted Stevens. He also nominates his complex
analysis teacher - he came out of the midterm, thinking he'd done pretty well.
Next time, the teacher handed back the test - he'd got 48/80 with "There are
some serious weaknesses in this exam. I think you really need to learn from
this exam and clear up any confusions you may have. It may be a good idea if
you see me outside of class." Oh crap, I failed the test!, he thought. He was
very distracted by this during class. Afterwards, someone asks what the average
was. Oh, it was 45/80. *Everyone* got that message. So Youlian nominates his
complex analysis teacher for scaring everyone.
Nora actually counts the votes! Med school/law school and drunk guy!
Jack suggests that guy is actually "felon of the week".
Hero of the week:
Jeremy nominates medschool/lawschool. Aaron is nominated for having stalkers.
Ben nominates Steinert for ...things I can't hear. They involve soccer. He
passed the ball? He gets into an argument with Amanda, and points out he's not
afraid to hit a girl.
Nora nominates the American people for electing a not-incompetent president.
Charlie speaks of a guy in DC who's being harassed by Black Panthers? His
parents had dinner with him?
The American people win hero of the week!
QUARTER 1 WEEK 7 HOUSE MEETING MINUTES
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We start late. Minu and Agnes are playing LittleBigPlanet, which is /awesome/.
Nora Casey is nowhere to be seen. Kurt leads.
A representative from the Aramark Workers/Student Alliance. Aramark Workers
want a 7% increase, which is just above inflation, basically just cost of
living. Aramark is offering 25 cents flat. So this Alliance is trying to put
pressure on Aramark. Day-long sit-in tomorrow in Bartlett, singing old union
songs. And then other things.
Taylor and Audrey say we can't do the serving Thanksgiving meal thing. We could
do breakfast, which is early, or some other things. Dinner doesn't involve
getting up early. Or we could make bagged lunches, but we'd have to pay for the
materials. People attempt to resolve things. Final decision: Uh... none.
Things will be determined later.
A "coup" chant begins. Jeremy wants to dance around with Kurt's head on a pike.
Yay, pike dance!
Signup for potluck on Saturday. Agnes has a car, and so can do grocery
shopping. Email her. You can use the RHs' kitchen, maybe.
Milan is going to be putting a box. Put nonperishable foods. Then put the box
around them. Or something.
Sarah reminds us you can go with them to her parents' house if you have no
Thanksgiving plans. Tell her if you want to do this. Charlie wants people to
drop him off by his cousins' house if they're going to the north suburbs.
Eve talks about a fashion show. It has stuff. It's in honor of a naked dance?
WEENIE OF THE WEEK!
Jeremy nominaters on behalf of Jack. There was a promo that if the Bulls got
too 100 points, everyone would get free food. They made it to 98, two minutes
left. No free food.
Josh nominates the Bulls too, they were playing against the Suns, who decided to
leave Shaq out - very disappointing as they went to see him - Bulls won, and
they made the 100 points and gave out the free Big Macs. But Josh gambled his
away, betting against Mike the 100 points wouldn't occur. They walk around, and
after 4 closed McDonalds attempting to get a Big Mac, finally find a big one,
where a homeless guy accosts them and starts shining their shoes. "Dude, we
don't have any money." But he didn't listen, finished shining, and goes,
"That's $3 and a tip for both of you." So they bought him food at the McDonalds
- he /demanded/ he buy them two double cheeseburgers, actually. But on the way
back, among confusion about bus station location, in the rain, the bag broke,
and the Big Mac was lost. Then Mike had them get off the bus early, thinking
they were near Pierce - "Are you /sure/ this Hyde Park?" "Yeah, yeah." They get
off. "Mike, do you have /any/ idea where we are?" Turns out no. 20 minutes
to get home.
Winston nominates Eve for racism - "Winston, how can you see?"
Friday night wins Weenie of the Week!
Charlie nominates Audrey for hero, for showing up to volleyball, allowing them
to field more people (can't have more guys than girls on field at once). Josh
nominates Jordan for coed football. Jeremy nominates Blaise and Pat for them
getting legwarmers? Jeremy refers to them as "pure sex legwarmers".
Audrey wins hero of the week!
QUARTER 1 WEEK 8 HOUSE MEETING MINUTES
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Winston wants to fly into the air and shoot energy beams. Nora wants to start
the meeting.
Wind ensemble concert Sunday, chamber orchestra on the 8th (when's that?);
Sunday night at 8 at Mandel is... something? It's free, apparently. Also
Friday is both Occam's and Off-Off. Ian speaks of an OBS event in Mandel?
There's a lot of concerts!
Dining hall workers tomorrow there's a phone bank at Cobb quad where you can go
up and call Aramark to say the dining hall workers deserve a better contract.
E-Lin points out the box on Milan's behalf. It is too small to hide in, but the
right size for putting nonperishable foods in.
People want a new TV? Why? It's working fine now. Interesting that 2 TVs is
the standard now - the one was bought to replace the other. We keep going, soon
we'll be buying a 4th because one of the three isn't working. It passes, to my
disapproval.
Sarah and Jack's invitation to her mom's house for Thanksgiving is still open.
Also if you'll be here for Thanksgiving, please tell them even if you're not
going. Also something with Christmas and Germany and a market? Also there will
be decorating the lounge on Sunday after Thanksgiving?
Winston is going to put the pinata head on a pike?
Charlie announces the performance of a self-hating Jew stand-up comedian. He
insists it is tasteful. Talk to him.
Kickball team made playoffs, but it's capped at 10 people. Monday or Tuesday
next week. But you have to have played during the regular season.
Agnes and Luke are leaving for study abroad next quarter; hence there will be a
lottery for their rooms. Second-years get priority over first-years. Note that
if you have a double and your roommate moves out, that spot will eventually be
open; Nora and Julian are on the waiting list. Note that open housing doesn't
start till January, so the gender matters. Nora is #1 on the waiting list.
Ordinarily nobody wants to move into a double...
Luke is early. Ben's football IM chamionships are on Sunday, 2:00. Mike might
need hand surgery, but he won't find out till Monday.
Baumer proposes a $10 subsidy for the Blackhawks-Blues game he and Charlie went
to. Some people don't like subsidizing hockey. It's approved.
Ben points out the lack of batteries. Where's Julia?! We need batteries for
the wavebird! Ben wants to start a house battery pile. Maybe we should get
rechargeables? Some people instead want a stripper pole. Or a fireman's pole,
so you can slide down from the 4th floor to the 3rd floor.
Nora: Does it come with firemen?
Mike: Firemen strippers!
WEENIE OF THE WEEK!
Amanda nominates Winston. Winston is working on his CS homework, and he
predicted something that was going to go wrong with his program. Amanda walks
in to get some candy, and just as she reaches into the drawer, Winston's program
returns with the predicted error, and he shouts, "I *knew* you'd do that,
bitch!" And Amanda was very scared; this is the candy drawer! I take from here
all the time! Laura was afraid she was being abused.
Blaise was walking, and walking, in a straight line walking, when a bike ran
into her! Now she has a bruise on her arm and a tire mark. Somehow the guy
just kept going.
Charlie: It's better than the Chinese food guys in New York; if you get hit by
one of them, you're dead.
Mike and Jeremy nominate Blaise because at IM they always have to clean up
Blaise's messes. Winston nominates Mike because he's an asshole.
Peter: Mike's *always* an asshole!
Nora tells a story I can't keep track of. Winston says something about a note,
which I can't follow either. Yola tells: she was working on her bio lab, then
Winston came in and shook her computer and it shut down and it was all lost.
Winston: I was just trying to show Jimmy a Smash video!
Also Joe Beckmann really, really, *really* loves his girlfriend. And he knocked
on Yola?
WINSTON WINS FOR ERASING YOLA'S LAB!
Hero of the week:
Mike K tells us of a guy at the hockey game who was betting with his drunk
friend for who gets the urinal first, because the lines were so long.
Brad nominates Charlie for supporting dodgeball.
Sam Haddaway nominated for football. They beat Linn House. The whole team is
nominated too.
Charlie nominates the kid in the wheelchair who responded with "Rangers suck" to
Charlie's Rangers shirt; "they may have taken my legs, but they can never take
my hatred of people from New York".
Jack nominates potluck.
Jeremy: Dude, that gave me such gas, and it was awesome.
Potluck wins hero of the week!
Charlie: We'll try not to pull something patting ourselves on the back.
(Week 9 was Thanksgiving.)
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About half our announcements about musical events. Jeremy calls Jack on the
phone; Jack doesn't answer. He tries again, to no avail.
Tomorrow is Messiah and Soul Umoja. Artis has a solo. Occam's at 8. Steve
(Steve Steve) is in a concert too. There are cookies being baked, and the money
supports Hannah's elementary school. Brita's orchestra concert, also Motet
choir. Jeremy persists.
Also carbo loading on Monday, if the kitchen is cleaned. If you use a plate,
yours or not, clean it! Jack thinks we made an error in expanding the
responsibilities of the kitchen wench. (Yay, moral hazard! Am I using that
term right?)
Nora suggests painting the study lounge with chalk paint, which we can write on
and erase. But we write on the walls anyway! Nora calls a straw poll; for gets
more votes than against, but not much enthusiasm. The study break people are
loud. Winston doesn't like it, but his opinion is turned by being able to erase
and use it for problem-solving and all. (But can you use it to kill people?)
Josh announces a Scarface concert. The rapper, not Al Capone. He didn't
really sing. (Although I guess that could possibly said of the rapper too.)
Laura fixed the microwave! Dish situation is not ideal, but do clean up after
yourself... also, she fixed the microwave! Also some sort of study break on
Sunday I missed the details.
You all must be out by noon on Saturday! Sarah will go through all your rooms.
Clean out your fridge (as the power could go out), hide anything illegal. If
you're keeping a plant, you can give it to Jack and Sarah and they'll water it.
All windows must be closed and locked, all heaters must be set to 1 (so the
pipes don't freeze over).
Caroling 6:00 at Hyde Park Union Church Sunday.
Charlie wants to make an announcement about next quarter.
Milan thanks everyone who donated to the food thing.
Jasper tells us they had a social chair meeting. He said they want to have
study breaks with other houses?! Tufts House?! Really?! We have a temporary
alliance with them 4 days a year.
Brad complains about some really bad music someone was playing last night. It
wasn't coming from Henderson, because they're quiet all the time. It was an
angry black preacher with a lot of music.
IMs! They're starting a girls' indoor soccer team?
WEENIE OF THE WEEK!
Baumer nominates Drunk Charlie for walking into his room and eating all his Girl
Scout cookies. Charlie insists he only ate one, and Jasper, Kelsey, and others
ate the rest. He got his thin mints back, but the caramel ones were gone.
Graeme nominates Nathan for Weenie. There was a cup of ramen on the table.
Josh had his laptop on the table, turned it, and accidentally knocked the ramen
off the table. Nathan takes a look... and runs out, so Josh and Graeme and
Brittany had to clean it all up.
Jimmy nominates Nathan too. He was throwing the records in the hall. "Nate,
you shouldn't throw vinyl discs, you're gonna hit someone in the eye." Guess
what? He hit Jimmy above his eye (note the bandage), it split open and blood
was everywhere.
Josh nominates Nathan for stealing someone's onions and stuffing them down his
pants.
Winston nominates Jasper. Winston was really depressed, and he was playing
Smash, 2v2, with Jasper on his team, and Jasper kept killing him! It was sad.
Then the next day, he had CS to do, and he asked Jasper for a hint, and Jasper
for a hint, and 8 hours later, they realized the hint totally sucked. And
Jasper was like, "Oh, cool for cats!" or something like that. And he crushed
one of his glasses in his room, there's glass shards everywhere. And he uses
the word "baller" all the time. And Winston's iPod broke, and he blames that on
Jasper too. And he ignores whatever people say - "Oh, that's cool!" Winston
also has "shoes" on his list, he's not sure what that was for.
NATHAN WINS WEENIE OF THE WEEK!
Jasper and Ian are nominated for alligator cakes.
Charlie nominates Ben for reversing the red ring of death! The Xbox Jesus!
Amanda nominates Jennifer for going to France for tennis. Mike K nominates
kickball, which includes Jennifer.
Matt nominates Georgia Tech for beating Georgia for the first time in 7 years.
Mike nominates Henry Frisch, who is giving his very last 141 lecture, on rocket
propulsion, and at the end, he pulls a garbage bag off a scooter with a fire
extinguisher attached and rockets out of class.
Jennifer wins hero of the week!
...and that about wraps it up. On to this quarter!
-Harry
My end of the quarter posting of the minutes. There are some good stories in here, IIRC; I've bolded "WEENIE OF THE WEEK" to make it a bit more visible.
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Good luck balloon and special treats exist! We want to congratulate Jennifer
for making nationals in tennis.
Sarah announces:
The printers here really can't support printing large PDF files, please don't do
that. On Vista, run netreg. Remember the existence of work orders.
For the next few days, Jack suggests taking extra precautions when going out at
night. It's dangerous to go alone, take a sword.
4:30 tomorrow RM thingy, meet 8:30 on Saturday for something with a van? Jack
really wants to drive that van.
There will be smores at the point but there will not be fire here.
RSO fair on the main quad Friday afternoon, 3-6. Talk to Jack about human
rights internships. Winston reminds us of free candy. Nathan encourages people
to check out the Objectivist Society, Winston points out you can yell at them
for an hour.
There are concerts somewhere? And the biggest part is on Sunday? You guys need
to speak so I can hear. Ask Brad about it.
Winston and Kelly's birthday is the day of something crazy? Saturday the RMs
are hosting an apple-picking event. Laura will put up a sign-up sheet. Also
Ikea. The next week, Thompson is attempting to reserve a horse-riding trip?
That sounds bad.
Many things are set in stone. Including the candidates. I don't want to be set
in stone!
Two nominations for president: Winston Gao and... Nora Casey?! Winston compares
Nora to Palin for her unexpectedness. She isn't Mike Steinert! She doesn't
care about women running for office, she has lots of experience keeping people
quiet. Nathan says "racecar".
Winston says, Colin told him, he doesn't do anything and is only president
because Mark made him. He wanted to make Mike president, and Winston thought,
that doesn't sound like democracy! So he's just running because he doesn't like
Mike. But he does like Nora Casey, and supports her.
For VP, we have Mike Steinert and Kurt. Kurt things he'd be good because he
likes to cook. Michelle reminds us of tacos, and Winston of Nutella. But he'd
be one heartbeat away! Mike's speech is vote for Kurt.
For secretary, me and Winston? I make a speech. I don't really know what I'm
talking about. I'm not change, I'm more of the same. Winston supports me?
Jeremy chokes him.
Kitchen Wench: Laura and Winston. Is there anything he isn't running for?
Laura: He can have it if he wants.
Winston really wants to be the candy person.
Peter: Unconstitutional powers!
Winston's job is to intimidate people. And he can pick up supplies when he gets
candy. Laura is fully prepared to deal with cockroaches, bloody corpses,
non-bloody corpses, fridge piss, exploded whales, and other messes.
Community service is Taylor and Audrey?
Jeremy is unopposed for IM rep. "The real winner is Tufts House."
New system for Condom Czar? We didn't vote on that! New system: they'll be by
the fire extinguisher. Only one Czar. Sounds good. Nathan suggests we imitate
Hendu, which we will most certainly not do. Anyway Brad's proposal passes.
Michelle did not nominate herself. She's discreet? And all. Or perhaps
discrete? Kelly works at the hospital, and so can just pick them up easily.
Brittany isn't here, but she wanted to do it.
Birthday fairy: Taylor, Amanda, Jasper. Anyone else joining would be good.
Janet: Does that mean you have to wear a skirt?
PSAC! We forgot to talk about it, they get prospies here. Kurt has been
nominated. He says he could do it again.
Laura: PTC is a good thing we have.
Peter: Propaganda.
Laura: The thing most people don't realize about PTC is we have a whole bunch of
money. And our plan for world domination is almost complete.
Paintball is good. Winston wants to know why we don't have a ping-pong table.
Winston will not nominate himself for PTC. Laura says TANSTAAFL should be
opening next week or so. Meetings are Wednesdays at 7. Laura says it's a good
way to get leadership position on your CV; Youlian and Winston will kill you,
however, if you do it for that reason.
Andrew is on the dining hall committee. Tables meet in a council, and talk
about tably things, like how their legs are bad and they're having trouble
balancing, and how they don't like it when people spill things on them. They
are also quite annoyed at the name "table tents" as they're much too small for
them to fit inside. Or, er, something like that... also there will be new
deserts?
Charlie says he knows a lot about food. His #1 issue: We need more forks at
dinner! Andrew eats a lot because he runs. He says to ask them for more forks
or spoons when they run out?
HARC is not IHC, Brad insists, but he does describe it as an "inter-house
council". You can go there and vote against everything Henderson proposes.
Talk of "Peace Train" comes up.
Email your votes to Brad.
WEENIE OF THE WEEK!
Wait... what happened? Everyone has gone and started eating... Youlian says he,
Winston, and I are the only ones left in house meeting, so we can pick whoever
we want. Winston appoints (?) Ryan Hatten. We don't seem to have anything
better. Hero? Winston nominates himself. Youlian nominates Zeratul. Winston
says other weenie is Sarah Palin. There appear to be No More Heroes, which
Winston thinks is awesome but poorly translated. OK, that seems to be the end
of it.
(Week 2 my computer wasn't quite working and Youlian took the minutes instead.)
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I return as your loyal scribe. Many thanks again to Youlian for bailing me out
last week.
We turn the Daily Show off; Jeremy reminds us of when Wai Lee played Mr. Driller
in the middle of house meeting. (He asphyxiated, and everybody screamed.)
All house associates have been approved, including Marissa. The number of
people that voted was even, which scared Jack.
Saturday leaving at 4 is bike tours, you need to get a bike somewhere. They may
go to That's a Burger, which is not, as Jeremy suggests, a burger. Tell Jack if
you're going. Also 9 tomorrow is Blues and Ribs. You can't drink while you're
there. Ida Noyes, free.
Fire drill! The gray stairs door will be fixed so we don't all burn, but it
might take a while, so use the red stairs in the meantime. Also, if you didn't
hear the alarm, tell your neighbors so they can alert you if it goes off. Also
perhaps if you're leaving you should knock on all the doors on the way out. Ben
wasn't here at the time and wonders if he was one of these people.
Metalocalypse marathon Sunday night in the lounge. It is, apparently, the best
show ever. They're watching more than a full season.
Jeremy: We spanked Wallace's ass in volleyball.
This weekend is football, Woodward, co-ed, 10:00. Winning frisbee means you
lose, unless in fact we win. Luke forgot it was house meeting and got here
before study break. Men at 11 vs Linn.
Study breaks are now on Wednesday rather than Tuesday.
Jasper wants to paint the study lounge. He wants to paint quotes? We will
muder him if they are inspirational. It sounds really dumb. Nathan suggests
something even dumber involving facebook.
Agnes announces all shirts sold! So there are no sales tomorrow. Sign up for
next quarter. Nora asks about things we can do with our money. Paintball
paintball paintball! Matt wants camping. Blech, too much camping... Jeremy
wants us to be Phi Delt? We do have everything we need for camping left over
from last year, though...
Ben reports! $400 for Wii and stuff new, $300 used. Winston turns into a
dragon. Wait! Turns out Matt has a Wii, which he can get here in a week, but
we do need new Gamecube controllers, which are cheap now. Nora has rash
diction. We'll do the insurance thing again. $25 are allocated for 4 new
controllers.
New TV? Ben is on it. Andrew wants to just go Radio Shack and get an RF
converter. We take a poll. Andrews plan gets more votes. Actually we're gonna
do both. $25 are allocated for converter.
Charlie and Ben argue about guitar controllers. Charlie launches an ethics
investigation. We have approved "further research". Into weapons, hopefully?
WEENIE OF THE WEEK!
Matt nominates Charlie for locking the lockbox at shirt sales. He also
nominates himself for locking Marc out of his room.
Charlie nominates Matt for picking up Yola and attempting to drop her on the
seal.
Jack nominates Jimmy. Jack got a call during class, found it an hour later.
"Hey... it's Jimmy... call me back." He doesn't sound good, Jack panics. Turns
out he was doing T-shirt sales.
Nora was at lunch and was going to meet Mike and Nora. They aren't there. Mike
calls - "Hey Nora sorry we're not down there. I made Nora Kelly bleed." Ew?!
Turns out he tried to kiss her and instead hit her in the nose.
Blaise, to Nora: Did Mike hit you again?
Nora tells us of some TV commercial with a blonde girl with brown girl and a
country guitar thing? And Nathan got so angry he threw a cup across the room.
Jeremy calls it the "rage hors d'ouevre".
Jimmy nominates Kelsey. Jimmy steals her sandal; she grabs the football, throws
at him, hits him in the nuts. He wasn't able to walk the next day. A "hero"
chant starts. Jeremy says it's only a weenie nomination because Tampa had
already cut his nuts off earlier that day.
STEINERT WINS WEENIE OF THE WEEK! (Pretty much unanimously.)
Hero of the week:
Kelsey is nominated, see above.
Mike nominates Pat: "For IM football, he ripped off this kid's shorts." "I'm
taking my cell phone! We got 40 yards of penalties and all I did was rip off
this kid's shorts!"
Charlie nominates Mike for taunting Shorey during football. Whoops, it was
Hendu. Apparently he taunted Jacob Cogan? "Mike, I'm on your team!"
Libby calls Libertarianism bizarre, and nominates Charlie for writing haiku,
which aren't here.
Marc for going to the front-desk in a towel.
Mike: I stapled my thumb! "You already won weenie!"
Nathan: Wait, like, I've done that before, and I've never gotten it all the way
through. I've gotten halfway through, never all the way through.
Turns out Charlie's haiku are a lot funnier at 2 AM.
Pat wins Hero of the Week!
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Kids come here to trick-or-treat. If you want trick-or-treaters, put the
pumpkin from your mailbox on your door on the 31st. Also lobby decoration, also
Porgy and Bess.
Hannah made a picture of Tufts House in school. It's very purple. It's going
in the lounge. We are a maelstrom of purpleness.
Free Dark Knight at Doc tomorrow! It's much better than American Gangster.
Also Off-Off tomorrow, you can go to Dark Knight at 6:30 and Off-Off at 9.
Outdoor adventure trip Saturday? And Matt is organizing Six Flags on Sunday.
Mike Baumer says an OAC thing is a hike instead of kayaking. It gets a $20
subsidy.
Nora Casey wants the house to do community service. We're going to donate
animals to villages? Not as interesting as paintball... Josh wants a llama for
us, I kind of agree. It could be the house mascot! Also, honeybees? Huh? The
water buffalo is clearly in the Phillipines, and the llama is in Llamaland.
$150 approved for llama? $124 for getting 10 families agriculturual equipment.
Charlie says buying bees gives you an excuse to eat Honey Comb? Jack speaks of
bees flying around, stinging llamas among the tall trees...
Taylor says stuff I can't hear... something with kids in a doctor's waiting
room? And there's free food.
Halloween concert... don't go for the chorus? Which people are in? And there's
an orchestra with Brita?
Jeremy says men's football at 10 vs Thompson, then 11 co-ed vs Shorey. Jimmy
has a hurt knee. It's his weak point. Hit him for massive damage if he's
asleep on his back. There will be soccer tonight.
Libby tells people to host prospies. They know it's Sunday night and midterms.
Nora: Prospies are really fun because you can judge them really severely based
just on a 20-hour period of acquaintanceship.
Charlie wants to buy a movie-theater style popcorn maker for $75. Also Monday
night at 7, email Charlie, VP of Cato institute is giving a talk somewhere, with
free pizza.
I remind everyone of paintball. New controllers are on their way. They're from
Hong Kong, which sounds bad. Also, Ben is not, in fact, unethical? He can get
Guitar Hero for $32.80. It's approved.
Josh gets a retroactive subsidy, boo. Artis says John Legend is coming? Mike K
says Bulls and Suns.
WEENIE OF THE WEEK!
Baumer nominates the TV for boxfail during The Office. Mike K says things I
can't hear, Steinert and Brad start arguing. Apparently Charlie mistook the
state of the clock, preventing us from scoring.
Charlie nominates Mike Steinert because he probably hit Nora at some point this
week.
Mike: She had it coming.
Winston nominates "that whole spiel".
Jack nominates Amanda's calculus teacher for sleeping through the midterm.
Nora tells of the men's football game, when Ben Gerdes was perfectly set to make
an interception, the ball was going right to him... and then Mike Steinert
knocked it out of the way! And didn't catch it! Winston nominates Steinert
because whenever he walks through the room, people get so angry.
Amanda's calculus teacher wins? That was pretty close, it should have been
counted.
Hero of the Week:
Jeremy nominates men's volleyball for winning despite Mike's attempts to throw
the game. And Luke for participating in house meeting.
I nominate Matt for the Wii.
Nora and Berberian and some people went to Depot. It was too intense.
Mark: I'm so sad you didn't like Depot.
Nora: No, it was good, it was just too intense.
Mark: Would you like it more if you were drunk?
Nora: Maybe next week...
Mark: No! *pulls out hard cider*
They drink. And they passed around a pork chop sandwich, as if it were a joint.
Nathan stole a blender from the girls (Girl Alex, Kate Harney, Katy) and they
(along with Dan, Colin, and Antonia) plotted revenge. I accidentally revealed
Nathan's double agent. They busted into his room, attempt to take the blender -
and Nathan jumps out of his closet and scares them.
It's close; I say we should bring back the practice of actually counting the
votes; Nora claims volleyball wins.
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Nora announces things that are low-key. Smores at the point. We have a kite.
Last year there was no wind. Saturday 8:30. Unfortunately there will probably
not be kite-fighting.
Also Decemberists on Saturday. Pat is going. Silent film Phantom of the Opera
tomorrow at 8 at Rockefeller, The Thing is free (oh crap! how did it get out??)
at Doc as long as you've got a costume.
Second City! Only 10 tickets per house. Ask Sarah? Also Off-Off. On learning
that there's a different show every week, Charlie feels pressured to go every
week.
Who do you want to hear a lecture by? The RMs are trying to organize something?
Jack is on the faculty. My idea of a lecture on the Borsuk-Ulam theorem isn't
met with much approval.
There will be possibly a million or two people downtown on election night. Go
in groups - real groups, not just two or three. Have mass, even if that means
you can't travel at the speed of light. Don't end up in the middle of a riot,
or murdered. Also extra safe mode even on campus; pure command line! Oh, wait,
not that sort. Also something about Obama's house.
Josh wants boom boxes. Actually called ghetto blasters. I think this will
annoy us more than other houses. It's deferred to next week. Remember,
anything we spend is less we can spend on paintball. Opportunity cost, guys.
Dani and Charlie are a T-shirt design committee? Do we really need that?
We have a costume contest? Kelly is Sarah Palin, Youlian is himself, Andrew is
a guy in a tuxedo, and Brittany is red and bicorn-wearing and 17th-century?
Youlian is wearing the traditional Mathcamp garb, which they wear when
sacrificing the still-beating hearts of youngsters, and solving combinatorics
problems.
Andrew is a secret service agent. He's the protecting-Barack-Obama type, not
the catching-counterfeiters type.
Kelly does a really good Sarah Palin voice!
Brittany is Captain Morgan? Of what vessel? It's unclear.
Kurt, Agnes, and Sarah judge.
Friday November 14th, a hockey game. Kate Harney played hockey.
Also a basketball game.
TANSTAAFL should open Sunday night!! (Barring futher disasters.) Cheap snacks
and soda, without leaving Pierce! Cheapest you'll find around. Sarah finds out
about the soda theft for the first time and is quite upset.
Agnes announces prizes for everyone! Er, everyone in a costume, that is.
Starbucks gift cards.
WEENIE OF THE WEEK!
Mike K nominates Woodward House for beating two of our dodgeball players in the
face. Charlie points out that their face-pegging is the only reason we won the
game.
Nathan nominates Joe Beckmann for no reason.
Kelsey nominates Charlie for being a terrible drunk. One, dropping a full
bottle of beer on the floor on bar night. Two, he locked himself in Emilia's
room. Third, he grabbed someone's ass?! Also he apparently tried to make vodka
macaroni and cheese.
Charlie counternominates Kelsey. Yesterday Yola gave blood and almost passed
out in the process, and was still finishing nauseous. Kelsey tried to get her
to drink.
Kate Harney says Nathan stole her subletter's umbrella, but in fact he didn't.
Charlie wins Weenie of the Week!
Hero of the week:
Brita nominates "snake kid". He said, "I have this friend who is obsessed with
snakes. And he's always talking about snakes. And I tried to talk to him about
God, and he said no! He just wanted to talk about snakes."
That should be a weenie nomination!
Yola nominates Jeremy's mom... oh, for a birthday cake. And it sings? A
mechanical, singing, wiggling, birthday cake.
Peter: That makes it sound a lot more dirty than it is.
Nora: No, it really is that bad.
Baumer nominates his neighbors for sending him a Dwight Schrute bobblehead.
Mike K nominates Steinert for breaking two kids' teeth? And making a 3-point
shot, I think?
Brad nominates Mike K for making Thompson's best football player walk off the
field in frustration. Charlie nominates the whole football team for getting 2
excessive celebration penalties, and should they get another...
Ref: Yeah, I can't kick you all out, so if you celebrate again, I'll just kick
Jeremy out.
Brad for getting some kid not to shake his hand after the game.
The guy did an illegal block on him, so Brad told the ref to watch him. Then
after the game the guy refused to shake his hand. Brad goes, "Oh you're from
Frum, I'm from near there...". Nope. You ran into me and told the ref! Just
no.
Jack nominates Baumer for feeding us. Josh talks about shutouts.
Nora actually counted, and there was a tie. Nora displays the cake, and it
really is that bad. Baumer wins in a runoff!
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We start 5 minutes late. Amanda tells us that Saturday is Ransom Notes first
concert. $2 in BARS, at 8. Bulls tickets: Jack's going to order them after
house meeting. Nora guesses that we're going to talk about community service,
then confirms her guess. That was a bit unfair, I think. Jack is going to kill
Pat. Jack says either November 15th, to decorate this place, or the 22nd to
actually serve meals to homeless people. That's the Saturday before
Thanksgiving. Whatever day we don't go, we'll do a potluck in the lounge. 22nd
wins.
Milan tells us about an emergency food kitchen that is running low, give
nonperishable food. She's also talking to the cafeteria about donating meal
points?
Sarah reminds us that we can come to her mother's house for Thanksgiving. It's
about a half-hour south by train. And there are many dogs!
Motet choir in Rockefeller Chapel on... I missed it. Something about ORCSA and
a museum?
Dining hall worker rally, Friday, 2:45, outside of Bartlett!
Steinert announces that Brad is ugly.
Milan is going to go see Quantum of Solace at midnight, Thursday, wants to
organize trips. Also $10 subsidy for Bulls tickets passes. Charlie wants to go
see the Blackhawks, but group tickets are sold out; fortunately, eBay exists.
Ask him for details.
WEENIE OF THE WEEK!
Last Friday some random guy came into Kelsey and Jordan's room and shook her
awake. "What are you doing here?! This is my room! Why are you in my bed?!"
he goes. Then he looked at the door. "Oh, I'm supposed to be on the 6th
floor." Jack reminds you that you may want to wake him up if such a thing
occurs.
Steinert reffed the game between the Law School and the Princeton Med School,
but he was the only ref (they're supposed to have 3). He awarded two
questionable touchdowns, one to each team; after he awarded one to the med
school, a law student goes up to the med student-
"Oh, hey, I didn't know bitching was on the MCAT!"
"Oh, hey, I didn't know the LSAT was a real test!"
They then proceeded to insult each other's weight for like 10 minutes.
Nora tells us of Aaron's stalkers, from Rickert house. They took a video of him
eating in Bartlett. They also made a "Wackiness" Obama poster of him. Anyway -
Nora and Aaron and Brianna were walking along, Aaron was complaining about them,
and he stopped to tie his shoe.
"Wait! Are you Aaron Horton?!" "Yeah..." "I've got to tell my whole house
about this at dinner!"
Kelly tells us that trick-or-treaters stole the condom supply!
Youlian nominates Alaska for Ted Stevens. He also nominates his complex
analysis teacher - he came out of the midterm, thinking he'd done pretty well.
Next time, the teacher handed back the test - he'd got 48/80 with "There are
some serious weaknesses in this exam. I think you really need to learn from
this exam and clear up any confusions you may have. It may be a good idea if
you see me outside of class." Oh crap, I failed the test!, he thought. He was
very distracted by this during class. Afterwards, someone asks what the average
was. Oh, it was 45/80. *Everyone* got that message. So Youlian nominates his
complex analysis teacher for scaring everyone.
Nora actually counts the votes! Med school/law school and drunk guy!
Jack suggests that guy is actually "felon of the week".
Hero of the week:
Jeremy nominates medschool/lawschool. Aaron is nominated for having stalkers.
Ben nominates Steinert for ...things I can't hear. They involve soccer. He
passed the ball? He gets into an argument with Amanda, and points out he's not
afraid to hit a girl.
Nora nominates the American people for electing a not-incompetent president.
Charlie speaks of a guy in DC who's being harassed by Black Panthers? His
parents had dinner with him?
The American people win hero of the week!
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We start late. Minu and Agnes are playing LittleBigPlanet, which is /awesome/.
Nora Casey is nowhere to be seen. Kurt leads.
A representative from the Aramark Workers/Student Alliance. Aramark Workers
want a 7% increase, which is just above inflation, basically just cost of
living. Aramark is offering 25 cents flat. So this Alliance is trying to put
pressure on Aramark. Day-long sit-in tomorrow in Bartlett, singing old union
songs. And then other things.
Taylor and Audrey say we can't do the serving Thanksgiving meal thing. We could
do breakfast, which is early, or some other things. Dinner doesn't involve
getting up early. Or we could make bagged lunches, but we'd have to pay for the
materials. People attempt to resolve things. Final decision: Uh... none.
Things will be determined later.
A "coup" chant begins. Jeremy wants to dance around with Kurt's head on a pike.
Yay, pike dance!
Signup for potluck on Saturday. Agnes has a car, and so can do grocery
shopping. Email her. You can use the RHs' kitchen, maybe.
Milan is going to be putting a box. Put nonperishable foods. Then put the box
around them. Or something.
Sarah reminds us you can go with them to her parents' house if you have no
Thanksgiving plans. Tell her if you want to do this. Charlie wants people to
drop him off by his cousins' house if they're going to the north suburbs.
Eve talks about a fashion show. It has stuff. It's in honor of a naked dance?
WEENIE OF THE WEEK!
Jeremy nominaters on behalf of Jack. There was a promo that if the Bulls got
too 100 points, everyone would get free food. They made it to 98, two minutes
left. No free food.
Josh nominates the Bulls too, they were playing against the Suns, who decided to
leave Shaq out - very disappointing as they went to see him - Bulls won, and
they made the 100 points and gave out the free Big Macs. But Josh gambled his
away, betting against Mike the 100 points wouldn't occur. They walk around, and
after 4 closed McDonalds attempting to get a Big Mac, finally find a big one,
where a homeless guy accosts them and starts shining their shoes. "Dude, we
don't have any money." But he didn't listen, finished shining, and goes,
"That's $3 and a tip for both of you." So they bought him food at the McDonalds
- he /demanded/ he buy them two double cheeseburgers, actually. But on the way
back, among confusion about bus station location, in the rain, the bag broke,
and the Big Mac was lost. Then Mike had them get off the bus early, thinking
they were near Pierce - "Are you /sure/ this Hyde Park?" "Yeah, yeah." They get
off. "Mike, do you have /any/ idea where we are?" Turns out no. 20 minutes
to get home.
Winston nominates Eve for racism - "Winston, how can you see?"
Friday night wins Weenie of the Week!
Charlie nominates Audrey for hero, for showing up to volleyball, allowing them
to field more people (can't have more guys than girls on field at once). Josh
nominates Jordan for coed football. Jeremy nominates Blaise and Pat for them
getting legwarmers? Jeremy refers to them as "pure sex legwarmers".
Audrey wins hero of the week!
QUARTER 1 WEEK 8 HOUSE MEETING MINUTES
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Winston wants to fly into the air and shoot energy beams. Nora wants to start
the meeting.
Wind ensemble concert Sunday, chamber orchestra on the 8th (when's that?);
Sunday night at 8 at Mandel is... something? It's free, apparently. Also
Friday is both Occam's and Off-Off. Ian speaks of an OBS event in Mandel?
There's a lot of concerts!
Dining hall workers tomorrow there's a phone bank at Cobb quad where you can go
up and call Aramark to say the dining hall workers deserve a better contract.
E-Lin points out the box on Milan's behalf. It is too small to hide in, but the
right size for putting nonperishable foods in.
People want a new TV? Why? It's working fine now. Interesting that 2 TVs is
the standard now - the one was bought to replace the other. We keep going, soon
we'll be buying a 4th because one of the three isn't working. It passes, to my
disapproval.
Sarah and Jack's invitation to her mom's house for Thanksgiving is still open.
Also if you'll be here for Thanksgiving, please tell them even if you're not
going. Also something with Christmas and Germany and a market? Also there will
be decorating the lounge on Sunday after Thanksgiving?
Winston is going to put the pinata head on a pike?
Charlie announces the performance of a self-hating Jew stand-up comedian. He
insists it is tasteful. Talk to him.
Kickball team made playoffs, but it's capped at 10 people. Monday or Tuesday
next week. But you have to have played during the regular season.
Agnes and Luke are leaving for study abroad next quarter; hence there will be a
lottery for their rooms. Second-years get priority over first-years. Note that
if you have a double and your roommate moves out, that spot will eventually be
open; Nora and Julian are on the waiting list. Note that open housing doesn't
start till January, so the gender matters. Nora is #1 on the waiting list.
Ordinarily nobody wants to move into a double...
Luke is early. Ben's football IM chamionships are on Sunday, 2:00. Mike might
need hand surgery, but he won't find out till Monday.
Baumer proposes a $10 subsidy for the Blackhawks-Blues game he and Charlie went
to. Some people don't like subsidizing hockey. It's approved.
Ben points out the lack of batteries. Where's Julia?! We need batteries for
the wavebird! Ben wants to start a house battery pile. Maybe we should get
rechargeables? Some people instead want a stripper pole. Or a fireman's pole,
so you can slide down from the 4th floor to the 3rd floor.
Nora: Does it come with firemen?
Mike: Firemen strippers!
WEENIE OF THE WEEK!
Amanda nominates Winston. Winston is working on his CS homework, and he
predicted something that was going to go wrong with his program. Amanda walks
in to get some candy, and just as she reaches into the drawer, Winston's program
returns with the predicted error, and he shouts, "I *knew* you'd do that,
bitch!" And Amanda was very scared; this is the candy drawer! I take from here
all the time! Laura was afraid she was being abused.
Blaise was walking, and walking, in a straight line walking, when a bike ran
into her! Now she has a bruise on her arm and a tire mark. Somehow the guy
just kept going.
Charlie: It's better than the Chinese food guys in New York; if you get hit by
one of them, you're dead.
Mike and Jeremy nominate Blaise because at IM they always have to clean up
Blaise's messes. Winston nominates Mike because he's an asshole.
Peter: Mike's *always* an asshole!
Nora tells a story I can't keep track of. Winston says something about a note,
which I can't follow either. Yola tells: she was working on her bio lab, then
Winston came in and shook her computer and it shut down and it was all lost.
Winston: I was just trying to show Jimmy a Smash video!
Also Joe Beckmann really, really, *really* loves his girlfriend. And he knocked
on Yola?
WINSTON WINS FOR ERASING YOLA'S LAB!
Hero of the week:
Mike K tells us of a guy at the hockey game who was betting with his drunk
friend for who gets the urinal first, because the lines were so long.
Brad nominates Charlie for supporting dodgeball.
Sam Haddaway nominated for football. They beat Linn House. The whole team is
nominated too.
Charlie nominates the kid in the wheelchair who responded with "Rangers suck" to
Charlie's Rangers shirt; "they may have taken my legs, but they can never take
my hatred of people from New York".
Jack nominates potluck.
Jeremy: Dude, that gave me such gas, and it was awesome.
Potluck wins hero of the week!
Charlie: We'll try not to pull something patting ourselves on the back.
(Week 9 was Thanksgiving.)
QUARTER 1 WEEK 10 HOUSE MEETING MINUTES
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About half our announcements about musical events. Jeremy calls Jack on the
phone; Jack doesn't answer. He tries again, to no avail.
Tomorrow is Messiah and Soul Umoja. Artis has a solo. Occam's at 8. Steve
(Steve Steve) is in a concert too. There are cookies being baked, and the money
supports Hannah's elementary school. Brita's orchestra concert, also Motet
choir. Jeremy persists.
Also carbo loading on Monday, if the kitchen is cleaned. If you use a plate,
yours or not, clean it! Jack thinks we made an error in expanding the
responsibilities of the kitchen wench. (Yay, moral hazard! Am I using that
term right?)
Nora suggests painting the study lounge with chalk paint, which we can write on
and erase. But we write on the walls anyway! Nora calls a straw poll; for gets
more votes than against, but not much enthusiasm. The study break people are
loud. Winston doesn't like it, but his opinion is turned by being able to erase
and use it for problem-solving and all. (But can you use it to kill people?)
Josh announces a Scarface concert. The rapper, not Al Capone. He didn't
really sing. (Although I guess that could possibly said of the rapper too.)
Laura fixed the microwave! Dish situation is not ideal, but do clean up after
yourself... also, she fixed the microwave! Also some sort of study break on
Sunday I missed the details.
You all must be out by noon on Saturday! Sarah will go through all your rooms.
Clean out your fridge (as the power could go out), hide anything illegal. If
you're keeping a plant, you can give it to Jack and Sarah and they'll water it.
All windows must be closed and locked, all heaters must be set to 1 (so the
pipes don't freeze over).
Caroling 6:00 at Hyde Park Union Church Sunday.
Charlie wants to make an announcement about next quarter.
Milan thanks everyone who donated to the food thing.
Jasper tells us they had a social chair meeting. He said they want to have
study breaks with other houses?! Tufts House?! Really?! We have a temporary
alliance with them 4 days a year.
Brad complains about some really bad music someone was playing last night. It
wasn't coming from Henderson, because they're quiet all the time. It was an
angry black preacher with a lot of music.
IMs! They're starting a girls' indoor soccer team?
WEENIE OF THE WEEK!
Baumer nominates Drunk Charlie for walking into his room and eating all his Girl
Scout cookies. Charlie insists he only ate one, and Jasper, Kelsey, and others
ate the rest. He got his thin mints back, but the caramel ones were gone.
Graeme nominates Nathan for Weenie. There was a cup of ramen on the table.
Josh had his laptop on the table, turned it, and accidentally knocked the ramen
off the table. Nathan takes a look... and runs out, so Josh and Graeme and
Brittany had to clean it all up.
Jimmy nominates Nathan too. He was throwing the records in the hall. "Nate,
you shouldn't throw vinyl discs, you're gonna hit someone in the eye." Guess
what? He hit Jimmy above his eye (note the bandage), it split open and blood
was everywhere.
Josh nominates Nathan for stealing someone's onions and stuffing them down his
pants.
Winston nominates Jasper. Winston was really depressed, and he was playing
Smash, 2v2, with Jasper on his team, and Jasper kept killing him! It was sad.
Then the next day, he had CS to do, and he asked Jasper for a hint, and Jasper
for a hint, and 8 hours later, they realized the hint totally sucked. And
Jasper was like, "Oh, cool for cats!" or something like that. And he crushed
one of his glasses in his room, there's glass shards everywhere. And he uses
the word "baller" all the time. And Winston's iPod broke, and he blames that on
Jasper too. And he ignores whatever people say - "Oh, that's cool!" Winston
also has "shoes" on his list, he's not sure what that was for.
NATHAN WINS WEENIE OF THE WEEK!
Jasper and Ian are nominated for alligator cakes.
Charlie nominates Ben for reversing the red ring of death! The Xbox Jesus!
Amanda nominates Jennifer for going to France for tennis. Mike K nominates
kickball, which includes Jennifer.
Matt nominates Georgia Tech for beating Georgia for the first time in 7 years.
Mike nominates Henry Frisch, who is giving his very last 141 lecture, on rocket
propulsion, and at the end, he pulls a garbage bag off a scooter with a fire
extinguisher attached and rockets out of class.
Jennifer wins hero of the week!
...and that about wraps it up. On to this quarter!
-Harry
