Krewe du Vieux
My favorite parade and I didn't get to see it this year. The reason? I'm working in one of the Krewe members' labs and had to hold the fort down for him to get ready to march. He's a member of the sub-krewe Spermes (which is the one I'll be invited to join as soon as I am no longer an undergraduate). Their interpretation of the theme of the entire parade (Habitat for Insanity) this year was 
featuring a giant penis on a psychiatrist's couch. Dr. Dohanich's costume was to go as Sigmund Freud.
Oh, and last year Spermes was the last float of the parade..."Mandatory Ejaculation," which had a giant cunt with the hurricane symbol on top of it.
I did in fact get out of the lab early enough today that I could've made it downtown in time to catch some of the parade, but the thought of being on my own getting back uptown and that I've got to wake up at 8 AM tomorrow, and the fact that it's so bloody cold outside....all these factors made me unenthusiastic about catching the bus to Canal street. I had fellow neuroscientists I could've met up with at various points along the route, but I wasn't in the mood. Not at all. I'm turning into an old fart, for serious. I'm so set in my 11pm-7am sleep cycle that I can't even imagine staying out late to have fun anymore.
Oh well. Hearing all about it tomorrow should be interesting.
featuring a giant penis on a psychiatrist's couch. Dr. Dohanich's costume was to go as Sigmund Freud.
Oh, and last year Spermes was the last float of the parade..."Mandatory Ejaculation," which had a giant cunt with the hurricane symbol on top of it.
I did in fact get out of the lab early enough today that I could've made it downtown in time to catch some of the parade, but the thought of being on my own getting back uptown and that I've got to wake up at 8 AM tomorrow, and the fact that it's so bloody cold outside....all these factors made me unenthusiastic about catching the bus to Canal street. I had fellow neuroscientists I could've met up with at various points along the route, but I wasn't in the mood. Not at all. I'm turning into an old fart, for serious. I'm so set in my 11pm-7am sleep cycle that I can't even imagine staying out late to have fun anymore.
Oh well. Hearing all about it tomorrow should be interesting.