As part of the ongoing Chicopee Party Series, we threw an All Saints Day party on All Saints Day--Saturday, November 1st. We were going to throw a Halloween party, and have plenty of scary surprises in store for everybody, but the church had a big Acts of Kindness event at Franklin St. and we didn't want to compete with that ( Read more... )

Last night, we convened at David and Geoff's apartment to surprise Fuller on his 21st birthday. I thought you all might enjoy seeing some photos. :-)

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Yesterday was Jason & Sarah's house party. They moved to a new place kind of north-east of campus, and they decided to break it in properly. It was a grand old time, in the proper tradition of computer science house parties. Here are some of the highlights:

• A bonfire, which a neighbor poured gasoline on
• A pony keg of some delicious Carolina ( Read more... )

My last few days in San Diego, I really felt the love. Tuesday night, before my last day at work, Hyun-chul (visiting researcher and desk-neighbor), Fragkiskos, Alberto (summer interns from Cyprus and Italy, respectively), and I went out to downtown San Diego for the first time together. We had a good time together, laughing about all the little ( Read more... )

After seeing the Dead Sea Scrolls with Matt, we grabbed some Roberto's (so tasty!). There were plans in the works to attend a party in Pacific Beach with some of Matt and Eric's co-workers. Eric came over along with some soon-to-be coworkers, Josh and Denise, who moved here about a week ago. (Denise is Jamaican--I love her accent!) We played a ( Read more... )

Last Friday, Matt (a friend from college) and I had the 2nd weekend of "40's after 5", a little tradition one of our friends started. He has an old Nintendo--like, the original NES--and many games. I had a great time remembering Double Dragon 2 and Super Mario Brothers 3. Eric joined us, and later we went to a party that their friend Priya was ( Read more... )

This will probably be pretty repetitive to those of you who read mrsmalkav's journal. And probably much less entertaining. I'd skip it if I were you, unless I was bored and had some time on my hands. ;-)

( Warning: massive post within! )

Friday night, a big group of us went out to Top of the Hill to celebrate Vince's birthday. When he got there, we all gathered around, loudly sang the happy birthday song, and generally made a spectacle to try to embarrass him. It was his 24th birthday, and it was March 24th. At midnight, it was officially the 25th, and thus Tynia's 25th birthday ( Read more... )

Last Friday was the date of the big Irish Car Bomb party. Except for last fall, I've thrown one of these each semester. It satisfies my need to throw a party every once in a while...and it also gives me a reason to thoroughly clean the apartment ( Read more... )

Friday, I persuaded everyone to go to Hell (a bar) instead of Top of the Hill for post-systems-tea drinks. I like Hell because not only do they have Shiner Bock on tap, and not only do they serve pitchers, but the pitchers are only $6, which makes it pretty much the best deal around. After that, Stephen and I went home to get some eats, then back ( Read more... )