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I have not updated in quite a while, having decided to quit the whole live-journal thing. But, apparently my decisions are not terribly constraining.
So I'm on spring break--last year I spent this time in New Orleans (check 51 weeks ago for my 10 page polemic on the trip), therefore I decided to spend this year in a bit more of a relaxing locale.
It's astounding how much warmer Williamsburg, VA, is compared to Cambridge, MA, when they are only 400 miles away.
Oh ya, that's right--I'm spending my spring break in the tourist spot to top them all. Not Cabo, not the Bahamas, but Williamsburg. Matt Shayefar and I are staying with Dan for a week. It's nice; it's relaxing; the whole town is pastoral. I feel about 80 walking through colonial williamsburg, by association with everyone else there.
The town isn't actually populated by reenactors, the original population just never left.
I think matt and I are going to go down to Jamestown tomorrow.
A couple of quick points. Dan and Josh and I went to the museum of the confederacy yesterday and chose not to pay--lest our money be used towards the ends of the thinly veiled pro-confederacy institution--my mom yelled at me for this that it was a) stealing b) represented an unwillingness to allow people to express views that differ from my own.
We also ate soul food yesterday. We paid for that.
Um, last Thursday was the freshman welcome into Lowell House. I did the traditional 1) paint my torso blue 2) have someone sit on my shoulders whilst they play the tuba 3) dance around.
It was fun.
So I'm on spring break--last year I spent this time in New Orleans (check 51 weeks ago for my 10 page polemic on the trip), therefore I decided to spend this year in a bit more of a relaxing locale.
It's astounding how much warmer Williamsburg, VA, is compared to Cambridge, MA, when they are only 400 miles away.
Oh ya, that's right--I'm spending my spring break in the tourist spot to top them all. Not Cabo, not the Bahamas, but Williamsburg. Matt Shayefar and I are staying with Dan for a week. It's nice; it's relaxing; the whole town is pastoral. I feel about 80 walking through colonial williamsburg, by association with everyone else there.
The town isn't actually populated by reenactors, the original population just never left.
I think matt and I are going to go down to Jamestown tomorrow.
A couple of quick points. Dan and Josh and I went to the museum of the confederacy yesterday and chose not to pay--lest our money be used towards the ends of the thinly veiled pro-confederacy institution--my mom yelled at me for this that it was a) stealing b) represented an unwillingness to allow people to express views that differ from my own.
We also ate soul food yesterday. We paid for that.
Um, last Thursday was the freshman welcome into Lowell House. I did the traditional 1) paint my torso blue 2) have someone sit on my shoulders whilst they play the tuba 3) dance around.
It was fun.