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i was going to write a really funny entry but i think i'll save it. feel free to skip this, unless you want to know what's going on. not that you wouldn't skip it if i hadn't written that. sorry, i'm still in a bit of delegate mode here. or just an idiot...
upmunc was fabulous. our delegate in the committee for crime prevention and criminal justice got outstanding delegation! yay! take that west point mofos (i can curse now, we're out of session). that's a totally awesome award by the way. one that kutztown rarely receives due to the lack of fairness in these things. you'd think something that tried so hard to take the politics out of saving the world (shut up, they do) would take that into consideration before automatically giving yale the highest award. the team did well, but that was the only recognized thing.
onto what really mattered at upmunc: partying. they sell shot glasses at this conference and last year it said "updrunk" har har. anyhow, they rented out club twenty-seven for us, which was nice, despite how crowded it was, and charging a dollar for a small plastic cup of water is a bit outrageous. so there were these two guys lookin' for something to do in philly and they were like, "that must be the cool club since there is such a long line." yeah, because there were no discussions on the legitimacy of safe zones in states with IDPs or anything like that. so we snuck them into the dorkiest club ever and they had the time of their life despite being 3rd year grad students at cornell (for chem.) and upenn's law school.
about the last day... upenn is known for being the silliest of the ivy leagues yes? well, this took it to the extreme. after voting procedures it was obvious we weren't going to bring up another [legitimate] topic so the US (Georgetown, who sucked ass by the way) decided to suggest we discuss the middle east and the need to ban weapons, but not just any weapons, rocks. yes rocks. so the colombian delegation came up, but motioned to be recognized as the banana republic. it went well. BEST PART OF THE WHOLE WEEKEND (just kidding, but i thoroughly enjoyed it), one of the members of my dais who was named vice-chair because our real chair felt we weren't utilizing his accent enough, had a dance off with cote de'ivore (keep in mind this was like the fifth dance off, i'll get to the weirdest one in a sec) on who had the best hair (yes we voted, no it wasn't a roll call vote). But wait the dance off guy, the member of the dais was from south africa (he was white) and had the most beautiful accent i've ever heard, got up on the table that was raised on a platform and started stripping! our chair was stripping.... i'm not going to lie, he was a beautiful young man. it was not, however, necessary for a delegate from chile to bring up a dollar bill. i did not like her one bit. so the best dance off of the day was indeed between the delegations of france aka west point and of denmark aka the coast guard. you see, the coast guard delegation was made up of two males and a disclaimer had to be made that it was not an implication of their preference. that did not stop west point from coming up and making it aware to them that they were no longer military. seriously, it was a nut house. we of course hijacked south african boy's computer for music and had the whole committee singing queen's "bohemian rhapsody" and belgium on air guitar. it was adorable. i got a picture. yay upmunc! everyone else will be super formal (until session let's out of course), but i'm still really excited.
i also wanted to say upmunc has screwed me for the week. i have two crits (tests/projects due) tuesday and couldn't (obviously) go to studio hours for four days. so i went tonight to make my earrings, and of course i contaminated the pickle and turned my silver into what looks like copper. completely ruined two and a half weeks of work. hooray! then, because of the obvious breakdown i was about to have, i decided to steer clear of metals for a bit and possibly START my ceramics project. nope. i went to get my mug out of the kiln room and the glaze flowed and stuck to a cookie. my prof said mine wouldn't do that even though i told him it would and gave an explanation. so i was a bit pissed again. i hit it on the trashcan to break off some excess glaze and then managed to slice my thumb open on the glass. super dumb move number two (more like 5 but i was just counting ruining my earrings and then slicing the thumb as the most awesome), check. now i have to finish my board for godley's class even though i'm about to pass out. i hate being siiiick. whatever i had a week or two ago decided to come back twice as bad. anyhow, goodnight.
upmunc was fabulous. our delegate in the committee for crime prevention and criminal justice got outstanding delegation! yay! take that west point mofos (i can curse now, we're out of session). that's a totally awesome award by the way. one that kutztown rarely receives due to the lack of fairness in these things. you'd think something that tried so hard to take the politics out of saving the world (shut up, they do) would take that into consideration before automatically giving yale the highest award. the team did well, but that was the only recognized thing.
onto what really mattered at upmunc: partying. they sell shot glasses at this conference and last year it said "updrunk" har har. anyhow, they rented out club twenty-seven for us, which was nice, despite how crowded it was, and charging a dollar for a small plastic cup of water is a bit outrageous. so there were these two guys lookin' for something to do in philly and they were like, "that must be the cool club since there is such a long line." yeah, because there were no discussions on the legitimacy of safe zones in states with IDPs or anything like that. so we snuck them into the dorkiest club ever and they had the time of their life despite being 3rd year grad students at cornell (for chem.) and upenn's law school.
about the last day... upenn is known for being the silliest of the ivy leagues yes? well, this took it to the extreme. after voting procedures it was obvious we weren't going to bring up another [legitimate] topic so the US (Georgetown, who sucked ass by the way) decided to suggest we discuss the middle east and the need to ban weapons, but not just any weapons, rocks. yes rocks. so the colombian delegation came up, but motioned to be recognized as the banana republic. it went well. BEST PART OF THE WHOLE WEEKEND (just kidding, but i thoroughly enjoyed it), one of the members of my dais who was named vice-chair because our real chair felt we weren't utilizing his accent enough, had a dance off with cote de'ivore (keep in mind this was like the fifth dance off, i'll get to the weirdest one in a sec) on who had the best hair (yes we voted, no it wasn't a roll call vote). But wait the dance off guy, the member of the dais was from south africa (he was white) and had the most beautiful accent i've ever heard, got up on the table that was raised on a platform and started stripping! our chair was stripping.... i'm not going to lie, he was a beautiful young man. it was not, however, necessary for a delegate from chile to bring up a dollar bill. i did not like her one bit. so the best dance off of the day was indeed between the delegations of france aka west point and of denmark aka the coast guard. you see, the coast guard delegation was made up of two males and a disclaimer had to be made that it was not an implication of their preference. that did not stop west point from coming up and making it aware to them that they were no longer military. seriously, it was a nut house. we of course hijacked south african boy's computer for music and had the whole committee singing queen's "bohemian rhapsody" and belgium on air guitar. it was adorable. i got a picture. yay upmunc! everyone else will be super formal (until session let's out of course), but i'm still really excited.
i also wanted to say upmunc has screwed me for the week. i have two crits (tests/projects due) tuesday and couldn't (obviously) go to studio hours for four days. so i went tonight to make my earrings, and of course i contaminated the pickle and turned my silver into what looks like copper. completely ruined two and a half weeks of work. hooray! then, because of the obvious breakdown i was about to have, i decided to steer clear of metals for a bit and possibly START my ceramics project. nope. i went to get my mug out of the kiln room and the glaze flowed and stuck to a cookie. my prof said mine wouldn't do that even though i told him it would and gave an explanation. so i was a bit pissed again. i hit it on the trashcan to break off some excess glaze and then managed to slice my thumb open on the glass. super dumb move number two (more like 5 but i was just counting ruining my earrings and then slicing the thumb as the most awesome), check. now i have to finish my board for godley's class even though i'm about to pass out. i hate being siiiick. whatever i had a week or two ago decided to come back twice as bad. anyhow, goodnight.