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Friday started out normal. I managed to get to work before 8, hustled a good amount to try and finish up the Japanese product so we could send it out for final testing. It didn’t quite happen, but it was ok because my boss’s boss rode his motorcycle to work on Friday and couldn’t take the computer home with him anyway. So we have until Monday.<\/p>\n

About halfway through the morning, someone posted to the wellesley98 ml that they could give people rides out to reunion tonight.<\/p>\n

K: … tonight?!<\/p>\n

Yes, it’s true. I was firmly and completely convinced that reunion was NEXT weekend, not this one, until about 9am on Friday morning.<\/p>\n

So, after work I went home to meet my mom. We put up some of the wallpaper in the bathroom, but there wasn’t enough, so we’ll have to order more. Then I threw together some stuff and drove on down to Wellesley. In a fit of randomness, I decided not to bring my computer with me, though as I discovered when I got there, they did have the ethernet set up in the rooms.<\/p>\n

Friday I didn’t do much. I avoided stepsinging and headed over to dinner almost as soon as it was getting started. Since people were consistently not arriving for meals until a half hour after the scheduled start time, there was virtually no one there yet. So I stood around for a while, waiting to see if anyone I knew would show up. Eventually Laurel, who was in my intro Astronomy class, appeared, and I sat with her. Dinner was not bad. Not spectacular, but there was, at least, enough of it. Then they started singing again. So Laurel and I looked at each other and then we escaped back to the dorm. We ran into one of the student helpers with a golfcart on the way back — and since I’d always wanted to ride on a golfcart, we took the ride and rode back to the dorm. It was very cool.<\/p>\n

We took over the TV room and watched a MST’ed a really awful movie on PAX, starring Bo Duke\/Pa Kent, taking a break in the middle to go up and watch the fireworks from the roof of Bates (Impressively long display.) Then we watched some of the news, as Friday was apparently a day full of disasters, and then we went to bed. At about 12 or so, some drunken girls came around banging on everyone’s door and trying to get people to go party with them. But they weren’t too pressing and left after I’d said no about 4 or 5 times.<\/p>\n

Saturday I got up and headed over to the library for the tour. I’d been in special collections before, but they’ve really expanded and improved the Book Arts\/Conservation section since we’ve been there. It is so so cool. *reminds self to look up information about the seminars*. After the tour it was lunchtime, so I headed over to the Big White Tent(TM). Bina was there, and we sat and talked for a long while. I was glad to see her; she was on my list of people who I’d hoped would be there. We headed over to Pendleton for Prof. Lynch’s lecture, and luckily we were 15 or 20 minutes early, since due to the rain and the subject matter, the room was filled to capacity and then some.<\/p>\n

After the lecture, we found that there was absolutely nothing on the schedule for the next hour and a half. So I procured myself a poncho (Bina, her mom and her mom’s friends had all wisely brought raincoats) and we hiked back to the dorms to wait for the class meeting to start. The meeting was loud and seemed a bit pointless. After that, Bina left and it was dinner time.<\/p>\n

Now, this dinner, aside from the rooms themselves, was the single most expensive thing on the bill for reunion. So naturally one would think they’d, for instance, HAVE ENOUGH FOOD FOR EVERYONE. But they didn’t. It was very very sad.<\/p>\n

Laurel and I escaped from dinner after dessert and went up to the tv room again. We had a nice talk with a student helper for a while, and then we were invaded by a group of drunk girls who wanted to watch a videotape of themselves being drunk. It was very amusing watching their sad attempts to hook up the VCR, and I have to say, the tape itself was pretty amusing also.<\/p>\n

After they were done, we found there really wasn’t anything else on TV, so we headed for bed. People were already being loud, and on the way to the elevator, we watched in surprise as someone attempted to slide down the bannister.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, when I got up on Sunday, I packed up and headed home. Arrived home to find drama had transpired while I was away, of the pointless teenagery variety, which made me glad reunion was this weekend and not next after all.<\/p>\n

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