Friday, October 12, 2007
TGIF and happy hour instructions
There’s been a lot of communication back and forth with Chicago this week, particularly about the headless horseman scavenger hunt & bi-cycle race in two weeks, which is going to be fantastic. word on the street is that the peach pit is sponsoring with beer- and pizza-related prizes and rodan is hosting the afterparty. let’s spend some time on this blog talking about how fantastic their mojitos are. but for real: all my peeps in chicago need to congregate and have the happy hour to end all happy hours tonight.
back in eastern standard time, ms. ulty is excited about the prospect of getting back on her iron horse like the chicks n’ drinks ladies in chicity….eventually. the bruises from my battle with a biology professor’s hood are pretty much gone, but my right knee still has this weird swelling on it, it’s a little hurty, etc. now you know. i can’t help but think that if i’d gone to berkeley i would have had doctor welsh’s expert consultation. maybe grandma’s right, maybe i do need to start hanging out with the medical school.
since this accident kept me away from regionals last weekend (so frustrating), i picked up a new pastime to cheer myself up: stump. this game is what it sounds and looks like: you put a bunch of nails into a tree stump in a circle, with one in the middle. everybody playing picks a nail and the object of the game is to be the last nail standing. you achieve this by flipping a forester-sized hammer end over end, cactching it on the fly and immediately striking your opponents’ nails/the stump/miss catching it and permanently maim a bystander. i got pretty into it, and finally won a round by the end of happy hour. needless to say every aspect of the competition improved over time since it was part of our weekly outdoor happy hour.
speaking of which, miss casual, i seem to remember us making a graph of crunkedness over time at one point. last friday, at the as-close-as-new-haven-gets-to-a-bicycle-bar bar, we were doing something similar and my friend esteban came up with a complex version involving four axes. general consensus at the table was that he’s a shoe-in for the nobel prize. turns out that went to al gore instead, but maybe next year we’ll get his submission in on time.
but back to ultimate. congratuf’inglations to machine, and my heart goes out to everyone else. while no one wanted their seasons to end in the sooner state, the good news is that, while machine is having two-a-days in 50 degree drizzle, you’ll be inside watching football, eating steak and drinking beer. same goes for happy hour: do it up chicago, 
make some happy hour magic so miss casual has something to post about on monday. rally the troops - i want shenanigans, hijinx and pictures. remember that time bp and miss casual got into a fight at that crappy indoor beergarden? remember when that kids got headbutted by the crazy bartender at the hole-in-the-wall on armitage? avoid those places, and instead go to lemming’s, order a kind midwestern brew and catch up with your friends. do it or else i’ll come at you with my hammer.
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October 12th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
who’s “bp”?
it’s cool, that’s what most people think my name is when introduced in a noisy bar and technically “bp” is still correct with my middle name.
October 12th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
There will be about 4 illustrators already at lemmings tonight, maybe I’ll recongnize some of you. We’ll be the ones with helmets and rolled up pants.
October 12th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
oh, bp is this really great kid who lives right up the street from me in new haven. went to u mass, plays ultimate, has a super ladyfriend, recently got a hamster as a pet. he’s awesome, almost as cool as this kid i knew in chicago named dp. i wonder what happened to dp? i wouldn’t know because i don’t live in chicago anymore and no one blogs from paulina. hmm.
October 12th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
morgan youre going to lemmings tonight? hmmm…
also our new name should be casual ultimate : more guilt trips per comment than any other ultimate blog ever!
but claires right. team paulina on deck.
October 12th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
yep, Earwax at 6 and a drink after.
October 12th, 2007 at 2:34 pm
Hey, architects, have you seen these things? Look at the things. http://deputy-dog.com/2007/10/03/optical-illusions-and-architecture/
October 12th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
those are awesome! the second one, the lichtenstein house is in atlanta outside the high museum. the pictures dont do it justice. it is totally disorienting when you walk around it. you feel like you might fall off the world.
October 14th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
i think i just got called out