PennYo and Penn Singers

Tonight I went to not one, but 2 shows!

First was "Confusion," the PennYo show. PennYo is Penn's Chinese acapella group. plus_c came up to do spotlight for them. They were amazing. I took a ton of pictures, and a 4-5 minute video of this hilarious Jay Chou (sp?) medley.

Then the Penn Singers performed Candide. I had a quick break in between to get some food at WaWa, which is right near the Iron Gate Theatre. (WaWa saved us many times during the tech week of Chopin Playoffs. We bought a lot of chocolate and ice cream.) And Candide was hilarious and amazing as well. Now I want to go read the book.

[And platypuses and superducky1 were awesome in Candide.]
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To backtrack now- Shabbat was good, though there were some points that were not as good as others. I'm not going to go into details, it's mostly internal drama based on my paranoia of not having a social life. I'll deal.

There were some interesting frat boys this morning at CJC (who know you, A.A...) and their conversation that I overheard reminded me of an overheard fratboy convo in the Providence (not actually Providence) TFGreen airport last week.

So last week's was two guys talking, one saying how the problem with such a small school was that that they knew all the hot girls, and if you did something bad, everyone would know about it (and thus, I assume, you'd having a tougher time finding someone to hook up with you.) And he said the other guy had it right, having a steady relationship.

So today's fratboys were talking about how one had a hard time breaking up with a girl, and he even used the line "I can't date someone who is not Jewish." Um, hello? If that's the case why did you date her in the first place? They also had this inferiority complex (they go to school in Baltimore and were on a road trip)- they kept on talking about how Penn students think they're so smart, but how one of the frat boys got higher SAT scores, or later they asked me if we had a chess team and I said I wasn't sure, and he said he was going to say "oh our chess team won ____ [championship/ tournament/whatever]." Etc. I was thinking of calling them on it (but decided against it). Not that I really care, since I'm fine with my intelligence or lack thereof. Going to Penn doesn't automaticaly make me smart. And these frat boys were really immature, even though they're juniors, so you'd think they'd have grown out of it by now. Is this what humanity has come to? If so, then we're doomed.

pictures!

pennyo

Cats, Cookies, and Magical Trevor

having trouble doing work

I came to the high rise south rooftop lounge to work on some stuff. Nothing intense, just a 5 page paper on JitW (JitW!!!), a personal statement for grad school, and a progress report for Dr. Erickson about the progress that I've made on my thesis, since he's my *official* anthro advisor even if Ben is my actual advisor. None of these are due tomorrow.

However, I'm having trouble working, probably because I'm hungry.

But I'm too tired to do the fleishing dishes in my sink, which need to be done before I can make pasta (which isn't inherently dairy, but I like to eat it with cheese.) And the hunger contributes to the tiredness.

Normally the easiest way to break the cycle is to go to the dining hall and eat lunch there. But alas, it is Sunday, and the dining hall is closed on Sundays.

I could theoretically heat up some soup in the microwave, but last night there was an incident in which there was a bug in the microwave, so I'm reluctant to use it until I've cleaned it and rekashered it. I also have to buy some traps. But on the plus side this is the first bug I've seen this year, so at least I've managed to be fine thus far.

I don't have time or energy to go to Cherry Street.

And there's free pizza at SNL, but that's not until 7 and at 7 I have a conference call for the Koach Kallah planning. I'm hoping to grab pizza before the call, but that's contingent on the pizza coming on time. And I don't think I can last that long.

I don't have any substantial food in my kitchen that doesn't require at least microwaving. I could have ice cream, but I did that last night, and I need actual nutrition, preferably in the form of hot food. And a caramel apple cider does not count as "food." Really, I want carbohydrates in the form of something that's not sweet. Pasta, pizza, potato kugel, fries, etc. All are good options. Or meat. Meat is good.

If I could use a microwave in north I can heat up the leftover kasha bow ties from Friday dinner that are currently in 309's fridge...

Can someone please feed me kosher food before I die of starvation?

Books!

I made myself a pizza in one of those dispoable metal trays, and while it was in the oven I was able to do most of the dishes. And since plus_c and I didn't see "Casino Royale," I have more free time. I still haven't gotten anything accomplished, but I finished a fun book, Alexander McCall Smith's The Sunday Philosophy Club. GM reccommended it to me, so now I reccommend it to you. Actually I reccommend Alexander McCall Smith in general. I love it when I find new authors to read.

Meanwhile the sequel Friends, Lovers, Chocolate, is checked out, due March 30th. What is it with people who have books out until March 30th? Is it automatic that grad students and professors get books for that long? Do you really need that long to read a novel? It's a really quick read! And you're a Penn professor/grad student. You should be intelligent enough not to need it until then.

But I was nice, and instead of recalling it I did EZ Borrow.