Gobs of fun

If any of you remember me in middle school, my friends and I went through a phase of Lord of the Rings obsession. One year, my new year's resolution was to learn Elvish (I'm not kidding even one bit). Interestingly enough, in my linguistics class, we had an assignment that involved researching an artificial language and proving whether or not it is a real language. I chose Sindarin, which is actually one of the many Elvish languages invented by JRR Tolkien and wrote a paper on it! I will share my findings with all of you after I find out if I did okay on it.


I had a rather wonderful weekend (minus the frantic cramming on Sunday night). I didn't go to any classes this Thursday because I didn't feel like it. I did however attend my Anatomy Lab Exam at 9 PM. The Anatomy Lab Exam is where we have to go around to different stations identifying different bones in the body. We get 45 seconds at each station, which is more than enough time to identify and write down your answer if you actually know the bone that is sitting in front of you. However if you don't, it is a very stressful 45 seconds and usually ends in you frantically sketching a lousy picture of it so that you can try to identify it later (never works that way).

Anyway, on Friday was Bhangra Resurrection! We had to go, despite the foot of snow. We only spent an hour there, but it was a very energetic hour involving Bhangra dancing, stepping on peoples toes, doubling over in wheezing fits (I am that out of shape). This year, I thought I should pay for any damage that I have caused so I even bought a bright yellow Bhangra Resurrection T shirt. It was gobs of fun, but we had to leave early to surprise Swetha at midnight for her birthday.

And on Saturday was Dandia On Fire! DOF is a Raas competition where several awesome teams come to perform at Eisenhower (we had it last year too). They were awesome to watch. And after DOF, Sampath, Moksha, and I watched Jalsa on a big screen by hijacking a room in Boucke Building, opening the podium lock, (using a combination which we had acquired just earlier that day :D) and playing a downloaded rip of the movie. We also brought popcorn and smoothies into the room even though it said "food and drinks not allowed". We are such bad people.

Sunday was not terribly exciting since I tried to start doing homework at 10 AM (I actually started at 6 PM). After that, it was kind of stressful.


It is now Tuesday, and I've got a test to study for tomorrow, so I'll stop writing. However, there are exciting things in my future: For my Graphic Design class, I have to take these abstract artsy pictures of "microscale natural phenoma", stuff like smoke, dew drops, snowflakes, fire, and stuff like that. I really liked some of the artwork I saw with smoke, so I picked that for my project. Unfortunately, most buildings are equipped with smoke detectors so I can't really create smoke without causing great anguish from my dormmates. Therefore, I am going to get myself one of those electronic cigarettes. Don't worry, I won't be smoking it there is no nicotine in it anyway...it is just going to produce water vapor which photographs a lot like smoke. So my ECig should get here sometime this week and I'm very excited to use it. I'll take pictures of that too.