Reunion of little rest
Oct. 8th, 2006 03:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eclectic_boyThe highlights of today, the second day of SWIL's 28th reunion:
* Getting up at 10AM after 6 hours of sleep to run the Belltower Climb. The head of facilities, Stu Hain, deserves our undying appreciation for allowing us to do this, and for standing guard over the entrance (as does Geoff Semenuk of the alumni office for being point person on the mid-tower landing.
Going up the first spiral staircase is no more than a bit claustrophobic, but the second spiral stair is narrower and in the open (as opposed to surrounded by stone walls). If feels like the journey to The Castle in the Air at the end of The Phantom Tollbooth. It's also much scarier coming back down, when you're forced to look down to place your feet.
Though it was overcast, the view was still wonderful. 45 of us went up, in four shifts. Here are just a few pics:
(click for full size)
* A giant SWILmeeting of many eras' worth of fun people.
* Almost going to the hospital for more staples in my head. As I was rushing, late, to gather all the equipment needed for my talent show entry, I once *again* stood up under one of my kitchen cabinets, banging my head seriously. This time it wasn't hard enough to make me black out for an instant, nor to cause blood. It still bloody hurt, and made me very nervous, but I had too much rushing to do to pay it much attention. Everything seems okay, but I definitely have a new (hsort-term?) lump on my head.
* The talent show, including J7's "It's the End of my First Year at Swarthmore", Bhadrika's leading a reenactment of the entire Gashleycrumb Tinies, and my own Liquid Nitrogen mini-show, ending with instant-made ice cream for everybody.
* Advanced roundsinging, including Joel suggesting the Boyce "Alleluia", and Jillian(?) getting us to learn the Ravenscroft "Oaken Leaves".
* Various talking, gaming, and eating until too late. The Hunt was a success too, but I stayed in Kohlberg though it.
Two more slightly-less-full days to go!
* Getting up at 10AM after 6 hours of sleep to run the Belltower Climb. The head of facilities, Stu Hain, deserves our undying appreciation for allowing us to do this, and for standing guard over the entrance (as does Geoff Semenuk of the alumni office for being point person on the mid-tower landing.
Going up the first spiral staircase is no more than a bit claustrophobic, but the second spiral stair is narrower and in the open (as opposed to surrounded by stone walls). If feels like the journey to The Castle in the Air at the end of The Phantom Tollbooth. It's also much scarier coming back down, when you're forced to look down to place your feet.
Though it was overcast, the view was still wonderful. 45 of us went up, in four shifts. Here are just a few pics:
(click for full size)
* A giant SWILmeeting of many eras' worth of fun people.
* Almost going to the hospital for more staples in my head. As I was rushing, late, to gather all the equipment needed for my talent show entry, I once *again* stood up under one of my kitchen cabinets, banging my head seriously. This time it wasn't hard enough to make me black out for an instant, nor to cause blood. It still bloody hurt, and made me very nervous, but I had too much rushing to do to pay it much attention. Everything seems okay, but I definitely have a new (hsort-term?) lump on my head.
* The talent show, including J7's "It's the End of my First Year at Swarthmore", Bhadrika's leading a reenactment of the entire Gashleycrumb Tinies, and my own Liquid Nitrogen mini-show, ending with instant-made ice cream for everybody.
* Advanced roundsinging, including Joel suggesting the Boyce "Alleluia", and Jillian(?) getting us to learn the Ravenscroft "Oaken Leaves".
* Various talking, gaming, and eating until too late. The Hunt was a success too, but I stayed in Kohlberg though it.
Two more slightly-less-full days to go!
Reunion!
Date: 2006-10-09 09:12 pm (UTC)http://www.toadmail.com/~nonews/noblog.html
Neil