Springspan (Or, I Miss You, Free Time)
Spring has sprung at Connecticut College! It's still a little chilly out, but the sun is def getting it's shine on like whoa (I'm too lazy to un-street that sentence). People around here are in a festive mood, as evidenced by the success of our big Senior Soiree this past Friday. Though I seldom get nervous or anxious (it's hard to do so after you've been accidentally naked on national television as many times as I have), I was a little worried that no one would show up to the event. Fortunately, about 300 seniors were there! The purpose of the evening was primarily to get more gifts for the Senior Giving program, with a secondary goal of helping the seniors build class unity; I'm happy to report that both were accomplished! We passed the 50% participation mark, and everybody had a great time (the last fundraiser I planned that was this successful was the 2nd Annual Rock the Smocks Festival back in '03, which was a two-day concert to help raise money to support and promote fingerpainting throughout North America)....
....On Saturday night, Mitch and I were headed downtown when we bumped into our downstairs neighbor Brian (no semi-funny nickname available because I don't know his last name). We invited him to come out drinking with us, which he was happy to do. Since he's roughly our age and new to the area, Mitch and I had been meaning to hang out with him for a while, so it was nice to finally make the transition from neighbor to friend (I was never able to quite make that jump when I lived next to Fred Savage out in LA; perhaps we were just too much alike to be close friends...). The three of us had a great chat, so I'm sure there will be future hang-out sessions, the details of which I shall be sure to blog (I could already hear the public clamoring for it).
On Sunday, I teamed up with Mitch and two of the assistant coaches here at Conn, Sue "So Far, Sue Good" Cohen and Ellissa "No, Not Like the Vodka" Popoff, for a little Ms. Pac-Man tournament over at Oasis (they're very progressive when it comes to gender). Though I achieved the highest score of all the players, Ellissa took home the gold medal because it was a round robin and she had gone 3-0 (hey, at least I did better than Mitch).
This week has definitely been one of the most hectic in recent memory, though I've finally managed to carve out a little time to pause and reflect (just trying to get back in touch with my inner baby white tiger). Between planning a film festival for next week, working on lacrosse alumni reception, rehearsing to play the music for the upcoming Senior Dance Concert, planning three reunions, and still trying to raise money from ten alumni classes as well as the senior class, I'm juggling a lot of projects! Hopefully things will quiet down a little bit in a couple weeks.
On that note, I had better get back to work. Toodles!