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In my office, we've had someone have a baby in February, another go into labor in the office on Friday, another whose wife is due in September, and another who just announced she's due in December. Another who had left our team shortly after getting pregnant had hers back in November or so. And there's another with a toddler. Our team's, like, 20 people. Did someone spike the water cooler with fertility drugs when I wasn't looking?

In other news, lessons from Reunions.
1) The bakery on Tulane St is both amazing and must be a mob front or something. Because as far as I could tell, the sole baked goods available for purchase were a single tray of the most heavenly croissants ever, which aren't available until 8:45 and are gone before 11.
2) White jackets and head wounds do not go well together.
3) While I've maintained some of the skills at singing and playing the flute, my endurance is shot.
4) I've finally mastered the hydration/sunscreen combo required to get through the P-rade.
5) I need to make Lime-mint sorbet soon. Maybe Wednesday.
6) Fireworks are pretty, even though I really kinda want to find every existing copy of the 1984 Tigerlilies recording of "Going Back" and burn them all. Maybe with fireworks.
7) Sit-down Asian food is quicker than the Hoagie Haven line. Twice, I ordered as friends walked by the window, and both times, we were getting the check as those friends walked back with their still-uneaten hoagies.
8) Princeton can apparently support an infinite number of ice cream stores. At this point, they have Halo Pub, T-Sweets, Bent Spoon, Ricky's, and a new yogurt place, and none of them have failed. I don't quite understand.
9) Katertoticus is slowly amassing a collection of cute Asian girls with horrible crushes on her.
10) "Yellow Submarine" is actually quite good for doing the Yatta dance to.

Date: 2009-06-01 06:17 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] ivy03.livejournal.com
I really kinda want to find every existing copy of the 1984 Tigerlilies recording of "Going Back" and burn them all.
OMG YES.

Date: 2009-06-01 06:22 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] jethrien.livejournal.com
It's not just us - a bunch of the band folk also were discussing starting a letter-writing campaign to never use that recording ever again.

Date: 2009-06-01 06:26 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] ivy03.livejournal.com
I'd sign it.

At this point, though, they'd risk majorly pissing off all the Tigerlily alums, so it really depends on how much money they donate, relative to the people who are pissed off by the use of the song.

Date: 2009-06-01 07:05 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] maydove.livejournal.com
What's bad about their version? I don't think I've heard it.

Date: 2009-06-01 08:18 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] jethrien.livejournal.com
Sickly sweet for starters. But it's mostly painful for stilted vowel pronunciation and egregious unnecessary tempo changes.

Date: 2009-06-01 07:11 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] saxbabe.livejournal.com
How did he end up with a head wound anyway? Not sure I know the backstory as his tweets did not make much sense to me.

Date: 2009-06-01 08:13 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] shnayder.livejournal.com
Fleshpile gone wrong==Collision at full speed.

Date: 2009-06-02 07:33 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] lithoglyphic.livejournal.com
From what I heard, it was pretty epic.

Date: 2009-06-02 07:38 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] jethrien.livejournal.com
I can't decide whether I wish I'd seen it, or I'm really, really glad I wasn't there.

Date: 2009-06-02 04:28 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] chantal1382.livejournal.com
Damn it, one of these years I'll make it back for Reunions. Fingers crossed for 2010!

Date: 2009-06-02 01:31 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] chuckro.livejournal.com
Katertoticus is slowly amassing a collection of cute Asian girls with horrible crushes on her.

I managed to miss this bit entirely, though I will say it's a shame my superpower didn't work on her.

Date: 2009-06-02 02:03 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] jethrien.livejournal.com
They're not romantic so much as "OMG she's the most amazing person ever and I'm going to blush every time I talk to her!"

Date: 2009-06-02 02:15 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] chuckro.livejournal.com
How bizarre and random. I mean, I think she is awesome, but I feel like I have biases that are different from those of cute Asian girls.

Date: 2009-06-02 02:20 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] jethrien.livejournal.com
One was a Wildcat who met her when the Cats stayed at her place on tour. The kid is too shy to actually talk to her. Also, she's Korean by way of I think New Zealand, and has the most adorable accent that gets thicker when she gets nervous.

The other was a freshman physics major who was also assigned to the suite we were crashing in. Soooo overwhelmed by Reunions. Also by friendly female physicist staying in her dorm for Reunions. Could not stop saying "I can't believe this! I can't believe how people come back!"

Date: 2009-06-02 07:36 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] lithoglyphic.livejournal.com
Nothing prepares you for the awesome that is Reunions. Last year I stayed with a similarly astounded froshling.

Date: 2009-06-02 07:39 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] jethrien.livejournal.com
This poor kid was basically incoherent with astonishment.

Date: 2009-06-02 07:29 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] lithoglyphic.livejournal.com
Yay mysterious bakery on Tulane Street!!! Sorry I didn't join you, I was way too asleep.

Date: 2009-06-02 07:37 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] jethrien.livejournal.com
Oh, I got up, got my croissant, and then went back to bed. (I woke up starving at 6:30 in the morning, tried to sleep until 8 and gave up. Got a good extra hour or two of sleep post-croissant.)

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