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[marcmagus]

My vision has been kind of weird lately, which has been somewhat disorienting. I let the lenses slide for a few days and got back to the -3.5 glasses, and now I'm trying to bring it back into line. I'm hoping I can get to good uncorrected vision for the bulk of Founder's Day. I think it's attainable if I don't miss any more nights for any reason.

For those who haven't experienced a Founder's Day, I personally believe it's one of the most wonderful traditions Vassar has. The entire campus community (faculty, students, administration, staff, alums, and their families) come and spend a day outside on a field. There's live music all day (mostly campus bands), area restaurants come to sell food, there are usually a couple of rides and outdoor-ish games, the juggling club comes and shows off. Our founder being a brewer, there's also all-you-can-drink beer, and lots of it, which I think might be the best trick ever to get college students awake and outside in the daytime. Security tends to turn a relatively blind eye to less licit consumption of both the beer and the other recreational substances people tend to enjoy; but, unlike some other events here at Vassar, there are very few cases of people having serious problems from any of this.

This is an event I look forward to every year (which might surprise some people). I'm really hoping we get a strong alum/ex-student presence among people I know; particularly those who were members of the NSO, or should have been. Any such people reading this, consider yourselves encouraged to come visit for Founder's Day. If you're in need of accomodations, my apartment can crash a few, and is not too long a walk from Vassar and the train station, or I can try to put you in touch with people on campus. Or you could just come up for the afternoon.

In other news, the following isn't a very good quiz (if you're rating something on a linear scale, quizilla isn't the right format to use), but it got the right answer, and had at least some of the right questions...




You are the dark side of geek. No Star-Wars trivia
goes un-answered, No spock ears unworn, no
tarot cards unread, no 10 sided die unrolled.
You are completely in the culture of geekdom.
Just be sure that you choose to be there
because you like it, not that you can't handle
dealing with 'normal' people.


how seriously geeky are you?
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Comments

[pixel.livejournal.com]

"It would be helpful to know *when* Founders day is." :)

[marcmagus]

Saturday, 3 May, 2003.

[agiel.livejournal.com]

You are a good geek. Congratulations, you can
navigate the real world and still maintain the
things that make you a geek.


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Dammit, *I* wanted to be the Dark side of geek too. Or rather, the dark side of anything, really.

[pixel.livejournal.com]

"Ah. Alas some friends are ahivng one of their all too rare weekend parties that weekend. Local gaming and hanging out orientated event wins out over far off beer drinking & drug consuming orientated event."

[marcmagus]

How about far-off hanging out outdoors oriented event with friends you don't get to see very often?

[pixel.livejournal.com]

"Sorry if it weren't for the conflict I'd be glad to go to Founders day, but I have already RSVPed to the other party and am looking forward to going."

[marcmagus]

No worries. I mostly wanted to reject the idea that Founder's Day is necessarily a beer/drug oriented event, because it only is for some people. (Heck, many professors bring their children)