Now Is The Time For Pants

Although I don't support the frequent sexual objectification of women promoted by your blog, I have decided to engage in October Fun Week on my own terms. Being that these ten days fall within my last 16 here at Bucknell, I am going to accept every invitation to do something other than work. I'm even starting early, as I've been invited to go out this evening, whereas before I was going to write an essay that was due for tomorrow. It shall finish itself in due time. Thanks for the inspiration.

Do I promote women as sex objects too much here? If anything, I feel like I try to be fair and portray both men and women as sexual objects, since this is truly what I believe them to be.

Either way, my heart is warmed by the knowledge that our concept of October Fun Week has changed one persons life for the better. Just think of the potential we have with this October Fun Week if we've already affected someone before the week has even officially begun (t-minus 1 hour as I write this).

I applaud your efforts to celebrate the week on your own terms. October Fun Week was never designed to pigeon-hole anyone into a specific way of celebrating or acknowledging the fun in the week, so diversity and ingenuity are not just allowed, they are encouraged.

I hope your OFW kickoff event of going out this evening works out for the best, and I hope that you'll share the OFW-induced fun you had with the rest of us as the week runs it's course.

You will be happy to know that I did go out for the first time when I have class the next morning. My friend was celebrating her birthday at a karaoke bar nearby and it was a wonderful time. While at the bar, I realized that my professor drops the lowest essay grade of the semester. Seeing that tomorrow is the last one that I have to do and none have been below an A-, I'm not going to do it. You've encouraged me to cherish my last moments at school and enjoy time with people. I will try to uphold this through my last two weeks, making sure I analyze what things I will remember in the long run. Now that this challenge has been put before me, I can't disappoint the stalkers out there.

I sugest you watch all 7 Police Academy movies in a row. Why? Because it's there.

It may take lots of beer, but it can be done.

watch for me at the derby!

Are you riding one of the horses?

While I can't officially sanction Karaoke, the Executive Committee of the October Fun Week Board for the Examination of Happiness (ECOFWBEH) has advised me that we will not discriminate against one particular form of fun over another. So in that sense, nicely done.

Do you how easy this is people?!

Lara, who I don't even know, within HOURS of hearing about October Fun Week, had already:
-Participated in Karaoke
-Gone to a bar
-Realized she didn't have to write a paper
-Maintained a high GPA
-Decided to embrace the remaining time she has left at college
-Encouraged people who might be stalking her

Now, if that's not what October Fun Week is all about, then my name's not Matt Jankowski.

I can appreciate the Police Academy thing, but I don't think we own those. I saw the box set in Bestbuy the other day, but I just purchased the Rocky DVD set, and I need to watch all of those at least once...in fact, I'll probably do that next week, as part of OFW...before I branch out into other box sets.

Andrea is obviously looking to ride a horse at the derby...If you know what I mean...and you certainly must.

thaaaaaats right. i will be the first one out of the gate...if you know what i mean.

and the contest is on...first one to find my password gets derby glasses to sip their mint julips in...here are the "hints" if you will...
dob: 12-10-1980
Zip: 10924,40502,40509,or40517 (not sure)
email: huddleston-andrea@galls.com OR andreahuddleston@hotmail.com (not sure)
pets names: nagila, beauzach, guinness (not sure)

I dont know if keeping a high GPA qualifies as fun

I dig it. I REALLY dig it. I will partake. It seems though that I've missed a whole day, so I have determined that my OFW will go to Monday instead. Maybe Bigwhoop Andy and I can spread the good word.

Ha...I'm not super sober thanks to you :-D

And I have pics, but my digicam doesn't like this computer I have at school so I can only transfer the pics when I'm at home in VA...but I did take plenty of wonderful, jolly photos for OFW night #2

To all OFW participants in NY (my friends), it looks like I managed to shift a few things around enough that Ill be home from late Tuesday/early Wednesday of next week through early Sunday morning. This could of course change at any point in time, but as of now it looks like a distinct possibility. I'm going to Stans wedding on Saturday, but will be in the concrete jungle the rest of the time if anyone wants to get together.

The keeping of a high GPA might not qualify as fun, but the realization that you've already got one and you can't possibly ruin it and that you can go to a bar instead...that's probably fun.

Jack...you're crazy man. I thought Lara's starting OFW early was totally brilliant...but -extending- it...wow. This has truly blossomed beyond what I thought it could be.

Lara, we all anxiously await your pictures. I've had a few promises of weekend pictures...and I look forward to receiving them Monday.

Weiss, pick a night and roll on down. Unless Seamus says otherwise, we're free...uh...all the time.

I'd like to relate a little story about a small, yet significant, fraternity that I'm involved in.

You see, every spring here at the University of Puget Sound, groups of socially concerned students are encouraged to apply for group living in any number of the on-campus houses. These 'interest groups' apply through the Offices of Student Development, presenting different programs that they would put on for the campus in the following year. These 'themes' often follow such diverse interests as 'The Sci-Fi House,' 'The Spanish House' or 'The Ben and Jerry's Reading House' where students read contemporary literature and eat ice cream during group discussions.

As it so happened last year, Jack and a few other fellows of like determination applied for a house known as 'The Comicbook Ninja House,' a residence with the simultaneous purposes of celebrating the art of Comics and the lives of Ninjas. If given the proper status and funding, this organization was set to provide the campus with such diverse events as 'Ninja Day Camp' and 'The Official Comic Beer Tasting' where students would be allowed to join in solidarity, supporting an important, yet often overlooked social force, while sampling a diverse array of local brews.

In an unfortunate turn of events for us all, however, this vital source of campus brotherhood was not granted an official title under the university's 'Themed Living'. Instead, we were sent into hiding. Forced into the campus sub-culture with the streakers, the swim team, and those guys who smoke pot behind the president's house.

In the fall that followed, as backlash against the oppresive Office of Student Development, we created a small, social mecca which became known as 'The Manestary.' As our first attempt to reach out to fellow students oppressed by the academic machine, we began a small, weekly event that we called 'Monday Man Movie Night,' watching such great films as "Blazing Saddles," the original "Italian Job," and the sequal to "Breakin'," "Breakin' 2: The Electric Boogaloo." These events were marked by two activities: the often excessive drinking of beer, and the lighting of a humble candle with the light scent of pumkin spice, what we termed 'The Mandle.'

As the semester drew on, these celebrations of life, through alcahol and film, grew to include a diverse array of males - from the frat boys who came with beer bongs and pot, to Tacoma locals who came in search of free beer and pot.

As any movement experiences, however, this success was impermanent. By finals, our movie nights became reduced to watching an episode of the Simpsons before running off again to write papers and study for tests. Indeed, when school began again in January, we lacked momentum, as well as two of our most important members who left to spread our influence to both Europe and South America. Our drive was lost, as was our esteem.

For months we suffered, lacking the support we so desperately needed to keep the Mandle's flame alive. Support in the form of a helping hand, a gentle push from accross the far reaches of the earth. Support in the form of October Fun Week.

It is with the greatest pleasure and drunken complacency, then, that I would like to announce the rebirth of the Manestary and the re-lighting of the Mandle to coincide with the beginning of this, the first October Fun Week of 2004. Already, Jack and I have spent the last week in preperation by celebrating April 20th, watching both "The Big Lebowski" and "The Ladykillers," and opening a symbolic first Coors Light, and I expect this next week to go to no shorter heights.

Thank you for re-igniting our flame.

You go to Puget Sound? I lived in Seattle this past summer and worked with a few girls who are seniors there this year. They are both involved in political/international/environmental majors. They are both named Sara and both have last names that start with Bs. One is originally from New Jersey. I wished I remembered their full names.

And man, think about this: We're celebrating OCTOBER Fun Week, and our Mandle is scented with PUMPKIN. Coincidence? I think not!

Thank you Andy for that brief and illustrious history of the Manastery. Our foreign ambassadors would be proud.

Sara Berman...i think she was one of them

I know of a Sara Bartolain, a Sara 'Red' whose last name I have no idea on, and a Sara Hurlburt, all good looking women by all accounts, though I'm not really aware of any of their majors.

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