More from Philadelphia. This is favorite picture from the trip. I mean, how could you not love this view (from the steps of the art museum)? And it's dusk on the most perfect fall day EVER. *Sigh.* If I wasn't already totally in love with Boston, I'd fall in love with Philadelphia. Maybe Philly can be my mistress (assuming cities are female, because I don't know the male word for mistress).

In other news, here is an email chain between Susan and myself today. I think it's self-explanatory about our craziness (and no, it appears neither of us actually gets any work done after we both get to work at obscenely late hours):

Susan, 10:18am

I would like to sit on my ass, drink wine, and do crafty things this Friday while watching a movie. I plan on making earrings, origami or knitting, or just playing with glue and paper. Please join me if you are free for a night of just hanging out. :-)

Susan

(Yes, boys are allowed this time.)

Liz, 10:51am

Oooooh, me, me!

I should probably stay home and pack and clean, but I would much rather sit and knit and drink wine. :-P

Let me know what time and if you would like me to bring a bottle of wine. Or two. :-D

Susan, 10:54am

pack and clean?

Liz, 11:46am

Hehehe, I'm not moving. :-P

I am, however, flying out to Chicago on Saturday, for 6 miserable (I mean, fun, super fun!) days with my family. Hence the packing. The cleaning is because I do not want to leave my roommate with a messy kitchen/living room/foyer while I'm gone, and think it's the right thing to do.

But the knitting - the knitting makes me not want to do anything else. I'm totally obsessed now. I'm even reading knitting blogs at work, while I can't knit. This is my favorite: http://www.crazyauntpurl.com. She's awesome. She also drinks a lot of wine.

Wait until you see my mistake-filled-but-nevertheless-awesome-because-you-can't-really-see-the-mistakes-since-it's-so-fuzzy red scarf. :-P I'm going to make a hat next I think. Or maybe another scarf. And I taught myself how to purl! This will be necessary for the hat. And the next scarf.

There's totally something wrong with me.

Susan, 1:24pm

That's how I've been with making earrings lately. Completely and totally obsessed... problem is, it's wreaking havoc with my budget! :-p But it's fun. At work I look up how to roast turkeys.

I thought you were flying out the 18th?

Your rcn email is still bouncing.

Liz, 1:46pm

18th of December for Christmas, 19th of November for Thanksgiving (I'm traveling CRAZY).

Damn RCN. I hate them.

As promised, a picture from Friday night's Cornell-Harvard hockey game. As you can see, Cornell won. :-D

I'd been wanting to go to this yearly game for the last 3 years now (yes, that was BEFORE I moved to Boston). This was the first time I actually managed to get tickets, since that proves to be a challenge. This year, tickets were supposed to go on sale on October 5th at 10:00am. The Harvard Ticket Office, in its infinite wisdom, released them online at midnight that day. Oops. Anyway, I got an email telling me this and was able to pick up 8 tickets broken into 3 groups. Susan's friend Jordan got 9 tickets, and I actually took one of those, and handed out the 8 tickets I purchased to various people - Corinne and Ron, Kate and friend, Corinne's coworker and guest, Susan's roomate and boyfriend. The game was amazing. I'm sure if you're super interested, you can find a recap, but the gist is that Cornell scored twice in the last 5 minutes, and then had to kill a penalty in the last two minutes, to win. Wow.

As I had heard, the game was sold out, mostly to Cornell fans, hehehe, plenty of whom I recognized, even if I don't know them (okay, I know Ben and Anthony - and Patrick, Eryk and Rosanne were there as well). I've actually never seen so many empty seats at a game, though - apparently this is partly attributed to Harvard giving away 300 tickets to their students to entice them to the game (give it up, Harvard, it didn't work). Harvard's pep band was there, and well as their one section of fans. Yes, one section. No wonder we call it Lynah East.

Harvard had some great cheers, though, let me tell you. Highlights (imagine in sing-songy voice):
"You'll work for us"
"Hotel Management"
"SUNY Cornell"
Something about them having 3 points, which is a field goal, us having 2 points (when we had 2 points), which is a safety - "Safety School!"

In addition to the numerous empty seats, there were several differences between Bright and Lynah. First, people were sitting (can you imagine???). There was also very little security, no one checking tickets for the sections, and no crackdown on language (in fact, Harvard chants "Bullshit" when one of their players gets a penalty).

After the game, we went to John Harvard's (we weren't able to go before the game because Kat, Jordan & Co. didn't get in until right before the game), where we had Lucas Lager, which was quite good for a beer. I then mentioned to Susan and Kat (my former roomies) that the liquor store near Susan's has Lambic in several flavors, causing Susan to hurry people out of the bar so we could get to the liquor store in time (framing: Susan, Kat, Heather and I used to occasionally go to the Chapter House to get Raspberry Lambic on tap when we lived together, so it was part of our reminiscing). We didn't share with the boys, but did introduce it to Jess, who was part of the "and Co." I mentioned before, and Susan's roommate Caitlyn (who enjoyed the game, even though she didn't go to Cornell).

Saturday night was Aerosmith. I may post about that later, in though I do not have pictures.

 

- Lizzardie, at 11:12 AM Post Link

Okay, I lied about posting a picture. After a good amount of cleaning and not finding the cable to connect the camera to the computer, I decided to look in my laptop bag - and there it was!

Anyhow, I want to post a picture from the hockey game and write about it, but not tonight. So instead you get me next to the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia. Yes, my hair is long and red. It's now less of both of those things.