salience
November 8, 2004
For your reading, a recipe a la shell and maria for holiday decorum...
Take a Sunday night in late fall, after a particularly band-intense (friday, shell's chorale concert; saturday, game day, bcmb talent show afterwards; sunday, maria's concert band concert): an overall busy weekend. Your timeline should be similar to that which follows:
9pm: promise one other you'll actually do school work (cause although we live for our extracurriculars here, classes do need to be passed) for a solid hour, after which, we can begin putting up our treasured christmas lights, for the third year of living together, and for the last time. Roommates confine themselves to their respective beds and set to work.
9:30pm: Carmina Burana (our soundtrack of determination) has reached a pinnacle of musical excitement. Orff has only added to our navidad anticipation.
9:57pm: time check. 3 minutes til fun...
10:07pm: oops, had to finish a conclusion to a spanish paper, temporarily forgot lights, but now the fun shall commence!!
10:09pm: begin untangling lights that have been in our storage since january.
10:10pm: icicle lights work?? check... still tangled, but so beautiful.
10:11pm: roomies joke about this being the third time of decorating our room for la navidad, both decide to wear lights, and simultaneously self-drape icicles around necks...
10:13pm: lights are mostly untangled, hanging begins at our room's door.
10:47pm: 3 series of lights are hung around our room, duck taped and push pinned to our mobile home's walls
10:50pm: all non holiday and ergo uncool regular lamps are switched off now!! so we can bask in our extension cord efficiency
11pm: mortal kombat is chosen as theme music on winamp
a few hours of homework, procrastination, roomie time and sleep later...
7am: first drop is heard while roomies are unconscious, yet we expected it and are aware... back to sleep...
8-9:30am: alarms and the process of getting up and starting the day, ugh
9:31am: realize the lights have fallen in a key corner and it was maria's turn this year to sleep draped under the close supervision of icicles...
10am+: Go about the day, come home, repeat from step 10:13pm.
Take a Sunday night in late fall, after a particularly band-intense (friday, shell's chorale concert; saturday, game day, bcmb talent show afterwards; sunday, maria's concert band concert): an overall busy weekend. Your timeline should be similar to that which follows:
9pm: promise one other you'll actually do school work (cause although we live for our extracurriculars here, classes do need to be passed) for a solid hour, after which, we can begin putting up our treasured christmas lights, for the third year of living together, and for the last time. Roommates confine themselves to their respective beds and set to work.
9:30pm: Carmina Burana (our soundtrack of determination) has reached a pinnacle of musical excitement. Orff has only added to our navidad anticipation.
9:57pm: time check. 3 minutes til fun...
10:07pm: oops, had to finish a conclusion to a spanish paper, temporarily forgot lights, but now the fun shall commence!!
10:09pm: begin untangling lights that have been in our storage since january.
10:10pm: icicle lights work?? check... still tangled, but so beautiful.
10:11pm: roomies joke about this being the third time of decorating our room for la navidad, both decide to wear lights, and simultaneously self-drape icicles around necks...
10:13pm: lights are mostly untangled, hanging begins at our room's door.
10:47pm: 3 series of lights are hung around our room, duck taped and push pinned to our mobile home's walls
10:50pm: all non holiday and ergo uncool regular lamps are switched off now!! so we can bask in our extension cord efficiency
11pm: mortal kombat is chosen as theme music on winamp
a few hours of homework, procrastination, roomie time and sleep later...
7am: first drop is heard while roomies are unconscious, yet we expected it and are aware... back to sleep...
8-9:30am: alarms and the process of getting up and starting the day, ugh
9:31am: realize the lights have fallen in a key corner and it was maria's turn this year to sleep draped under the close supervision of icicles...
10am+: Go about the day, come home, repeat from step 10:13pm.
lasaliente, 13:57
