The funny thing is, I definitely never said "Awww, sad" before I came here and now everyone thinks it's my catchphrase. Okay, so I did say "awww" excessively before the program, but I stole "sad" from the very person who makes fun of me for saying "Awww, sad" excessively.

So what have I been up to? I'll start with the karaoke, I suppose. 'twas fun. We literally karaoke'ed [?] for six hours straight. Despite my inability to sing well, I sang quite a few songs, ranging from Spice Girls to the Beatles. Okay, perhaps a wider range than that, but I'm too lazy to think of accurate endpoints.

The next day we went to the Revere Beach [oldest public beach in America!], though we were meant to go to Walden Pond [Kali and I improved many karaoke songs the night before by adding "Walden" and "Pond" in appropriate places]. The beach was icky. There were ugly fat people wearing little clothing and it smelled like sewage by one of the food shops and the water was cold and brown and I got sand in the lens of my camera and now it's not working and it was pretty blah altogether. I did have some yummy chocolate ice cream, but I also dripped it on my clothes, so even that was less than perfect.

After the vile beach, we went to see HP3. I would rather have seen Fahrenheit 9/11 than PoA again, but since I made Kali and Katie K come to the beach on the condition that I would see the movie with them, I had to go. It really was a lot of fun. While we were walking there many amusing things happened that will result in enduring inside jokes, namely involving jaywalking and pills. *shifty eyes* So we sat in the very front row and Kali and I made awful comments the whole way through. Well, until this scary woman sitting next to me shushed us and then we all moved over a seat so our comments were less easily heard.

Dear Lord. The Harry/Lupin moments. So bad. Watch the movie again. See if it's not true that one of Lupin's hands is always in his robes. And on the bridge! Erlack-a-gogo. David Thewlis is so ugly it pains me. ;.;

But anyway. When we got back from HP, I realised they were watching Bend It Like Beckham in the penthouse without me and I was terribly upset. So I watched the end which amounted to about five seconds of Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and no horny salmon dance. [Apparently in the German club he can be witnessed doing the "horny salmon" dance.] After Beckham, I believe I watched Almost Famous, which is a fairly cute movie. At some point since I last blogged we also watched Legally Blonde. She really is awfully sweet in that movie. You just can't hate her. Well, I can't. I've no doubt there are people who can quite easily.

On Monday we began our 3.5 day-long motor-building experience! Except on the first day he just lectured for a really long time and I nearly fell asleep, not because of the content of the lecture [it actually was not uninteresting, and he said things like "ya dig?", "groovy", and "doo bob."] but because of my sleep deprivation. The second and third day were really fun, though. Charlotte and I built a beautiful motor that spun at 1300 rpm and I drew a hedgehog and penguin on it and it was absolutely fabulous. It actually was a really rewarding experience. I used a bandsaw, drilled, soldered, and looked on while muscly shop men used the lathe and mill. On the last day before we tested them [i.e., yesterday] Charlotte and I spent 9.5 hours in the Pappalardo lab working on the bloody thing. But I ate nealy half a pint of Cherry Garcia afterward, so all was well.

Last night we played a Lord of the Rings cooperative board game [the one designed by Reiner Knizia, if you're a geek like that]. There were five of us, so we played as Frodo, Sam, Pippin, Merry, and Fatty. I was Merry [obviously!]. It was actually really difficult and we barely won, with only Pippin and Merry left alive, Pippin bearing the ring and me throwing it into Mt. Doom with a brilliant dice roll [1/3 probability of not losing. . . because this is nerd camp and we were playing with one of the math tutors, so of course we calculated it].

Today we had a panel of women from Intel talk to us at lunch and afterward two guys talked to us about "AI, Machine Learning and Computer Vision." I guess I was really antsy/bored/tired [?], because I spent the entire time doodling. One of the AI guys was really adorable [think Hugh Jackman/Guy Pearce/Hugo Weaving with really cute accent], so I drew him, as well as Lupin and Harry on the bridge, Harry and Draco [Kali's a shipper; awww, sad], Snape and me, and the four of us sitting in the very back row of Grier B trying not to laugh hysterically at my pictures and freak everyone out.

This evening I walked 4.6 miles [we mapquested it for directions] to Colonial Theater and back to buy tickets for Mamma Mia!, but alas, we were unsuccessful, so we're going to try Student Rush tomorrow.

And after that I went to the North End for pizza and canoli and Paul Revere's house. Dear Lord, I just wrote hause. HOW PSEUDO GERMAN AM I? Oh, yes, and I sat like a punky sk8r boi on the subway. [Really low in the seat, legs sprawled out, hair messy and in face, and arms crossed over boobs. Apparently I'm a cute boy. But I just think it's fun to talk in a manly voice. >D]

Okay, kisses, muah, love you, goodbye.