Moving Moving Moving

So its been a little while so my last post, and there are a couple reasons for that, mainly computer problems. Most of this post is from collective memories rather than any one person.
So Sunday was the legendary Fisher event known as the Move. It is meant to celebrate the end of the rugby season, as well be one last hurrah before everyone buckled for exams. It had everyone, violence, nudity, and alcohol. One of the reasons that alcohol became quite a problem was Ziggy brought tape, so may people decided it would be a great idea to create wizard staffs. The goal then became to get them over their head. Ira succeeded in hitting the ceiling. After this, much of the night became a blur for many people. The lifers won the boat race as usual. There was cider, but that didn't last too long. The nudity came in many forms, mainly the most memorable of which was Bruce, and his performance. Maybe the funniest story involves Brady (our sometimes Rugby Coach). He challenged the boys to try to take him down, and stop him running. Everyone got revved up to do it...Then he took off all his clothes...Everybody walked off.
The violence involved the freshers trying to run across the rugby pitch as everyone else tried to stop them. I was stopped by Tess and I believe Zankee took upon himself to do so as well, ripping my jeans in the process. For some reason some of the girls tried planking, so Jason and I had to show them how idiotic they looked. Jes also tried to feed a flower to a possum, with limited to no results. There is much more from the night, but I have neither the time nor the memory to put it here
Disaster struck the next morning when I woke up. I found my laptop soaking wet with water. I must have spilled my water bottle on it. It has not come back to life since. Life sucks a bit. I've currently stolen Jason's laptop. his N key barely works. Anyway, lessons learned: no more wizard staffs, drink less, stay away from electronics when drunk.
Also, no pictures are suitable to be posted on this blog

That Asshole Bird

Normally I love birds. My family has a pet bird, we go bird watching, and I start to bore people talking about birds. Except this one bird. Here is the mugshot of the horrible creature

The Masked Lapwing: eight counts of noise complaints and resisting arrest

The way my room is set up, the roof of Pepperz is right under it. It is a perfect place for a bird to land. Earlier in the semester I found a Laughing Kookaburra there one morning, quietly sitting
 and doing its own thing. It was wonderful. What was less wonderful are the multiple times at 2 am when a bird lands on it and starts cheeping with this annoying metallic sound. Even worse is when two land and decide its the perfect time for a long, heartfelt conversation. I'm not allowed to climb out on the window and yell at them. Also if I climb out Jason will likely poor water on me. So i'm in a horrible situation with an evil bird. sigh, life is hard

On another note: This was our guest teacher for the beginning of plants

 It was a very enlightening lecture on the history of the wars between Teddy Bears and the monsters under the bed. He highlighted the bravery of General Pooh. Most interesting plants class I've had all year

Big Rugby Day

Yesterday was the big day: Rugby. The results were: girls were down three tries when we started warming up and stopped paying attention. Guys lost 17-19. painful both emotionally and physically. The only worrying thing was that Bruce took a high tackle and was essentially knocked out towards the end. He was able to walk off the field. that got everyone very fired up, and by that i mean we had to physically restrain Tickets from murdering there entire team. I also sprained my wrist about halfway through the first half, but we all ignored that and played on. The line outs were a disaster, though apparently Christ was taking extra steps they shouldn't or something like that. Also their feeds into the scrum were pretty BS, they were essentially tossing it to the second row. sigh, whatever. there was some pretty good play on both sides, especially their passing across the field and our defense. i wont bore you with the details of every tackle and try (Tickets, Paddy, and Gav each got one, though maybe ziggy should have had Gav's). We then set about drowning our sorrows

This is how Bruce recovers from getting knocked out

This was around 2:30pm, and people just kept going and drinking and drinking and drinking. i was involved for a little bit, but soon ran off to my room to take a nap. at around 10 i headed down to the common room and found that everything had moved and most surfaces were covered in goon. jason joined me and someone brought it some watermelon. this message was sent to all the drunk people still standing. they converged on the common room. Jason and I put up our feet and thoroughly enjoyed another episode of The Common Room: Drunk Edition. It was hilarious. things ranged from Lisa declaring that Choppa was not having sex, to Lisa charging Kaitlin into a wall. A very funny end to the day. Possibly the highest rated episode yet

Super Parmi Night

A much anticipated pre-rugby event is Super Parmi Night. Now what does super parmi night consist of? well, we all go to Cascade Brewery, order food, and enjoy. it just so happens that we're required to order Super Beef Scnitzel with Parmi toppings. sounds delicious, but the problem comes in with the super part. super here works in the same sense as super-sized. the parmis were absolutely enormous. i was very lucky and got a moderate sized one. it was only a little bit larger than what you would get at a restaurant, so much bigger than pepperz. most other people had these dinner plate sized parmis with toppings burrying them, in short, much larger than mine. i was able to get through mine with only the last few bites. Bruce was sitting right next to me and had one nearly twice the size of mine. i literally thought me was going to spew at the table, but he didn't, something to be proud of. Kurt and Aaron should be less proud, as they did not finish. Neither did Dylan or Schmidty, but lifer's don't have to. Also most people (nondrivers) had a drink with dinner, and some people truly struggled during that part.

Thus ends the first half of the night. the second half was going out. we got back to fisher, and sam clark and the swedens and lisa begged ira, julio, and myself to come out to tele with them. before leaving ira and i each had a bottle of two month expired Chang, yum. Swedens is plural back there because Kim's friend Theresa has been visiting for the week, she is mostly referred to as Sweden 2.0. Tele was fun, and Brady (our unofficial rugby coach) was one of the bartenders. We hung out, played a few games of pool where Ira and I beat Sam and Theresa twice, we're awesome. It was a good time, and all the St. Pats people showed up too, the girls got there a little after we did and the guys came later from Dr. Syntax where they watched Footy. We got Theresa to ask Dylan about the game (Geelong lost to Collingwood). He was not happy. We were able to snag a kind of VIP/couch area for the fisher people, and we hung out there for a while. At around 1:15 we left and headed to O-bar. O-bar sucked so Sam Clark and I walked back to Fisher. End of night

Dinner Tonight: Chicken Pami

References

Remember how I told you I had the best lecture ever earlier in the week. I may have spoken too soon because the second fauna lecture of the week was also pretty awesome. He was able to put in both a Monty Python and a Game of Thrones reference in one lecture. Any lecture that Stewart gives he opens with a picture of him palming an echidna and it saying something. The first lectures he gave where on reptiles, so the echidna exclaimed: I'm not a reptile. the next lecture was still on reptiles: i'm still not a reptile, etc. this was yesterdays

"Bring out your dead!"

To make sure you guys understand, this is from the holy grail (and spamalot). watch it if you have not. on the subject of extinct animals the direwolf came up. he gave a little nod to game of thrones before moving on. Try not to be too jealous.
Another thing worth noting is that if you open the app store on itunes, you will see a consmr app. this is the company my brother noah cofounded, so its amazing that its literally on the front page of it! congrats!!

Oh! Hi Elmo!!

Couldn't help but notice what was right under it. Anyway everyone should check out the app, its pretty helpful for finding good food in stores. the app will explain what it does more. My family is so cool

Why We Hate Jane, part 2

We had a practice match against Jane last night. Firstly, we did not lose even though they have allegedly been practicing since March and most of our practices have less than a full team show up. We also did not win, it was a draw 0-0. really exciting match...actually it was pretty fun, a little stressful. the halves were supposed to be 20 minutes (rather than 40) and in the first half that happened. just before the second one started the lights went off, we got them back on and played for a little, but then they went off again. we just called it a game. there was some good stuff, i had a monster tackle that i'm proud of

and apparently tommy c had a sweet tackle together, but don't really remember that one. also apparently everyone though my neck turned mush destroyed during a tackle, but i was completely fine. I don't remember that one at all, it must have looked worse than it was. The bad part of my play was the line outs. the first half i think i got penalties on half and they stole half the rest. luckily it got better the second half, either that or there were fewer opportunities to screw up.
so playing against Jane doesn't necessarily mean that we hate them. it was actually very nice of them to agree to play us. BUT they were kind of unsportsman like dicks, or at least their hooker was. He tried to distract me on line ins and such, during a friendly practice game. i will not repeat his foul words to my reader. also his knee somehow found my head during a ruk. as ira put it, i'm not saying it was intentional, i'm just saying he's a ****. anyway, no one got hurt on either side during the game, and many people played really well. there were plenty of mistakes and lots to improve on, but not bad for our first practice game
We also got to wear our Fisher rugby jumpers for the first time, we actually looked like a team. a blue and white team

Best Class Ever?

Today I had my Tas Fauna class, and was able to force myself to get up and go to class because we were going to learn about Monotremes. When people think of Tasmanian Fauna, get past the devil and marsupials, one thinks of the platypus and the echidna. Our unit coordinator is also a specialist on echidna's so he might know what he's talking about. I got to class and realized I didn't have anything to write with. oops, just sat and listened, now i have to (get to) watch the lecture again. I know I, and probably much of the class was a little distracted from the lecture by the pictures that came with it.

Echidna getting an ultrasound and has an anesthetic mask on its nose

How am I supposed to pay attention when there are pictures like this looking me straight in the face. Literally impossible. The most important lesson to learn about echidna's is that the tasmanian ones are much cuter than the mainland ones. it's colder in tasmania so they have a lot more fur so its not a walking pinecone, its a walking furball with small spines sticking out. Also both the males and females are promiscuous. lecturer's words not mine. the males also like to mate with hibernating females...they kind of wake up for it...kind of. Also they have fancy penises. Just sharing the knowledge I gained in class, be happy i didn't share a picture. Another fun fact is that platypus have a venomous spur, but you knew that. Did you know that if they inject you with venom in the hand you wont die, but you'll have problem moving it for months, and the only way to relieve the pain is opiates. Platypus would make the world's best drug dealers.

Deceptively Adorable Drug Dealers