some happier tiddings

After all the frustrated posts with updates about cat bodily functions, I thought it was time for a post about happier events. Not that such things don't need to be shared and vented a lot -- but sometimes it's good to have a break from cat pee.

On Sat, 1L, Sedwick, and I braved the public transportation system of Boston and went to a hockey game, where Boston College (or perhaps university?) played against UMass Lowell. The trip to and from the game was fun, since we got to see punk rockers and princesses and other such folk and, with some, got to play the always fun game of "costume or regular clothes?"

The game was fun too, with another costume contest -- won by Swine Flu (pig costume with mask, with H1N1 on the belly) and a little guy in a dinosaur outfit who blew kisses a the audience after he won.

And the game itself was fun also. I have to say, though, other than following the main gist of hockey (get the puck in the other team's goal), there are some finer points I'm still not sure about. For instance, the players on the field (or rink, I think) and the players on the bench seem to switch places at random intervals. Also, the refs seem to blow on their whistles at random points in time and make up names for why they're putting a player in a box -- sometimes they say the player did something called sticking; other times,they say the player did something called icing. Also at different points in the game, the players ram into each other, shoving someone (I think usually from the other team) into the wall. Once the whole wall shook so much that I thought it might fall down. So, needless to say, there was plenty of entertainment during the game.

Since where we bowl is in Lowell, and since 1L is taking classes at a UMass campus, we both decided to root for UMass Lowell, who, happily for us (although Sedwick was rooting for the other side) won the game.

All in all, a fun time was had by all. Although I'm not sure the same can be said for a girl whose conversation I eavesdropped on on the T -- apparently her friends hate her boyfriend's friends, and he doesn't understand why. I'm not sure why either, since that wasn't mentioned, but it sounds like they're having a hard time negotiating when they get to see each other and whose friends they hang out with. In happier T news, someone was quite happy to learn from his friend (who may or may not have been wearing a costume (or may have taken "dressing up" for Halloween to mean getting dressed up, rather than getting dressed up in a costume)) that the hat he's always wanted to buy is on sale at H&M for $14.

On that note, I'll let you all go and rush to H&M :)