(But it's not swooping any more. -g) (True. -d) (The SWILNews #6 of Now You're Allowed to Hook Up with the Frosh? -d) (The SWILNews #6 of Now You're Allowed to Lower the Josh Smith Numbers of Frosh? -,) (It's not spring semester, we can't talk about housing yet. -d) (I'm just going to leave it, because it's the shortest of those, and to heck with people complaining. -g) *** SWILBusiness *** That was non-pathetic. (That's good. You never want to begin a hookup if it's pathetic. -d) (Are we really going here? -d) (Us? It would get us lots of points if we did it in George. -g) Next week's movie is Brazil. (Last week's was was Solarbabies. People almost hooked up in Solarbabies. -d) (They did? -g,) (Yeah, the evil woman and the evil guy. -d) (Oh, I thought you meant people almost hooked up *at* Solarbabies. -g) (Me too. This is just more evidence that parsing really is directed by our semantic preconceptions. -,) (Okay, let's not get into conception right now. -d) (Oh, dear me. -,) Pumpkin Caroling will happen Halloween night. We will leave from Parlours at 6pm. Bring a flashlight if you have one. (If you're not on the Fun list, you should also bring a costume if you so desire. We will go around the neighborhood and sing Halloween Carols to people. -g) (Oh god. No no no. Can we skip Submit to BEM this week? -g) Movie nominations will happen in three weeks. (Great place to take those frosh. So think about romantic movies... or horror movies... or, I suppose, general sci-fi/fantasy movies on the assumption that you're hooking up with a sci-fi/fantasy geek. -d) Presidential nominations will happen in four weeks. (Great place to hook up with non-frosh. If you and one or two other non-frosh (and non-seniors) want to get double points on your hookup, then you should participate in presidential nominations. -g) DoubleStar's Masquerade Ball will happen Saturday, Nov. 17 at 7pm. If you want to go, you need an invitation. If you want to be invited, get in touch with Darkness at . (We can do something with that. -g) (Oh dear. Oh dear. -d) (I hope that doesn't look... like a bad way to say "Oh dear. Oh dear." -d) (Yeah, I had that problem with "Oh god. Oh god. Can we skip Submit to BEM this week?" -g) Mark won body slime in the SWILLottery (No one voted, and Stone's not here, so I'm declaring it to be SWILLottery. -g) (Chaos voted for SWILlottery. She sent it to me because it was neither your nor Stone's preference. -d) (Well, Chaos isn't here either. -g) (In any case, it distinguishes it from the place where SWIL raises otters, which is the important thing. -d) (I almost typed pimportant thing there. -g). (So, do we want to say "We chose the SWILNews theme independent of this fact," or do we want to say "Go frosh!"? -g) (...Choose Your Own SWILNews. -d) *** NonSWILBusiness *** aka *** More Opportunities to Snuggle with Frosh in the Dark *** or *** The Other Reason Robert's Presidential Nickname is Darkness, not Dark (the first being Gold's Web Page) *** Comma and Co. will probably be going to see the new movie "Amelie" on Nov. 9. Keep checking the Fun list for further details. Rocky Horror will happen at Bryn Mawr on Saturday at 11:30pm. (Yeah. -g) (If I could capture your reaction in ASCII, Darkness, I would put it in. -g) Kyla is in Boston's Christmas Revels festival, which happens in December. See www.revels.org for info. Kyra will be showing Blackadder in Trotter 203 at 7pm on Friday. *** The Attendance List of Sleep -- 10/27/01 *** (Is there a theta-role in that? -d) Mariska Batavia "Nobody is perfect. I am nobody. Therefore, I am perfect." (At what? -d) Abby "Woo! Two-Step!" Friedman (Oh, so is that how many steps are in your frosh-swooping plan? -g) Robert "1 fish, 2 fish" McFarland (Fish? -g) Amy' "orange juice" Marinello (Orange. Juice. -d) John "Giant Purple Frogs eat "Lunch" Finkbiner (Is that what you're calling it these days? -g) Rebecca "Must stop talking to Public Safety at 2AM" Paul (Make them pay if they're going to keep calling. -g) MARK "FRANCE IS THE CAPITAL OF PARIS" HANDLER (And Paris is the capital of looooooooove. -d) Rachel "Less sleep deprived than usual..." Sapiro (We know why *that* is.... -g) ~Elliot "" Reed (You get laid (or don't) and don't tell the whole campus about it? -d) Kyra "I like my tan pants! I wear them when I want to pretend to be good." Jucovy (Mm. -g) benjamin 'eep?' r, george (That's what I said. -d) Jim "Blood and guts and duct tape in my teeth" Moskowitz (This is so unfortunate! How could everyone be so consistently choosing quotes to match our theme! -d) Katrina "zzzzzz...COFFEE!!!" Mergen (Better than coffee! -g) Rebecca "I stayed too clean" Jones (I kind of feel obligated to not make this sound too bad. -d) Catherine "JC is my secret girlfriend" Osborne (There is a JC in SWIL, too, you know. -g) (He's not a frosh, though. -d) Kyla "bitterness, sin, black walnut arches, and silly dances" Tornheim (I hate abstaining. Sin now! -g) BDan "Winter is coming!" Fairchild (You know what that's a metaphor for. -g) Qian