when i was at uva we simply celebrated chinese new year on the corresponding julian calendar day, but this year we are celebrating chinese new year on the 8th instead of the 9th feb because we want to be on the lunar calendar and celebrate on the same day as asia. this is what harvard undergrads can do to your weekly planner.

it occurs to me that you go to panama for 100 hours, and what you get in return on your return are 7cents an hour, bad jokes from everyone else about hats, canals and tailors, and the overwhelming desire to learn spanish. not even an iguana stuffed with contraband beans that got confiscated and incinerated.

someone: did you demand to be there as they burnt it? von: i wasn't that attached to it.

and then we had to endure many long and badly told anecdotes about being solicited by old lechers in greece, aided and abetted by krisworld and chanel bottles.