Going back... to some alternate universe.

[chanaleh]

FYI, costume pictures are now linked from previous entry.
But now let's hearken back to the costume I was wearing the previous Saturday... in which I got to add one more to the roster of Phrases I Never In a Million Years Would Have Imagined Hearing Out of My Own Mouth:

1. "This is the mezuzah my brother brought me from Israel."
   
2. "I designed the programs for this year's Hugo Awards ceremony." [Bonus point: "The one Neil Gaiman was MC'ing."]
   
3. "I've just been recruited to play Eleanor in The Lion In Winter."
   
4. "Today I marched with the Princeton Band in the Harvard-Princeton game."
[Bonus point: "In the alumni section."]

Tiger Boy got them to lend me a uniform and everything (at least, the jacket and hat). But the orange plastic maracas were all mine.

Uniforms straight out of the fashion pages... of 1919. (Coincidentally, the same year that Harvard last took the national football championship.)

I now know most some of the words to a variety of Princeton fight songs.

I have witnessed an attempted full-frontal aural assault on Widener Library.

And, honest to God, even aside from the novelty factor or any sentimental ones, it was a blast. If you ever get a chance like this, do it.

Comments

[doeeyedbunny.livejournal.com]

You were in the marching band?! How did I not know that?
What "instrument" did you play?

[mangosteen]

What "instrument" did you play?

The frisbee. A regulation 165g ultimate disc, no less. :)

I have fond memories of the cold-and-rainy-but-we're-all-here-so-let's-play Cornell game , laying out for a disc during the halftime show, and hydroplaning about 20 yards down the field.