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

[sanpaku.livejournal.com]

All quite excellent!

[mangosteen]

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.

As a former member of The Cleverest Band in the World, I would have to agree.

(Although, in our case, it was all about the white trousers and baby-blue Turbo Acrylic(tm) sweaters.)

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Great picture - thanks for sharing!

[gilana]

I see the orange maracas, but I'm shocked to hear that they're plastic! Oh, wait -- are there percussion instruments cropped out?

[hakamadare.livejournal.com]

my word, the uniforms haven’t changed a whit. :) awesome - i’m so glad you had fun. scramble bands are wonderful.

-steve

[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.

[miraclaire.livejournal.com]

great picture!

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

The Trash section is grouped with percussion, but I don't think the maracas made it into the picture. Nor the juggling clubs.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Squee! Aw, just wanna pinch your cheeks. :)

[underwatercolor.livejournal.com]

Oooh. I love the orange. :)

[greenlily.livejournal.com]

awww...very cute. And orange.

[(Anonymous)]

Yay! I'm glad you got to experience the craziness that is the Princeton University Marching Band. :) I dragged Michael back to Reunions one year and got him to dress in orange plaid and play the bass drum. No, he didn't know the music. No, he doesn't play drums. *grin*

[lyriendel.livejournal.com]

and in case you couldn't tell, that was me. Stupid not-auto-logging-on browser.

[awhyzip.livejournal.com]

pthbthb Gilly! Did she not read what I think I just did?

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Ohhh now, if you're going to be THAT way about it: you can't even see my maracas in that picture. :-P

[ladypsyche.livejournal.com]

Oh dear God. You're gonna show that to Karen, right?

I am rather sorry that you never overlapped in the group with my older sister, as I'm sure I've got pictures of her in full Princetonian regalia somewhere. She held a party for the Harvard/Princeton game once. I painted my nails red and blue to attend (hurrah Pennsylvania.)

(You designed the programs for the Hugo Awards? Cool!)