Played Risk this weekend and won. I think I'm pretty good at boardgames, but I don't usually win at Risk. See, the Australia gambit actually worked for once: I got a bunch of cards at the end and was able to beat down Freshman Matt, who had controlled North America pretty early on, for the win.

Good to be able to play Risk again. I've cryptically said it before, and I'll cryptically say it again: some people, you just can't play Risk with them.

Reminds me of Brainerd. Illuminati is a better game, but it was always fun to watch Manney striding the world like a colossus or to hear the inevitable desperate shout of "My only goal is chaos!" This was also one of the many games where Graham accused other players of purposely trying to win.

Oh yeah. The Lawrence International Winter Formal was also this weekend. Last year we had the LI Informal instead of going. And then there was the Spring Formal, where I threw up on one of Jagger's roommate and learned a valuable lesson about drinking directly from my flask.

The Fall Formal is my only real basis for comparison, and I guess that they're about even in my mind. We were in a different section of the same overpriced place, and the music was still terrible… Well, it was a decent night. Better than the alternatives, let's say.

Everyone smuggles alcohol in because it's way too expensive to buy at the bar: Jubb payed $3 for a Kamikaze shot. Knowing this, Alan was kind enough to let us fill my flask with his rum. And not for the first time.

Also not for the first time, Jubb mixed the drinks and he mixed them strong. We were out of alcohol by the time I'd ordered a coke from the bar (the bartenders ignored me because I have no bar skills) and I had resigned myself to drinking straight soda until I found Amelia II.

I'm slightly jealous of Jubb for having a girlfriend who does more substances than him and seems generally chill. She challenged me to a drinking contest once again, though that plan faltered once she got a chance to taste the rum and coke Jubb had made for her.

Even after diluting it with my coke, her drink was still unaccountably strong. I know I nursed my half for about an hour, and got more nauseous than buzzed. The drinking part of this year's LI was underwhelming.

I left on the early bus without throwing up on anyone. Another annoying part of LI is that people other than Jubb and Freshman Matt kept bringing up last year's incident. Personally, I think I ruminate on my many mistakes too often as is.

But yes, very funny. And so fresh.

Actually, though I of course avoided that girl at all costs, I did end up talking to the guy who, apparently, was going out with her last spring. Always amusing to get a firsthand account; I described the physics involved and he gave me some more details about the aftermath.

Well, it's the last time I've thrown up. So far, so good.

Yesterday's boardgame was the only source of entertainment, as far as I can recall.

Otherwise:

Jubb and I watched a freaky anime called Samurai Champloo which had a surfeit of rap. Someone described my sense of humor in a less than derisively general way, which was heartening. And there's snow everywhere now.

And today, I finished a book for class. Housekeeping. I'll probably recommend it to my mom. And I worked on Trivia stuff. The contest is this weekend already… must mentally prepare self to spend 50 hours with mob of extroverts… and write 25 questions…