Bacon is good for me!

CRAZIEST SPORT EVER!

So this is the craziest sport I have every seen- just ridiculous. It's all the rage in South East Asia- and it's kind of a mix of soccer and volleyball but you have to bicycle kick it over the net and there are three contacts a side and just watch this video and you will understand and probs want to play-
enjoy~

COUGAR CRUISES: How old do you have to be to attend?

Not sure if Demi Moore will be there, but Carnival Cruises is starting a Cougar Cruise. Yes, only cougars and "cubs" allowed. (But apparently, there's talk about a cub shortage, know anyone who might be interested?)

Check it out.

4 Years Ago Today...

So 4 years ago today we all got accepted to Williams. Crazy shit.

For people like me who like planes, today also marks a big day in airplane history. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner launched today. It is apparently the commercial airplane of the future because it is environmentally friendly in production and performance, super high tech (ie safe and comfy), and really fast.

Happy Studying!

Death Counter - Morbid, Yet Cool

Go to this death counter website, then minimize the window, and go back a couple minutes later., Interesting to see, like for example, deaths due to "self-inflicted injuries" are much more common than deaths due to "violence".

Check it out.

(Also, I posted a new love, hate)

Williams Seniors get married at the Orchards!!

http://record.williams.edu/wp/?p=1530

On Nov. 21, Aditi Chaturvedi ’10 married Parag Rastogi, her high school sweetheart and a senior at Purdue, at the Orchards Hotel on Main Street in Williamstown. The 21-year-olds have been together since their senior year of high school at the Doon School in Dehradun, India.

The couple got engaged in July 2008 and had originally planned to get married in India after graduating in the spring. Sometime in October, however, they started tossing around the idea of tying the knot a little sooner. “For a lark, we thought why the hell not? It came out of nowhere,” Chaturvedi said.

Earlier this semester, Petya Miteva ’10 discussed the prospect of Chaturvedi getting married sooner when Miteva was consulting her about studying Indian relationships and marriages for the Watson Fellowship, said Miteva, who is from Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

The two, who met as first-year international students, got to talking about Chaturvedi and Parag’s engagement, and discussed the legal benefits of an earlier marriage; as married Indian citizens, the pair could stay together in the U.S. or the U.K. if one of them obtained a student visa or work, even if the other did not.

“She said that they wanted to get married anyways, so why not just do it now?” said Miteva, who, at the wedding, caught the bouquet and hit it off with one of the bride and bridegroom’s high school friends, a student at Worcester Polytechnic.

Chaturvedi and Rastogi are the first of their friends to be married, and the decision surprised them. “It’s considered crazy to get married this early,” Chaturvedi said. “Only conventional, religious people do, and we’re completely unconventional.”

Chaturvedi considered hyphenating her last name but decided that the 17-letter “Chaturvedi-Rastogi” was too lengthy and has opted to remain Ms. Aditi Chaturvedi.

The Doon School, a boarding school in Northern India, is an all-boys school, which Chaturvedi was able to attend because her mother, Priya, teaches piano there. In a school where assemblies routinely began, “Good morning boys and girl,” Chaturvedi stood out.

“I had a lot to choose from,” she said.

The newlyweds met during their first year at the Doon School because they were affiliated with the same boarding house. “He was the first guy who talked to me like I was a human being,” Chaturvedi said. They participated in school plays, debate and the newspaper together, and quickly became best friends. In December of their senior year, Chaturvedi and Rastogi were both in Delhi during the holidays, and he suggested that they go out to dinner and a movie as friends while they had some time off. Halfway through the movie, he turned to her and said that he loved her.

“Needless to say we didn’t finish the movie,” Chaturvedi said.

The evening that the pair first got together took place on the same day that Chaturvedi received her acceptance letter from Williams. “Dec. 15, 2005 was, until Nov. 21, 2009, the happiest day of my life so far!” she said.

Because they got together so late in high school, the couple has spent most of their time as a couple in a long-distance relationship. “From the beginning, we’ve been living apart,” Chaturvedi said. They visit one another during all their breaks, a practice which they will continue when Rastogi, who studies civil engineering at Purdue, stays in the U.S. to pursue a master’s or a Ph.D. next year and Chaturvedi heads to the U.K. for a master’s in philosophy.

The couple was able to live together for 16 months before, during and after their junior years while Chaturvedi studied abroad at the London School of Economics and Rastogi studied at University College London.

In the summer of 2008, before moving to London, the couple was visiting their high school campus, where Chaturvedi’s mother lives. As is characteristic of an Indian July, it was raining on Chaturvedi’s birthday, July 12, but Rastogi suggested they take a walk despite the weather. Strolling through their favorite spots in school, they stopped at the main field and Rastogi suddenly fell to his knees. Chaturvedi thought he had slipped in the mud, but instead, he showed her the silver and sapphire ring and asked her to marry him.
That original engagement ring is lost now, after Rastogi accidentally dropped it down a grate at the Westbahnof Train Station in Vienna while the couple was traveling. Chaturvedi received a new, opal ring in Greece.

The ring wouldn’t be the only misplaced wedding item, however. Twenty minutes before the 3 p.m. ceremony was slated to start, the bridegroom realized that he had forgotten his dress shoes in Indiana, and had to borrow his uncle’s, leaving the man sitting in the front row of the groom’s side in his suit and his nephew’s white sneakers.

For the ceremony, Rastogi’s family flew in from India, and many of the couple’s old school friends who attend college in the U.S. came to Williamstown. The ceremony itself combined Indian and American influences: Chaturvedi’s American-style wedding dress was red instead of white, because red is the Indian wedding color whereas white is traditional for mourning. Rastogi’s relatives threw flowers on the couple after they recited their vows, and newlyweds cut a traditional American wedding cake, which Lee Park, professor of chemistry and Chaturvedi’s host mother, helped to prepare.

Because she had so little time to plan the wedding, Chaturvedi enlisted the help of some skilled Ephs to pull off the event. Elliot Schrock ’11 videographed the event, Danny Yuxing Huang ’11 was the photographer and Adrian Rodrigues ’10 deejayed the reception. Lindsey Parham ’10 was Chaturvedi’s maid of honor, and wedding guests included numerous other Williams students, as well as the families of Park and Keith McPartland, professor of philosophy and Chaturvedi’s thesis advisor.

The wedding of a current student nowadays is rare, but for Chaturvedi and her husband, getting hitched was the natural extension of what they already had together. “We didn’t see any difference between a committed relationship and marriage,” she said. “I don’t feel any different than I did two weeks ago.”

i might consider this...

http://www.royaldandie.com/index.php

Two Year Old Smoking Cigarettes :0

http://www.tooshocking.com/videos/6149/Two_Year_Old_Smoking_Cigarettes

Post[Video]Secret

PostSecret: Confessions on Life, Death and God from Frank Warren on Vimeo.

Cancer From The Kitchen

Interesting article about the US' increasing risk for certain illnesses:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/opinion/06kristof.html?_r=1&em

They even mention a 10 year old with breast cancer. :(

can we get this started again?

let's start posting because we all need some holiday distractions
here is the best website in the universe for engaging interesting information
http://www.ted.com/

Cake by Lil Jon

Cake - ft. lil Jon (attributed to Caroline by requests of Caroline)

A Yummy Project

http://elise.com/recipes/archives/006196peppermint_bark.php

so easy, yet so good. perhaps we can make it with both white chocolate and dark chocolate together...thoughts?

sweet music- good idea for parties where we are too lazy to make a playlist

http://fratmusic.com/homework.html

http://www.learnsomethingeveryday.co.uk/

http://www.learnsomethingeveryday.co.uk/

Obsessed with this song.

I've been listening to this on repeat for 2 days now, the chorus is infectious. Check it out.

Sunlight - Harlem Shakes

soccer = violent?

haha map of team weirdness- we gotta do this

one axis is weird thoughts (y axis)
the other is weird actions (x axis) you can see where people fall...

Cooool

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVXKI506w-E

whipped

I REALLY WANT TO DO THIS!!!! IS THERE ANY WAY!?!

I REALLY WANT TO DO THIS!!!! IS THERE ANY WAY!?!

Williams After Dark – The Ultimate Scavenger Hunt!
9:00pm – 11:30am
Location: Paresky Heinz Lounge

Starting at 9pm on Friday night, come in and pick up the list of items or find the list posted on WSO (at 9pm). From 9:00pm to 11:30pm, search by yourself or in teams (up to 6 people) for all of the items on the list (think random items!) At 11:30pm, everyone will meet back at the Heinz Lounge where the top three teams will all receive prizes, including great gift cards!

**Sponsored by College Council**

Rules for my unborn son

http://rulesformyunbornson.tumblr.com/

This is such a cool site- take note of rule 388 (walms) and 384

lauren!

wine club anyone? we save a lot of money and get classy wine...

https://www.zagatwine.com/wine_club/wine_club.aspx

My mom says that she just got 12 nice bottles of wine for $69.99...could be worth it?? Apparently we can cancel it after that so we don't have to pay full price the next time

we love our sea goat

Where the Wild Things Are Review

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2009/10/19/091019crci_cinema_denby

doesn't come to images until Friday. Let's see it next week?

3AM - Gregory Alan Isakov

Check out this song. Awesome.

Does Ibuprofen Help of Hurt During Exercise?

We all love Advil. Just don't take it before you workout. It slows growth and strengthening of muscle, bone and tendon in response to exercise. You will be more sore the following day if you have ibuprofen and it'll be that much harder to perform at a high level.

Full Article: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/phys-ed-does-ibuprofen-help-or-hurt-during-exercise/

(Pilfered from the WOC list-serve)

Lauren and Jray- this one's for you, but I think everyone will like it.

http://www.happinessinthisworld.com/

It's the daily stories, reflections and ramblings of a Buddhist Physician and a great read

Well-Being Index

CK - That reminds me of this index that's been going on for quite some time. It's not based on facebook, but it's still pretty darn cool.

http://well-beingindex.com/default.asp

pretty unprecedently cool... ya.. read it

http://apps.facebook.com/usa_gnh/

hehe funny man

SINGLE LADIES

MUST WATCH

http://abc.go.com/watch/modern-family/235331

get to it... you'll laugh your butts off

Butternut Squash makes the LOVE list!

With four votes for love, and therefore the clear majority, butternut squash is officially loved. Phew, I was nervous. It will thusly be added to the love list. Any suggestion for the newest poll?

Terms We Like

OUT: mildly, spicy, aggressive (overtly)

IN: your team

instructions for use: you see someone ugly or weird and you tell whoever it is you want to bother (walms) that the ugly/weird person is on their team (make sense?)

fail

Rough

pic of the fall competition has officially commenced with this gem

Party in the USA Fire Island

We all have it memorized but I think it deserves a spot on scutter. Scutter is scutternutbosh's nickname. If Sarah can make "apt" happen, anything is possible. Shout out to Janet for the rice crispies and Casey for the wonderful loaf of nutty heaven. Wax hands for life.

CJ

KEN LEE

Initiation

Scutternut bosh was borne at 7:43 on Sunday, October 4, 2008 while eating Butternut Squash soup in Apartment 8 on 21 Spring St.