it's spring break

[Mozartian]

yayness. so i'll be in the chat room a bit again, so for all of you who undoubtedly missed me over the last 7 or 8 months... I AM BACK. spread the good word. etc. etc.

[mephisto]

What is spring break? I have only heard about it in context with insane college parties in below-average highschool movies. In Norway we have easter, practicly the same thing I guess...

[Essyne]

yeah - spring break is essentially like an easter vacation, except it's like a week and a half long....

[thalbergmad]

Only get the Friday and Monday off in England.

No eggs for me this year. Massive diet.

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[Mozartian]

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[wotgoplunk]

We here in Canada have the most ridiculous situation ever.

March break has just come to an end. And then we get a 4 day weekend for Easter! 

Great planning that was.

[quantum]

I never used to go to school on Easter Monday.  Our uni had a religious observance clause where you could not be penalized for missing class due to religious occasions. 

[pianochick93]

We have a long weekend, no school friday or monday, and then Sports Day on thursday...so essentially a five day weekend.

[Essyne]

what's sports day?

[pianochick93]

A dday in which events like long jump, running, high jump, and genearl athletics happen. Everyone at school is meant to participate in it.

[Essyne]

lol - its just like me to overlook the obvious 

We need that in Houston; maybe then everyone wouldn't be so fat.

[wotgoplunk]

A dday in which events like long jump, running, high jump, and genearl athletics happen. Everyone at school is meant to participate in it.

We had the equivalent, "track and field" day. Quite possibly the worst day of the year for me, considering my grass pollen allergies.

As if having to do exercise wasn't bad enough!

[indutrial]

What is spring break? I have only heard about it in context with insane college parties in below-average highschool movies. In Norway we have easter, practicly the same thing I guess...

When I was in college, spring break sounded like the worst time of the year to book a trip to Cancun or the Caribbean. Nothing but meatheads and fat geeks walking around shitfaced looking for breasts. Occasionally you would hear about some classmate dying in a party-related mishap. The one that stands out to me is a story I heard about some sophomore who got blasted on Bacardi and proceeded to take a headfirst dive off of his hotel balcony to the pool two stories below

...only to go land in the 3-ft end.

Well, at least he died doing what he loved.

[Essyne]

optimism is a wonderful thing, indutrial 

. . . but yeah, you're right

[mephisto]

When I was in college, spring break sounded like the worst time of the year to book a trip to Cancun or the Caribbean. Nothing but meatheads and fat geeks walking around shitfaced looking for breasts. Occasionally you would hear about some classmate dying in a party-related mishap. The one that stands out to me is a story I heard about some sophomore who got blasted on Bacardi and proceeded to take a headfirst dive off of his hotel balcony to the pool two stories below

...only to go land in the 3-ft end.

Well, at least he died doing what he loved.

OMG

[indutrial]

optimism is a wonderful thing, indutrial 

. . . but yeah, you're right

Not always. That kid was apparantly optimistic enough to think he could fly!

In all seriousness, I'm not trying to be negative. I just think that things like that and the other elements that have come to associate themselves with typical college "spring breaks" (being excessively drunk, wet t-shirt contests, the crap on the commercials for girls gone wild, etc...) have become a little bit excessive and people might consider finding some better outlets for all their repressed desires and outrages. Of course, if my college time has been indicative of anything, it's that the spring-break-level partying is not really far beyond what usually goes on from Thurs.-Sat. on certain campuses. My school had frats and tons of off-campus housing, so every weekend saw about 6-10 Animal Houses popping up, and there were always random stories of people dying mysteriously at parties, getting the piss beat out of them by strangers, girls getting raped by strangers (or friends), people getting things stolen, alcohol-poisoning, people falling off of roofs, people falling down stairs, so on and so forth.

That being stated, I always liked Spring Break. Only once did I actually run off on a trip during that week and I ended up spending 5 days up in Montreal, and it snowed the whole time! Somehow we managed the trip without a hotel or place to stay and that was pretty wacky.

[Essyne]

In all seriousness, I'm not trying to be negative. I just think that things like that and the other elements that have come to associate themselves with typical college "spring breaks" (being excessively drunk, wet t-shirt contests, the crap on the commercials for girls gone wild, etc...) have become a little bit excessive and people might consider finding some better outlets for all their repressed desires and outrages.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

[pianochick93]

I suppose ther are always a few groups of people who will constantly get drunk and party hard, whatever time of the year it is.

[rc]

We here in Canada have the most ridiculous situation ever.

March break has just come to an end. And then we get a 4 day weekend for Easter! 

Great planning that was.

'Round here (Alberta) we don't have March break, but reading week in Feb.  That's what the profs do too, assign a lot of reading to be done.  That's when everyone plans for their version of spring break.  In the vacation spots they must know the time off for every location   "Well the Albertans should be arriving soon, let's remove the breakables"

I've got a lot of partyer friends, and despite my best intentions still get sucked into stupidity now and again.  I never joined in their latest Vegas vacation, and haven't heard any stories of it either.  there's probably nothing to tell, it was a 4 day trip with somewhere around 30 hours spent driving.

More fun to get drunk far away?  Well there's that psychological aspect that being away there's less of a chance of stories circulating among people we know.  The whole "what happens in vegas stays in vegas", license to be more extreme.  But I'm just not cool being around someone who thinks because you're around a bunch of strangers it's OK to be a jackass.

By what I've heard the student culture is largely about partying around here.  They're all over certain bars on certain days, it's like a circuit: Mon get drunk at Essies, Tues get drunk at another bar, Wed get drunk at Blarney, etc...  It is what it is, but I can't stand when I hear some indignant student whining that they can't get enough of a student loan or the government doesn't pay for enough of their tuition, while pissing away all their money on booze.

I'll find out firsthand this fall.

[indutrial]

By what I've heard the student culture is largely about partying around here.  They're all over certain bars on certain days, it's like a circuit: Mon get drunk at Essies, Tues get drunk at another bar, Wed get drunk at Blarney, etc...  It is what it is, but I can't stand when I hear some indignant student whining that they can't get enough of a student loan or the government doesn't pay for enough of their tuition, while pissing away all their money on booze.

I'll find out firsthand this fall.

What sucks is that even after college, tons of people haven't kicked those social habits and it's somehow considered unusual to not be obsessed with liquor and bars. Whenever people who I graduated with (mostly non-musicians) want to hang out, it always boils down to some alcohol-related b.s. that I'm not interested in. Somewhere I heard of the tendency towards "social alcoholism," wherein people can't seem to understand that it's possible to engage in a social event that doesn't require getting buzzed up or totally hammered. There are numerous people I know who I would never consider asking to go to a recital with on a Saturday night, because they would probably be miffed because we weren't drinking. Being an American non-drinker and non-drug-user, I'm pretty astounded at what seems like an overwhelming fetishism built around alcohol, weed, pills, and partying in my own society. I'm not quite sure what it all bespeaks about civilization, but it seems like widespread signs of desperation sometimes.

[Petter]

Male bonding activities often have alcohol as prerequisite. I think it´s because of anxiety and insecurity. Or because it´s fun.

[quantum]

What sucks is that even after college, tons of people haven't kicked those social habits and it's somehow considered unusual to not be obsessed with liquor and bars. Whenever people who I graduated with (mostly non-musicians) want to hang out, it always boils down to some alcohol-related b.s. that I'm not interested in. Somewhere I heard of the tendency towards "social alcoholism," wherein people can't seem to understand that it's possible to engage in a social event that doesn't require getting buzzed up or totally hammered. There are numerous people I know who I would never consider asking to go to a recital with on a Saturday night, because they would probably be miffed because we weren't drinking. Being an American non-drinker and non-drug-user, I'm pretty astounded at what seems like an overwhelming fetishism built around alcohol, weed, pills, and partying in my own society. I'm not quite sure what it all bespeaks about civilization, but it seems like widespread signs of desperation sometimes.

I agree.   

[retrouvailles]

yayness. so i'll be in the chat room a bit again, so for all of you who undoubtedly missed me over the last 7 or 8 months... I AM BACK. spread the good word. etc. etc.

So, does anyone really care about her still?