Hooray! Secret Santa brought me a Lord of the Rings Risk game!!!

Looks like I'll be fighting the urge to flick over the next 6 days... must.. write.. papers...
I'll probably play it around 5 tomorrow - if any of you guys are interested, by all means, come and find me then. Up to 4 players allowed... first come first played. This'll be fun. :)

Oh, and looking over yesterday's synopsis, I forgot to mention a rather creepy encounter during the glee club concert. Remember that email that security sent out last year, about the 40-ish fellow who was forbidden from coming onto campus because he kept approaching girls and asking for their personal information? Well... I was on the stairs, listening to the women's glee club perform, when this guy with greyish-white hair approached me. I had no idea who he was, but he struck up a conversation with me, asked me if I was a student here and what instrument I played, said he was about to begin flute lessons next week, and before he'd spoken four full sentences to me, asked for my email address. Something didn't quite seem right, so I refused to give it. Upon this, he immediately asked for my last name... I improvised (of course), and excused myself to go warm up. During intermission, he was wandering around and talking to a few of the glee club women downstairs. He'd passed by a bunch of us a second time when Yussanne came over and urged us not to talk to him, informing us of who he was. He'd been warned to not come oncampus again sometime last year. Disturbing... she'd called Security, but he'd left by the time they got to Dabney. Grrrr. A damn shame they couldn't get there any faster. Aren't they supposed to make sure this campus is safe? -sigh- I'm beginning to understand why more and more women at tech are asking to have their numbers and adresses unlisted on the directory and house pages. There's so much information out there on the web in full view - it's extremely useful for friends, but at the same time, it's frightening to think of what could happen if the wrong person found it. To realize that someone can simply look up where I live on the caltech site, then track down where that is on a blacker map (conveniently provided on www.gdbg.org), and figure out a route to blacker through google... And if you want to continue this scenario, my name is fairly easy to get, as it's listed in the concert programs when I perform.

But as, with all things, you have to question how likely this is, and how it affects quality of life. Just because someone could possibly track me down from a concert program doesn't mean I'm immediately dropping out of orchestra - that's ridiculous, and needlessly paranoid. I live in a well-traveled hallway, I keep my eyes open when wandering around campus after dark, and I refuse to let paranoia dictate my actions. Though it's a damn shame that I'll have to think twice about giving my real name out from now on.