Most of the CJL took the snow day very lightly, watching lots of television, and just hanging out. That night we decided that we’d brave the cold and try our luck at knee-high-snow-tackle-football. There is a Cornell parking lot right next to the CJL which had yet to be plowed, giving us a field of flat, pristine snow.
Note: It was VERY cold outside!
Serious TV watching (Elysia and Greg)
Etan prepares for the cold weather
Adam gets ready to “hike” the ball
To us on the East Coast, especially those of us from the New York area, Cornell is certainly known to be colder and get more snow than New York City. Certainly that was true this semester as Cornell had a school closing due to the snow for the first time in over 10 years. That mean … SNOW DAY!!!!!!!!
Classes were canceled after noon, but the dining facilities remained open. The CJL was scheduled to have a “Wii” tournament during dinner that night, but it didn’t really happen as the snow was just coming down too hard.
What do CJL residents do with a day off from studying and school? Party and hang out on the second floor. Here is a brief overview of what went down.
Etan plays with a yo-yo from the engineering career fair (hence the suit), that ended early due to the snow, while the others look at Greg um, yeah.
The CJL has a sign … and there’s snow
There is a car under there, but the snow seems to have covered it (more on this tomorrow).
Would a CJL hangout be complete without a kumbaya kumzitz (courtesy of Dan)
Last night I wrote about one of the CJL teams to take part in Iron Chef Cornell. I should mention that the event was put together my Meredith (post), who has been planning this even for over a year. Tonight I’ll mention the other CJL team, which while it didn’t contain any CJL residents, was made up of CJL members. Since last night’s team was all guys … kind of weird for a cookoff … this other team, in true fashion, had three girls that actually knew how to cook.
The secret ingredient in their battle was, what other kosher food than matzoh. They produced a wonderfully delicious matzoh brei. While most of the team wanted to be recognized for their accomplishments, one particular member of the team wished to remain nameless … with a bag over her head.
For those unfamiliar with girls … they giggle .. a lot
Are there ever enough spices? Not in “Persia”
Anonymous eh?
Do you sense resentment from the guy’s team?
The mystery judge (Rina)
Last night I wrote about one of the CJL teams to take part in Iron Chef Cornell. I should mention that the event was put together my Meredith (post), who has been planning this even for over a year. Tonight I’ll mention the other CJL team, which while it didn’t contain any CJL residents, was made up of CJL members. Since last night’s team was all guys … kind of weird for a cookoff … this other team, in true fashion, had three girls that actually knew how to cook.
The secret ingredient in their battle was, what other kosher food than matzoh. They produced a wonderfully delicious matzoh brei. While most of the team wanted to be recognized for their accomplishments, one particular member of the team wished to remain nameless … with a bag over her head.
For those unfamiliar with girls … they giggle .. a lot
Are there ever enough spices? Not in “Persia”
Anonymous eh?
Do you sense resentment from the guy’s team?
The mystery judge (Rina)
What happens when you take three CJL guys, and pit them against three girls of far eastern descent in a sudden death match to cook the funniest food possible? What you get is hilarity, and that is exactly what transpired at this event. Basically, you had two teams, each trying to cook a meal in 20 minutes that used some sort of secret ingredient. In this case, the secret ingredient, inspired by an infamous CJL president from last year (remaining nameless), was a can of non-alcoholic beer. While the other team produced a dish of sliced apples with a fancy dip, our CJL team concocted some sort of apple based pudding like thing. This creepy monster was made of raw egg, mashed up bread and finely cut apple slices (sorry, no tofu).
Greg simmers vegetables … which are used exactly how in apple pudding?
Waiting for the toaster to finish
Judge Brandon (a KDH/104 West! chef) tries some of the apple pudding …
The feverish preparation continues up to the final seconds
This evening, the Second Floor Hallway of the CJL was turned into a baseball diamond, complete with a home plate, strike zone, fielding positions and spectators. There was much excitement, a charging of the mound, countless contestations, batter pegging and even some spectacular fielding. While it is awkward playing Second Floor Hallway Ball with a plush ball and a banister railing acting as the bat, it made for a night of relaxation in preparation for the serious amount of snow falling outside in Ithaca right now.
Adam and Chad discuss the game dynamics
Tamar takes aim, but falls short of a hit
Adam takes aim, but fails to find his mark (with closed eyes)
When the students were on “winter session” the Orthodox Rabbinical Couple here had their first child. They named their new born son Be’eri, which is quite awkward for Americans to both look at and pronounce. Names aside, the Jewish tradition teaches that a the first born must be redeemed from God. This ceremony is a relatively rare ceremony as there are many instances that it is not performed. Anyhow, it went off without a hitch, and in fact the coins that were used were quite old, from the 1870s, heirlooms in the Rabbi’s family. And to top it all of, as with all other Jewish occasions, food was front and center … the meal followed.
The Rabbi holds Be’eri
The Rebbitzin carries Be’eri
The Rabbi’s father with Be’eri
These two weeks are probably the two most stressful weeks for Cornell students during the semester. Filled with work, study, papers, exams and most importantly: finals! At Cornell, there exists a pair of weeks for finals. The first 4 days (Sunday through Wednesday) are study “week” and the remaining days are finals excluding Sunday (language finals are on Saturday). While everyone is going crazy, I felt obliged to share a picture that I feel best represents the anguish, despair and all around tenseness of the situation.
Faye rests her head against the stair case leading to the third floor as she pours over bio-chemistry.
Some of the fun things we do here at the CJL are more geared towards people of a certain gender. While that can’t be said for this event as both sexes participated equally and to the fullest extent. Just what was this activity you might ask. Well, the answer is clearly … Knitting.
Caption: CJL President pouts as he knits in the air
While actual knitting is not actually shown in this picture, you can be sure that there was plenty to go around, and I’ll be talking about it over the next week.
Here in the US, today, the 7′th of November, was an Election day. While both fun and exciting, there were a lot of communications distributed throughout the House urging people to vote one way or another.
Faye (of last blog post fame), a balloon animal designer extraordinaire, decided enclose her message in such a concoction. The CJL-Ephant was born, promoting and furthering the ideas of the GOP and encouraging, people to vote that way.
The President ponders whether to hearken to the CJL-Ephant.
Text of the sign: The CJL-Ephant (The only one we’ll ever get) VOTE GOP!
Though, this being placed on the President’s door, probably didn’t sway the President much if at all … as, sadly, the CJL-Ephant is incapable of speaking.
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