May Week!

[dolorosa_12]

This past week has been May Week in Cambridge (no, don't ask me why May Week is in June, it just is). It's basically a week of insane (and I mean insane) hedonism between exams and exam results being posted. I only went to three events (St John's College May Ball, ASNaC garden party and Wine Soc garden party) but they were certainly the events to go to. I took a few photos, but since I am an atrocious photographer, especially when it gets dark, they're not really representative. But there are lots of photos floating around on Facebook if you feel that you haven't got enough of the May Week insanity.

May Ball was odd. I had a moment, when the fireworks (better than Sydney's New Year's Eve fireworks, and set to music) were going off, when I felt an absolute disgust at the amount of money being poured into the whole event. Someone had told me it cost £10 million. That's right, £10 million. The closet socialist in me suddenly started getting very upset that £10 million was being spent on fireworks and merry-go-rounds and five entertainment stages filled with performers (including Calvin Harris and the Puppini Sisters) from 9pm to 5am and so much food and drink that it could feed a small country. So I danced until I was delirious and tried not to think about it too much.

The thing is, I love dancing, but I'm not a huge fan of clubbing. As I've said on many occasions, I'd rather dance in ugly pants in the comfort of a lounge room in suburbia. But I adore dancing at events like balls and formals and so I was in my element. Calvin Harris was amazing (as were the Puppini Sisters, whom I'd never heard of), but the dag in me liked the silent disco the most. One hour of dancing to the kind of playlist of the house parties of my undergrad years (Breathe by the Prodigy, Hey Ya by OutKast, Are You Gonna Be My Girl by Jet, etc) was absolutely amazing. Everyone was singing and it was just wonderful.

ASNaC garden party (in Newnham College) was great. I slurped down cup after cup of Pimm's and sat on the grass in a rather dazed state (it was the day after May Ball) chatting to my friends and trying not to feel as if it was the end of an era.

I'll be so sorry for this year to end.






Pre-May Ball.


Merry-go-round.


Calvin Harris.


The crowd dancing to Calvin Harris, against the John's architecture.


Before the ASNaC garden party.

Comments

[miss-foxy.livejournal.com]

so pretty!!! ^_^

[dolorosa-12.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I didn't know you still used LJ at all!

[miss-foxy.livejournal.com]

I don't, hehehe. but took a sick day so was surfing around :D looks like your having a great time in the UK! guess who i had lunch with the other day? PAT!!!! hahahah

anyway i will try to make more of an effort to go on LJ. feels so weird after so long!

[dolorosa-12.livejournal.com]

Well, it was good to hear from you anyway. How's Pat going? I have him on Facebook, but it's so easy to lose touch with people. And how are you going? What are you up to these days?

[miss-foxy.livejournal.com]

hehehe yes it's good to see updates from you with photos yay!
pat is good, he hasn't changed.... :P
i'm good! just working in sydney now, living in newtown, kathy's gonna move in with me in a month!!!
any plans to head back soon? when do you graduate?

[losseniaiel.livejournal.com]

Such a pretty dress. :)

I must stop being lazy and put my photos up.

I don't know if you've seen these, but they're hysterical:

http://mightygodking.com/index.php/category/photoshoppd/heres-a-lot-of-photoshops/

[dolorosa-12.livejournal.com]

Oh, Mightygodking. I used to read his blog, and then he made some anti-Dollhouse remarks, and, like the crazed Whedon fan that I am, I decided to boycott the site. But I shall have a look.