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FRIDAY, Oct. 29 Blue!
10:00 a.m. Good Neighbors Meeting. Bad neighbors go to hell. Jade Parlor

3:00 p.m. Tea. Taking a girl on the T as a date is just pathetic. You can find real tea in Boston somewhere. Rose Parlor

8:00 p.m. Play. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Finkelstein and Biederman are alive. We know you were worried. Shiva Theater

10:00 p.m. Annual Halloween Dance. Don’t go as John Malkovich. It’s been done. CC, North Atrium

SATURDAY, Oct. 30 Red!
1:00 p.m. Men’s/Women’s Swim and Dive. Vassar vs. NYU. Never swim with lepers. Walker, Pool

4:00 p.m. Lost Film Fest. Showing famous lost objects, including that tacky blue necklace the old lady from Titanic dropped in the ocean at the end of the movie. Sanders 212

8:00 p.m. Raymond Haunted House. I watched Spice World in the basement of Strong with two gay boys. Same thing, right? Raymond Basement

SUNDAY, Oct. 31 BLUE!
3:00 p.m. Vassar College Women’s Chorus. Sopranos vs. Altos. A fight to the death. Skinner

MONDAY, Nov. 1 RED!
3:00 p.m.Tea. People were drinking tea on top of the Berlin Wall right before it fell. The teacups survive today, preserved in the rubbish of Communism. Rose Parlor

5:00 p.m. Lecture. “Giving to Canberra, Getting a Motorcar: The Local Context of Western Desert Aboriginal Acrylic Painting.” Fred Myers of NYU. Motorcars explode every day. Buy insurance. Taylor 203

TUESDAY, Nov. 2 BLUE BLUE BLUE!
3:00 a.m. Tea. Bubble tea is so azn fab right now. Rose Parlor

5:00 p.m. Internships/Summer Opportunity. Intern for Seventeen Magazine. Sylvia Plath did it. CC, Commons

7:00 p.m. Film Screening. Toy Story. Reminiscent of the work of the late Edmond Harris, Toy Story paints the cowboy as a homoerotic foil to the astronaut, who in turn represents the 18th century’s literary elite. Blodgett

7:00 p.m. RadLit Meeting. A radical new lending-library. Don’t worry, the Kalishnakovs are only used in cases of unpaid late fees. CC

7:30 p.m. Film Screening. Jason and the Argonauts. The blockbuster film of the infamous summer of ’92. Rocky 300

8:00 p.m. Election Party. If the Dems win, John Edwards will take off his clothes. Students Building, Second Floor

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 3 RED RED RED!
3:00 p.m. Tea. The Red Sox owe it all to some well-placed Darjeeling. Rose Parlor

5:00 p.m. Resume Writing Clinic. Note to self: Do not attach clippings of Backpage articles to resume. CC, 237

5:00 p.m. Lecture. Jon Butler, “The Challenge of Faith in Modern America.” God, it’s hard to stay faithful to my husband when the gardener wears such tiny shorts. Sanders 212

5:00 p.m. Conversation Dinner. Things like this really offend me. I was a mime for three years. CC 223

7:00 p.m. Lecture. Nacira Guenif Souilamas, “Virtuous Racism and the War of the Sexes Among the Socially Disadvantaged: The French Exception.” L’homme blanc danse dans la nuit avec un autre homme blanc. Sanders 212

8:00 p.m. Asprey Lecture. Jeff Weeks, “The Shape of Space.” Collective aeronautical matter becomes hyperbolic when exposed to radioactive neurobiological astrophysics. Space is kind of big; probably round. Rocky 300

THURSDAY, Nov. 4 I hate this country.
12:00 p.m. Free Lunch/Conversation. Free lunch and conversation with Alison Hyde '59, "Orphan Survival , Support and Hope." The conversation costs $85. This free lunch better be vegan. CC 223

3:00 p.m. Tea. When tea became illegal in the ‘20s, there were these clubs where people could go and drink tea made in someone’s bathtub. It’s called moonshine and it’s excellent. Rose Parlor

4:00 p.m. Chapel Centennial Celebration. The Chapel was built in 1904, the same year my great grand aunt graduated from Vassar with a B.A. and a new sexual orientation. This event will include giant puppets and stilts. Sunset Lake

4:30 p.m. Math Lecture. Jeff Weeks, “Polynomials and the Microwave Sky.” Tea preceding the lecture in Rocky 305. Nothing like a spot of tea with a dash of polynomic kitchenware. Rocky 310