Sunday, April 16, 2006

Patriots Day

This business is news to me. This just showed up in my inbox:
Hey guys,

Tomorrow is Patriot's Day. For those of you who don't know, Pat's Day is a Mass. tradition celebrating the day the Revolutionary War started - you know, what with the shots heard round the world in Lexington and Concord and Paul Revere riding his horse all over the place, or some nonsense like that. What I know for sure is that, today, the holiday involves drinking on a Monday morning, the Sox playing a game at 11 am, and thousands of crazies doing some sort of "fun run" they like to call the "Boston Marathon." In a nutshell: anybody who's anybody in Boston is going to be hanging out near Kenmore all day tomorrow, drinking, watching the game, and cheering on the runners - and I think a group of us should join them.

So, if you'd like to (1) go into Boston, (2) drink beer, (3) watch the marathoners cross the finish line, and (4) grab some burgers, all in time to be back at Harvard for 24, drop me an email. My plan is to leave Harvard at 3, go to Kenmore, drink until the runners start looking fat, grab dinner, and come home. But the plan will fail if we don't have a quorum, so do email me if you wanna come.

And just remember: If you don't celebrate Patriot's Day because you're too busy studying, the terrorists have won.

That sounds like a good holiday, but now I'm terribly conflicted. I have to go to Law of Democracy class tomorrow, or the terrorists win. But now I also have to go drink beer and watch the marathon, or they still win! Damn, that was cunning of them.

1 comment:

Q said...

I miss Patriots Day!!!! A perfect holiday, celebrated nowhere else in the country, that meant a day off of school (college anyways, probably not law school), cheering on the marathon runners, and maybe, just maybe, catching a little sunshine in April. Sigh. Have a great time!!