Perks!

[raefinlay]

So. This working for OSU thing is ah-ight. A staff member just came by to let me know she couldn't use her game tickets this weekend, and did I want them?

Heck, yeah.

So, ccfinlay and I will be at the Big 10 opener! Go Bucks!!! *waves something scarlet and grey*

*is now fully assimilated*

Comments

[sarah-prineas.livejournal.com]

Ohmigod. Big Ten football. Be afraid.

[raecarson.livejournal.com]

*paints face*

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

We will assimilate you into our cult of Big 10 football!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

The first thing porphyrin taught my sweet little godson to spell was not his own name, but rather, "O-H! I-O! Go Bucks!"

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Also, the nearest scarlet and grey thing to hand right now is The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Birth of the Modern Arms Race, so now I'm picturing you waving that around at the game. Wooooo!

[raecarson.livejournal.com]

Holy cow, that would be hilarious. Well, they'd probably just chalk it up to my crazy California heritage.

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

That's hard for me to take, coming from a large family of Michigan Wolverines boosters.

*wanders off humming "Hail to the Victors!" under his breath*

[raecarson.livejournal.com]

INSOLENCE! BLASPHEMY!

Dude, I think I need an Ohio State icon.

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

http://www.fightmusic.com/mp3/big10/Michigan__Hail_To_The_Victors.mp3

[raecarson.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah? Take THIS!:

Oh come let's sing Ohio's praise
And songs to Alma Mater raise
While our hearts rebounding thrill
With joy which death alone can still
Summer's heat or winter's cold
The seasons pass the years will roll
Time and change will surely show
How firm thy friendship ... O-HI-O!

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

Hail! to the victors valiant
Hail! to the conqu'ring heroes
Hail! Hail! to Michigan
the leaders and best
Hail! to the victors valiant
Hail! to the conqu'ring heroes
Hail! Hail! to Michigan,
the champions of the West!

We cheer them again
We cheer and cheer again
For Michigan, we cheer for Michigan
We cheer with might and main
We cheer, cheer, cheer
With might and main we cheer!

Hail! to the victors valiant
Hail! to the conqu'ring heroes
Hail! Hail! to Michigan,
the champions of the West!

[raecarson.livejournal.com]

My eyes, my eyes!!!

[careswen.livejournal.com]

It also happened to be my high school's fight song, so I can play it for you on clarinet, just to torture you further.

[raecarson.livejournal.com]

PURPLE HAIR! *dies*

I guess it's true what they say about "The Merriams." *shakes head*

[careswen.livejournal.com]

Hee! Glad you like it!

And what is it that they say?

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

Wasn't that the first thing you played the other night when you got your clarinet out for the first time in a couple of years?

[careswen.livejournal.com]

Yep! It's the one thing I still know by memory.

[purdypiedad.livejournal.com]

Bucks? BUCKS??? *headdesk*

At least you never said "aaaamunds".

[raecarson.livejournal.com]

Aaaamunds and Bucks. Nuts to live by.

[purdypiedad.livejournal.com]

Traitor! :-p

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

Will you still be my friend if I continue to be apathetic about football?

Okay...sometimes I drift toward openly hostile when provoked...but I'm mostly apathetic! Honest!

[raecarson.livejournal.com]

Charlie offered to give up his seat for you today. Wasn't that nice of him? (I assured him you were working. Wasn't that nice of me?)

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

I was working...honest I was.

Not hiding, working.

(you are the nicest Rae in the whole entire world)

[kelly-swails.livejournal.com]

Mwahaha! We've folded you into the ranks! I am an Illinois fan. Go Illini! Go Chief!

Please tell me you have grey and red underwear. You'll be laughed at if you don't. Don't say I didn't warn you. Not that I have orange and blue undergarments. I'm just sayin'.

[merebrillante.livejournal.com]

Bucks? You mean, like in Starbucks? They have a really nice Starbucks on the University of Michigan campus. Comfy seats in marine blue and gold. Mellow marching music. No inedible nuts on the ground to trip on. It rocks.

[ccfinlay.livejournal.com]

That's what the folks at Appalachian State told me too.

[merebrillante.livejournal.com]

It is to laugh.

[ccfinlay.livejournal.com]

Wait... wait... I hear something from the direction of Oregon too!

[scbutler.livejournal.com]

Not to back a loser or anything, but, GO BOILERMAKERS!

[ccfinlay.livejournal.com]

And I had you pegged as a Bruins fan....

[scbutler.livejournal.com]

Bruins? UCLA? Been in LA twice in my life, and the second time was Worldcon last year. My roots are Indiana and West Virginia, but Purdue adn Marshall rather than IU or the mountaineers.

[ccfinlay.livejournal.com]

I was just basing that guess on the ursos arctos in your icon (and on the furry protagonist in your first book*). Sorry it was a bad guess.

*not that kind of furry**

**although there isn't anything wrong with that!

[scbutler.livejournal.com]

My bad. My mind was stuck so deep in the BCS rut that I failed to notice the obvious connection. Next time I have to pay more attention to the wit.

[retrobabble.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry; I have no unearthly idea what you're talking about.

Stick'em all on skates and an ice-rink, and then we'll talk...

[writerswife.livejournal.com]

You're now more a Buckeye than I am. I could not care any less about football. Have fun, though. It's an experience!

[crimini.livejournal.com]

LOL

This whole thread makes me giggle.

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

Free tickets are never a bad thing...
What are you doing in the office? (Not, like, at this exact moment, but for your job...)

[raecarson.livejournal.com]

I answer phones! I copy! I sort mail! *roars*

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

Woot! Fun!

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

Assimilated? So soon? Oh my... well, resistance is futile, as they say. Hope ya'll had a good time at the game! And that's one hell of a perk!!!