Sigma Alpha Lambda

WARNING THIS POST HAS AN AGE RESTRICTION RECOMMENDATION OF 12+

Whether you've seen the American Pie films or not, you probably have some idea of what fraternities are at American Universities. If you have seen American Pie (including the incredibly awful 6th film, 'Beta House'), you probably have a view they're full of drunk's getting stoned on weed and coke and doing stupid stuff with themselves and various attachments. Since this is a 'PG' level blog, i'd better not elaborate too much more. It was therefore with some confusion and trepidation i received today a rather posh invite to join the "Sigma Alpha Lambda" fraternity.

This is a strictly by invitation only frat house for high achievers (yeah, it's full of geeks) which makes it even worse. If you've seen American Pie, the geek house gets mocked, bashed up and is full of arrogant, two-faced work-a-holics who can write pi to 3 million digits but can't cook beans on toast. Were assuming that American Pie is accurate - a fair assumption. What's worse is the $59 "initiation fee". Its not the fee i would be worried about but the initiation process. If American Pie is anything to go by, i'd need to get half of Tucson pregnant within 7 days to become a member. That's atleast double the reccommended daily allowance! Needless to say, i won't be joining! I wonder if my lecturer back in Leicester (a former graduate of the U of A) was a member???

In other news, i went in the pool today! Yes, this is an outdoor, non-heated swimming pool in February! And it was bloody freezing! Seriously, it was cold!

And finally, since ive had to suffer, a nice little football injury story for you. Saturday's Premiership encounter between Arsenal and Birmingham produced possibly the worse injury ive seen in football from the worse tackle ive ever seen. An Arsenal player was brought down just 2 minutes into the game by some Birmingham brickie. The tackle broke the Arsenal player's leg with bone visibly sticking out of the skin (through the sock!). Match of the Day kindly showed the highlights without any prior warning. Photos can bee seen on my friends blog (http://timnutt.blogspot.com/) but only for the non-squemish. I don't mind blood and gore but even i think this is nasty.

Laters.