oh, sun god
my fellow tritons will understand all the emotion that goes behind those 3 little words. "oh, sun god." this once tiny get together has turned in to the biggest thing that san diego, not just ucsd, has to deal with on a yearly basis. as a student, i had hardly a notion of the impact of this event, even with the legends and myths that filtered down to me as a young freshman. now, as a staffer, and watching the daytime fair + nighttime rock show turn into nothing less than a half-million dollar spectacular of epic proportion, attracting partygoers from all points of the globe, my perspective has been altered: what once used to be THE event you looked forward to and planned for all year, now is that event staffers try to navigate around and avoid. if you're in the unfortunate circumstance of working in the center of it all (like me), you are reminded of the debauchery in the nastiest of ways... like realizing, that for this one day, there isn't a restroom on campus that is safe from human fluids on every surface.
praying to the sun god, an icon of the university on 364 days of the year, becomes synonymous with the porcelain god for that unavoidable 365th day. and your perspective on that fact all depends on which side of the tuition you are on.
current mood: hoping to escape relatively clean!