Better Late than Friars

As is true for love and toned abs, sometimes you just have to wait awhile to get what you really want. The spirits of many Sphinges were dampened last week when Sphinx Citings did not come out on Monday. "Where could it be?" they wondered. Candlelight vigils were held and the DP started a ticker of the number of days that Citings had passed its deadline. Hope dwindled, but never fear, for Sphinx Citings is here.

We begin our story far far back to two weekends ago, with pregaming for the Masala show at Mana's where Malaika, Caroline, Brett, Lex, Mana, Brian, Healey, Brandon were spotted. Cynthia "magically appeared at Mana's apartment" to greet the show-goers. Once at the show, Srikant hooked Sphinges up with front-row seating and tee shirts. As he performed, he was spotted wearing his grandfather's horizontal-striped V-neck shirt as he serenaded freshmen Indian girls, "half in English, half in Hindi, and half in Hottiness" Sphinx Chiefs of '03, '05, and '07 are “Masala boys” and were all present. Some of them began a familiar cheer regarding “losers and snorks." One Sphinge of few words commented, "What an experience. thank you so much boys. SO much."

Moving from India, to India Arie, Catey, Mana, Brandon, and Caroline gathered at 3934 Delancey to make signs in support of Lex before Thursday’s drag show. At the show, Lex was spotted doing her best "Kevin-from-the-Backstreet-Boys" impression as she "serenaded freshmen lesbian girls" with her newly straightened hair. Her hair reportedly attempted to fight back, saying that it was born the way it was and there was nothing anyone could do to make it straight. Healey was also seen yelling “Show your ROPE!” Many Sphinges were exuberant; according to Mana "I SLEPT in my QPENN shirt that night. I just couldnt take it off, I dreamt that Lex, aka Nick Carter, sang to me in my arms." Other sources say that Lex's "salty sweat and unimaginably hot dance moves were to SWWOOOOON for." The consensus was that the show was a "SPECTACULAR success."

In the "To the straight Beta kid...(that's the punchline)" department, Healey and Brandon had several good heart-to-heart talks about boy problems. Healey was seen watching Jon Tucker Must Die and Mean Girls in a back-to-back "blow out with his manly fraternity brothers." Oh yeah, and Healey was also called out in QPenn for supposedly being gay, again. The crowds yawned, yearning for a new joke from everyone's favorite hotty from Nebraska.

In the holidays which happened two weeks ago section, Gaby and her younger brother were eating Shabbat Dinner at a friend's house. Tammy and Andy were there, too.

Continuing with the Jewish theme, Josh, among several other Sphinges, was seen “taking advantage” of the open bar at Ezra’s “Betsy Ross’ Bat Mitzvah After Party” at Hillel. Caroline was seen wearing a cow mask.

In the watching paint dry section, Israel and Ewurama were spotted at the front desk of Harnwell.

In tsocial news, two Tuesdays ago at New Deck Happy Hour, Caroline, Head, Jeff, Mana, Brian, Andy, Ryan, Catey & Ezra "CLEARED out the peanuts at New Deck." According to one Sphinge who uses caps lock like Helen Keller uses sign language, "thats how we ROLL." Immediately following the Happy Hour, Brett, Andy, Mana & Catey made a "highly impressive showing of black caps & polos at UA Steering." One tap was reportedly impressed that "there were a lot of black caps in the room tonight."

On to the SPEC BeachFest Catey, where Caroline & Mana ate lots of pbj sandwiches and “widely capitalized on SPEC's ridiculous budget & giving away of amazing free...goods.”

At the Mask & Wig show two Fridays ago, Mana sported the event SOLO to cheer on the "Fragarooster & his Head", and got "PRIME seating right smack in the front row." Josh Head even came & sat behind her in the middle of the show and started massaging her shoulders. She also laughed so hard that she started crying and the elderly man next to her offered her his handkerchief. But, she "saw him blow his nose in it a half hour earlier, so she kindly declined." Fraga was remarked to be "THE hottest woman ever" and Josh looks "WAY too good in a cheerleading outfit." When not wearing a wig, David finished the final draft of his thesis at 7:15AM last Friday morning before he headed to Japan, where he is currently vacationing and wearing Sphinge gear every day, everywhere.

And finally, words of encouragement from Friars head honcho Zach Coopersmith in email correspondence with an unnamed Sphinge: "I like the blog posting on the Sphinx website by the way, you guys are so amazing." Enough said. See you all next week for more citings. Until then, in the words of Mana, "I LOVE YOU ALL!!!! The end. peace."

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p.s. you may wonder why it seems to be the same people in these photos every week. that's because they send them to me, not because they're beautiful - which they are. but you're beautiful, too, so send some hot pics.