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Last Friday felt like the longest day I’ve experienced in a long time. This entry deals mainly with the time interval between 4pm and midnight.

Since Nick has done a bang-up job of giving both a humorous and accurate description of the process of moving the HOGS fishtank, I’ll just cite some of the more interesting sections and link to the rest: part 1 and part 2

The statement “we moved the fishtank” is a greatly simplified version of what actually happened.

“Moving” means taking a 300lb object and relocating it from the 4th floor of Gleason to Rob Heslin’s house (a fellow physics major who lives 10 minutes away from campus) in a timespan of 7 hours.

Next, we had to catch the fish. Fish do not like to be caught. We did not have a net. Rob, RB, Mel and I are all brilliant physics majors, and it did not take long for someone to hit upon the idea of using a tupperware container as a net (the disposable kind). Contrary to what one might believe, it is not easy to catch semi-tropical fish, even when they (the fish) are relegated to a (relatively) two-dimensional environment.

Tupperware does not make an efficient replacement for a real fish net. The only way that I was able to catch my one fish was by scooping him and a half-container of gravel and pinning the sucker against the side of the tank; since the tupperware does not move through the water, but rather displaces water as it moves, it greatly increases the ability of the little swimming chunks of sushi to use their “fishy-senses” to detect the approach of the container.

I think that a good freshman project this year will be to move the tank back from Rob’s to HOGS.

I heartliy second this notion. It would get the new piglets working together as a team to reboot the fishiness of the lounge. Plus, I’ll have to do less work (my car/yacht is already dedicated to the task of delivery). :+)