Seeing Green

Well, yesterday was St. Patrick's day, and I probably should have focused my post on that. However, seeing as most people are probably still hungover from yesterday, I think it's fair to discuss it.

People usually wear green at St. Patrick's day. Or at least that's the tradition I grew up with. In New England we were very conscious of the holiday, probably in part because of the massive amount of Irish in Boston. However, at Cornell not very many people wore green, and I'm guessing that most of those who did are either Irish or from the Northeast. So to that effect, I feel that it's necessary to make people understand exactly what St. Patty's day is about.

St. Patrick's Day's not
About Irish. It's about
Drinking and green stuff


Really, there's no law saying that St. Patrick's Day is just for the Irish (why don't they have some sort of shortening? I mean, we call British people "brits" and Scottish people "scots," so why aren't Irish people "ires"?), just like there's no law saying that Thanksgiving is only for people who actually give thanks. And as a result everyone can partake in the festivities. And by festivities I mean drinking, along with wearing and puking green. Then, when you don't wake up in time for class then next morning, you don't fret because you could definitely see that one coming. Unless you have a midterm, then it sucks to be you.