More pictures - for the visual learners!

Here are some more pictures from Pippert's party! I'm leaving town to defend my thesis tomorrow, so these pictures are a good way to end the semester - and bring some closure to the ordeal they call "The Washington Program". (Fine, it's not an ordeal, it's freaking great!)

The whole gang at Pippert's place in Virginia.

Me, Giorgi from Georgia - holding a drink, as usual - and Jill from Kyrgyzstan. If you look really closely, you can see her son in the background. Yeah..

This is the top 8 percent of Thor. And top 29 percent of Giorgi. And 97 percent of Giorgi's car. Yes, I spent 19 hours in that car, crossing the freaking country. And yes, there was singing. There was singing indeed.

Yeah, you get a dime if you can guess what album cover this photo was inspired by. At least there were no wardrobe malfunctions. Divya is trying to hide her fear in the background, and well, so is Andrew, albeit not as visibly.

Giorgi eating red and almost certainly poisonsous berries. He's now facing years of physical therapy to cure the terrible side-effects.