Kayaking and More

Since my last post, it's been all about butler lies. I've been coding away with Jin and Lindsay and making good progress on fleshing out definitions and guidelines. For those who don't know, a "butler lie" is any type of lie you'd use to excuse yourself from a situation -- e.g., "sorry I just got your text!" even if you'd seen it hours ago, or "g2g feed the dog" if you just want that annoying IM beast to leave you alone.

On the side, I finished up compiling the master excel spreadsheet of Facebook status updates for Sally, although we're still waiting on those final Spanish translations. I'll be continuing work on butler lies for the next couple weeks, but it sounds like I'll be starting to get more involved with the deception book website for Jeff. We're meeting tomorrow, so we'll see how that goes.

My votes for future activities definitely include rollerskating and bowling, but I'm especially excited for the bonfire and swimming somewhere. I think go-karts would also be fun, but I think it could be a little expensive (less than kayaks, but without the awesomeness of being on Cayuga).

Big question from this week: What should even be coded as a deceptive message? People self-code messages as deceptive much more often than they "should," often labeling messages such "lol" as deceptive because "I wasn't actually laughing," even though no one would expect that they actually laughed out loud from such a message. There are a lot of fine lines, especially regarded messages meant as manipulative but not necessarily deceptive, per se. Hopefully we'll be able to figure out this semantic jumble!!!

Next week is the week I'll be away =( But the good news is, it's for the international BARBERSHOP COMPETITION!!! Yessssss. Here's a video of my quartet doing the songs from our set: