Went to this Mardi Gras thing at the student center tonight. It was pretty crowded, especially for a Saturday night in Irvine. There were booths selling food, psychic readings, a dude doing stuff with fire, a mime, a band playing and people dancing. The trees on the student center patio were strung with Christmas lights. There wasn\’t all that much to do, it just had a cool, outdoor party atmosphere. You have to understand, weekends at UCI are dead. Absolutely nothing happens between Friday night and Monday morning. So this small Mardi Gras festival tonight was the coolest thing to happen in weeks. We need more of these kinds of things.