(All right, it's been 4 days since OPI, but let's pretend I posted this a week ago.) So the water system in Atlantis OPI has been giving us quite a few headaches recently. The basic idea is that we have 3 levels: one just below the dance floor level (around…

OPI is in 5 days! Everything's been coming together in the last week; we finished up putting the plywood on the temple using the scaffolding, and now the tip (which you can barely see in the picture) goes 28 feet up in the air: We also got up the wallboards…

This last week, we've worked mainly on the temple. It's basically a giant facade going 28 feet high, attached to several raised platforms at 8 feet and a staircase going down onto the dance floor. Creating the backing for the facade is a challenge in itself, because you need to…

If we only had construction, every party we build would look pretty pitiful. It's the art that goes on the skeleton that really makes OPI stand out. We generally paint our artwork on drywall, which is a 4x8' board made of gypsum plaster. It's cheap, but has the unfortunate tendency…

It's been raining. I guess our party theme is Atlantis, and there's going to be a ton of water all around, but we'd kind of like all the water to come after we've built everything. In the meantime, we've lost 3 out of 4 good building days out of the…

OPI this year is on Saturday, March 7th, at 9:00 pm in the Ruddock Courtyard. Mark your calendars. I've talked to friends who go to all sorts of different colleges, and they tell me about the parties they have every weekend. They all sound basically the same -- a crowd…