better late than never

so. figured i'd better update this before i get yelled at by the bored masses. was just reading the most recent issue of the alumni mag and am inspired to report on the happenings of our own little circle of alums and undergrads. and thus we will have an example of why the d alumni mag should hire me.

so. without further ado:

i talked to skips on sat morning. had decided to put on stevie nicks 'timespice' and was overcome by fond memories of 'gold dust woman (the wee beastie)' as was skips' reply-to for a REALLY long time. was good to chat with her, she'll be in attendence this wknd - looking fwd to seeing her. she's planning on being in chicago for the summer and enjoying so well-deserved time off from teach for america. she says she'll be back on the east coast in some capacity, but that there are lots of block parties, and chicago summer events that she does not want to miss, so she is not sure when that will be. perhaps we can all sojourn to dc to visit whit?

robin made it up to htown with kate b, and coleman. the semi-dressed semi formal was in full swing - i talked briefly to ceppos during the event, and the pics look hilarious. i hope the weather cleared up for the event and that many happy hours were spent sunning on the sd beach.

talked to allette on saturday night. she had made it to tn, despite the stick-shift challenge, and was chilling on a porch of the 'break house' i believe it was called? before heading off to nc to be a camper in counselor training camp for a couple days. she promises to post here when she gets internet, and says that we all should call her when we get together this wknd. apparently she could hear many wild creatures from her porch. eagerly awaiting your news la lette, and i have assured diana that while i will take allette's place this wknd and usher anyone that needs ushering out of the sd basement, as well as mop if need be, i wish to declare in this public forum that i do not really relish the idea of mopping, as the lord knows have done it enough while housemanager (hi boxa, lingley and overton), i can't poledance like allette can, and nothing will ever take her place. expect some drunk dialing friend.

laurak left me a message today. message was as follows:

hi ms. lyon. i know you're at work and can't answer this, but i'm in an aiport and i just walked by an EXTENSIVE vera bradley display, so i figured it was time to call you.

laurak had been in florida for the easter holidays, doing her best, as her fb status claimed, to get as sunburned as possible in four days. however, she is back in htown action now and will be there to welcome jess, ppocket, skips, boxa, swanny, mulley and myself for the 30th anniversary of women's crew at d this wknd. hot dog!

as for me, i had a low-key wknd. charlo was up at yale (and ally gives ME a hard time for going back - haha) so it was me, myself and i. ally and i hit up 'absolutely 4th' - the one with the cotton candy martinis i like so much. (we decided we like it better on tuesday at 6 pm, than friday, but was still fun) then returned the le apt for some drinks and hanging out. megh joined us, in fine form, for a bit. chatted (or tried to) with tay tay a bit, still confused over who it was i spoke to when i dialed her number. ally stayed over, and we spent a cold and rainy sat thrift store shopping. scooped up some steals, including a delightful bundt pan. i think nyc is the only place in the world where the thrift stores have security guards. am i right? took it easy sat night - was cozy like a bear in the pouring rain. cleaned up a bit sunday, made a spumoni cake - so delicious - and got dinner with my cousin before early to bed. v. relaxing.

psyched for the events of this wk - the new criterion, who edited the dartmouth review 25th anniversary anthology, is having a fiesta on thursday. in that it is 2 floors above my office, and porchcrawlers and pong are promised, we are hitting it up. (i swear, everywhere we go - d!)charlo's mom is coming on thursday as well, in preparation must clean in a futile attempt to convince her that we don't live like everyone else our age - in some mindless pit of empty alcohol bottles and moldy slices of cheese. we do, but we will try to put our best foot forward. heading up to boston on friday night to stay with diana, before roadtripping up to htown on sat.

now. i ask you, do i not report on the comings and goings of the peeps as well if not better than the alumni mag? someday, i swear, will edit that thing. mark my words. ;-)

itbeditingisthemostcompanionableformofeducation - edwardweeks

one more

okay - i was kidding - one more quick post and then bed.

have discovered, in manner of bridget jones, how to make people that charlo would put in the fb category of 'it's awkward with . . .' to get in touch with you - fb friend them.

i mean you all know about my dumb thing with colin to have more friends than he does (soooo close btw). in the quest to beat him i have been friending people from all walks of my life - including two guys that i may or may not have hooked up with in the past and hardly ever spoken to inbetween/post hook up. today i heard from both of them, despite a silence of six and four months respectively. it's like - dude! did not want to talk to you - just have you accept my friendship. as zana says, if you've swapped spit with them they count, as do all their peripheral friends. i agree with the first part, the second might be a bit too much even for my goal-achieving desperation =P. anyway - i thought charlo's response was amusing - she said that they may not realize how many people i have recently friended and that i should tell them both that i friended over 60 people in the last two days - and that they were numbers 59 and 60. the idea has merit. tee hee hee.

okay - now am really done. i do realize this is a stupid obsession/waste of time (and therefore money) and you are all probably really tired of reading about it. has been tres interesting though.

will leave you with some poignant lyrics from the 'wet hot american summer' soundtrack: beth i hear you calling, but i can't come home right now. me and the boys are playing and we just can't find the sound. just a few more hours and i'll be right home to you. i think i hear them calling oh beth what can i do. beth what can i do?

goodnight. and good luck.

maybe baby

so quick post before i head to bed. i've been running more lately - and today just didn't want to stop (i had a particularly good mix in the cd player - perhaps that had something to do with it) but now i'm exhausted and ready to pass out.

anyway - maybe baby is the name of a book i've been working on a lot at work. it's 28 personal compelling, and often controversial, essays by well-known authors about their decisions, thoughts, feelings, apprehensions about having kids. (does that sound like a pitch? b/c it is. haha). i've read a lot of the essays - we pitch different stories/authors to different shows - and doing all this work with the topic has really made me think about my own thoughts, and in a lot of ways been difficult, as i'm someone who is not currently sure that i ever want to have kids myself.

currently my thinking is, and this is subject to fate/how things work out, etc. etc., i think i'd like to be with someone for a year or two before having kids. you know - cement that and have some time to ourselves. i see the reasons why people want to have kids - my dad calls it the most rewarding thing he's ever done (along with exeter mind you) - and boxa maintains that you'll want to have someone to take care of you in your old age. but will your kids necessarily do that? is there a law that says they have to? i suppose the assumption is that they will b/c you'll raise them to do so. i suppose. i mean i'm with the rest of you in not wanting to die alone, but i also don't know that i want to shake up my world as drastically as having kids does. and, and this is something the book really highlights well, i kind of resent it when i talk about this with people that they sort of smile and nod knowingly and dismiss my comments with,'oh whatever - you'll change your mind.' maybe i won't. maybe i will. i guess it's the uncertainty that gets to me most. having kids is one of those things that you just don't know how it will be until you have one. and unlike buying a dress at a store that you have to take home and try on in the comfort of your own apt - you can't take the kid back when you find out it's a terrible mistake. not to say i wouldn't be a good mom - i'm great with kids. i was the babysitter that always had the entire neighborhood playing ship on the playground. but at the end of babysitting i got to go home and it didn't shake up my world and i didn't have to put my own goals and dreams on hold. thoughts?

anyway - my main point besides the fact that pitching this book is making me think about this a lot is that i've spent a fair amt of time trying to scour what outlets (print/broadcast) would be appropriate to pitch for the topic. aside from the fact that it's been ridiculously hard to get people to see how this is a PERFECT topic for a talk show, and that people want to talk about, i was shocked to read today that this one particular magazine - which is targeted to women 18-34 did not want to receive any pitches about mothering or being pregnant. excuse me but isn't that exactly the time you want to know/hear/think about whether or not you want to have kids? and in this society that puts such pressure on having them, wouldn't it be nice to know that there are other people with doubts, other people who have chosen not to have kids for one reason or another and are perfectly happy? that the wrath of hell hasn't been thrust upon them b/c they DON'T have kids? yeah - i for one, would like that a lot.

anyhow - the book's editor was on 'radio times' discussing the topic on wed (courtesy of moi btw) - here's the link if anyone's interested in listening to the interview on the web. it was the wednesday show. really good show - explains the story behind the book, two contributors talk about their perspectives, and people call in. the producer said he loved it. and i think it's extremely relevant. people don't talk about it much, but we're trying to get it out into the open. to quote bob dylan - the times they are a changing. i'd be interested to know what people think.

and, contrary to popular belief, this is/was not one big pitch. i really would like to know what people think.

itbdeepthoughts

links

some interesting links from today's perusal of the websites:

1. 59 things a man should never do past the age of thirty.. i think the scariest thing is that if you change the gender of some of this stuff it would apply to a lot of our behavior. good thing we have seven more years to do it all. ;-)

2. a really well-done and interesting usa today article about what would happen in various states if roe v. wade was overturned. really explains the rather bleak picture.

something amusing, something serious. i'd say that about covers it for now . . .

clearly you have missed the gorilla

phew! been a crazy couple of days. and by that i mean am a bit mediaed out btwn my quest to surpass the number of fb friends that colin super has (yes, i'm a dork), gchat and work, my brain is feeling a little bit fried. let's see what's going on (in a nod to ally's penchant for fake multiple choices - we had a fb wall blitz war about this yesterday, see charlo, ally's or my walls for more info - will do this in fake multiple choice style)

a) been thinking about getting a tattoo. not quite sure what it would be of, but mulling over the idea and discussing it at length with diana. she has v. definite ideas of what she wants - maynard thinks it should be something that represents sd and the usual suspects and not just greek letters. also have to figure out where i'd want it. ideally i'd say my foot, but not really practical. i'm thinking lower back (cliche) or side/rib cage. then to figure out what to get. might just have to settle for drawing it on sharpie style when on campus. as am not sure if i will ever make up my mind enough to actually go through with it. am inspired by allette and ali's thoughts about their respective tattoos. will mull some more.

b) heard from robin and huyett that they will both be on campus this wknd. am rather tempted, if robin doesn't mind me coming along, to go with. tanning on the sd beach and some of the usual suspects? sounds good to me! at any rate - folks on campus take note - they'll be around.

c) heard from lingley for the first time in a long time. i am slightly concerned about these '07s that are good friends with the '05s and '06s and, having already had one senior spring raging with the '05s, are now having a second with the '06s and then their own next spring (ahem kevin). lingley seems to be representing team rage and driving the black out train - but maybe taking it easy for a couple days is in order. remember friend -i want you to remember seeing me when i come up! ;-)

d) i had an observation while i walked to work this morning. in nyc there are scaffoldings everywhere as buildings are worked on above the sidewalk. you get to know a street with teh scaffolding and then one day they take it away and suddenly everything is much nicer and sunnier and you're like - wow. this isn't too bad. or you don't really realize it's b/c the scaffolding's gone, you just have an inkling that something is different - ala change blindness. (for more about change blindness check out this video. count the number of times the ball is passed by the team in white. one of the coolest demos around. and the reason for the use of the phrase 'clearly they have missed the gorilla' by my friend and partner in psych crime zana b). anyway - in that i 'see a lot of things that other people miss' (storypeople. and a self call?) i think it's interesting.

i have 310 facebook friends from d. colin has 319. to quote wet hot american summer - 'ohhh! he always wins!'

itbrats! ;-P

keep left

omg - have been meaning to post but have been MASSIVELY distracted by the facebook's update that now makes it easier than EVER to stalk people. like down to the second. mwahahaha. it's getting a little insane. this status biznass (should mention here out of loyalty to gchat that gmail had it first) is HILARIOUS. have i mentioned am slightly tipsy? charlo and i have been cracking up over it. (she's also slightly tipsy)

okay - where was i? lots to say! so easter dinner turned out superb (i refer you to my or charlo's facebook albums) - charlo's ham was TERRIF - and we will be having ham for the next week if anyone would like to come over. it was fun to clean up(perhaps we can keep it clean for the visit of charlo's mommma next week but i'm not holding my breath) and dress up and sit around and pretend we don't still get wasted all the time, etc. etc. ally and megh joined us. we had hoped that littlechen could come too - but duty called at the last minute. and as we all know, duty is a cruel master. the menu:

grapes/cheese/french onion soup dip
ham with alcoholic liquor glaze (this is how we roll)
green bean casarole (sp?) in manner of '50's homemaker
twice baked potatoes
easter cake (frosted by moi), garnished with cadbury mini eggs
raspberry sorbet (although it was neither green nor yellow - it fit the bill)

post dins we were all stuffed (and slightly tipsy) and decided to traipse around the upper east side (henceforth to be referred to as the ues). we took the camera and stepped out in our easter best and just took pics when the inspiration struck. like on camels. and playgrounds. and walls. and phones. we were just out and about on the ues seeing what there was to see. felt a bit monty pythonish at one point as all of us in our pastels and budding flowers descended upon this playground on the ues and behaved outlandishly. went down the slides, that sort of stuff. a gang was the other thing that came to mind - perhaps a good example is the 'hells grannies' skit on 'monty python's flying circus':

Voice Over: This is a frightened city. Over these houses, over these streets hangs a pall of fear. Fear of a new kind of violence which is terrorizing the city. Yes, gangs of old ladies attacking defenceless fit young men.

Voice Over: But this is not just an old ladies' town. There are other equally dangerous gangs - such as the baby snatchers.

(Film of five men in baby outfits carrying off a young man from outside a shop. Cut to distraught wife.)

Wife: I just left my husband out here while I went in to do some shopping and I came back and he was gone. He was only forty-seven.

Voice Over: And on the road too, vicious gangs of keep left signs.

(Film: two keep-left signs attack a vicar.)

vicious, vicious gangs of keep left signs. and then comes one of my favorite lines, "stop that stop that - it's silly!"

of course i never stop. then we dyed some eggs which will soon become egg salad. we really like alternatively celebrating holidays in apt 27. it's our own little, smaller scale, less painful version of the family holidays we all love so much. i am v. excited to look back on these days in 10 years or so. we'll have some great stories. and really, let's be honest, it's all about the stories we can tell.

on that note - we cue the music

joy

happy easter - sitting here listening to the buffett buffet on cool 102. ally and allette just left, ally to return for the easter dinner charlo is cooking up for us later today, and allette for easter dinner at the yale club and then to tn on thursday for her new job at camp. perhaps allette would like to post here something about what her job will be like so that we all know what you're doing when you're mia (add that to the list of things to do before you go) - but she spent yesterday learning (or trying to at any rate) to drive stick shift before she has to go, and hopefully will report back what living in tn is like. but i digress.

did some cleaning/laundrying etc. yesterday am before meeting whit for brunch around 1 pm. she had a rough night the night before, but rallied impressively for brunch at my east village fave - 7a. i'm sure she will post about her trip and thoughts and such, but it was FABULOUS to see her after almost a year - we had a great time chatting and reminiscing and laughing. had great weather for the occasion - was really hot here yesterday - so whit got to see nyc at a good point, after the gray and drizzle of friday.

i went up to central park to join charlo and ally in the sheeps meadow after dropping whit off in union square. central park was out of control - people EVERYWHERE. it's nice to know there's a place to tan and some grass in this city, and i will say the eye candy was delightful. received a call from megh that he was also in the park with some psi u's and kde's and would pop over to say hi but didn't get the message until after we had left. this sheep's meadow action is how i imagine the green would be at school if it were 10 times bigger. haha.

went for a run post park - it was hot, but my main observation was that running in nyc you are subjected to strange smells as you run that you might not be if you were say, running around occum. when you're running up a hill, and it's hot, and you're already thinking you kind of want to boot it really doesn't help to get a big whiff of a hot dog stand. occupational hazard i suppose. on a much happier note, there are so many flowers in central park that you can actually smell their perfume - unlike when there are flowers scattered around and you can't really get their combined scent to smell them from far away. that part is nice - but still not so great when running. the smell of flowers becomes sickly sweet, not lovely, when you're running. have to say - running in central park is really the only time have experienced it.

allette came into the city around 9, ally came down from the 90's and we had some coronas before heading down to the east village to a bar to see some exonians. mini-exeter reunion if you will. upon entering the bar i discovered that i had not brought my id with me. major party foul i know. it just wasn't in my thinking as i was planning what i needed to bring out with me. i mean my thought process was money, ways to get money/pay for things, keys, cell phone. (mind you- i had been carrying around this purse for 2 days without once being asked for an id, despite lots of drinking, so maybe this bar was just lame or something). so i chilled outside on a bench, which is something i am v. good at, and talked to various people who came out to smoke and such. it was a v. pleasant temperature i wouldn't have been able to handle it. post bar we decided to grab some 40s (at 1:30 am - sometimes i really love nyc) and pizza and head back to apt 27. we gabbed, told our life stories in 1 - 10 minutes (it varied) ala charlo's secret society initiation and told stories. ally ended up staying over on the sleeper sofa with allette, and we all enjoyed some quality girl time. allette was off this morning as previously mentioned - which makes me v. sad, but i didn't crying drunk girl and we've decided that we have to go back for homecoming in the fall - so we have a standing date and no matter what happens i will see her in six mths - if not sooner.

after the sae open party phone call from kevin on friday night, we were talking about where those pics from the party were. i blitzed mark c. and instead of sending me d staff pics, he sent me the ones of me and lingley mudwrestling. (she was kicking my ass btw) i blitzed mark inquiring about the d staff ones, and instead got the same set of pics from dan l. this started me thinking - how many pics of you are there out there floating around that people have that you don't even know about? kind of like when that '07 xh posted a pic of me post pwr hr junior spring. i wasn't even aware that he had been present at the event, let alone the fact the picture existed. it's a little unsettling when they surface - and even more so when you stop and think what the other ones out there must be. and who has them . . .

itbnoneofuscaneverrunforoffice

sunny afternoon

so it's still morning, but it's definately sunny! up rather early for the fact did not go to bed until 3 am (rage called). it's supposed to be 78 in new york city this morning - goodness! i think some sunning in the park is in order post brunch plans.

went out last night for ally's bday - had a delicious dinner and several glasses of the sangria wine (i love that sangria wine! when i drink it with old friends of mine). post dins headed to charlo's favorite - the cowgirl hall of fame. the bar is kind of speakeasyish - there's a front part and then you wind around to the back and there's another chilling area (complete with fake sky of stars and a campfire) and then a third back part. it would be more speakeasyish if this back room did not have floor to ceiling glass windows, but that's besides the point. several of the nyc usual suspects made it for the event, rachelw, kevinc, megh and the yale boys put in an appearance. the connections btwn people were out of control - everyone had gone to school together, or been at camp with so and so's roomate - we could have made a platonic web of sketch. in fact i think we should at some point. we were all impressed with kevin's game - he was macking it up, surrounded by a gaggle of girls for much of the evening.

before he started working his charm, i received a phone call from joanna - which was v. confusing as i didn't think she was still in the city. turns out it was kevin calling from sae where they were having their open party. although he called me, kevin also talked to kevinc and megh for a time, and i talked to celestia who apparently was enjoying the festivities. while have not completely embraced the cell phone like i probably should have by now in the real world, i do like the phenomenon of calling a person and getting to talk to multiple people that i like at one time. granted, am not sure if either kevin or celeste heard a thing i said in that they were at the dance party, but i cautioned him to avoid mudwrestling (last year sae's open party theme was: jungle party. formerly it had been vietnam. slogan: we were winning when i left) as nothing good came out of that last year and i think lingley still has a scar on her back. was fun bonding of the d staff however - i wonder where the pics are?

speaking of kevin, headed uptown post bar with megh to make an appearance at the party of craig - who went to middlebury and reminds me SO much of kevin. (do you agree megh?) craig lives with duke peeps - they're a totally different breed, though i do realize that it is hard for non-d peeps to get thrown into d lingo with no preparation. (haha - maybe should make a d dictionary, ala 'new dictionary of exeter language) craig's apt is beautiful - complete with back deck for chilling. upper west side wouldn't be so bad if we were living there, though charlo as stated she wants to live on the 4,5,6 subway line, and i really do have to agree with her. anyway - was fun, kind of random party - meeting new people and all that. almost made it to my goal of staying up until 4:00 am (perpetual goal of mine, rarely happens. but i do enjoy random late nights so much!) and feeling pretty good about what comes next. =)

the things going on in this world

'the things going on in this world really freak me out.' we're sitting in animal behavior class, psych 53, last spring watching a film about fish in lake tangeka in africa and how they survive and evolve and zachyg turns to me and says that. and since that day, i've found the saying often comes in quite handy. sort of a 'supercalafragilisticexpialidocious', something to say when you don't know what to say sort of thing.

here's a few of those things:

1. this blogger has been trading up. he started with a red paper clip, and is hoping to get a house. he currently has a year of free rent. here's the article about the guy and his trading, and here's the link to his blog, 'one red paper clip'.

2. best friends, an animal rescue organization, operates a sanctuary for abandonded pets in utah. on any given day there are over 1500 dogs, cats, bunnies, pets at this place - and it is a huge tourist attraction. about 20,000 people from around the world visit every year. (at this point i'm sure you're going - i can't believe i didn't know about this!) can you imagine that many animals roaming around thousands of acres in utah? i imagine it must be like a dog run on a MUCH larger scale. at this point i think the only thing to say is this posting's theme phrase . . .

tgif

this day, which was v. boo to have to go into work on, has redeemed itself, not the least b/c of the online company i've been spending with other friends also stuck at work.

went out last night - still a bit unclear on the consensus. the baseball was manageable, though the red sox (team of choice - clearly) lost - had a delicious bacon cheeseburger - yumyum! i got the crossword puzzle done. just not really a fan of baseball (am a fan of the sandlot though! but i maintain that is not about baseball). a lot of standing around for nothing in my mind - but i back the beer, and the company was good - ally, charlo and i are beginning preliminaries of finding an apt together - making pacts and thinking up group names and such for the event. the thought of moving makes me want to throw up - but i suppose this is what being grown up is. doing stuff we don't want to. like taxes, moving, and cleaning our bathroom. meuur.

went down to wall st. post for this event, but it left something to be desired. a lot to be desired in fact. i mean, we knew it was going to be bad - guess we underestimated the badness. can't wait for the reunion! (no - i really am looking forward to it - our room will be an idiot-free room though). and yes mulley, if you went to exeter you are an exonian.

heading out in honor of ally's bday - dinner with some peeps, including ali e, who is putting in an appearance from boston. out to a bar post, hopefully also hitting up my new friend's good friday fiesta on the upper west side as well. good times.

heard from whit - she made it to nyc and was planning on bopping around the city today. unfortunately, is raining and not so lovely - perhaps she is focusing on shopping inside buildings then. doing brunch with her tomorrow am. allette is also coming into the city at some point tomorrow - looking forward to the mini-usual suspect reunion. chatted a bit with diana - she gets to see ceppos tonight - apparently her informal poll came out in favor of ditching tails with alpha chi and heading down to beantown tonight. perhaps some drunk dialing is in order. laurak weighed in - i tried to spot her sunning on the green on the hanover inn webcam, but was distracted by the oddly parked tractor in the middle. will have to arrange a 'stand in the middle of the green and wave at particular time' rondesvouz. at any rate, she is headed home for easter, and says she will definately call tomorrow night as she will be in an airport, which, in keeping with many of our most recent convos, means it is time to call me.

as you all know, charlo and i get maybe three tv channels in le apt 27 - the WB, NBC and PBS 13. that being said, we do see some pop culture references, upcoming movies etc. we've seen the trailer for 'stick it!' a couple times and we're really quite excited for it to come out. the director of 'bring it on' is directing it, and it looks hilarious - with the capacity for many quotable lines. current fav from the trailer: 'girl: call me! boy: stalk you!' and while we don't condone stalking (try friendship - it's more lasting than love and more legal than stalking) - i do think it is a clever response. and brings to mind the age-old wisdom - you can't make someone love you - all you can do is stalk them and hope they give in.

have a good one friends

lunch links

haha - perhaps someday will turn this blogging biznass into some sort of broadcasting career. when that day comes - will do a noon update - so in keeping with that spirit - presenting lunch links - or what i stumbled across/observed/though during the first part of the day:

1. nyt nickname article. today's nyt's talks about the nickname phenomenon, and i know that is a topic near and dear to the readers hearts. i like to laugh about feldman's mr. kay! incident when laurak's dad was at d, and how the youngn's on the crew team didn't know who we were b/c of all the different nicknames. also apparently introduced myself to someone at yale this past wknd as 'lyon', to which the person then became confused and replied, 'well i'm tiger.' or something to that effect - this is all second hand from charlo so you'll have to ask her for all the details. could go on and on about the nickname phenom among the usual suspects, here and there, but am sort of preaching to the choir - so let's just pause for a minute and appreciate ours and who we are to different people in our lives, and/or discuss amongst yourselves. =)

2. crossword puzzle championships. apparently the crossword puzzle championships were recently held in stamford, ct. i know many of the readers are xword puzzle fans - particularly when they are done in sort of a communal forum in collis in the morning - so i thought others would find it interesting. there are people who can do the nyt xword in under 10 minutes. that blows my mind. also - the ny times didn't publish a xword until 1942 - they were above all that 'roaring twenties' crossword mania. cool song from the era that the transcript mentions: "Crossword Mama, You Puzzle Me, but Papa's Gonna Figure You Out."

itbamen

gmail

so i realize that most of my writings of late center around gmail - but i've been meaning to blog about this for a bit - have been having blitz wars about various topics, and every now and again someone who's participating in gmail will share what pops up in the random ads that gmail generates based on what you're discussing.

are usually v. amusing - i think the other day, during our planning of easter dinner, links to websites like 'keep pork off your fork' were coming up. someone weighed in with the fact that discussing a new york times article will bring up suggestions for beating depression:

like if youre having a normal day of blitz and its like.... Depression Is Not Forever, and you have to stop and ask yourself, am i depressing? i was talking about the new york times? what?

. haha - v. funny. i suppose none of you will be surprised to find out what pops up most frequently in my gmail . . . quotes of the day. ;-)

came across something i find very amusing - this info about the launch of a new 'i can't believe it's not butter' commercial featuring ozzy osbourne:

Picture it: Ozzy Osbourne in your kitchen, baking you dessert. It's reality in England, where Osbourne promotes "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter." From Fabio to Ozzy. What is the world coming to? The spot shows Ozzy and his "twin" baking a dessert that's featured on a cooking show. Butter is needed, but Ozzy is unable to tell the difference between butter and I Can't Believe It's Not Butter. Ozzy uses the fake stuff and the spot concludes with Ozzy and his twin discovering their recipe is for fairy cakes. "Fairy cakes?" asks Ozzy. "I am the prince of darkness. I am not making fairy cakes, I am making rock cakes!"

that's pretty much my new favorite quote. sadly, they're only running in the UK - so we prob won't get to see it ever - but you, being the astute blog reader that you are, can recognize the reference when you hear it.

sadly - the blog tshirt STILL has not arrived - which is making me v. disgruntled. i want to see this shirt! so does cody apperently - good thing we have a couple weeks before i see her for it to arrive.

busy next couple of days! (so much for the detox). this kid we know from exeter (and do not like sam i am) is having a ceo's and office ho's party tomorrow. can we get anymore ad/kkg tails? while it seems as though he does not have to work on good friday, some of us do, but will see how it goes. fiesta for ally's bday on friday and party at the kid i met who reminds me of kevin, and sat brunch with whit if i don't see her before. hoping allette will be in the mix somewhere too. as charlo says, it's better to have too much to do and want to have down time then to be bored out of our minds and longing for adventure. as we used to say in richardson 309 - there is no rest for the weary. ;-)

wherever there is joy, there are ducks

also really enjoy this link - animal reviews. this particular one goes to the review of the 'duck' which i noticed laurak references in her facebook profile - i wonder if she has seen this gem?

some highlights:

habitat: whereever there is joy
Therapeutic: ducks are always there for you, man. when you get dumped and sacked, where do you head to for a little deep reflection?

you go to the park and sit by the pond. you go and talk to the ducks, who replenish you with their combination of quacking and gentle rotation.

conclusion:
ducks are quite simply fantastic, and there's very little more to be said on the matter.

some other key and useful phrases in the review as well - including 'clundon oafishness' and 'amusing and ingenious swimming style' and 'erraquaticus volucris'. check it out.

was thinking - probably is a good thing did not have this blog whilst on the sd blitz list - as the multitude of useless things that gets blitzed out probably would have found its way here. on the other hand - most is v. amusing and would like to have it in one place. particuarly the 'no you can't have a pony'. you hear that people on campus? send it my way - tee hee hee. =)

'05 legacy mix

phew! busy day - esp right there at the end. some tidbits i wanted to report:

boxa blitzed, apparantly her foot is infected from where she stepped on the sea urchin in puerto rico:

--- boxa wrote: ---
3. my foot was infected from the sea urchin spine and i
have been on antibiotics for the last six days. RED LINES
UP MY ANKLE--hello staph infection.
--- end of quote ---

i feel terrible - as when this happened we had been frolicing and 'one-legged sam' or whatever she was calling him had warned her to watch out for the sea urchins (look out for the elf! it was beware of the dwarf. whatever) just minutes before she stepped on one - which struck me as hilarious (had also been drinking) and i laughed my head off. and now my MOST FAVORITE HULIA is wavering at death's door. am terribly sorry my friend. will send get well wishes your way.

in other, happier 'cue-the-music' type news - have become re-aquainted with the first song on the '05 legacy mix (ie - the basement mix that was stuck in the cd player all soph summer long) - the represent CUBA song from dirty dancing 2 'havana nights' (terrible movie but really good soundtrack). have agreed to blitz it to diana in the hopes she will put it on a basement mix - anyone else want it too?

and we'll all meet back at the local saloon

so today passed by in a blur - still kind of blurry actually - but people were in fine form, so will do some highlights of the day's gchat convos (let's hope my boss never discovers this blog):

exhibit a:
i notice charlo still has 'game on friday' as her status:

me: hate to break it to you - but it's monday ;-)
charlo: WHAT?
shit!
why am i siting poolside with wireless internet anda pina colada then?

exhibit b:
megh was filling me in on his nyc wknd:

megh: then we got in, and there were about 500 extremely well-dressed individuals between the ages of 20 and 30 hanging out, listening to music, people-watching, and (ostensibly) admiring the artwork
very bling, in a good way
although let's be honest, is bling in a bad way even possible?

exhibit c:
was explaining to laurak that from now on must only refer to rum as 'the demon rum':

me: we should indeed
btw - now have to refer to rum as 'the demon rum' at all times
ala - i'll have a demon rum and coke
laurak: ok
i'll have a demon rum with pinapple and coconut
me: yup
or i'll have a painkiller - make sure you put enough of that demon rum in
laurak: excellent
me: really spices things up doesn't it?
laurak: demon rum anytime as it is always 5 oclock somewhere
me: it's always a fiesta when the demon rum is invited
laurak: its true

really was quite enjoyable conversation all around. haha. here's the update:

laurak represented the pirate contingent at bg's 'pirate and schoolgirl' party and the porn party (come dressed as your favorite porn cliche). being a usual suspect and privy to the pirate porn, she realized that pirate was clearly an appropriate costume for both events and spread the good word of the pirate porn around campus (don't worry - the phi delts are taken care of). heard from allette - apparantly she's off to tn around the 20th - hoping she can make it into the city for one last hurrah (translation: diana and huyett! you guys have to come down!). whit, of course, will be here - v. exciting news. ceppos is sad that the formal is on a wed and not a wknd so diana and i could go (whatever happened to the concern that holding formals on wed night meant that it'd be harder to get a date b/c guys don't want to miss mtgs? though i believe the response to that was to take a stuffed animal instead -just as cuddley as a frat boy and probably more responsive.) i'm sad cannot attend too - but thanks for thinking of us! i can't go to the sig ep formal either - also during the week - but kevin will be in htown for another year.

i know i've blitzed out about this before - but must mention, in this much more public forum, the concept of 'we'll all meet back at the local saloon'. one of my favorite songs that reminds me of sd - we're off doing our thing and then every now and then we get to meet back, drink and raise up some glasses in a toast to memories, good times, laughter and friendship. i also like the storypeople - 'let's make the flags for the parade out of long underwear she said, that way only the really fun people will come.'

itbamen=)

y is for yale

well friends - we headed up to new haven to see how the other half lives this wknd. kicked things off in an effective way with a little byob action on the metro north. i will say it is MUCH easier to get to yale than d - though i suppose that is a good thing for us. as ally said on wed - "do ALL d alums go back every wknd?" haha. granted we do more than most, but even the '52s go back to htown fairly often. it's all that damn granite of new hampshire in our muscles and our brains . . .

apparently there is not much of a raging scene on friday nights at yale - and we were all starving when we got in, so we went and had margaritas at a local hotspot. we encountered a group of '08 hockey players there - they knew some of the heorots and had hung out in htown once or twice. one of them was like we'll come up for green key - so when we're up in hanover for the festivites and i see him and can't figure out how i know him (ala guy on the train - i really do know him from somewhere though - wait for it) remind me of this incident. we all piled into a car for the drive back to campus - shades of soph summer post gdx pong tourney - but at least the girl driving didn't tell us she was sober and then laugh after she had driven us back to campus about how good she is at the sober game. dubious.

got up at a ridiculous hour in the rain and cold for the drive to the race course. yale was racing dartmouth and bu - saw a bunch of the undergrads - davey, michealson, rachel, higgins, bozz, kaelin, etc. they are all v. excited to see us when we come up for the 30th anniversary of women's crew at d in a couple weeks. we all agreed we felt like the country mice gone to the big city - and pressed up against the glass of the yale trophy room looking in (d had a trophy foyer - translation: me, kaelin and mulley talking shit in the foyer of the maintance closet and bathroom. tee hee hee). we also saw rosi! though to be honest, we were expecting it, even without zana calling back with rosi's number. was so good to see her and chat - her running comentary was hilarious - and she'll be up to htown in a few weeks. enjoyed the circus-like atmosphere, mooched some d crew food (we're poor and starving in the real world) and chatting with d people - was fricking freezing - but i suppose cannot really complain as i was not out on the water, wet and cold.

had a siesta fiesta when we returned - i went and got my hair cut. i suddenly understand why people go the salon -it was an experience - not just a hair cut. i got a scalp massage, a consultation, a blow dry AND flat iron and a seven day window if i hate it (i don't) and a free touch-up in a couple weeks to maintain it. now that's a service. is almost worth the cost and time to go to new haven to get it done next time around. ;-)

in keeping with the theme of meeting d people everywhere we go, we ran into chris, '07 phi delt rugby player, who's apt winter term in nyc i had found for him and his compatriots, and he came to our apt party in jan. he was in town for the ivy league rugby tourney - sadly they couldn't hang out last night b/c they had to play today (perhaps they should take a card from the d women rugby players . . . ) but am sure will see him again when we're in town as sd has a phi delt event every time we're in hanover.

bopped around last night - some room drinking, some suite parties, a dance party. plenty of drinks, fun in the collegiate environment. i met an '06 golf player - got to dance - acquired a party hat (do you like my hat? i do! i do like that party hat!) good times usa. have lots of amusing pics from the night - many of myself - i guess that's the plus side of living/hanging out with shutterbugs. the apt we were staying at was across from sig nu and sae (frat row! tee hee hee) but, as we were discussing, d has frats and yale has acapella and secret societies. typical.



i chatted with kevin late night quite a bit - he was up at harvard for the ivy league journalism conference with the d peeps on friday night. had good memories of that trip last year - (memories? i love memories! drinks for everyone!) - and wished i could have participated in the fun. looking fwd to seeing him in a couple weeks. =)

we're all exhausted, sleep deprived, in need of major detox - but i think we represented, i refained from arguing a ton about pong, and it was nice to see where charlo rocked it out for four years. was pleasantly surprised - 'never kiss a goat on the lips' style. ;-)

sitting here watching 'law and order' - we don't know how to turn off the closed captioning on the akai (i know i know - it shouldn't be that difficult. if you're so smart - come over and do it), but they pop up before people start talking sometimes - it's an interesting way to watch television. i also enjoy the descriptions it has of the type of the sounds or music playing (upbeat jazz, loud cheering and applause). haha - i think all should try it. we don't have cable - basic or otherwise - thank goodness 'law and order' is on every channel in a copious fashion (would totaly watch an entire channel of all 'law and order' all the time. do love the fact l+o provides and solves a mystery in each hour episdoe. if you miss the first ten minutes though is useless to watch the rest). anyway - every now and then someone will be like, did you see the commercial or show or something? and we're like - we don't have cable. we do have blitz (clearly) and that's enough to keep us entertained. well, that and the netflix at any rate. =)

S is for Six and Seven

Lyon, lyon, lyon....

I can't believe you recount S meetings without mentioning our ridiculous costumes! And now you've put a picture of us in them on facebook. I'm a teacher, you know? I actually remember that whole day as one of the best of senior year. Afternoon pong in the spring sun on the SD beach, a long nap, waking up drunk and creating ridiculous costumes for S meetings with Lyon, dancing crazily afterwards, sweating insanely inside of the plastic bag...what joy! Anyway, I'm getting so ready for Green Key -seeing you all, getting back to D-mouth. It's been a long time since last June! I won't get up there until late friday night, but I'll be ready to play all weekend long! Hearing your stories from PR and from trips up to Hanover make me TRES jealous.

Life in DC is still great. The cherry blossom festival is in full bloom, and the city is beautiful. There is nothing better than daylight savings time in the spring. I love the light so late, and it's finally starting to warm up a bit. On Sunday we grilled on our roof and then walked to maggie moos for ice cream - heavenly. People need to come down and visit me....especially this summer when I won't have much going on. WOOO HOOO for summer vacations. But seriously...anytime...come! Work is good. I'm staying there and in my apartment again next year.

Looking forward to next weekend's visit up to NYC. Lyon is working on brunch plans for us on Sat. I'm gonna stay with Jetti, who informed me today that she is now working with Coleman. I can't wait to catch up with people.

Just got back to DC last week from my spring break. Went to Vegas with the rents and then home for a few days. Both were great - warm weather, tanning. Vegas is pretty intense...we had never been there before and it definitely was an experience. I imagine though that it would be very different to go with friends than with my parents.

Miss you all! Every time I hear Kelly Clarkson, I get a little nostalgic.

Well Done 2

Yes Laura K, I have to publicly declare my approval of your post. Amazing. I'm so glad to hear that you can't quite let go of my old room either. Some good times were had in that room, and in that bed *cough* Diana *cough*.

In other news, I recently hung out with Susan Gordon's older brother, Bennett, who is fabulous and can quote Mike Myers on Saturday Night Live quite nicely, and who went to high school with my roommate!

Finally, I want to share yet another reason why you should all move to Minneapolis. We have a
Geek Prom! I'm not quite sure what to think. It looks seriously geeky. Thoughts?

well done

smartly done laurak! haha - fantastic post. some commentary (of course)

a plutonic sleepover? does that mean it blew up in her face? haha.

and also - 's' mtgs were TOTALLY the call of team tequila becomes resource chairs (i believe our running platform for role of resource chairs during elections was in fact, tequila). i think we were also v. proud b/c we actually went to west leb - got the ingredients AHEAD OF TIME and made the sangria the night before - which was v. much out of character for us to be so proactive. however, have never had a bad night after drinking sangria (well - they were bad the next day/early morning - but the events that transpired have always been fun). glad to know the tradition has been carried on for another year.

yay to laurak and huyett for posting! besides the fact we get to hear about their lives, i get something interesting to read for a change. swanny has also been added to the contributors list and will post about her now, as she wants to be on my tshirt. ;-)

S is for Sketchy Alums

Hello friends!
This is my first foray into the world of posting on the sd4life blog so hopefully I can amuse you all with the happenings of last night. So Allette was up at D for the night after dropping off her sister at Smith to visit and check out the school. The night started off of course in the 05 memorial TV room where Allette and I brown-bagged the drinks we had gotten at Stinson's. Allette used the bag to cover up the fact she was drinking Smirnoff Ice while I just thought it would be fun. We watched a laughed a lot at America's Next Top Model, I had not seen it before but decided that lalette would be a really good name for a model. From there we went to the basement of course for some pong and some singing along to the 05 legacy mix. Next came letter S themed meetings where we went as sketchy alums. I was also a swimmer, allette was a smoker and we were both sober. Ok, well not the last one but we discussed using that as our costume regardless. Meetings were quite fun, there was sangria and lots of yelling, though I thought that overton as the new pres did a good job controlling the chaos. Allette and I were convinced to do a walk-off. I wasn't sure that I was drunk enough, but Reiten gave me a cup of sangria (liquid courage), told me to chug it, and I was off to the races. The walk-off included some air guitar and chugging and erupted into a dance party as any good walk-off should. We returned to the basement for more pong, after which the night got a bit hazy for me. I was informed by Reiten this morning that apparently I kept barging into Eva's room to tell her that she stole Karla's room including a poster that used to hang on the wall. Also, perhaps due to my anger about the stolen poster, kept plunging the room into darkness by turning off the lights. Eva and Nicole Mahr then locked me out of the room so I was forced to plunge the whole third floor into darkness by turning off all of the hall lights and declaring that darkness had befallen the third floor. I then returned downstairs for some laughs and some pretzel throwing at composites. Allette had an actual plutonic sleepover and the two of us, Ceppos and Lingley all convened this morning for some homeplate paninis, eaten of course, in the tv room. All and all I believe that a good time was had by all and the underclassmen were reminded of the beauty that was the 05 class of sd. Sadly it was a short trip as lalette had to return to Smith to get her sister but the time was well spent while she was here.

In other news, Allette did take the job in Tennessee so congrats to her on the first step towards being a camp counselor for life. I had a great time with allette, hopefully will see more people soon and definitely at green key. Also, when I figure out the life plan I'll def let you guys know.

jb!

while most of you do not appreciate this, i'm sure you can all understand what a big deal this is for MOI: just bought jimmy buffett tix! mansfield, ma - august 12, the last show of the 'party at the end of the world' tour. he's also playing in long island this year, which i suppose makes more sense for us, but the timing doesn't work right. ally is coming as well - and she hasn't been yet. ooo this is going to be fun! =)

these tix are RIDICULOUSLY expensive - esp when you get your ticket and it says 'lawn - $25' and then i get really mad - i don't think most of you doubting thomas jb people realize that lots of people like jimmy buffett and most of you will probably never pay as much for a concert ticket as for a jb concert (whether this makes me stupid or not is unclear). alternatively, i could move to nantucket for the summer, and hang out at the chicken box until he randomly plays one night. at the concert last year he kept hinting/talking about nantucket and you just knew he'd be there one of those days and i was v. tempted to go camp out on cisco beach until i saw him play the BOX. then i sobered up and realized that was not going to work. meuur.

i suppose it's really about the experience - are going to tailgate the HELL out of this concert, although, much like a wedding, there's a fine line between enjoying the party and actually remembering the experience. and at $150 bucks a pop - you damn well want to remember it. ;-)

tshirts

also - i'm kind of thinking i really want to get one of the tshirts with the blog cloud on it (see previous post). they come in all sorts of colors and fonts and such - and i think it'd be fun. i mean, if i can't have a shirt that says, 'if i'm not dead by thursday i'll be roaring friday night' - i might as well have one that has all your guys names and pong on it right?

the shirt would look like this
is about $25 and you can change the color of the font and the shirts etc. i was thinking kelly green shirt with white font would be nifty.

anyone else interested in the idea?

hey you guys!

announcement: have made charlo a d profile. she wants everyone to know that this was my idea, and i'm the driving force behind it (ie - while she does acknowledge that she has become thoroughly indoctrinated into the d powers that be, she remains 100% yalie and is not that pathetic) with that disclaimer in place, friend her. tee hee hee.

also, have been messing about on the fb have noticed that allette has changed her regional status to knoxville,tn - which i am pretty sure is a good indication that she is taking the camp job down south though she has yet to confirm. yay friend! congrats on the awesome opportunity! but boo boo boo on the fact you will not be a hop, skip and PATH train ride away. HOWEVER - that is what this blog is for! staying in touch! so read it, love it, POST on it for the love of god. and prepare for major blitz war damage when you open your inbox in the upcoming mths. those of us on a comp every day have to do SOMETHING to pass the time . . .

have tentative plans with coleman to do drinks tomorrow night post work - however do not know if that is still on (hence the use of the word 'tentative'). hope to see her though - and v. much looking fwd to the sd's in the city this summer - namely coleman, cody and celeste! good times for everyone and i'm sure hilarity will ensue when the '07s join the rage train.

so, in that one should always have something to look fwd to, have lots to look forward to. esp. green key - diana, keep counting down the days!

itbhoorayforbeingsketchyalums ;-)

insert foot(note)

It was this kind of day...

Napier: Did you know Osama bin Laden has 56 brothers and sisters?
Hewitt: Full or half?

...mostly because last night was my best friend from high school's 23rd birthday. We were harassed by a waitress who insisted that because the bar we were at was a business, every person at the table had to order at least $3 worth of food or drinks...regardless of the average order size per person. Clearly no one ever taught her the value of intangible assets like "atmosphere" that generate repeat business. I tried to blame her attitude on her tip expectations but got shot down as I found out Jody had told her at the very beginning of the night that she had previously been a waitress and not to worry, we would leave a big tip. In any event, I did my part for the $3/person and got my Wednesday night quota on Tuesday night, and tomorrow I am going to dinner with DLee, Boxa and Ms. Glassman. La Lette is in Hanover tonight representing the letter "S" at Sigma Delt meetings. One guess as to her "costume."

In completely unrelated news, let me put in a pitch for moving to Massachusetts: the legislature just approved a bill that comes closer to universal health coverage than any prior legislation in the US. (Particularly useful if you're prone to such things as breaking hands and not noticing the break for several days.)

april snow showers

apparantly blog post titles from the other day were slightly misleading - snow showers are still an option here in nyc, despite the fact next wknd is easter.

speaking of easter, have developed massive desire to eat any and all russel stover cream eggs i can find - and having already exhausted the five drugstores in a one block radius from work - was forced to pop into every drugstore on first ave between 67th st and 93rd on my way to ally's the other night. that's the problem with nyc stores - yes there are lots more of every store - but the selection is less to be desired. and when it comes to these delightful eggs i've been stuffing my face with - they are v. desired.

sitting here watching 'hello dolly' which i just purchased. a v. happy movie for this, what diana and i decided, was an unfun week. talked to laurak on gchat - rather unsuccessfully assisted her on doing the crossword puzzle. spent yesterday fwding ally old minutes from mtgs so she would not die of bordeom (sp?) in court with only her blackberry for company. she found them hilarious and i can only imagine how that went for her in a courtroom b/c i could hardly keep from bursting out laughing and i was in an office. kept having to hold my nose. laurak was supposed to post an effectual plea for more of the same from the collective company - but i suppose i'll have to do it as she's is most likely wasted off porchcrawlers at this moment. so dig through your saved and sent messages and blitz out!

allette's at d - we're all v. jealous. will is also going to htown tomorrow so not only am i jealous (though he claims he's so 'over it') i will have no one to counsel me on thursday and friday. basically will is my therapist at work since my only support in this world, boxa, can't talk on gchat due to crew coaching and jewlery school. or, at the v. least, will be v. bored without him to banter with.

had a delightful time at the d club event last night. lots of drinks and good things to eat (shrimp and samosas). the usual nyc suspects were on hand, including charlo, who pretended to be a '05, but confessed to be from yale to the wife of the president of the d club. oops. delightful speech, v. inspiring d talk all around. AND we got a fabulous calander of scenic d pictures which is now hanging in our kitchen(ette).

got a blitz from my parentals today that they're planning on building a second house on our property. this was a general plan when we moved there and built our first house 15 years ago, but this is the first i've heard of it in quite some time. the idea of a house where there's been woods for a really long time is kind of unsettling. not to mention the fact that building the first house was a hell of an experience for everyone (guess who stained the trim???)including my parents, so is unclear why they're undertaking this. actually - not unclear - just kind of a weird idea.

anyway - that's it for now. to distracted to compose anymore.

sya

some words of advice from my favorite advice column that i thought worthy of posting:

Wanting is knowledge. Someone asks us what we want and we say, Oh, I don't know. I don't know what I want. But the truth is we do! We do know what we want! It's just (isn't it?) that what we want isn't the thing we ought to want or want to want or are supposed to want or think we want. It's what we want. It's the potato we want in a store full of ripe oranges. It's the comic book on a shelf full of Shakespeare -- and why are we supposed to not want that? Because wanting is the deepest story of who we are; wanting is who we are more than getting. Getting can be fate or accident: You wanted to be an actress but were forced to be a stenographer because that was what was available. Getting can be an accident for which we are not responsible. Getting can be circumstance. But wanting is pure. Wanting is who you are.

i'm 23 and i don't know what i want. thanks (slightly modified) alice cooper. i really don't have anything useful to say about it - just something to think about. who knows? not me.

april showers

normally i like rain. particularly when you can spend a rainy saturday curled up cozy like a bear while it rains outside. here is when i do not like rain: when i have decided it was a good idea to wear flip flops and a skirt to work, forgotten my umbrella, and are trying to keep my bosses copy of fortune that i must return tomorrow dry. do not know what possesed me to think the skirt and flip flops were a good idea - though i suppose we should have already learned the lesson of listening to weather.com. bad things happen (ahem - case in point) when was do not.

chatted with whit today - planning for when she'll be in nyc over easter. v. much looking forward to catching up with her after quite sometime. we are trying to peer pressure diana and laurak to join as well - and you all know how good we are at peer pressure. speaking of laurak she has joined the gchat train - she's not on blitz as often as we would like now that she has finished her day job at the hospital - but in that she's still in htown, she's on blitz enough to satisfy my cravings for her witty banter (you're doing it neil - you're really doing it!).

also chatted with jess, she's also on the gchat train, and will be coming to nyc and then h-town for the 30th anniversary of women's crew at d on april 28th. just got the invite - looks to be a delightful time. a bit surprised to get the invite - but i suppose once a rower always a rower, and endured enough finger-freezing moments in the bow during morning practices to warrant a complementary buffett dinner (and cash bar). if this means rosi is coming to hanover i am def there. was also peer pressured by p pocket to row in an alumnae boat at sprints or something during the st. paddy's day pwr hr. was not fair peer pressuring either b/c was under the influence of substances, namely 60 shots of coors light. sneaky pollypocket!

gonna put on some cozy clothes and order up some chinese food ala diana with ally and watch a movie or something.

imaginary lovers

that's the name of one of my new favorite songs . . . 'imaginary lovers never turn you down.' ranks up there with the 'let the river run' song from 'working girl'. v. good to belt out but the lyrics are slightly odd to be singing at the top of your lungs ala kelly clarkson video.

anyway - am being peer pressured to update this 24-7 by one megh - even though he confessed he could not keep up with the postings and had to schedule time at work. good lord. if this is how you're going to be when we run our company i'm bailing - you hear me?

the pic is from friday night - i think it adequately encapsules our wknd - both the double fisting and the sexy boob shots. apparently (and this is the problem with being wasted) some stuff occured on friday night that i did not remember until i was informed by the interested parties, and in some cases not even then, the next morning - making out with some kid (funny pic), obtaining a scratched cd from first ave to the near detriment of my body and life - thanks to charlo for the quick reflexes - calling mulley? who knew?

last night was a bit tamer, though have consumed enough bacardi in the last week to never want to drink it again - good lord. we headed uptown to the '90s for a yale party. of course ran into a d person as is par for the course. met some interesting people - one kid that i am v. much a fan of - he reminds me a lot of kevin and i would v. much like to have a kevin figure in nyc - esp since he never calls me back b/c he's not taking classes and is wasted all the time. discussed the pirate porn with some boys - as i discovered at phi delt - bringing up porn always ensures an interesting discussion ensues (much like asking guys how they define foreplay. hell of a conversation starter). have promised maynard that the next time i come to campus i will have it so she can copy it for us all. must get on that.

bopped around so-ho after brunch until we were all too tired to walk anymore and headed home for, in the words of arrested development, 'angry naps', though are not angry - rather pleased actually. lovely day, can do whatever we want - ala sleep a lot. grand.

itb

have been so useless all day (and by all day i mean the 4 hours i have been awake) - uploading the puerto rico and other assorted pics to the fb (are you happy diana?)and blogging. after this i plan to lie on the couch. was chatting with my friend carrie who is in south america (yay gchat!) and she was saying that she would motivate to run if i would but i was like - that ain't gonna happen. not today at any rate. maybe a walk along the east river will be nice later but that's a different story.

super psyched for daylight savings - can't wait for it to be light when i get done with work so i can go running. b/c clearly i don't on the weekends. haha.

anyway - have been meaning to post about this: diana, along with her 'i do what i want' slogan has started a campaign to bring the itb from all-house blitzes into the blitz wars of the real world and so i have started doing it more and more and probably ought to explain the 'company' part of sd & company what it is (shhh - secret house rituals are about to be explained - ooo!) itb stands for 'in the bonds of sisterhood' (cheesy i know - we didn't make it up) and you put it at the bottom of a blitz and run the words together with no spaces. it's usually something cheeky, or witty, or, in the case of diana lately, an entire conversation. for example - my favorite was when blitzing out to the house for all house clean ups post open parties would always do: itbifwewanttothrowpartiesfortheentirecampuswemustalsocleanupafterthem

so now you know. ('cause it's mike's supershort show!)

as was writing this and about diana's use of 'i do what i want' was reminded of the observational humor about a sorority's executive board:

in any group of friends, there's always the phrase guy. the one guy who says all these cool phrases that everyone copies for a semester, until he says a new cool phrase that they can copy. In a big group of friends, there are two or three of these guys. in a [sorority], they're called "the executive board."

self call yes, but also true. haha. also, realize we are out of college now, but check out more of the observational humor observations - they're funny b/c they're true - and oh SO college

top eight

also really enjoy this blitz from maynard last spring. while it may not be the rules for life, they can certainly be guidelines, ala the pirate code (the second pirates of the carribean comes out july 7 btw. thanks movie theater next to my office):

date: 6/1/05
subject: to do list:

--lauren p m wrote:

1. Come to meetings.
2. Become inebriated.
2a. Spill a drink and blame someone else.
3. Boot.
4. Rally.
5. Become more inebriated.
6. Show someone your boobs in the basement, because that always
seems to be a good idea if you are an '05.
7. Watch the Aires.
7a. Show someone your boobs at the Aires, because that always seems
to be a good idea.
8. Rage until sunrise.

TO RECAP:
Come get wasted. Everybody's doin it.

--end quote --

you have your marching orders . . .

april fools

good work huyett on posting some, in the words of tay tay, real gems. good lord last night was out of control - am still drunk. i think the highlight was when charlo wanted another drink but none of us had any cash so she had to put it on her credit card which was a $30 dollar minimum and returned with not one g&t for all of us but TWO. am sure that had something to do with the current state i am in right now. and i really want to go running. hmmmm.

didn't even get to say 'rabbit rabbit' or april fools! for that matter. we went down to the lower east side for zach's bday party. before we went we successfully managed to get the blender to work so there were delicious pina coladas for all ala green key junior spring (thanks to tay tay for the tip that bacardi mixers are delicious) mulley, who had just returned from a jaunt to florida, and megh were in attendence, as were ally and charlo - danced for awhile which was nice, though the music could have been better. i miss d dance parties. =)

to continue in the vein of blitz gems from days gone by, this is the original blitz diana blitzed out to the house to start the sd streaking novak rumour junior spring:

-- Diana M. L wrote:
some sigma delts will be streaking novak this evening at 11:30ish
pm. spread the word, tell your friends, should be entertaining.
-- end quote --

and we all know what happened after that.

charlo and ally are down in philly for the sox/phillies game. and i think i am going to take advantage of that to go back to bed. ;-)