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This is my new blog, never to be as great or as filled with demon-ous devil-ish evilcats as this one...

http://erika-hannah-bonvoyage.blogspot.com/

i just had an unexpected catharsis in epidemiology when a clinical trial of beta-carotene supplementation was used as an example and I remembered how Hannah turns orange when she has too much pumpkin... oh the good ole' days.

For some reason I have been keeping these to myself. Selfish.

PHONEEEE

Hi Lades,

So, as some of you may know, I leave for france veddy veddy soon.  I also lost my cellphone.  So, could everyone please write their cell numeros here so I can call you on my home phone before I leave and say bon voyage!?!?!?  

Erika and I are also going to be blogging up a storm in France, so I'll let yall know that address as soon as we make it.

LOVE!

UPDATe

So, things got a lil crazy at the party.  Long story short, I got pregnant with McG's baby.  Then I gave birth one day later.  You'd think it would be cute, but this is it:

OMG

So girlz, I'm going to an Earlham partay tomorrow nite!!!  It's either going to be crazy fun or super awkward.  Hopefully a nice mix of somewhere in between.  It's at Catherine and Dan's place and lots of folks will be in attendance.  INCLUDING: McG (!!!), Jess Adamick, Max Nold, August (Luce's weird boy toy), Amy Luxemcheeseburger, David Butler (hopefully there will be a dramatic ex-lovers row between those two, SO FUN!)

Just thought I would let you know.  I'll be back with an update....

Sup?date

Alright, girls, I'm sure you've been reading my farming blog faithfully (just as faithfully as I've been writing in it...) so you know all about our bees and beans and beets. The real update is what I'm doing next. So...

I'm moving to Rainbow, California! There's a 30 acre organic farm there called Morning Song Farm that Jon and I will be interning with from late October until late spring/early summer/whenever we figure out what we're doing next.

But the REALLY great news is that in order to get to Rainbow, CA (it's a small town in between San Diego and Los Angeles, about 45 minutes from the coast) I have to go on a cRaZY road trip!!! To see everyone I know!!! Which I hope will include all of you!!! Well, okay, the road trip can't feasibly make a side trip to Hotlanta. And I'm worried Hannah might be in France by the time I make it to Chicago (sometime around 5 October???) But I'm totally hitting up Bloomington (if you'll have us, Boobs).

In other, less exciting news, Jon Harvey and Jess Adamick came to visit for Labor Day weekend. We had lots of fun. I think Jess will have a facebook album documenting every second up in no time.

Also, I met Robert Kurlwich. April already knows this, as I had to call her as soon as he was out of earshot. But I figure we're all a little bit in love with him, right?

hair and vanity

The sex kitten straight version... if it isnt obvious, I was having a vain photo shot trying to make myself feel attractive. At least I'm honost about it???

The wavy version...

UPDATE III

Oh my darlings, how I miss thee.

Graduate School is hard. I have hundreds of pages of reading this week, three papers, several short responses, little projects, and even some math problems. I have to write about the nature and structure of an atom, for example. It's probably a good thing that I'm a little short on friends at the moment, because I'm not sure where I'd fit them in.

I did hang out with some Earlham folks last weekend... Jess Wagner, Evelyn Hollingshead, Laura Wanner, Amy Luxenburger, David Eisnitz and Abby Henkel. Jess, Evelyn, Laura, and David are all living together (Jess in the only one in school-- everyone els eis looking for work), Amy was visitng until she moves here in December, and Abby lives somewhere else in town, but is also in school here. It was nice to get this little taste of Earlham. There is also another Earlham alum in my program, Jessica Lucas (don't know her maiden name) who is married to Webb Lucas. She graduated in '07 and he in '08. I'm not crazy about her, but we did make eye contact and sigh when we took a vote about something in one of our classes, rather than reach consensus.

Despite the fact that I'm overwhelmed with work, I'm enjoying being back in school. I enjoy my classes and I think this will be a meaningful and educative experience for me. I'm still just getting settled at this point.

The house is coming together finally, and I'll make sure to do pictures soon. It's nothing fancy-schamcy, but it's home. I like my roommate fine. She's very nice and also courteous and responsible. I'm not sure that we'll become BFFs, but I generally enjoy her company (I have roped her into watching Top Chef and Project Runway with me, so that's a major plus.)

I've been working now for about three weeks at Goods for Cooks. I work every Thursday and Friday from 10-6. It's very laid back and I'm learning a lot. Unfortunately, I never work with the only other person within 30 years of my age because she works on Saturdays, but I still hope to befriend her somehow!

Mostly I'm still just in getting settled mode. I miss you all bunches and can't wait to hear even more about what you're up to. I have a home of my own now, just waiting for all of you to come and visit.

Love and smootches,
Boobs

UPDATE, THE SEQUEL

I always forget to check this here bloggy and what do you know, the day I do, dear April reminds us that we SHOULD KEEP DOING THIS.  I really miss you girls!  I am so excited for you, April and Kathleen and the new chapters you are beginning right now.  What is it like to be a graduate student?  As scary as it sounds?  Prolly.

And Catie, do you have callouses and lots of pairs of overalls by now?  Must be cool.  What produce are you busy eating?  Any idea where you and Jon jon are headed in the fall?  Still goin south?

As for me?  I am so DONE with my internship.  Not actually done as in finished but done as in grrrr I just want to be done.  It was all good and interesting and informative and inspiring until I went to Berlin.  Then, I come home, missing all those people I just met (an Egyptian even fell madly in love with me, oh the drama), ready to do something new, and being in that office again without my other intern friends (they went back to college) -- it's depressing!  Good thing I'm outty in a week and a half.  Oh, and I am going to France October 1!!!!!!  WOOOOOOOPPPPPY!  Erika and I are going to live in her aunt's apartment (her aunt is gonna be gone) for a month and then we are going to do some farming, some visiting of aquaintances, and then possibly a fellowship at this sweet cooking school/country retreat in the southwest.  I just can't find a fucking job right now, so escaping reality in europe seemed like a wise idea.  Plus, I got a one way ticket for under $300!  Beat that!  

I also think I'm going to apply for a fulbright and the peace corps -- see if either of those works out and then I'll have some options.  I still have this fantasy of living in an apartment in the city with any combination of you ladies -- I just think it would be realllly fun!  We never really got a chance to go out in a city together and I think we could make lots more fun memories together if we gave it a shot.  Maybe in like 5 years once april is back in the country and kathleen is making the big bucks as an elementary school teacher and Catie is a famous comic?  Yea? Ok? sounds good.

Sorry this is long and ranty, but I'm bored at the moment. 

love

UPDATE

Alright ya'll. I just want to say how disapointed I am with our blogging. Post some damn stuff already (I am not excluding myself from this tyrade... I could def do better).

So, news from the south includes...

BD- Not as cool as he could be but very nice. very clean. too clean. He's sort of cute... in a sort of Wes Nutter type of way. I think I made him made the other day by pointing out the fact that his hands were freakishly small. opps.

Other House mate news- I think I am making friends with Sarah! She invited me to a dinner at her friends the other day... and I couldn't go... but I think she likes me! We have bonded over a mutual love of dogs, shoes, and a general dislike/distrust of really pretty people... even though she's really pretty.

My new ride- I now operate a 125 cc Genuine Buddy Scooter in Deep Red. It's hot and goes real fast. I keep getting the feeling people in the cars next to be on the roads are looking/laughing at me though... sometimes I do try to where skirts and shoes that aren't entirely appropriate for scooting... but so far, no accidents! which is good because Nancy and Steve were quite worried at first.

School- Hima's (as in International Studies Japanese Indian boy) sister is in my department! We talked about Juanma and Emily Lao! AND yesterday in my policy class I sat next to Vennessa Grahms twin sister! related! the placenta next door! what a small world hey?

Culinary accomplishments- I made this beautiful loaf of whole wheat bread over the weekend, but Bear (my housemates dog) ate it while it was cooling on the counter.

Hair- I got my hair cut! This past weekend I sort of transformed my look to match the badassness of my new scooter. I have a sort of edgy layered look. That is, if I bother to blow dry and lather and straighten and all that jazz, which I don't... but its the thought that counts!

Whats new with you?????