Come On Everybody, to Santa Clause's Party

Well, usually I'm too busy reading Un Bon Voyage to get a post in here, but today I've either turned into a speed reader or looked at the pictures more than the text... (probably the latter, Hann, sorry! I don't understand how you have the time to make all of those posts when I barely have time to read them!)

So I'm sitting in Cafe Primo, a lovely coffeehouse with Wi-Fi where Jon and I usually spend an afternoon every week or so. We JUST finished our Christmas shopping at the farmer's market. Our tree (a baby razor palm that Jon and David dug up and put in a bucket and then plopped on the bench in our front window) in laden with ornaments (okay, like 5 ornaments... but it really can't hold any more!) and sitting above a pile of presents. I'm madly crocheting at every free moment so that our new stockings will be ready for Santa come Christmas Eve! Not being home for Christmas is certainly a bit sad, but I'm so excited about spending my First Christmas with Jon. We've got lots of plans already, like homemade cinnamon buns for breakfast and seeing that Sherlock Holmes movie, so I doubt I'll have much time to miss Peter's complaining about his presents or Hester's disappointment that everyone is still wearing their pajamas at dinner.

Work is both good and bad... our immediate superior is still an ass, but his dad can be a sweetheart. He hosted a staff Christmas party last week in which we stuffed ourselves full of processed cheese and sasuages from the Swiss Colony (this is the same guy who buys those 3-hour fireplace logs from Walmart. We live on a farm! We are surrounded by 30 acres of trees!!!) Yesterday I spent the whole morning transplanting Silverado Swiss Chard seedlings into the garden and seeding a big fat row full of French Breakfast Radishes. In the afternoon Jon and I prepared and seeded two beds of Scarlet Nantes Carrots and spent some good quality time with the chickens. (We haven't been letting the hens out of the coop during the day ever since the rooster got killed by a coyote--he's the one who keeps them together and leads them back to the coop. So we let them out to stretch their legs and eat all the bugs they want for a few hours every few days while we keep an eye on them and play with the chicks.) So, I don't know if you guys can tell, but that's a GREAT day of work. Imagine finishing a paper you've been working on for 3 weeks and getting a whole bunch of short, easy assignments out of the way. AND knowing that you've done a really good job on all of it. That's what yesterday was like.

Also, I've decided what I'm doing with my life. For the next 8 months or so. Jon and I are going to leave here in April, probably, and take our time driving back to Wisconsin. He's trying to get a job at Angelic Organics, and I'm applying to the second year of the intensive summer Arabic program at Beloit College. I'll live with my parents for the summer (hopefully he'll only be 20 minutes away at the farm) and we'll look for jobs and apartments in Chicago so that as soon as my class is done and his farming is done, we can move to the Big City! So this is all very exciting. For me.

Well, I wish I could see each and every one of you this Christmas, but an update with lots of pictures will have to suffice. That's an order! (Or at least a Christmas Wish...) Merry Christmas!

WHAT THE FUCK?

I'M ON MY WAY TO CAIRO! IN EGYPT! OH MY GOD

KEVIN

M

My mom's friends mother knits dog custem dog sweaters. She could resist and you must admit, he's a very handsome dog. Aunt Kathleen brought him a seasonal sweater, which is even cuter, if you can imagine.

His bottom.

This is how he spends a majority of his time. He is sort of a cover hog.

As cute as can be.

A long delayed update

Good evening my dear friends,
On this frosty Friday night, I am bundled up in the corner of a coffee shop in downtown Decatur eating key lime pie and avoiding the mound of work I haven't had a chance to get to due to the bigger mound of work I have been working on all week. Who new grad school would be so tough? My friend D (after big-D of course) is sitting across from me looking as though she is doing something productive which doesn't make me feel better about my self. I am doing all I can to hold out until our pre-determined 11pm wine-bar break... With finals fast approaching, Kevin's need to be petted 14hrs a day, work deadlines, and my crazy sex life, I havent had too much time for the blog. I do apologize! Here are some tid-bits of news from my life over the past few months...
Kevin!- My crazy sex life may be make-believe, but my new friend Kevin is very much a reality. He is just as lovely as a 12 pound half-chihuahua mutt could be! I really thought I might have some trouble learning to love such a silly excuse for a dog, but it really was a non-issue. He is currently the love of my life, even when he wears hand-knit sweaters, eats the Thanksgiving day turkey, and rolls in human vomit.
Babies!-Isaac the great is going to be a big brother! Bren is pregers. It is very early in the process, but according to her calculations she thinks she will be due at the end of next July. I wonder what wisdom this little one will posses (Catie, if you need an Arabic tutor, I'm sure Isaac would be willing to lend a hand).
Ok, I know things have happened, I just cant think of what they might be... I will be borrowing my dads camera soon to provide you all with a detailed tour of my day-to-day... until then, I love and miss you all!!!

Grab a drink, grab a glass, after that...

Alright, I haven't written in a while, but what to write?!?! Each day here is much like the last... which is not to say I'm not enjoying myself. I'm tearing through fun books (like mysteries and chick lit and spy novels) that I never thought I'd have enough time to read again, I'm eating delicious, local, organic, incredibly fresh food for FREE, and I'm watching episodes of Lost and various great movies (like Singing in the Rain and Dr. No, most recently) every night with Jon Fagan, who is a darling.

Of course, I am also living with some of the most annoyingly conservative and ignorant people I've ever spent a great deal of time with (I'm sure there are much worse offenders, but I've never had to live and work with them).

For example, Lance, the older ex-Navy farm business manager, told me the other day that he had two international WWOOFer requests to work on our farm that he was considering: one from France, who "sounds good," and the other from some middle eastern country, who he would "definitely not be welcoming on our farm." I said that was too bad, since I'd like to work on my Arabic. We then went into a conversation about women's rights in Islam, and he said that women were degraded and oppressed in many parts of the world, which was "stupid" (i.e., we Americans are the only smart ones). Less than 24 hours later, he asked which one of "the boys" wanted to work the rototiller (a big, gas-powered, very heavy piece of equipment), and suggested that I could do some hand-weeding.

And then there's his son, Jason, who says "dude" and "bro" in every other sentence and with whom this conversation recently occurred:

Brittany: "Yeah, I think Eleanor Roosevelt went to Wellesley. And Hillary Clinton. It's a really good women's liberal arts college."

Jason: "In other words, its a school for dykes! Am I wrong?"

Oh, how I yearn for Earlham at these moments...

(I have my moments of retaliation, though: I rototilled 8 rows yesterday. So there!)

I'll chronicle my exciting trip to the south in another post, but right now I'm too darned excited about my Christmas tree.

It wasn't the same decorating without you ladies, but your spirit was here!

Happy Thanksgiving

ATL

Right now...

We aren't very good bloggers lately, ladies!

The setting of my life may be different, and I miss you all more than words can say, but I thought you'd be comforted to know that some things never change...



I still proudly run the blender when called into margarita making duty.

And my boobs still manage to capture the hearts and minds of photographers everywhere


Miss you the mostest.

It's Been Too Long

Oh jeez, girls, where to begin...

The farm does not have internet. Jon and I are wifi-ing it up at the Temecula Public Library, which is where we will spend the majority of our one-day-a-week-off.

The farm DOES have four yucky alpacas, 17 cute chickens, 1 lame rooster, a promise of 28 ordered guiena fowl (how do you spell that?), a squirrel problem, roving coyotes, rattlesnakes, lizards, rats, mountain lions, and lots of other things that make me scared to go outside at night.

The farm also has passion fruit, guavas, persimmons, pomegranates, limes, lemons, grapefruit, macadamia nuts, oranges, not to mention the usual vegetables. And avacado season starts in December. I can't wait.

The days are long, starting around 6:30 or 7:00 and ending around 5:00, with an hour for lunch. I spent the majority of this week raking leaves from under the macadamia trees so that when the nuts fall we can collect them without digging through 2 feet of leaves. I never want to touch a rake again. (But I will be tomorrow, because we still have at least 40 trees to go.)

Jon and I have the Master Suite at the brand-new intern house (brand-new meaning we slept on the floor for the first 3 nights until our mattress arrived) and a really great housemate, David from Louisiana who just graduated from Virginia State University.

The leader of the interns is Jason, who graduated from IUPUI Fort Wayne a year or two ago, played professional volleyball in Europe until two months ago when his sponsorship ran out, and says both "dude" and "bro" a lot. Just imagine Jamie Utt on a lot of pot. And without all the political correctness. He's taking some getting used to.

Jason's dad, Lance, is the "manager," although I'm not sure exactly what he does other than drink a whole pot of coffee every morning, talk about his old Navy days (that's the branch of the U.S. military, not the clothing store) or the time he smoked, snorted, and injected speed for an entire week while living in various bars, and shoot at various things on the property, like squirrels.

Finally we have Cuco, the Mexican farm hand who's been working here for 2 years and knows everything there is to know about fruit and nut trees. I love him, even though he thinks this isn't a good job for me and that I should go back to school as soon as possible.

So, that's my California life so far. Sorry I've been out of contact so long! I miss you all dearly. Especially when I'm living with 5 manly men--I need some girls in my life!!! Or at least cable so that I can watch Glee once a week. Anybody else love that show?

P.S. My new address is:

2120 Rainbow Glen Rd.

Rainbow, CA 92028

Tonight, I miss Earlham a lot.

More specifically, I miss the people at Earlham.

I miss you three ladies to the moon and back.

I miss our wonderful professors and classmates, and even those who were not so wonderful.

I miss all of the incredible families and children I got to know in Richmond.

I'm feeling nostalgic this evening and just a twinge sad. I'm slowly building a life here, but it's nothing like it was when we were together. Usually, I simply feel too busy to stop and reflect.

Most of the time our blog is filled with so much joy and ridiculous humor, but tonight I just wanted to let you all know that I'm thinking about you and I love you and miss you.

I don't miss Ratty. He was a douchebag.

Spell check doesn't think that douchebag is a word.

Douchebag. Douchebag. Douchebag.

Tonight I rented "Away We Go." You'll all love it. We should have a reunion and watch it together. How about you all come here next weekend, okay?

WE NEED A NEW POST

Ummm...guys, it has been 14 days since the last post.  NOT ACCEPTABLE.

What is going on in everyone's life??  Catie....California?!?!?!?!?!?!  How is it?  April, how are your plans to save the world coming?  Kathleen, how is the knitting???

France is great...I am really beginning to think I might have just been born in the wrong country...Parisians are still a little off...many of them sort of have a stick up their butts, but whatev.

check the blog, it's sweet: erika-hannah-bonvoyage.blogspot.com

MISS YOU

dear friends

I am currently running around like a chicken without a head that got caught on fire trying to get ready to go to France so I don't know if I am going to have time to call each and every one of you...I suck, really suck.

Do you guys skype?  Is that weird?  NO!  It's not...you don't even have to do it w/ the creepy camera, i think you can just talk or even IM on it.  So if you don't have it, get it, and if not, let's email...I"M SERIOUS...I know we're all busy, but let's do it so we can remember how awesome we all are and how much we are meant to be together forever.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I can't believe im leaving i dont know what the fuckkkk im doing!

sup yo

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?????

Be Careful...

April,

No matter how much you may think otherwise, those Totinos pizza rolls are not worth dying for. Your moped can't outrun the po po.

Be careful out there!

Love,
Mama Mae

PS- This is currently a big enough news story to be on the front page of our online paper. Love Bloomington.

BEDFORD — A man suspected of taking a package of pizza snacks from Family Dollar Monday, ditched the food in the parking lot and made his getaway on a mo-ped.

Bedford Police Department received a call to the store, 704 16th St., about 3 p.m. for a shoplifting report. By the time they arrived, the man was on his mo-ped, traveling east on 16th Street, according to BPD Chief Dennis Parsley. Two marked police cruisers with lights and sirens going caught up with the mo-ped on the east side of town.

The driver refused to pull over and kept riding, at a top speed of about 35 mph, Parsley said. The officers continued the low-speed pursuit, for about three miles. It came to an end when the mo-ped crashed near Shawswick School Road.

“The officers were able to get beside him and communicate with him verbally,” Parsley said. “He would then, however, speed up, swerve and get back in front of the officers — even getting in the lane of oncoming traffic.”

The driver tried to elude officers by going off the road and he lost control of the mo-ped. He was thrown about five feet off the mo-ped and suffered a cut to his wrist.

Paul E. Harting, 38, Columbus, surrendered without further incident, complaining of back and neck pain. He was taken to Dunn Memorial Hospital by ambulance, then to Methodist Hospital. A hospital spokesman said Harting is in fair condition.

Harting faces preliminary charges of resisting arrest by fleeing. He is also wanted in Lawrence County for warrants on check deception and theft. Also, he was cited with disregarding a stop sign and automatic signal, driving left of center and speeding on a motorized bike.

Parsley said low-speed pursuits present challenges, just as do high-speed chases, and Monday afternoon those challenges were intensified because the chase went by the area of Bedford North Lawrence High School that was about to dismiss for the day.

New School

I have orientation in an hour... like April, I'd rather be with my friends today because I'm feeling a little nervousand a little sad

Because...

I
Love (and miss)
You (all)


XOXO
Booby

OMG! Back to school! without you! :'''(

its my first day of school and I'm a little nervous. I wish D-rute was here to hold my hand.

Unfair

http://www.crowmedicine.com/

This would happen at Earlham right after we graduate...

I move into my new home a week from tomorrow. April's futon beckons all of you to my new diggs ASAP. If it's even possible, I think my new landlord company is comprised of even bigger d-bags than Gay-douche himself which is a blast.

I'm home now and summer is nearly over. It's hard to imagine starting at a new school in a few weeks, but it's happening whether I like it or not. I'm taking bunches of stuff this semester: Teaching Math, Teaching Science, Teaching Language Arts, Full Day Field Experience, A Seminar with a focus on Legal/Ethical Rights & Responsibilities and Gender & Education, and an online class called Trade Books for Youth. I also start work at Goods for Cooks tomorrow! I'm trying to enjoy boredom while it lasts, but I have been taking the dog for incredible journeys around the neighborhood lately, even jogging as much as the old girl can handle, in an attempt to hold off boredom.

I'll post some highlights from summer once I get my broken computer back, but I'll leave you with this gem for now:



I'm George, she's Martha... those are cherries. Every once in awhile (very rarely) I manage to have fun with people who aren't the three of you. It's still hard, though.

Good times, old pics

Hey!  I just found these on my computer and I thought it was only appropo to share them with you all.  Isn't April a H-O-T-T   HOTTY?  Yes, ma'am.  Oh, these are from the wedding, of course.  

In other news, I leave for Berlin today!  Ahhhhh!  Woohoo and oh my god!

Cucz!

Our weekend cucumber harvest!!! Any good recipe ideas??

omg. Jill is picking the wrong man. what a fuck-up! again! this show never seeses to amaze me!!!!!!!!!!!
I nominate we go be the next season. manag-eh-quatro style.

HANNAH. HOW WAS YOUR DATE?? GET ANYTHING GOOD??

Holy Shit!

Alright, let's get down to business... who's been watching the current season of weeds online?!?! Well, I have! And it's good! (Duh.)

Also, saw HP&HBP, finally! Loved it! Even though I missed the first 5 minutes... apparently, Harry was getting it on with some girl? Well, obviously, this was the best one yet. I can't decide if my favorite character is Luna Lovegood or Bellatrix LeStrange... she's so enchanting!!!

Guess what else I heard? They're making the final HP book into TWO MOVIES. To be released late 2010 and Summer 2011. I read about it in the NYTimes, so it's fo real.

Okay, just needed to vent some TV/movie excitement... Jon just thinks I'm crazy when I talk about this stuff (I think HE'S the crazy one, wanting to drag out the canoe or go hike a mountain in every free moment... geez! I just need some sit on the couch, eat DQ, and watch TV on the internet time!)

If I adopt a dog does anyone want to keep it as a remembrance of me while I am in the Peace Corps?????

Kickin' Kale Salad

Take raw kale leaves, preferably younger leaves are better because they are less leathery than the older ones. Chop the kale finely. Toss with died cherries (or currents or raisins or whatever you fancy... soaking in a little white wine plumps um up and adds a nice acidity to the mix), a tad bit of good olive oil, toasted pine nuts, shaved Parmesan (shredded or grated isn't as good).

TADAAA! So yummy!!!!!!

I'm a little lame...

Because I have ANOTHER blog. It's just to get my mother off my back, I swear.

http://cluelessgardeninginmid-coastmaine.blogspot.com/

waberjaberEstonia

Hey look Catie!

http://estcc.wordpress.com/

My Life

Who wouldn't want to leave their little angel in these competent, caring hands?

My New Pad.

Hey Ya'll! I thought I'd give you all a little teaser... let ya'll see what will meet you upon your arival to the super exciting city of ATLANTA! I did some research and it turns out we have the third largest LGBT community in the country! 12.8%! How 'bout that?

So... first in the album... proof of my mad spy skillz. Ben Dickey does exsist.

I borrowed my dad's camera for this post. so i took the oppertunity to have a ugly photo-shoot.

I mad that head board!!! I got to use a huge staple gun like they did in Trading Spaces.

My room from all angles starts here. The baby pics...

I got two plants!!

Next angle... Hannah, your fab grad anouncement is in the window.

I bought a fancy reading chair at Ikea. I felt really adult-like. And I have a real bed. Handy-Steve has been commisioned for a dresser and bed-side table.

WAHOO!

SOMEONE COME VISIT ME!

ha ha

Did yall see Big D's photo album on facebook entitled "Shoez"? WHy didn't one of us tap that when we had the chance?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

In other news, I got a really sweet bike yesterday. It is a road bike so I can go super fast and I feel like a total BADASS.

In other other news, the internship is going well...I went out and had drinks with the other interns after work last week and even though they are people I never would have been friends with at Earlham, it turns out they are actually really nice and I enjoy talking with them-who knew? I am applying for lots of jobs for the fall, along with every other human being on the planet and it is really really hard to get an interview ANYWHERE. WAAAAAAAAAAAA.

Does anyone have fun plans for the fourth of july? Yes? No?

May you rest in peace brother michael

I took my baby
On a saturday bang
Boy is that girl with you
Yes were one and the same

Now I believe in miracles
And a miracle
Has happened tonight

But, if
Youre thinkin
About my baby
It dont matter if youre
Black or white

They print

my message
In the saturday sun
I had to tell them
I aint second to none

And I told about equality
An its true
Either youre wrong
Or youre right

But, if
Youre thinkin
About my baby
It dont matter if youre
Black or white

I am tired of this devil
I am tired of this stuff
I am tired of this business
Sew when the
Going gets rough
I aint scared of
Your brother
I aint scared of no sheets
I aint scare of nobody
Girl when the
Goin gets mean

(l. t. b. rap performance)
Protection
For gangs, clubs
And nations
Causing grief in
Human relations
Its a turf war
On a global scale
Id rather hear both sides
Of the tale
See, its not about races
Just places
Faces
Where your blood
Comes from
Is where your space is
Ive seen the bright
Get duller
Im not going to spend
My life being a color

(michael)
Dont tell me you agree with me
When I saw you kicking dirt in my eye

But, if
Youre thinkin about my baby
It dont matter if youre black or white

I said if
Youre thinkin of
Being my baby
It dont matter if youre black or white

I said if
Youre thinkin of
Being my brother
It dont matter if youre
Black or white

Ooh, ooh
Yea, yea, yea now
Ooh, ooh
Yea, yea, yea now

Its black, its white
Its tough for you
To get by
Its black , its white, whoo

Its black, its white
Its tough for you
To get by
Its black , its white, whoo

Food for thought concerning the Academy's curriculum. The start of the new academic year is fast approaching... http://artoftheprank.com/2008/03/18/genital-art/

Boring Business

So we all just got deposit checks from Gaydosh, right? 350 each, right? But, and correct me if I'm wrong, I believe I and everyone else paid 500 for the deposit originally. Which means either Gaydosh got 2000 instead of 1500, or one of us didn't pay part of the deposit. Right?

P.S. When you search for Jay Kozel on Google Images, this comes up:

Tribute to Left Eye

 Left Eye taught us so much.  Like where to put a condom (on your left eye, DUH!).  It's times like these that I really miss her.   

(ps-Doesn't this pic make you miss the 90s SO BAD!?!?!) 

Camp Week 1

Hey ladies! I'm FINALLY online! Here are a couple of pictures from the camp website from this week.


This is my cabin picture. My partner, Elisabeth is great, but only EIGHTEEN! I feel like her mama.


We dressed up as aerobics instructors for opening campfire. Y'all were my inspiration!


My cabin won the Clean Cabin award (The Golden Toilet Seat)-- Can you believe it?!


Being a fool



Singing at closing campfire


Again, signing the Tecumseh song for the kiddos

more!

Happy Mother's Day!!!


Mmmmm...Jizland. Best table EVAH!

My Dad thinks this should be our album cover. I think the prob is Booby and I are embodying Winesong whilst Catie and April seem to be verging on a latex explosion (that sounds real dirty! ba ha!)

I just can't get enough of lil' Ize-y (right at this moment, he was going "April! April! What cha doin' April?!?!!)

Classy assy at its finest. I miss you ladies!!!!