Boring Post

Hey psych majors-

Does anybody know any studies that demonstrate:

- the availability of resources for STIs/HIV prevention for 13-24 year olds in the DC area

- statistics that show there aren't enough resources available  (in DC or nationwide) that are accessible to the target demographic (I need stats that show discomfort among 13-24 years olds at accessing resources available at places like the red cross)

- stats that show a correlation between kids that have healthy relationships modeled for them and lowered STI rates (or something?  I don't know, we need to show that the "healthy relationship building" workshops are supported by some data)

Grantwriting has reared its head in my life again...

Abby- do you have anything from your SMP?

Many thanks,

ET

So...

Any extra room at the party? Cuz I kinda bought a plane ticket and a festival ticket today...

In Response

I could have just commented on Becca's or Erica's post too, but I didn't know which one because I will be addressing items brought up in both... So anyway, here is my post about the other two posts.

Thursday the 17th after Matt's show (?) we all climb into my car and head up to Ithaca. We arrive at Abby's (?) and pass out. Friday we go the the grassroots festival and twirl, cheer and sample. Saturday we
A. Go back to the festival and have a parade
B. Hike into the woods and swim under a waterfall, maybe get friendly with a crow
If we choose B, then maybe we would be up for going out to eat afterwards. Maybe so even if we choose A.
Sunday we hang, maybe walk around the commons or eat a delicious lunch at ABC (are they open Sundays?), before we start back south in the evening.

Lets all get a ticket online for Friday and leave Saturday free in case we want to do something else because if we have to go home Sunday, we might not feel like we have time for picnicing in the gorges. Can someone post the site for the festival tickets or email it to everyone? - or actually I think it is already posted in the blog somewhere.

What else.. Ok Trevor will not be coming along if that helps. If anyone disagrees with my very casual schedule, please feel free to make your opinion known.

I'm excited!

Thanks for the initiative Becca

Oops!  I almost started posting as Erin, which would have been confusing.  MCS was still signed in on facebook, email etc on Matt's comp, so this would actually be the third time that I drafted something only to realize that the recipient would not have know it was me.  I'm sharing this with you because this happens about 10 times a week so if you ever get something from Erin that makes no sense, this is one possible scenario (with that girl though, believe you me there are a myriad of others... ;-) )

Yay for decisions! 

Departure:  Yes, I am on the us bus to depart from DC on Thursday night late night and return Sunday.  I think Erin and I both have to come back Sunday.   Erin just got back from a week off with her fam, so she doesn't really have a lot of vacation days to spare.  At my office, we recently had a meeting in which our senior attorney was like "is everybody's summer vacation on the calendar" and I said "yes" so I'd rather not take off any additional time as that would render my vow flimsy like saranwrap rather than strong like oak.  I would prefer the latter.  I'm going to be out of town every weekend in July (so 4 Fridays off in a row) and a week in August, so that's why I was pressuring everybody to nail down dates awhile back.  If others are interested in staying until Monday or longer, perhaps we can talk about there being more than 1 group of travelers, and the two groups could leave at different times.

How are we getting to Ithaca?  Neither Erin nor I has a car.  

I was not planning on asking Matt to come, unless Liz wants to bring Trevor or Erin wants to bring Nick.  I was also not planning on bringing dogs since it sounds like we're going to be gone all day for at least 1/3 days.

Concert: In terms of buying tickets, I'm down for Friday and/or Saturday.  Can we get another voting feature Nicky so we can elect between Friday only, Saturday only or both?  If its easier, if someone just posts a conclusion and says "buy tickets for Friday and Saturday" or whatever I will do that, because then I will know that I will not be at risk of going alone (though Ithacans are friendly folk and I would almost certainly have a lovely time, I would rather spend the time with you guys).  

I think we should buy tickets for at least 1 day online in advance since this festival is the reason that we are visiting Ithaca at this time, so running (even a very very small) risk that tickets could sell out or whathaveyou, would be very silly.

This would have been easier if I had posted just a comment on Becca's, but I think there's a character limit.

Yay!  This promises to be a fabulous trip.  Looking forward to seeing you all!

Happiness Parade and Dance of Peace

Hello friends,
its getting close to that time! Lets planning! check out the schedule: http://www.grassrootsfest.org/festival/files/2008schedule.pdf
I'm talking to Abby now about what days would be best to go to the festival and stuff so we can get tickets. We thought friday would be a good day to go (the bands are good that day). [Abby also says that thursday is a really good day but we wont be there then]. Just to confirm: we are driving overnight on thursday after Matt's concert, right??? Is Matt coming?
And we could also go saturday too if you guys wanted. What time were we thinking of returning on sunday? Or can we stay in Ithaca until monday? I would love to stay until monday or even tues, but I think its up to Erica's schedule. Right now its just Erica and Liz and I in the car, right? Any dogs?
Should we all order tickets online together or buy them at the gate?
At the festival there is a Happiness parade on saturday at 3pm starting at the art barn. haha, I can't wait. And, there is a dance of peace early friday morning which sounds like fun!
I would like to propose we have a picnic and go swimming in the gorges for 1 day, what do you guys think? I would also like to go to the square and a nice restaurant such as moosewood or something. If we leave on monday, we will obviously have more time for all of this. But if we leave on sunday, then maybe we should just do 1 day of the festival??? Or do 2 days with knowledge that we could decide to leave on saturday to go do something else (this assumes someone is sober to drive since we aren't staying the night).
Lets make decesions!!!

WooHoo!

We have an apartment! We're in Coconut Grove (on the fringe really, but that's OK) and it has everything we wanted! Ahh, relief!

We move in August 1st, so I'm going to have to soak up the pool time at the hotel until then!

Mind Melt

Hey folks,

Y'know... I haven't been looking at the blog enough. I really haven't. There's been all sortsa nifty stuff going on in all of your lives. Glad your LSAT adventure is over Erica, and congrats on the move Nicky! Miami sounds just beautiful, and that picture reminds me of when I was out clubbing in Orlando... I wore my "naked dress" - this golden sparkly thing that barely is barely long enough to avoid arrest, on top of being strapless and semi-see through - and I felt like I was wearing WAY to much material. But after a few weeks of being there, you'll have the all-year-round Miami tan that we'll all envy you for, right? :)

What's funny is that I had gotten totally confused about when you guys were coming to Ithaca... I thought it was June 17th-20th, which is why when I hadn't heard anything from you I was kinda surprised/worried. Then immediately after checking the blog, I just realized that I was just losing my mind. Which seems more and more standard at this point.

I saw Becca's post too, about whether or not we have tickets yet to the Grassroots. They can be ordered online here with more information about the festival in general here. Did you guys want to go every day or just to a few of the days?

On a weirder note, I had probably one of the more bizarre dreams of my life last night. Every time I stay over at Victor's I have these strangely lucid, long, tenuously tied together dreams - and half the time, I think I'm awake on top of that. People relating the whole narrative of their dreams is boring, so to give you guys a few of the highlights (and imagine maybe ten times this many equally bizarre things and that the transitions between these parts seemed at the time very natural):

• At some point, I attended a commitment ceremony or wedding for Zach Braff, who was engaged to some sort of honeybee (no, really,) because the two of them had just had babies together which were for some reason either bunnies or puppies depending on the moment.
• I was trying to get down into this big room through this wide opening on the floor, but there were just so many picnic tables stacked up from the room all the way through the opening that I couldn't just jump in... So I slithered and climbed down and through about fifty picnic tables.
• I was convinced I was awake and had about an hour long conversation with Victor... But then I realized I was still also talking to people in the dream and that possibly I wasn't actually saying anything out loud or even awake at all. Or I could have actually had an hour long conversation with Victor about human/honeybee spawn being (naturally) rabbit-puppies. Really, I'm gonna have to hope not.
• I kept having guys I wasn't interested in walk up to me and try to kiss me (during this wedding ceremony) and even though I would push them off, I'd always turn around to see Victor somehow always standing there just looking kinda pissed off.

So... I don't even know. There was a lot more, and I woke up really weirded out. It didn't help that Victor woke up just enough to pull me over to cuddle - okay, so that was nice - and then I coughed or cleared my throat or something, and he freezes. I didn't realize anything was wrong at first... Then I hear, "Did you just say Nick?"

WTF? Nick is a mutual friend of ours that winds up hanging out with me and Victor a lot, and he's got a girlfriend that I like - and honestly, he's the one male member of my group of friends that I've never even thought of at all that way, even in passing.

Y'know, the power of a misheard word at the wrong time is pretty strong, but even if he thought he heard, "Nick," I ALSO call Victor "Vick" pretty frequently, and when things between us have actually been good and pretty peaceful for a bit, the fact that he wouldn't just mentally self-correct is a little insulting. I said something along the lines of "What? No, I just coughed," (ah, the rebuttal of the ages,) but I think both of us were a little weirded out and we didn't really cuddle again before going back to sleep.

Okay... This was post was laced with a lot of random rambling. I guess it's been a weird couple of weeks for me again. After Victor broke it off with me, we wound up hooking up again four days later. I spend the night with him pretty consistently, but it's strange that there's no real feel like this is gonna turn into anything more promising... He can be sweet (and generally is) but he's both simultaneously emotionally distant and demanding. If I'd like him to come out, do stuff during the day with me or my friends, maybe have dinner, come out to a bar or to dance, maybe fifty percent of the time he just won't respond to my text message - and then Jason will send him one, and immediately there's a response. Tied to that, if other people start hitting on me or really talking to me too much, he gets kinda sulky. (Although there is a bonus side to that, namely if some other guy is hitting on me, it increases the chances that Victor and I will go home together by a tremendous margin... Apparently, jealousy gets him interested. Who knew.)

That's about it in my life... I'm doing some math research, getting ready for this conference I'm going to in Salt Lake City for the next two weeks (I leave Saturday from BWI.) I'm back Friday afternoon or early evening if any of you lovely ladies are around and would perhaps like to go out. My flight doesn't leave Saturday until the evening, so I'd be up for some D.C. trekking.

Talk to y'all soon!

~Gwyn

Ithaca and random ramblings

First, I will start by saying that I thought Erica's LSAT story was so funny that I dreamt about her and Matt testing out LSAT chairs last night. Black Gaucho pants were also in the dream. hahaha. Second, I think I have a new favorite Gilmore Girls character...Luke just isn't doing it for me so much any more, I think he ceeded to be my favorite character after the 5th season. I now have a new appreciation for Emily Gilmore too. I think it grows with every episode I watch, even more so knowing that she is Erica's favorite and she makes me think of Erica. Third, Erin, bring on the Mexican table dancing! Fourth, My parents are in Seattle (for job interviews) right now Nicky, so maybe you crossed plane paths with them in the air through some twisted crazy, time/space/plane dimension (I'll leave Gwyn to figure that one out). And lastly, Liz....should we get on the hotel?... this is what Sarah suggested: "broome howard or woodlawn for a nice inn, otherwise would suggest the Fairfield Marriot in Lexington Park." Or we could camp in Point Lookout...which isn't the best for getting ready for a wedding. Also, Wes is staying at Chris Cyphone's (sp?) house with the band, and welcomed us to join. OR we could always impose ourselves on Kacie's, but I'm ok with the hotel thing. Justin will not be at the wedding, I don't really know if that is good or bad. Can we stop by my ABA house on the way down on saturday? I'm getting very excited to see you and even more excited at the prospect of you and Trevor coming to visit!!! I want to drive you around with my new Japanese drivers liscense! Sorry to fill the blog with more email-y type things guys.
But lastly, this is important, especially for ABBY AND GWYN: Do we have tickets for the Ithaca grass roots festival????
Are we definately going to this?
And, who found another computer to vote on?? hahaha

Death By Logic Game

Yay!  Its done!  As of 6 PM today, I have reclaimed my life.

(at least until I take the test again in October, which I will likely do because that's what most people do- - the girl next to me in line has now taken it 3 times.  Most schools used to average your scores, but now many are taking the highest... wheee more fun for meeeee...)

So, the last 72 hours have been anal-retentive type A fest 2008.  For those of you (all of you) who knew me in college when I could not be bothered to turn in papers within a week of their due date, I wish to share.  

My test prep countdown started Wednesday night, when I took a practice test at 10 PM after finishing my work at the office.  I took Thursday and Friday off to prepare, so I stayed late on Wednesday as there was stuff to finish up and documents to shred in order to destroy evidence of work I neglected to finish up.  We finished up the test at about 12:10 AM, which was a New Year's Eve style kickoff to our LSAT countdown.  Except instead of champagne, we toasted with anxiety.  

Starting Thursday morning, I embarked upon a sort of LSAT infused yoga retreat that involved drinking enormous amounts of ginko and st. john's wort tea (which I've been drinking every day for a month now), doing timed sections and meditating.  Most people feel that the logic games require a sort of zen-like stoicism, so I have been cultivating my inner cocoon.  Indeed, one cannot determine whether Mike sits next to Bob if Melanie must sit to the right of Juan when Juan wears a hat on Tuesday and Mike prefers lemonade over unsliced bread without the proper frame of mind.

This routine occupied my time Thursday and Friday until Mattie and I accepted that our apartment is a HUGE mess and that a bunch people were coming over this week (MCS and MGS are both out of town so there's a string of people taking shifts babysitting me), so I then alternated practice sections with cleaning with checking the cost of one way flights to Cyprus.

My next strategy for game day was to intimidate my opponents with the sheer number of pencils I brought to the test.  I seriously had like 25.  And about 10 erasers.  And a pencil sharpener (which I used during the break only because I was so jacked up on adderall and the espresso beans I was downing by the fistful that I needed something to steady my hand... this too explains why I'm still up at 6 AM).  Anyhow, I believe that studies have shown that the more pencils a test-taker brings to the exam, the more likely he or she is to be admitted to the supreme court.  

There is no way that this is the case.

But, I went with it anyway.  The final 24 hours consisted of the following:

6/15

3PM- Arrive at William and Mary, find testing room take practice section in the testing room in the preferred seat.  Matt tests many seats in order to determine which is the most desirable, based on the ventilation and possible draft, proximity to the door, lighting,  angle to clock and a myriad of other factors outlined in his report.  We select a seat in the front right.

4PM- Lunch.  I had 1/2 a beer.  I haven't been drinking for a week in prep, but it was so hot out and it was from a microbrewery so I had to try.  After drinking the 1/2 beer, I then become extremely paranoid that I am drunk and that my brain has been compromised.  Matt somehow convinces me that I am not drunk and we return to our hotel.

7PM- We nap.

8PM- We meditate.

9:30 PM- We sleep.  (I use this term loosely, I woke up every hour or so...)

9:30 AM- We awaken.  I am in a cold sweat. I drink a lot of water.  I had decided to stop drinking water at 10 AM because, you may not know this, I have a tendency to use the restroom often.  As I am aware of the health benefits of staying well hydrated, and I drink fantastic amounts of beer and wine, I try to drink a LOT of water during the day.  Like, I'm used to going to the bathroom like every 45 minutes or so.  So, I made my cutoff 9:30 so that I would have time to process the beverage before the exam, so that I could induce a state of dehydration, preventing a bathroom break.  Note that on the LSAT a bathroom break could cost 5 minutes that are simply not available.  I would almost certainly not finish a section and lose many points.  Leaving the test to use the restroom is NOT an option.  Please retain this information...

10:00 AM- Breakfast.  Lots of protein and citrus (Richard on Gilmore Girls says that grapefruit is "brain food" so I followed his advice)

11:00 AM- Work Out- including bike, calisthenics, and "brain gym" exercises that Matt led which are designed to use coordination to increase bloodflow to the brain.  I also hang upside down for a few minutes.

11:30- Shower.

12:00- Depart for test Center, check-in time is 12:30.

Once I arrive, I join roughly 50 other ziploc-bag clad friends who look smart.  I loathe them on site, but make conversation.  People say things like "I've taken a full practice test every day for the past year" and "I've been doing logic games blindfolded upside down at high altitudes while chewing fresh basil, you should try it."  My yoga LSAT retreat seems inadequate.

Matt has taken on a sort of "trainer" role (he really likes the Rocky movies) and waits with me in line while rubbing my shoulders and whispering "you're a champ" in my ear.  People ask him if he's taking the test.  He frankly replies "No, I'm just hanging out."  

Because that's where the cool kids hang out.  In line.  Waiting to take the LSAT.

Anyway, I get inside after being fingerprinted (check in lady says "very nice"... yay!  at least I have a good fingerprint!  Can I have a 180?), and ... oh boy... assigned seats.  A wirey man with glasses gestures for me to join him... in the front row, by the clock, away from the vent.  Hooray!  That throws a little wrench in my plan, but I still feel good about the real estate that he has selected for me.

After 45 minutes of name filling out... we begin.

Things are rocky at first,  the logic games section (which turned out to be experimental) seemed weird and different from the games I've been preparing with.  And having taken almost every logic games section that's been offered during the last 10 years, I have a basis for this judgement.

Then during the (also rocky) reading comp... it comes....

I really have to pee.

I panic, look around.  Crap.  I CAN NOT leave.  This will forfeit the test.  I'll have to cancel.  Start anew.  Brain gym for naught.  I persist... and I release.

Yup, I peed on myself in a room full of people.  Fortunately, the thickly upholstered seats and my black gauchos concealed my deed but, ya.  That's how it went down.  And the best part was I had to stay in pee pants for the following 3 1/2 hours of testing.

We have a "what happens on the blog, stays on the blog rule, right?"

Overall the test went OK, I never can tell and some tests that have felt great turned out to yield lower scores than tests where I left feeling awful.  I have no way of knowing, at least for now I have a reprieve and can concentrate on work and sunshine.

I'm glad to hear that Nicky is enjoying Miami!!  I sent Erin and email about visiting you, I was thinking maybe Halloween?  So I can check out UMiami and we can have matching costumes of awesomeness?  What do you think?

Love you ladies.  Off to the office, cheers. :-)

The 2nd Big Move

OK, so it's official. I thought I would never leave Maryland, but here I am in Miami. I'm sitting out by a pool in corporate housing, surrounded by palm trees, looking for a job on Craigslist in a city where it is definitely preferred if you speak Spanish fluently...a little different. But, (and I'm a little surprised) I'm kinda loving it. The idea of moving away from home was not my favorite. I hated the idea of being so far away from my family, from you all, from any and all networking I had done. I'll admit, I was pretty mad at Mik for awhile, completely unfairly, because he "dragged" me all the way to the west coast. I'm not as adventurous as you all, back packing around different countries, teaching English in foreign cultures. But you know what...I'm actually enjoying myself!

Seattle is a really pretty city (Erica will you still get to see it this summer?). It's incredibly well kept, there's art everywhere you turn, and once things start growing the while city is a mess of flowers and green. It probably feels the least like a city of any city I've ever been in. There are so many restaurants, coffee shops, quirky retail places, salvage yards, and bookstores and it's really intellectual. That said, I didn't fall in love. It felt like a place to stay, but not quite like home. Maybe if I'd had a job or been there longer... I would still venture back. Maybe years from now, it'll seem like the place to be. I'm sure it would be a good place to have kids. But right now, it was a good place to be for 6 months. I think Mik had similar feelings about it.

But Miami...WOW. It is another universe! It's so vibrant and alive! We've only been here for 2 days, but I feel really optimistic about it. Being here makes me want to take classes in Spanish, eat more Cuban food, and learn how to salsa (OK we all know that the last thing won't happen). I feel like this is a good place to be right now, for both of us. I'm loving the heat (even the humidity), the thunder storms that roll in at night, all the people from all over the world you meet out. It's amazing. Don't get me wrong, I don't think I'll ever completely embrace the Miami nighttime dress code, but I'm willing to paint my toenails and wear a bikini in December. It's still an adjustment, but I'm ready to jump into this head first. I think this is a good place to have fun, and not get all complacent at home every night, which is what we were doing in Seattle.

So here's to being adventurous, which is a ride I'm finally ready to join you all on! :) Love you.

the chicken is pretty damn good ;) (although, for vegetarians, perhaps we should make it tofu).

nicky - i hope the move went well. liz - i hope the move went well. i can't believe you're both moving. erica - again, my margarita and i will be thinking of you.

i'm in gastonia now and will be trapped with my family on a cruise ship for the next week. i might just stay in mexico. buy a bar. dance on some tables. if you don't hear from me on monday, that's where i am. you all, of course, are welcome in my shack on the beach. i'll keep a guest hammock.

hope all is well in yaponia (that's ukrainian for japan - we're so damn multicultural ;) well, at least our hair is) and ny.

i miss you guys.

love,
erin

Moving Day!

Hey girls,
Taking a break from organizing/packing around the movers (who I appreciate more than I can tell you!). Today is packing, tomorrow is loading and dropping off our cars, and Saturday is our flight to Miami! I'm already in a weird state of excited/exhausted :) Soon, the beach!

Swimming in the waterfalls and the crow

Sunday was really a great day--I had a wonderfully relaxing day, including swimming at Ithaca Falls with Andrew and Jack for about two hours. The water was really nice--just cold enough to mitigate the intensity of the sun--and deep enough in some places that we couldn't touch bottom. We swam across the pool at the base of the falls and hung out on a flat rock under the gentler shower of the peripheral falling water. I stood under this part of the waterfall and said, "Who needs Tahiti?" Andrew swam against the current of the rushing water right up to the middle of the base of the falls and held the rocks while white torrents splashed over him. It was amazing. Jack really loves the water, too, and on a 95 degree day what could be nicer for a doggie with thick black hair?
I went home to change (so we could go out to dinner at ABC) and noticed a crow sitting on the handlebars of my roommate Dani's bike on the front porch. We looked at each other and he didn't seem freaked out. I talked to him and told him, "You're cool there, I'm just going inside. Don't be scared." When I came back out 20 minutes later he was still on the handlebar. He didn't fly away when I walked right up to him. I got my camera and took some pictures.
Andrew and I rode bikes up to ABC where we carried a table outside and sipped white wine (me) and Sierra Nevada Pale Ale (him) at our special sidewalk location. After a huge delicious salad--it had been too hot to really eat all day--we rode home. On my porch was, you guessed it, our friend the crow! It had been like 2 hours. He was totally stuck! My roommates got home and we stood out there with him trying to figure out what to do. I got him a bowl of water and a little dish of nuts and seeds. We took a broom handle and gently lifted his chest so that he'd step onto the handle. He did. Okay, so he wasn't stuck. But then he didn't want to get off the broom either. Eventually he stepped onto the water bowl where he hung out all night. He was totally gentle and let us pet him. Jack smiled up at him like, "Hey, cool, we've got a new animal friend in the house." Andrew slept out on the porch and said that in the morning the crow started walking around, hopped onto the front railing of the porch, and sauntered back and forth. Another crow showed up on the telephone wire and they talked to each other or a while. Then our buddy hopped down, walked across the yard, across the street, and left us.
I can't get the photos on my computer right now, but I'll add a new post to illustrate later. :)

i can't believe i'm telling you this on a blog

sorry it's been a while since i posted, guys. it's very difficult when one's boss sits right behind one and one has no cubicle walls with which to block awesome pictures of abby's dog, which while (as previously stated) awesome, are not exactly work appropriate. it sounds like things are going well for most of us, with the exception of certain stupid tests, probably written by monkey trainers on acid. (actually, that would probably be a really cool test - it was actually written by old, white men who have an extremely inflated sense of entitlement. ha! take that lsat ppl!) nicky, how goes the move? i can't believe it's happening so quickly. did you find a moving service that wasn't satan in disguise? gwyn - write something already. you're worse than me :) liz, i can't believe you're leaving so soon, but i know you're happy/excited/nervous, so i'll try not to miss you too much. becca, abby, and gwyn in a month! yay! i'm excited to see ya'll.

ok. now i'm just procrastinating, because while i do love the blog - it's been such a great way to keep up with you guys, especially since everyone but me has been so great about writing - it is a little weird to write "i had sex with nick" on a blog.

...but it's true :)

and as much as it's been discussed, i feel like you all have (had) joint interest in my virginity. and i'm not even getting into how odd that is.

but it is no longer :)

and yeah, that's about all i had to share (and i can't decide if that's depressing or not.)

i love and miss you all

PACKAGE

I LOVE IT I LOVE IT I LOVE IT!!!! Cant wait to go on a fucking picnic with my alabaster skin and flaxen hair!! THANK YOU GUYS SOOO SOO VERY MUCH. It made me so happy!!!! I received it on friday and the ducks are hanging out above my TV on the monkey plate waiting to be bathed with. I also really really really enjoy the CDs, I'm happy that you put songs from Wicked on there and that song from Pink? I'm too tired to think of the name of the actual movie...its been a while since Ive had time to go on the computer and I actually have to go help studnets cheer now!!! Yesterday I ran a 10k marathon and got some free Yamagata cherries! My first taste of summer! (then today, I walked in to the bathroom at school and it smelled like summer, not like poop summer, but like good summer) My prefecture is famous for cherries so its very exciting! Oh yes, and I am guilty of voting twice too. Erica divulged the secrets of the internets to me! wahahahaha. shoot, gotta go! Love you all very much. exactly 1 month from tomorrow, I'm home! Good luck on your move Nicky!! i love exclamation marks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Fun Colors

But also

My parents' first date was Friday the 13th.  The universe is taking you on an exciting ride, Nicky.  Your brave for entertaining it, and you will be a richer person for it.

Matt got new vitamins!

I'm not going to do very well on the LSAT and have been borderline nervous breakdowning for the last 2 weeks.  Its June 16.  And it makes me want to cry.  I don't know what to do if I'm not smart enough to be a lawyer. 

Oh my god! i just realized we're moving ON FRIDAY THE 13TH!!!!!

AHHHHHHHH!

Go back to kindergarten

I just wanted to vent about how selfish people can be. There were a lot of traffic lights out today because of the storms (atleast 15 on my way home from work!) and the intersections were chaos. Isn't it true that when the light is out, you treat the intersection as a four way stop?? People just kept driving through one after another without stopping and letting anyone else go. When I stopped as you are supposed to, I got honked at by the people behind me. Its called TAKING TURNS and you learn it in kindergarten. I wanted to give everyone on the road a time out... or a ticket and send them back to kindergarten... or traffic school. All the power outages also reminded me how terribly reliant we are on electricity. Scary.

In other news, school is out next Thursday and then I am moving in with Trevor!
How goes your second transplant, Nicky?

How are there 10 votes?

Hi guys,
I see that there are 10 votes in our poll, and only 7 of us. Admittedly, I have voted more than my fair share. Who else figured out that you can do this? I bet it was Erica.

Hello, white girl friends

When I open up our blog I see a sea o white girls. Or a row, rather. Anyway, it makes me realize how monochromatic we are. Anyway, I just got back from what Andrew described to his boss as, "A jaunt to the Cape". I guess Gwyn and Erica know this because I asked you guys how to make Cosmopolitans via text message from the Tretiak's Cape Cod house's kitchen. I'm going to try to post some pictures A) to jon the club, B) to show you guys what the trip was like, and C) to embarrass Andrew, because I love him.