This is our super speller, guys. Take his word for it.
Olivia just gave me a really weird smile, because she's talking to Mac Krumpak about an experiment that made lots of people starve, and how "interesting doesn't make it good, so I'll give you that."
God knows what "that" is. I guess Mac made a good point.
So guys. It's super silly that we all obviously check this blog all the time, yet none of us post. Silliest thing in the world.
So let's chat. For Halloween, what did you guys do? I was Peter Pan, and a bunch of my friends were Lost Boys and Tinkerbell and Captain Hook and Tiger Lily. Amir wore a beard and a bedsheet, and was occasionally supposed to be Jesus, Moses, or straight-up God. David T borrowed my roommate's private school uniform (yes, he totally did), and I can't for the life of me figure out what Dom was supposed to be. Maybe some kind of Peruvian? He wore a beard and not much of a shirt. Good thing it wasn't too cold. I don't remember what Tyler was, but I think his hair was gold.
We just watched William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, and my gosh, it reminded me so much of the beginning of that Hamlet movie, the one with the hotel and the yellow sunglasses and the awful.
Also, I'm supposed to be writing a paper, and Olivia should be doing calculus, and David T should be reading the Bible. Guess what we're not doing.
Apparently on Olivia's bus yesterday, a creepy older guy with no teeth called her "Princess" and said she reminded him of his parole officer.
That's so sketchy, guys. I'm glad she didn't die.
Dom's at orchestra practice, and Amir left yesterday. We had a couple of adventures trying to find the right bus stop, interspersed with watching the food network in David T's suite. He's got a really nice suite, but mine is definitely better, despite the smallness and the brokenness of the bathrooms and lights and doors and walls and everything.
It's so social. I love it so much.
Guys, I have the biggest inferiority complex EVER about my housing situation here. But they fixed the locks on the doors, and put a new cover on the light, and worked to clean up the scorch marks on the ceiling.
I think I'm just going to post pictures on facebook at some point.
Liv says the football players in her writing seminar always make connections and comparisons to Disney movies in class. She says it's weird.
Guys, I really have to write my paper. I watched a silly Shakespeare movie instead of doing it. And I think I might fail out of college as a result of too much Mario Party and Super Smash Bros.
I miss each and every one of you so, so much.
15 comments:
so. in your first blogpost in months, you make me out to be an ivory-tower intellectual that's more interested in making good points than taking care of starving children. great. also, when you said people were dressing up as the lost boys, i thought you were talking about the lost boys of sudan. then i realized my mistake.
I wore a little glittery headband with strange springs attached to it for Halloween. I don't know what I was. I never know. They looked like feelers.
When you said The Final Countdown, it reminded me of this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAg5KjnAhuU
Clearly, I'm not doing what I'm supposed to be doing either when it comes to college work...
I miss you/love you all as well!
Mac--
Yes. Of course.
Also, silly you. Why would Peter Pan hang out in Sudan? Also, what kind of Halloween costume would that be? Like, really, Mac.
Alina--
I bet you were the most beautiful feeler-y eighties mystery fairy at the entire school.
Mac, you're at UChicago. You LOVE to starve children, as it will make everyone free and it's the damn kids' faults for starving. That's how the market works, bitch.
Oh man, Laura, my bus ride home was epic. I was in the terminal in NYC and people kept telling me different gates to go to, including three Greyhound reps, a homeless man who lives in the terminal apparently, and someone at an information booth. All of them were totally wrong. By SHEER LUCK, I went up two flights of stairs and happened to run into the gate I needed. There were over two hundred gates in that terminal and at least four floors to choose from. I got really lucky.
No one told me this, but Greyhound subcontracted my return trip to Shortline. I got to the gate just in time to be the last person to board.
Also, on the trip from New Haven to NYC, there was a crazy man who claimed he was a prophet from God. Did you know that we're still in Paradise and can live to be 500 years old? We just have to avoid the forbidden fruit. Also, the forbidden fruit is water.
I'm glad you're not lost, alone, in a giant city, and dehydrated. Because I'm assuming you didn't take the prophet's advice. Because it was really terrible advice.
He saw that I had a bottle of water with me, and seemed to think I was a lost cause. He never directly proselytized to me.
I guess I can never become the religious type. Not even pretend Judaism. (I don't know whether Dom even checks this blog anymore, but I felt that was necessary. Also note that I don't actually hate him, but think that this debate is really amusing.)
I dressed up as the three-headed knight from Monty Python. Granted, there were two others in the costume, which was good, because I'm sure I wouldn't look that great with three heads.
It was pretty awesome considering we made it about an hour before our "dorm costume contest" and it comprised of a cut up sheet, a very interesting cardboard sword, and bike helmets instead of chain mail.
You're so crafty! Wait, how long were you stuck being right next to two other people, though? I might go crazy. I don't know. How did the contest end up?
We won "Best Costume" for our dorm. We were stuck together for two or three hours, but luckily we like each other, so we had fun.
AHH! Procrastination! I had an interesting Halloween to say the least. Suffice to say that UT Austin is frequently ranked no. 1 party school....Laura! How is your dorm so social?? I am rather disappointed with mine. Everyone here is very shy or obnoxious. I think I am just a bitch or an elitist--which is what you call someone with standards. At any rate, the PRIME question is Mac, DID your Halloween costume consist of you stuck between the two halves of a hamburger bun??
It's so social because it's so, er, cozy. In the best possible way. I actually really like the setup, because there's no space for us to not spend basically all of our time together, so we always hang out in the common rooms with each other. Just like TASP!
Only, like, not. But it is fun. There's lots of Super Smash Bros.
I really admire your integration of so many inside jokes. It's very impressive. Also, I like that you have standards. Also, I like you.
julieta! no. it did not. i did not dress up for halloween. i was boring. laura. i only see one inside joke in julieta's comment. maybe i am missing something? i think i am. it's early in the morning.
No, I might just be making stuff up. Maybe I'm mixing up "prime" and "choice," because both have to do with steaks, or something. Or else neither of us can remember, because we're both so sleepy.
Only I don't have an excuse, because it's not even nine o'clock.
Yeah, I didn't even catch the "prime" and "choice" bits. But thank you Laura--I like you too.
in my mouth.
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