24 nov 2004
logistical errors and convenient carrying handles
Thanksgiving has officially begun as i have leftover squash in my fridge.
This squash was prepared last night by myself, Courtney, Dave, Anna, Simon, Tibbets, and Craig... in other words, the officers of the Geology club who descended on Courtney's gracious clean not-dorm kitchen. It was fun, but i for some reason have not been in the mood to converse coherently. Hm, actually Simon is not an officer, he's a grad student at a whole different University entirely, but we like to hang out with him anyway. Last year i only really got to know two of the graduating seniors well, Simon & PGill, and for some reason both these people have turned out to be the people who still have reasons for being in Madison all the time. Which is nice, as i like them, but eerie in that way that Max used to be at the Auditorium at 3:00 back in the day, two years after he graduated. From high school.
i think if Craig were an animal he would be a ferret. I myself like ferrets quite a bit and think of them as the most noble, intelligent, curious and all-around entertaining animals, but Craig is quite insulted by this and just notes that they are smelly and weasly. So if anyone has any really good positive points on ferrets i need them for the argument.
i haven't been nearly as excited as i ought to be about Thanksgiving. I'm excited to see everyone, sure, but the fact is is that i'm only in town for 3 days and have 2 or so families, and 2 simultaneous parties Saturday already planned and in the end there won't be time for me to just relax. I also haven't been as lonely for the EC folk as i was last year, partly because some of you have (finally) learned of the wonders of the internet, but also because i've been much busier this year, know people here now, and was up north just two weeks ago.
but then again, today i for some reason felt the need to tell an acquaintance all about the ongoing 'What Philosopher Sucks the Most?' debates and other EC exclusives, and i'm realizing that i do miss many of you a lot. There is certainly something inexplicable about certain elements in our 'clique' (if you will) that is not found in the populace at large, and it is always an incredible relief to not feel like i have to act 'normal' [read: boring] for people to not give me that confused look constantly. So yes: vices and rants here i come. Thanksgiving break will be awesome.
Rachel, MaRy, Donna, Tony, Bryan, Glynis, Allison, et cetera: Megan H./Aryan/Sarah I./i are having a Vegetarian Thanksgiving Saturday at Megan's, you are all invited. Apparently Bekah's having a party on Saturday too, so we will talk about combining these or having different time frames for them.
smokescreens and the vibrancy of expression ¶ 13:58
Thanksgiving has officially begun as i have leftover squash in my fridge.
This squash was prepared last night by myself, Courtney, Dave, Anna, Simon, Tibbets, and Craig... in other words, the officers of the Geology club who descended on Courtney's gracious clean not-dorm kitchen. It was fun, but i for some reason have not been in the mood to converse coherently. Hm, actually Simon is not an officer, he's a grad student at a whole different University entirely, but we like to hang out with him anyway. Last year i only really got to know two of the graduating seniors well, Simon & PGill, and for some reason both these people have turned out to be the people who still have reasons for being in Madison all the time. Which is nice, as i like them, but eerie in that way that Max used to be at the Auditorium at 3:00 back in the day, two years after he graduated. From high school.
i think if Craig were an animal he would be a ferret. I myself like ferrets quite a bit and think of them as the most noble, intelligent, curious and all-around entertaining animals, but Craig is quite insulted by this and just notes that they are smelly and weasly. So if anyone has any really good positive points on ferrets i need them for the argument.
i haven't been nearly as excited as i ought to be about Thanksgiving. I'm excited to see everyone, sure, but the fact is is that i'm only in town for 3 days and have 2 or so families, and 2 simultaneous parties Saturday already planned and in the end there won't be time for me to just relax. I also haven't been as lonely for the EC folk as i was last year, partly because some of you have (finally) learned of the wonders of the internet, but also because i've been much busier this year, know people here now, and was up north just two weeks ago.
but then again, today i for some reason felt the need to tell an acquaintance all about the ongoing 'What Philosopher Sucks the Most?' debates and other EC exclusives, and i'm realizing that i do miss many of you a lot. There is certainly something inexplicable about certain elements in our 'clique' (if you will) that is not found in the populace at large, and it is always an incredible relief to not feel like i have to act 'normal' [read: boring] for people to not give me that confused look constantly. So yes: vices and rants here i come. Thanksgiving break will be awesome.
Rachel, MaRy, Donna, Tony, Bryan, Glynis, Allison, et cetera: Megan H./Aryan/Sarah I./i are having a Vegetarian Thanksgiving Saturday at Megan's, you are all invited. Apparently Bekah's having a party on Saturday too, so we will talk about combining these or having different time frames for them.
smokescreens and the vibrancy of expression ¶ 13:58
