Continuing the theme of trips with little planning. I found cheap tickets to Malta several days ago, and bought them. I'll be there for two weeks from Sunday onwards. I have precisely no idea of exactly what I'll be doing there, but probably stuff to do with fishing and sightseeing (and wishing that I had A/C). I probably won't have net access for the most part because unless one of my Aunt's neighbours has gotten wifi now (since four yrs ago), the only place is a net cafe a ways away.
I would have invited a bunch of you, however the second my parents heard that I found cheap tickets, they jumped on because they've never been to my Aunt's flat there and my mum hasn't been back to Malta since she was living there.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Guide to Going out and Getting everything for FREE (even dudes)
Preliminary Steps and Rules:
- be female. If you can't achieve this step make sure you are with a group of females.
- if you are not skanky by nature, just don't skank it up. It's distracting, not sexy.
- find a place to go out with several bars/clubs within walking distance of each other. This model was tested on 6th street which has about 7,000 bars within shouting distance of each other. But 5 or 6 should be good too.
Step 1:
- Choose a random night to go out. Best night of the week? Tuesday. It's important that there be no lines forming to get inside.
Step 2:
- Start early, but not too early. Get out between 10:30 and midnight. Every bar/club wants to get to capacity as early in the night as possible and will try to get you in their place.
Step 3:
- Take the largest group you can handle. Around 8 people or so is good. Make sure there's about 1 dude to every 3 or four girls. Decide ahead of time where you are going or elect one pe
rson (preferably the most sober one) to make ALL the decisions that evening. They will talk to bouncers and lead the group. The person, as you can see by the image to your right, is usually the most magenta and least grey of the group.
Step 4:
- Walk away from the bar/club. Pick a place you want to go to and walk past it as if you have no intention of going in. It's early in the night so there's no line, plus the bouncer sees a giant group of mostly girls walking away from the bar, at this point you will get offered free cover, reduced drink prices, a left kidney, ANYTHING!! to just take the whole group inside. Whatever the first offer is, just look at the bouncer like he's speaking Afrikaans. The second offer will be better. If you have no luck, just walk past the bar and on to the next one and repeat this step until it takes. If it still doesn't work you may have gone out too late, be out on the wrong night, or have too many guys with you. Try again later.
Step 5:
- Once in the bar, get whatever free thing you were offered and get it quick
ly. If you and your buddies got a free drink, make sure as many of you as possible tip the bartender. Make friends! Take a look around. If you notice any spunky female bar promoters, just finish your drink and move on to the next place. If you like the bar have some fun and enjoy your night. Make whatever good impression you can on the staff (maybe let your group spokesperson do this, they're least likely to do something stupid) and remember it for the next time you go out.
Step 6:
- Leave the bar/club with all (or most) of your clothes on and all ( or most) of the people you came with.
Feel free to test this out in your locales. It works, I promise. The only place it wouldn't work, is prolly South bend. We went out with a group of like 9 of us including two guys. Over the night we hit up 4 bars/clubs, never paid any cover, got a free round at the first place and got free drinks at the third place. (The third place was telling us it'd be $2 cover each. That's when we walked away. The bouncer ran after us, offered free cover and gave us all free drink cards)
Peace all. Drink responsibly. Drink for free.
G
- be female. If you can't achieve this step make sure you are with a group of females.
- if you are not skanky by nature, just don't skank it up. It's distracting, not sexy.
- find a place to go out with several bars/clubs within walking distance of each other. This model was tested on 6th street which has about 7,000 bars within shouting distance of each other. But 5 or 6 should be good too.
Step 1:
- Choose a random night to go out. Best night of the week? Tuesday. It's important that there be no lines forming to get inside.
Step 2:
- Start early, but not too early. Get out between 10:30 and midnight. Every bar/club wants to get to capacity as early in the night as possible and will try to get you in their place.
Step 3:
- Take the largest group you can handle. Around 8 people or so is good. Make sure there's about 1 dude to every 3 or four girls. Decide ahead of time where you are going or elect one pe
rson (preferably the most sober one) to make ALL the decisions that evening. They will talk to bouncers and lead the group. The person, as you can see by the image to your right, is usually the most magenta and least grey of the group.Step 4:
- Walk away from the bar/club. Pick a place you want to go to and walk past it as if you have no intention of going in. It's early in the night so there's no line, plus the bouncer sees a giant group of mostly girls walking away from the bar, at this point you will get offered free cover, reduced drink prices, a left kidney, ANYTHING!! to just take the whole group inside. Whatever the first offer is, just look at the bouncer like he's speaking Afrikaans. The second offer will be better. If you have no luck, just walk past the bar and on to the next one and repeat this step until it takes. If it still doesn't work you may have gone out too late, be out on the wrong night, or have too many guys with you. Try again later.
Step 5:
- Once in the bar, get whatever free thing you were offered and get it quick
ly. If you and your buddies got a free drink, make sure as many of you as possible tip the bartender. Make friends! Take a look around. If you notice any spunky female bar promoters, just finish your drink and move on to the next place. If you like the bar have some fun and enjoy your night. Make whatever good impression you can on the staff (maybe let your group spokesperson do this, they're least likely to do something stupid) and remember it for the next time you go out.Step 6:
- Leave the bar/club with all (or most) of your clothes on and all ( or most) of the people you came with.
Feel free to test this out in your locales. It works, I promise. The only place it wouldn't work, is prolly South bend. We went out with a group of like 9 of us including two guys. Over the night we hit up 4 bars/clubs, never paid any cover, got a free round at the first place and got free drinks at the third place. (The third place was telling us it'd be $2 cover each. That's when we walked away. The bouncer ran after us, offered free cover and gave us all free drink cards)
Peace all. Drink responsibly. Drink for free.
G
I think I need a drink?
Hey everyone! Wow am I glad that Gloria set this up for everyone. I have been quite amused by all of your stories and have to say that I am quite jealous of your adventures! Sorry I have been MIA for so long. I have dedicated the past 4 hours of my life to trying to switch over email from ND email to alumni and forward it to a new gmail that i set up and to respond to emails that have been rapidly falling into my inbox that probably should have been answered over a month ago...oh well. I think that I have been in denial about life after undergrad and thus, refused to be proactive in getting anything important taken care of. Once again, oh well :) haha
Well, life has been pretty crazy around here. My summer started with a road trip to the west coast and then a 50 some hour ferry ride. It was a lot of fun, but I think I would have to really reconsider ever going on a cruise....unless there are lots of friends and booze. Let me tell you, it was a pretty boring ride. I would have been fine had I been by myself, but my dad just made me nervous. How? You might ask. Well, where I could sit and watch movies and read a book all day, he refused to read, listened to my ipod for 25 mins before gave up on that idea and instead, looked out the window for hours at a time while sitting next to me and asking me how my book was, telling me about the weather, wanting to play cards in the bar, etc etc etc. oh well. it was a bonding experience and we made fun of the "nature interpreter" who was "employed by the Tongass National Forest." I nicknamed her Suzy Sunshine. I just remembered that I composed a whole letter to you guys that I was going to email when I got home and off that ferry...but alas, I had forgotten about it. You might still get it and hear about me listening to "our flippered friends- how to tell the difference between a sealion and a seal." Hey, if I had to listen to it and and the tourists oohhhing and ahhhhing....we should all have to suffer! :) j/k....well maybe not.
After I got home, we got on the boat a few days later and have been fishing ever since. I got my halibut done and we are going into the 3rd week of salmon fishing. I tried to help a lady tie up her boat and as me and this other guy were pulling on the ropes to get it closer to the dock, the rope she tied around the post came loose and i happened to be leaning backward while pulling on it and went flying backwards into the ocean. Your favorite FLIPPER had to be fished out of the drink yet again. If I hear one more flipper joke...I swear.....
In other news: your weekly priest scandal update- Apparently people in the parish are not happy about my mother spending so much time with the priest and insist that she must be having an affair of something with him. Now, keep in mind, everyone in town is talking about this. Well apparently someone in town heard/ started the rumor, that he was coming to graduation at ND and I was quoted as "being livid" and this was sent to all of the church council and the bishop, etc. Well, this may have been true, but I didn't say anything to anyone in town about it, so I have no idea how this got out. So anyways, I got jumped by my mother about "WHO DID YOU TELL?" etc etc and I denied saying anything and that Jill had called me asking about it before I said anything and so then mom wanted me to demand that Jill give up her sources. OH DEAR. Needless to say...I just refused. I guess that shit hit the fan about the whole priest scandal 08/09 while I was gone one week and she wrote a letter to the church council just blasting them for believing/starting/supporting the rumor etc. All I can say is, OH JEEZE and THE RECORD KEEPS PLAYING, THE SAME OLD SONG! Sorry to bore some of you, but others who have been hearing about it for months probably can get a good laugh from this. Also, someone reported to the church council that my dad has been "stalking" the church to see if my mom's car is there when in fact, he is just out for a walk and only walked by the church 2 times in the month that he went on an exercise kick and could care less what she is doing or not doing with the priest. As I pointed out, if someone saw him "stalking" the church, there has to be someone else stalking the church to observe this. MERDE!
OTHER: The cousin (Nic) got his pregnant gf's parents to cosign a loan (or someone else, who i think might be a biker gang) for 175,000 so he could buy this big aluminum boat out of bristol bay and a permit. What a joke. Well, people used to call him the "evil seed" but are now calling him "the tinman" because the boat is aluminum and like the tinman, he has no heart. I got a chuckle out of that one.
There is a guy who gets called "Mayday" or "Mayday Ray" because in his early years fishing he was always calling in Mayday to the coast guard because his boat broke down and no one would go help him. Well anyways, he gets on the radio last week to bitch out a boat that passes him too fast in a narrow spot in the Narrows and someone jokingly gets on the radio and goes "mayday mayday" -obviously in reference to him and his being a dumbass. Well, the coast guard thought it was a real mayday call and Ray wouldn't tell them the story but kept harping on about this boat that passed him. So, the coast guard sent out a boat and team to investigate after spending an hour trying to pinpoint the location of the mayday call. i don't think they launched a helicopter, but if they did, $40,000 tax dollars were spent on a dumb hoax due to stupidity.
I got in at the University of Oregon.
Waiting to hear if they are going to give me any scholarship money.
trying to sell my car. Someone called and said "well I just wanted to know if that price is REALLY what you are asking for it." Since then, I have changed the # on the sign so they can talk to my dad because I'm scared to answer the phone and get another mean call like that.
I'm going slightly crazy because I miss you all so much and so much reminds me of stuff that we did together and memories and when I try to tell other people about them...they just don't find it as funny or look at me like I am crazy. EX- midnight tbell runs; I saw a replica of Angelica's drinking bucket from Florida while I was at the bar and I broke out in chuckles.
As a result of all of this- the title of the note- i think i need a drink?
My new email is tracy.a.welch@gmail.com or twelch2@alumni.nd.edu.
I love you all and sorry for the long and rambling message and applaud you if you made it to the end!
~Tracy~
Well, life has been pretty crazy around here. My summer started with a road trip to the west coast and then a 50 some hour ferry ride. It was a lot of fun, but I think I would have to really reconsider ever going on a cruise....unless there are lots of friends and booze. Let me tell you, it was a pretty boring ride. I would have been fine had I been by myself, but my dad just made me nervous. How? You might ask. Well, where I could sit and watch movies and read a book all day, he refused to read, listened to my ipod for 25 mins before gave up on that idea and instead, looked out the window for hours at a time while sitting next to me and asking me how my book was, telling me about the weather, wanting to play cards in the bar, etc etc etc. oh well. it was a bonding experience and we made fun of the "nature interpreter" who was "employed by the Tongass National Forest." I nicknamed her Suzy Sunshine. I just remembered that I composed a whole letter to you guys that I was going to email when I got home and off that ferry...but alas, I had forgotten about it. You might still get it and hear about me listening to "our flippered friends- how to tell the difference between a sealion and a seal." Hey, if I had to listen to it and and the tourists oohhhing and ahhhhing....we should all have to suffer! :) j/k....well maybe not.
After I got home, we got on the boat a few days later and have been fishing ever since. I got my halibut done and we are going into the 3rd week of salmon fishing. I tried to help a lady tie up her boat and as me and this other guy were pulling on the ropes to get it closer to the dock, the rope she tied around the post came loose and i happened to be leaning backward while pulling on it and went flying backwards into the ocean. Your favorite FLIPPER had to be fished out of the drink yet again. If I hear one more flipper joke...I swear.....
In other news: your weekly priest scandal update- Apparently people in the parish are not happy about my mother spending so much time with the priest and insist that she must be having an affair of something with him. Now, keep in mind, everyone in town is talking about this. Well apparently someone in town heard/ started the rumor, that he was coming to graduation at ND and I was quoted as "being livid" and this was sent to all of the church council and the bishop, etc. Well, this may have been true, but I didn't say anything to anyone in town about it, so I have no idea how this got out. So anyways, I got jumped by my mother about "WHO DID YOU TELL?" etc etc and I denied saying anything and that Jill had called me asking about it before I said anything and so then mom wanted me to demand that Jill give up her sources. OH DEAR. Needless to say...I just refused. I guess that shit hit the fan about the whole priest scandal 08/09 while I was gone one week and she wrote a letter to the church council just blasting them for believing/starting/supporting the rumor etc. All I can say is, OH JEEZE and THE RECORD KEEPS PLAYING, THE SAME OLD SONG! Sorry to bore some of you, but others who have been hearing about it for months probably can get a good laugh from this. Also, someone reported to the church council that my dad has been "stalking" the church to see if my mom's car is there when in fact, he is just out for a walk and only walked by the church 2 times in the month that he went on an exercise kick and could care less what she is doing or not doing with the priest. As I pointed out, if someone saw him "stalking" the church, there has to be someone else stalking the church to observe this. MERDE!
OTHER: The cousin (Nic) got his pregnant gf's parents to cosign a loan (or someone else, who i think might be a biker gang) for 175,000 so he could buy this big aluminum boat out of bristol bay and a permit. What a joke. Well, people used to call him the "evil seed" but are now calling him "the tinman" because the boat is aluminum and like the tinman, he has no heart. I got a chuckle out of that one.
There is a guy who gets called "Mayday" or "Mayday Ray" because in his early years fishing he was always calling in Mayday to the coast guard because his boat broke down and no one would go help him. Well anyways, he gets on the radio last week to bitch out a boat that passes him too fast in a narrow spot in the Narrows and someone jokingly gets on the radio and goes "mayday mayday" -obviously in reference to him and his being a dumbass. Well, the coast guard thought it was a real mayday call and Ray wouldn't tell them the story but kept harping on about this boat that passed him. So, the coast guard sent out a boat and team to investigate after spending an hour trying to pinpoint the location of the mayday call. i don't think they launched a helicopter, but if they did, $40,000 tax dollars were spent on a dumb hoax due to stupidity.
I got in at the University of Oregon.
Waiting to hear if they are going to give me any scholarship money.
trying to sell my car. Someone called and said "well I just wanted to know if that price is REALLY what you are asking for it." Since then, I have changed the # on the sign so they can talk to my dad because I'm scared to answer the phone and get another mean call like that.
I'm going slightly crazy because I miss you all so much and so much reminds me of stuff that we did together and memories and when I try to tell other people about them...they just don't find it as funny or look at me like I am crazy. EX- midnight tbell runs; I saw a replica of Angelica's drinking bucket from Florida while I was at the bar and I broke out in chuckles.
As a result of all of this- the title of the note- i think i need a drink?
My new email is tracy.a.welch@gmail.com or twelch2@alumni.nd.edu.
I love you all and sorry for the long and rambling message and applaud you if you made it to the end!
~Tracy~
Monday, June 22, 2009
Cross Country Trip
So I leave Pennsylvania for good tomorrow. I am very pumped for a change of scenery... so here we go.
Just writing this to let y'all know that if I do not survive this particular four day, giant truck and car carrier... it's been real. Love you all!
On Friday I will be in the burning heat of an Arizona sun.. and I couldn't be more excited.
Just writing this to let y'all know that if I do not survive this particular four day, giant truck and car carrier... it's been real. Love you all!
On Friday I will be in the burning heat of an Arizona sun.. and I couldn't be more excited.
Friday, June 19, 2009
Hey everyone!
Miss you all like crazy!
Not too much going on here in good old Funcie... lol Just doing TONS of paperwork for med school (ugh) and hanging out with friends (yay!)
Oh, and I get my wisdom teeth out on July 7 (I am sooo looking forward to that...lol)
I am definitely going to try to make it up to Chicago the weekend after that to see whoever else can make it up that weekend, though!!! I can't wait!!!
:)
Miss you all like crazy!
Not too much going on here in good old Funcie... lol Just doing TONS of paperwork for med school (ugh) and hanging out with friends (yay!)
Oh, and I get my wisdom teeth out on July 7 (I am sooo looking forward to that...lol)
I am definitely going to try to make it up to Chicago the weekend after that to see whoever else can make it up that weekend, though!!! I can't wait!!!
:)
Monday, June 15, 2009
Mountain Man
Yesterday, my friend Joe graduated from Dartmouth. To celebrate, he wants me to come visit and hike some of the Appalachian Trail with him.Now, some people might remember that I've already done this before. Two summers ago, I was able to go visit and hike for a day. That's when the picture to the left was taken. We hiked a total of 25 miles that day, and my legs felt like Jello for days afterward.
This year, Joe wants to do a couple of multi-day hikes, spending the nights in the shelters along the trail. To be honest, this kind of scares the crap out of me. Not only will these hikes be significantly longer, but they will also require carrying a lot more gear. I'm not really in shape at all, so I will count it a success if I can walk at all when we are finished.
Oh yes, I also fail at following Jamie's advice because right now neither of us know any of the details for the hikes. I'm basically just throwing all my camping equipment in my car and hoping we come up with some semblance of a plan when I get there.
I leave tomorrow. If I survive, I'll be back in a week, hopefully with some great pictures like this:
Look What The Cat Dragged In
It's me! Since I know everyone is interested in what I'm doing, I decided I would let y'all know.
After reading Reed's post, I watched all 40 episodes of Dorm Life in 36 hours, and I would suggest that everyone else does the same. New episodes every Monday!
Saturday morning, my friend and I ran a 5K a few towns away. We didn't have the $20 to register, so we used the college student discount and just ran it unofficially. When we went through the chute at the end, they asked for our numbers, which we didn't have, so we just kept walking, but that wasn't the end of it. Some 80-year old lady who was approximately as tall as my kneecaps ran us down on the walk to our car and yelled at us for 5 minutes about how we committed a terrible deed and how we screwed up the results for everyone else. We suggested that they just subtract 2 from the placings of everyone who finished behind us, and everything would be fixed. Apparently that would've been too tough. My friend also tried to play the card that we were just out for our usual morning run, but that someone had placed a course and a finish line on our usual route. She didn't buy it, and I don't think she was amused. Anywho, we told her we were from the neighboring town that we hate, so everything was fine.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
I seem to have a future
I got into med school at University at Buffalo. Really don't wanna be in Buffalo but ill survive. My moms really excited about me being in buffalo though. Still on the waitlist at NYMC. I think i like UB better though...I dont know, well see....I wouldn'tmind just not getting in there so I don't have to make a decision. Im tired of decisions. To celebrate I went out with some friends. I drank 2 bottles of champagne then proceeded to throw one of the up. no hangover though :). I'm just glad I don't have tot try to figure out what im gonna do next year. Makes my summer much more relaxing
Thursday, June 11, 2009
My Study Days Never Ended :-(
Greetings to all from Maryland! Hope everyone is doing well! When I have not been studying for the MCAT (which I postponed to June 18th, so send me good vibes on that date) I have searched the internet far and wide for things to help me procrastinate studying. Continuing the theme that Gloria presented, I thought I would provide another enjoyable time waster for those who have the extra time, or don't and like me just don't want to be doing what it is we're supposed to. But anyways, this heralded procrastination device is a mockumentary called Dorm Life. While it does cause frequent episodes of nostalgia, it is also a healthy source of delicious humor. I'm on episode 18 of season one, which is by far the most hilarious episode so far (but warning, don't start with this one because you have to know the characters first or else it just won't be funny). To make the experience even better please sign on AIM or make a phone call and get me or some other FLFer to watch the episode at the same time so we say who each character reminds us of and relive those awkward and drunken days and nights at ND by watching some other people do it even worserly. Hope you all can enjoy it! Now off to studying the female gonads!
The First Days of School by Harry Wong
Yes that is the title of one of my ACE books. Yes one my professors said in class "let me get out my harry wong." Yes I bit my tongue so I wouldn't bust out laughing and acting like the middle schoolers that I will be standing in front of in t-minus 2 months. Also...one staff member has the last name Seamon and the other Cummings. Seriously now.
Let me start off with...
I am insanely jealous of all these stories of summer. I want to be camping, on youtube, waking up with no pants, traveling and all that jazz. But instead I have had class for a week and three days from 8 am to 8pm. BUT the classes are amazing, the teachers are amazing and I never EVER knew being a teacher was so much work. Did I mention I am so excited to teach come august!?!! I never knew class could be so much fun when you actually like what you are doing.
I have already turned in a 5 chapter plan of my classroom management and met my future community (who wants me to get a basset hound). My housemates are cool, all different and I can already feel some good times. BUT there are 6 of us. The house has 4 rooms. The 4 girls live on the 2nd floor in two rooms and share one bathroom. The two guys get their own rooms on the 1st floor. Looks like I will not be getting privacy . . . ever.
ND is so weird without you guys here. It feels wrong to be in McGlinn (woohoo Howard is being remodled so we get AC) with the girls living on floors 1 and 2 and the guys on 3 and 4 without all of you here. There are no parietals. COME VISIT!
I start practice teaching on Monday at Christ the King working through two weeks of labs with smart kids. Then the following four weeks I teach at Clay High School with 9th grade health. I have to teach sex and drugs. joy. hehe. We video tape one day of teaching and show it to our classmates and have an analyzing session. I'm terrified.
ok i could ramble on forever. but i just wanted to let you know that i miss you guys like crazy. being without you here is just plain wrong.
love love love,
abby
Let me start off with...
I am insanely jealous of all these stories of summer. I want to be camping, on youtube, waking up with no pants, traveling and all that jazz. But instead I have had class for a week and three days from 8 am to 8pm. BUT the classes are amazing, the teachers are amazing and I never EVER knew being a teacher was so much work. Did I mention I am so excited to teach come august!?!! I never knew class could be so much fun when you actually like what you are doing.
I have already turned in a 5 chapter plan of my classroom management and met my future community (who wants me to get a basset hound). My housemates are cool, all different and I can already feel some good times. BUT there are 6 of us. The house has 4 rooms. The 4 girls live on the 2nd floor in two rooms and share one bathroom. The two guys get their own rooms on the 1st floor. Looks like I will not be getting privacy . . . ever.
ND is so weird without you guys here. It feels wrong to be in McGlinn (woohoo Howard is being remodled so we get AC) with the girls living on floors 1 and 2 and the guys on 3 and 4 without all of you here. There are no parietals. COME VISIT!
I start practice teaching on Monday at Christ the King working through two weeks of labs with smart kids. Then the following four weeks I teach at Clay High School with 9th grade health. I have to teach sex and drugs. joy. hehe. We video tape one day of teaching and show it to our classmates and have an analyzing session. I'm terrified.
ok i could ramble on forever. but i just wanted to let you know that i miss you guys like crazy. being without you here is just plain wrong.
love love love,
abby
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
A life lesson
I recently learned a very important life lesson that I now feel the need to share with all of you. Never EVER agree to go camping without first getting every single detail.
My friends and I recently started doing a yearly camping trip. This summer will make our third trip. I couldn't go last year because I was back at school for it, but I went the year before and my friend Emily brought her pop-up trailer and we had electricity and whatnot, and it was fairly civilized. So when she asked me about it this year, I told her I would definitely go and I'd stay for all four days. (Little side note, when I told my mom I was going camping she laughed at me...I think I should be insulted by that).
Here's what I recently found out about our little camping trip: the weekend after next, I will be sleeping in a tent for three nights in a row. In my life, I have slept in a tent that was not in someone else's backyard a grand total of one time, for one night, in my life and I was too drunk to care that I was sleeping in a tent. Now here's the real kicker, in order to save money, we are getting a campsite that doesnt have electricity. I am slightly scared. I don't know if any of you have noticed, but I'm not really a camping kind of girl. My camping involves cabins with indoor plumbing, electricity, and heating. On my girl scout camping trips, we would order pizza. I blame my mother really; she raised me that way...she was even my girl scout leader who advocated ordering pizza and then burning the boxes instead of actually learning how to start a fire.
I'm thinking I'm probably going to have to drink heavily for this camping trip to work out. I'm sure I'll be fine during the day, its the sleeping on the ground part that is probably going to be an issue.
The moral of my story is: never agree to something without knowing exactly what you're getting yourself into. It is a bad idea!
My friends and I recently started doing a yearly camping trip. This summer will make our third trip. I couldn't go last year because I was back at school for it, but I went the year before and my friend Emily brought her pop-up trailer and we had electricity and whatnot, and it was fairly civilized. So when she asked me about it this year, I told her I would definitely go and I'd stay for all four days. (Little side note, when I told my mom I was going camping she laughed at me...I think I should be insulted by that).
Here's what I recently found out about our little camping trip: the weekend after next, I will be sleeping in a tent for three nights in a row. In my life, I have slept in a tent that was not in someone else's backyard a grand total of one time, for one night, in my life and I was too drunk to care that I was sleeping in a tent. Now here's the real kicker, in order to save money, we are getting a campsite that doesnt have electricity. I am slightly scared. I don't know if any of you have noticed, but I'm not really a camping kind of girl. My camping involves cabins with indoor plumbing, electricity, and heating. On my girl scout camping trips, we would order pizza. I blame my mother really; she raised me that way...she was even my girl scout leader who advocated ordering pizza and then burning the boxes instead of actually learning how to start a fire.
I'm thinking I'm probably going to have to drink heavily for this camping trip to work out. I'm sure I'll be fine during the day, its the sleeping on the ground part that is probably going to be an issue.
The moral of my story is: never agree to something without knowing exactly what you're getting yourself into. It is a bad idea!
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
The opposite of study days
So you know how during study days you always mean to study but are for some reason 20x more susceptible to all those little gadgets and games that help us procrastinate. Like the other day I decided to play a game of jetman. You know what, it's just not as fun when I don't have 3 tests and a presentation coming up. Don't get me wrong, it's still mind-numbingly fun! Well, now that we're well into summer most of us don't have the pressure of tests, papers, and presentations to make wasting time more appealing. The majority of us have loads of time and due to the surplus have begun doing unthinkable things. Studying for tests. Exercising. Reading books! I say end the madness. This post will equip you with many tools to keep your minds nice and mushy. Remember the UNCF mantra: "A mind is a terrible thing..."
- TFLN - www.textsfromlastnight.com
Let the area code stereotyping commence.
-Exploding dog - www.explodingdog.com
send titles. get pictures. it's simple
- Christmas? - www.isitchristmas.com
did i go to this site on christmas? Ironically, no.
you'll think it's dumb, but just wait until the second
time you check it.
- GMH - www.givesmehope.com
Kinda the opposite of FML
- FML - www.fmylife.com
speaking of which
- some youtube gems -
WTF blanket - the way the infomercial should go
comfort wipe - this is real. Thanks Liz.
sequel - mostly tho... that guy is built and has a yacht! I'll call the number.
hawaii chair - just wrong. Looks like a "that's what she said" waiting to happen
News fight - Dyaaaaaaaamn!
You're Welcome!
- TFLN - www.textsfromlastnight.com
Let the area code stereotyping commence.
-Exploding dog - www.explodingdog.com
send titles. get pictures. it's simple
- Christmas? - www.isitchristmas.com
did i go to this site on christmas? Ironically, no.
you'll think it's dumb, but just wait until the second
time you check it.
- GMH - www.givesmehope.com
Kinda the opposite of FML
- FML - www.fmylife.com
speaking of which
- some youtube gems -
WTF blanket - the way the infomercial should go
comfort wipe - this is real. Thanks Liz.
sequel - mostly tho... that guy is built and has a yacht! I'll call the number.
hawaii chair - just wrong. Looks like a "that's what she said" waiting to happen
News fight - Dyaaaaaaaamn!
You're Welcome!
Friday, June 5, 2009
i woke up with no pants on today...
oh hey there friends. sorry for the lack of being, well, alive (according to the world wide web anyway). computers have been acting out against me, by which i mean my laptop is now, as the wise T.I. (ft. justin timberlake) would say, dead and gone. but for realsies, it's gone, fr.simon tried to upgrade it, and instead it broke, leaving me computerless and thus less likely to go online. but i'll work on it.
i'm loving checking on this blog though, well done to all of you for actually contributing, unlike me. i'm totally down for road trips and scoreboards, and i'm ALWAYS down for a solid dorm disco party without warning j-dog first.
as for my title, i feel it describes my summer so far very well. not in the sense that it's been exciting, but in how sad it has been. i woke up without pants on because i fell asleep at 4am reading (or should i say re-reading) that fantasy series i've told most of you about. and then i vaguely remember waking up at 6 or 8 (i can't be sure, i was somewhat delirious, it could've been 10, god only knows) attempting to "get ready for bed" by changing. well i apparently only succeeded in taking off my pants. that was all. so yea, clearly this summer has been pretty darn exciting.
oh, i guess i did technically get an internship/volunteer/possibly soon to be paid job? at a non-profit for the homeless, so yay? i mean, i like it, but mostly i'm avoiding all real decisions about my future. you guys wanna enable me and come visit and distract me from making these choices?!?!? do it. DO IT.
ok, i'm out, sorry for the long post, but i figured i should make my existence known, or else how could i be sure to keep my hold on you all?
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
well this seems practical...
Apparently ND is getting new scoreboards (they'll look about the same... just a technology upgrade) and they're auctioning off the old ones. Take a look: http://auction.steinersports.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/ProductDisplay?prrfnbr=105105134&prmenbr=55076099&aunbr=105451844
There's only one bid so far ($1,998).
So if anyone is in the market for a giant scoreboard, here's your chance. Don't let it slip away. Added bonus: UPS ground shipping is only $9.99! Someone needs to get on this.
In other news, I just learned that Justin and about nine other Zahm guys (most of whom are engineers) are going to put a disco floor in their common room next year. They're already working on it. Awesome.
There's only one bid so far ($1,998).
So if anyone is in the market for a giant scoreboard, here's your chance. Don't let it slip away. Added bonus: UPS ground shipping is only $9.99! Someone needs to get on this.
In other news, I just learned that Justin and about nine other Zahm guys (most of whom are engineers) are going to put a disco floor in their common room next year. They're already working on it. Awesome.
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