Rapunzel

Last Friday a group of us completed a giant sand sculpture for the annual Sandfest weekend. Although none of us had ever done this before we were quite pleased with what we were able to accomplish. This 8 foot behemoth was the tallest of all entries, and proved to be an amusing interpretation of the children's classic story.

Plain, WA

An interesting event occurred earlier this summer. I had just spent the day with two of my friends and all their friends rafting the Wenatchee. The day was hot, the water cold, and the waves...well they could have been bigger. Honestly, us Coloradans need serious whitewater to get our adrenaline pumping. None the less a fantastic way to spend the weekend. After the conclusion of the trip and the all too familiar trip back to your car in a rehabilitated school bus, we adjourned to a fantastic beer haus in Leavenworth. After a delectable liquid dinner, we headed out of town, eyes enthusiastically consuming the views. Knowing we are running low on gas we stop at a gas station. But thanks to our current fuel conundrum, No Gas. No Gas at a Gas Station, what is this the 70's. So our choices are twofold. Travel four miles out of our way to the next closest gas station or try and push it twenty miles to the next town en route. Taking the conservative approach, which I verbally objected to, we head to the nearer station. Four miles later we are in Plain, WA. A beautiful little town with no gas. Deciding we are shit out of luck to make it to the other town, we opt to turn around and head back to Leavenworth for fuel. So here we are three woman and myself coasting through the mountainous backcountry of Washington in search of gas. So desperate are we that we pass a car in neutral. We must conserve every drop. Passing a car in neutral is surprisingly rewarding. I highly recommend it. In short, an hour after leaving Leavenworth we return to get gas, nowhere closer to home, but intimately familiar with Plain.

Your Seduction Style: Fantasy Lover

You know that ideal love that each of us dreams of from childhood? That's you! Not because you posess all of the ideal characteristics, but because you are a savvy shape shifter. You have the uncanny ability to detect someone's particular fantasy... and make it you. You inspire each person to be an idealist and passionate, and you make each moment memorable Even a simple coffee date with you can be the most romantic moment of someone's life By giving your date exactly what he or she desires, you quickly become the ideal lover. Your abilities to make dreams come true is so strong, that you are often the love of many people's lives. Your ex's (and even people you have simply met or been friends with) long to be yours. No doubt you are the one others have dreamed of... your biggest challenge is finding *your* dream lover.

What Kind of Seducer Are You?

10 Signs your neighborhood is becoming a ghetto

10. The mounted police patrol your sidewalks.
9. They break up a large arms dealing gang at your bus stop.
8. You felt safer when the arms dealers were there.
7. The singing panhandler goes out of business.
6. A hierarchy of street thugs forms.

5. People shoot up on your front stoop.
4. You have witnessed a violent crime in your courtyard.
3. A loud scream or siren wakes you every night.
2. Spontaneous street parties form on your corner, but with mediocre cars, music, and woman.
1. The mayor chooses your neighborhood for a massive "revitalization."

So You Think You Can Dance - Dave

This is a smashing video of my friend's roommate in undergrad. Many of you from Wash U will remember him. Please do not try these moves, they are reserved for the highly skilled.

Employment Wanted

Honesty should count for something.

Views from Metro #72

Lately I have been making frequent commutes downtown to attend interviews. Below is a list of some of the unusual things I have seen:

A watch which verbalizes the time. You press a button, and your watch mechanically says, "nine forty-seven."

A man in a yellow felt beret reading the "Basic Spanish Dictionary."

Continuing with the yellow theme, a woman in a yellow sweat suit being complemented on her outfit by a woman in a gray sweat suit. Yellow must be this seasons new color.

And yellow again, a man who was kicked off the bus after refusing to pick up his banana peel from the bus floor.

A woman kicked of the bus after repeating a long drawn out, "Oh my f#@*ing God" at least a hundred times in a five minute span. She was chemically altered.

Three Survey

Three Names You Go By:
1. Levi
2. Rippy
3. Rips

Three Things You Are Wearing Right Now:
1. Soviet Naval Belt
2. CK Boxer Briefs
3. Lucky Jeans

Three Things You Want in a Relationship:
1. humor
2. passion
3. trust

Three Things You Want Really Badly: (right now)
1. graduate school
2. land a great job
3. someone to love

Three pets you had/have:
1. Pete-black cat, yellow eyes
2. Meg-black lab
3. Velcro-Siberian Mountain Lion mix

Three things you did last night:
1. called my family
2. worked on my thesis
3. enjoyed a bowl of ice cream, shhh don't tell

Three things you ate today:
1. apple
2. salad
3. Chicken Sandwich

Three people you Last Talked To:
1. Meagan
2. Mom
3. Tinkerbell

Three Things You're doing tomorrow:
1. going to an interview
2. taking a shower
3. getting a haircut

Three things that make you happy:
1. snow
2. friends & family
3. music

Three Things You Despise:
1. indifference
2. selfishness
3. intolerance

Thesis Disclaimer

My life is quickly reaching a point of instability, the dynamism pushing the theoretical threshold. I am preparing to defend my thesis in June. Oh the pain. Entertaining job offers and trying to resolve my first career choice completes this divine comedy. No pressure here. Despite the overly dramatic epic I describe, this volatile stage in my life is equally exciting, scary, and uncertain. I am loving every moment of it. That being said, don't expect to see or hear from me in the next weeks. I must prepare for my academic hibernation.

Congress wants to privatize the net!