end of an era

Grand Central closed!!!!!!!
The bar, that is!!!!!!!!!

deeeelish!

well, jake's sick, maggie's in connecticut, and me (jessica), shannon, and ian are leaderless. so what did we do? fry things. girl scout cookies, twix bars, bananas, ferrero rocher candies, another kind of cookie, and two different kinds of easter candy, all battered and deep-fried. who says we don't know how to party?

im tired

hi guys

its 5am on a monday morning and i just cant sleep. i left the pourhouse at 8, went to bed at 930 and woke up at 1130. for a while the rat was loudly gnawing on things around the house and that kept me up and now im just up. sort of a buzzkill.

we made a turkey dinner on saturday night for jessie's birthday like we did last year. however this year, i did not have bronchitis and disciplina forgot the porcupine. there was a huge f'ing snowstorm here this weekend. i think it was the most snow ever or some shit.

did i tell you that a dunkin donuts opened up on graham avenue right off metropolitan? thats some shit huh? we'll get iced coffee when you guys come back from your excellent adventure.

i dont have anything funny to say. im just wasting time until the sun comes up.

lovelovelove

-m

you know how they separate the men from the boys in italy?

Kody substituted fries for potatotes today at breakfast. His first substitution ever. I hope you guys saw the opening ceremony for the winter olympics, ahh the pageantry!

-m

Super Bowl XL

You may have heard, even in Yap, that the Steelers one the Super Bowl last night. What was probably not broadcast internationally was our Super Bowl party menu, so here it is. (Why am I so addicted to listing foods on blogs???)

-Popeye's Fried Chicken
-Bloomin' Onion
-Smoked Salmon-Cream Cheese Wontons
(Those two were courtesy of Jessica and Ian's fry-daddy)
-Crudites
-Broccoli Bruschetta
-Bean, Veggie Crumble, etc. layered dip
-Beer
-Weed
-Vodka
-Whiskey

Note the amount of vegetables we had. It was pretty sik. Unlike last year's party which, though it had the advantage of having you two in attendance, was far more sick than sik.

xx (like the French)
Shannon

ps., I was also reminded just now on touristtrap.blogspot.com that Ben and I promised each other last night that we would have a kid together in 7 years if neither of us had found anyone else to do it with. That would be a kid with amazing hair and teeth.

the nimbus, an alumni publication

hi guys,

i just got the nimbus, there is some pretty sweet shit in it. basically death (austin elizar) married another new college girl, Jenny from home is studying to be a pharmacist, Jesus Judd is in the marine corps reserves and he hopes we all find Christ,kathryn and jon are now married, mike palmeri is in graduate school for student resident affairs or some shit, and drum roll please......Hawkeye is a seargent in the marine corps infantry and wants to move into counter-intelleigence. Isnt that some shit, someone gave hawkeye a gun and told him it was okay to shoot it at people. also he wants to be in counter-intelligence. what the fuck! he's probably monitoring this posting right now. he probably already knows that brian jerks off to pictures of abu ghraib.

i am really strategizing about my nimbus submission about all of us. make sure you guys get the next one because you can bet your sweet ass that there will be news about the nc contingent of the golden whatever. jessie thinks i should tell them that i have only taken off my shirt once in public since i graduated. can that really be true? have i lost my edge?

love you guys.

-m

Dont be surprised by the way I do my thing

Jesus christ, how much the world has changed, I can sit here in the midst of a mind bender and not notice how long it has been since we have all sat together on some sweat drenched pad watching the absolute shittiest entertainment ever contrived by humanity and believe that what we held amongst us was the closest we have ever come to the ever so popular Bartelt philosophy. God will it ever be the same as it was before? I doubt it. We will get behind the wheel and then wait. Someone will come along. Pick us up. And drive us. Before long we will find ourselves at a magazine party looking at everyone wondering if they like the scarf around my neck or the way I hold my drink. Oh by the way, I wouldn't mind buying another six pack of tallboys after breakfast this sunday and sitting on the floor letting the cool breeze find its way up my shorts to my red light touch area and bask in the failed winter warmth. I could try to tell you more about the happenings but there is really only one thing I should tell you about. It really could be the thesis of our year 2006. It has to do with the future. There are two choices that will be presented to us this year. What do we see in the future? Some may give us pesimistic options: Hope and Fear. I will present another alternative for the Future. Dope and Beer.