Maddy called me yesterday..

So Maddy gave me a birthday phone call yesterday, and she only has 3 weeks left to go in Panama. She said she had mixed emotions about the experience so far, as her Spanish in the beginning was horrible, but she has picked it up. She also said that her house-mate (other volunteer that is) is unbearable. And you all know Maddy can put up with a lot, but she said this girl was on the verge of getting sent home - for being culturally insensitive. Anyways, she says she can put up with it for another 3 weeks. Other than that, she was stoked on making some new friends (over the age of 14) because she is isolated, and all the kids in high school live in the city during the week. So essentially, until a couple of weeks ago, she had few friends within close age (by close i mean within 5 years up or down). Other than that she says she is doing well. Yup. Just thought I'd pass that along to you all. I hope all is well with all of you!

Mo Called me last night

mini update

yoo,

last night my friend charlie had an open house and had some people over, its sad but it was like 6 guys and 1 girl. oh well I come to own in ruit, thats my style....well I played like 6 games before I got dethroned after going into OT...funny thing is..5th game, we are up 6 made to 2 by the opponent...I shoot, miss but ricochets off of a cup into one that my opponent was holding. DEATH CUP...GAME OVER...and NAKED LAP...hah it was sweet...they did the lap too.

couple games later we played a series of civil war, my team lost and we had to do a naked lap as the losers...not cool...

oh and I built up another bike and riding it now...check it out




hope all is well, I'm mad tired from last night and had to work today and tomorrow. bahhh

oh and ALICE you woke me up at 3 am with that call....not cool as well...

Update

Hello All,

It's been a little while since I have posted and felt like it was a good time to update all of you.

Compared to May, June has been fast paced and entertaining.

 

Fun:

My weekends have been good. I've been able to go surfing and downhill mountain biking wich is awesome. The surf was pretty bad when I went. My dad tried to surf too. It was fun.

The following weekend I went up to my condo in NH to go mtbking for Father's day. My dad had fun, I had fun, it was fun. I should be going this weekend with Guillaume and THE CHAMP. It's going to be epic. 

Party:

My sisters have had lots of parties lately since they are both done school. UNfortunately being the only sibling with a license I am often "the mom". I take them there, watch everyone get drunk, and take them home. Its still lots of fun to hang out with peeps from my school. Yesterday was the last party at my friends Thomas house. It was fairly low key and a bit sad since we won't be seeing any of them for a long time. I have also been able to observe my sister Mo under the influence of the crunk juice and have come to the conclusion that she is a very lightweight. I'm already worried for Frosh. MO GUY if you have her be nice hehe.

Family:

My parents are doing well, my youngest sister is happy to be done school and can't wait for France (she leave monday?) and my older sister is very happy to have graduated. She passed her BAC ES two weeks ago and pwned my scores. Her entire class did very well. She also got some special international award thing. I'm proud of her and glad she is coming up to McGill next year.

Job:

My job is going well, the project that we are working on is moving forward and we are starting to get interesting results. I have to write up some sort of scientific document this weekend that they intend to put in their grant. I'm quite stoked on that. 

Overall I'm quite happy. I can't wait to go to Argentina.  I leave the 4th of July and will be staying in Buenos Aires with some friends for three days and then I'll be heading out to Bariloche for 4 weeks of pure awesomeness. 

I hope that all of you are doing well and hope to keep getting news from you guys.

I'm looking forward to the end of august and seeing all of you.

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My Summer Thus Far

So ya I deleted facebook everyone if you haven't noticed which makes my life a whole more drama free but also prevents me from staying in touch as much as I ought to. My e-mail is mreed2289@gmail.com, and my IM is relativesanity88 so I can be reached throught those if you want.
The summer midpoint is fast approaching which scares the shit out of me. I have done nothing yet. I mean, I have been babysitting and occasionally doing some office work for Cheap Sumer Help, but besides that my life consists of reading, going to the gym, and hanging out with friends during the evenings. Doesn't sound bad, and it wasn't at first, but I am so freaking antsy it is beginning to drive me crazy. It doesn't help that most of you guys are having awesome adventures and I am stuck in this podunk town.
The only reason I came home this summer was to work and be with Kevin, and neither have happened yet. My job starts (finally) on Saturday, which is nice and will give me some routine. It is a waitressing job that I landed probably three weeks ago, but its for a new restaurant and the construction kept falling behind schedule, postponing my training. I told them I wanted to work 25-30 hours a week, so hopefully over two months that will add up. I have ample money saved, so I really don't need a whole lot, but I am planning on doing a (probably unpaid) internship next summer so I need extra.
On the Kevin front... well we broke up. I'm not going to pour my heart out here but even though it was probably for the best it sucks ass, has ruined so many of my summer plans and aspirations, and has left a huge void in my life, which only emphasizes the fact that I have been a bum so far this summer. We haven't talked in two weeks and it is kind of killing me, but I'll get through it.
My family is coming up from Miami on Thursday and my sister and Nana are visiting from Connecticut as well, and it will be really nice to see everyone together. Also it means everyone will be around for my birthday which will be a first. I'll probably do stuff (get drunk) Saturday night with friends and then spend Sunday with family. I normally spend birthdays with Kevin so I am really grateful I will have a house full of family to distract me.
Otherwise life is boring, I went to the beach once, took a trip to Montreal by myself just to clear my mind a little, and helped my Mom move into her summer cottage sh just got in Maine.

I hope everyone is doing well and enjoying themselves and the sun!

SENGA - Your trip sounds amazing, I have been to Portugal and stayed in both Lisbon and the Algarve and both are beautiful; I hope your adventures only get better!
ALICE - I love you tons, I hope your Mumsy is doing better
MO GIRL - I doubt you read this but if you do I love you and happy birthday and I will shoot you an e-mail as soon as I get your address!
SEB - I hope you've been finding things to do, its going to be a lot of family time this week but maybe next we can find a time to hang out
MO - I just saw you, and thanks for the VT hospitality
NICK - Thats sick about frisbee, looking forward to your other posts
MADDY - If and when you get a chance to read this know I hope your jungle excursions have been phenomenal!

Yo

Yo. A lot has been going on in my life. Sorry for not keeping you guys updated. Going to do a 3 post thing.

Frisbee
Been playing on Tuesdays with the Nashville men’s team, they have gotten way better but aren’t a nationals level team so my friend Markham (southwest freshman of the year) and two of our friends at Davidson are starting a men’s club team to play in the series with. If we can get the numbers we are expecting, we should have a shot at the backdoor game to go in the South Region. It’s tight. We are going to be a sky patrol team.
Last weekend was Poultry Days – one of the (if not the) most legit tournaments each year. It’s located in Versailles (pronounced Ver-sails) Ohio, which is in the middle of nowhere. 48 Teams this year, tons of ballers, Callahan winners, world’s players, etc. 6 of us carpooled up Friday afternoon, stayed in a hotel b/c it was stormy, (got some sweet big spoon [still good] action with a supa fine lady, she has a boyfriend … lame) and then we played 5 games on Saturday. And we fucking rolled. Games to 11, no one scored more than six points on us. One of the teams (Breast and Thighs) had two guys who had made the US Worlds team and were at the tryout and I fucking them the whole game, it was disgusting. Party Saturday Night, beerfriz and many other drinking games, my brother ended up basically begging his way into a girl’s tent. Sunday we won our prequarters game, and then were up against a team of ballers (Chain Lightning/Ozone combination team, lots of guys from Georgia/ATL) Chain and Ozone both got top eight at Nationals. We went up early on them (I played d-line mainly) and we got 3 breaks, to get a 3-1 lead. They came back strong and screwed our o-team, and then the score was
9-7 them. We finally converted on O, and then the D-line rolled. At 12-11 us I got a clutch d, and then we scored of a deep huck to Markham. We skied bitches so much that game. I fucking hate those chumps, and we pwned them.
Basically all our old handler guys mailed it in (gave up, were content with semi’s finish) during the semi-finals game and had a horrible completion rate (even though we got three breaks of the bat making it 3-1 us again in the semis). Still I had some awesome catches, d’s, etc. I was so psyched with our team, tying for 3rd out of 48 not bad. We are going to roll this fall in the club series.
Anyways it was a sick tournament, the chicken dinner was delicious (they sell like 30,000 it’s a huge festival, Miss Chick competition, carival, etc.)
P.S. I got sunburned badly, but whatevs, I took a picture with the computer but it doesn’t do the farmer’s tan (redneck/etc.) justice. Oh yeah, and you probably will notice I shaved my head for the first time in my life.
P.S.S. Two more posts coming sometime tomorrow probably while at work.

So...

I leave for less than 2 weeks, and Alex has a girlfriend (see Facebook), Alice moves to Montreal, Maddy leaves to Panama, Mo gets hit by a car, Seb is stoked on getting an iPhone (and went surfing),Spiva has dissappeared (? anybody got any updates from Spiva ?) and Maia unfriends me on Facebook? What a couple of weeks!

Portugal is sweet! The trip is good, that's all I've got for now.

Maia add me of Facebook. Immediately. I can't find you either. Must be setting the tone...

Anyways hope all is well with all of you!

To quote Brian Peebles (and Bob Marley before him) "One Love".

PEACE

hello MTL

my parents are kicking me out of the house. i'm moving to montreal once i get the keys from Maia. call me if you guys go!!!!

last night

hey guys,

last night i was biking from a friends house around 1230 am. i was biking on one of the main roads with my rear red blinker light on so people could see me. i was hit from behind by a car which took off after the incident. like literally the front of the car destroyed my rear wheel. i was thrown off my bike and tumbled on the pavement. i thought i was going to black out, started seeing stars and felt dizzy. i waved another car down to stay with me so i didnt lose consciousness. i called my parents and then 911 which arrived in like 1 min while i was calling. they took me to the ER because i was concerned of having a concussion or something worse. i recieved road rash on both of my hands, left knee and both elbows as well as my back. I also got 4 staples in my head from 2 small head wounds. my whole body feels fucking sore as hell right now. i spent about 2 hrs in the ER getting patched up (most of it was for waiting though) and then another hour at the police station to testify. the car and its driver have not been found yet.


I'm alright though, no concussion, nothing broken, no internal damage. i'm just bruised and sore, really sore. which is fucking lucky. i didnt wear a helmet and got hit by the car going like 40 mph from the back. it could have been a whole lot worse.

please be careful when you are biking/driving/walking at night. wear a helmet if you bike.

and getting staples in your head feels soooo weird. its like a small section of my head is a little tighter together. atleast they come out in 7-10 days.

later kids

edit: by request of alice, here are some pictures of my injuries...couldnt get the staples in my head though..



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Read the last essay. LOL. That's a look just at the concert though. I'm having a sweet time in London.
First night 3000 person club which was insane! Second night, pub with nick's older brother - absolute shitshow. Then last night Paul McCartney! Its been absolutely nonstop!
Hope you all are well!
-Senga

weekend

sup fools,

just got back from a weekend in boston, which was sooooo amazing. i got to see seb and maia in their respective habitats. It was also sebs bday on saturday so we had some sweet brazillian food and went Gokart racing the next day.

on saturday i arrived at maias house which was in the woods in carlisle sp?. her family is super nice, seb and i even got served breakfast on a tray by Glenn (maias dad) the next day. wow I am punctuating weird...oh well. maia showed me around her town which was super small but nice. next the both of us drove to sebs house where we chilled for a little and then went out and had dins. sebs dad is a like a kid, its hilarious and has the same smile as seb does. after brazillian food we went to a party at one of maias friends houses. we some some people we knew like jack and peter and played some ruit...we even held the table for 4 games (thats me and seb, my first game i played with maia and we sucked :p)

the next day maia had to go babysitting from 10-2, so seb and I hung out at Reed mansion, cleaened the pool which had a dead shrew in it, did some wicked flips into the pool and watched some tv. shaun of the dead is a funny movie, and seb put on this car mechanics show for a while... we then went out to SORENTO'S which had spicy finger pizza, which is basically pizza with buffalo wing bits on it and sauce. its delicious. we then waited for maia to get back and i took the kids back to sebs house, where we then went from to go gokarting, hwihc was mad fun and I obviously won the race, some people (maia and seb) might dispute this, but trust me, I kicked their asses... after gokart we went back to sebs for dins and then i drove maia home. after some halo i crashed in maddys bed (sebs sister).

today i went to the german consulate in boston to get my passport renewed and then drove home. just took a nap and now i am bored again so I am writing this. it might've been a little boring to read but w/e... thanks again maia and seb you guys were super nice and i loved both of your families...roadtrip up to vermont soooooon!

oh and i might go up to mtl next weekend to see death cab for cutie, which should be awesome.

OMG

Dude the tv is as thin as a sheet of paper.... 

Future..... going to be sooo.... AWESOME

THE THINNEST TV EVER

And I'm Out...

So I leave tomorrow (Thursday), and probably won't get a chance to say goodbye to all of you another way.  Hope you all have a sweet June!

In Alphabetical Order

1. Alice - I hope you find a job that you love.  If you don't tough it out, and I'm sure you will not only do well at it, but it will make you stronger.  Don't give up!
2. Maddy - have a great time in Panama! (No amorous connections/suggestive clothing strictly enforced!)
3. Maia - Have a killer time in MASS, see as many obscure bands as you can, and then go tell everyone how they have never heard your music. JUST KIDDING.  But actually have a sweet time with Kevin, the family, your friends, shrooms, etc. and make sure you do what YOU.  "CUZ I DO WHAT I WANT! I KILL BABY SEALS!"  Go kill some baby seals.  You know what I mean.
4. Mo (Girl) - Continue having a sick time in Alaska, and since you don't read this anyways, go kill a polar bear for me! JK. Just make sure to see one, its a good conversation starter.
5. Mo (Guy) - Quit with all your "binge" drinking and start having some good clean fun!  I've heard your working as a line cook, and I hope you give all these people the same benefits you would give yourself (as little broth, extra veggies, etc.).  Get ready for ball next year!  (PS. Bean is cut.)
6. Nick - I really enjoy this Facecard idea, but it doesn't work in Canada.  Its okay, us Canadians are used to it by now.  But actually, that's cool that you get to work with a company so closely tied to Facebook apps. Very cool.  Sad you are not coming back, but such is life, and I hope you get into the school you want.  Also, you must visit sometime after August 21st to the start of school so we can do one last Montreal night out properly.
7. Sebastien (In a drunken French Accent) - I hope that you get what you wanted to out of the lab - besides your paycheque that is.  Hope you have a good time, and if I don't talk to you before then, a great time at SASS.  When you come back you have to be able to STOMP 7's.  Or else.  Preferably 9's though.  Also you have to learn those front-flip while riding things.  We all know those are the coolest - and not to mention hardest tricks. LOL.

Anyways I hope you all have a GREAT June, and that you all are well!  And make sure to check in on my blog, I will post here when I update it...like now!

An update at:

www.sengara.wordpress.com

And I'm out!!! PEACE!

welche straß?

Stuff

Colleges - Accepted Colorado's offer. Waitlisted at Pomona and McKenna (sent them both packets of accept me! things). Pomona had 200 applicants and 10 slots. Anyhow, now I just start waiting again. I would rather be in California, but I keep hearing good things about Colorado College. I'm sad that I won't be with you guys again next year. I was in Montreal in one of my dreams the other day, and it wasn't anything like the real Montreal, but it was really nice. So I'm going to have to visit. We should plan a party for after Senga's exam or something maybe. 

Job - it's okay. I like what I get to do with photoshop and illustrator designing stuff, but I think they need to change one or two things. 

Ultimate - Really like my summer league team, we owned in our first game, and on the second I got a handblock on the endzone line on universe point (one of the sweetest things ever) and I have been out throwing every single day.

Beer Pong last night - I was actually good! Impossible to believe I know. But a couple tips from a friend and I was sinking them like Kobe in the 3rd period against the Spurs. Seriously, we lost our first game, then we went on a 7 game winning streak before calling it quits. Anyhow I was hungover as hell at work and said I was going out to sign my friends up so that I could leave at 1130 and sleep. 

I need to post more, but that's that. My brother got a C- in precal also! He was going to have to go to summer school but got an A on the exam. 

"I feel summer creepin' in and I'm tired of this town again"

Oh Carlisle... its nice to be in familiar territory, but I am still bored as shit being here. My job at Cheap Summer Help keeps getting pushed back so it looks like I am starting in Mid-June, which I am pissed about because I wasted a whole month here. After my boss finally contacted me and told me this I started applying to places to be a waitress/hostess so hopefully one will work out. I can set my own hours with CSH so I will be able to do two jobs pretty comfortably, and if not, I will just quit wherever I make less money. Its not even that I need money badly, I am just someone who needs things to do. I have been sitting around reading, playing guitar, watching Lost, and tanning when its nice, which sounds fun, but not for three weeks straight. I can hang with my friends but usually only at night, and some people still aren't back. Kevin finally came home yesterday which is nice and will give me something else to do (no pun intended, I know what you are thinking) and tonight we are going to see The New Deal which is an electro band out of Montreal.

Last week Seb visited which was fun. We had thai food and kimball's ice cream, and I took him to a party where my friends played land mines and he got pretty drunk and made me laugh because I was the sober driver. On Sunday Emily Frank is coming to town and we will probably have dinner with her which I am excited about.

Girl Mo - I hope alaska treats you amazingly!!!
Alice - Good luck running the company, that sounds like hard work, and I hope you find out what is afflicting your Mom soon so she can be all better

Everyone else WORD TO YO MOTHA

To all you future mothers out there

Yeah I know, we probably won't have kids for at least another 8 years but still some important information:

"The largest randomized study of breastfeeding ever conducted reports that breastfeeding raises children’s IQs and improves their academic performance, a McGill researcher and his team have found.

In an article titled, Breastfeeding and Child Cognitive Development, published in the current issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry, Dr. Michael S. Kramer, Scientific Director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health (IHDCYH), reports the results from following the same group of 14,000 children for 6.5 years.

"Our study provides the strongest evidence to date that prolonged and exclusive breastfeeding makes kids smarter," said Kramer, a Professor of Pediatrics and of Epidemiology & Biostatistics in the McGill University Faculty of Medicine and lead investigator in the study.

Kramer and his colleagues evaluated the children in 31 Belarusian hospitals and clinics. Half the mothers were exposed to an intervention that encouraged prolonged and exclusive breastfeeding. The remaining half continued their usual maternity hospital and outpatient pediatric care and follow-up. This allowed the researchers to measure the effect of breastfeeding on the children’s cognitive development without the results being biased by differences in factors such as the mother’s intelligence or her way of interacting with her baby.

The children’s cognitive ability was assessed by IQ tests administered by the children’s pediatricians and by their teachers’ ratings of their academic performance in reading, writing, mathematics and other subjects. Both sets of measures were significantly higher in the group randomized to the breastfeeding promotion intervention.

"The effect of breastfeeding on brain development and intelligence has long been a popular and hotly debated topic,” says Dr. Kramer. "While most studies have been based on association, however, we can now make a causal inference between breastfeeding and intelligence – because of the randomized design of our study.”

The study was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research."

My OWN Blog.

Since I have friends outside this circle (hard to believe, I know) I created a separate Travel Blog to update all you clowns with.

www.sengara.wordpress.com

It's kinda legit, its not a porno site - at least until I post my pictures from the trip. LOL ROFL LMFAO. Yeah that's right.  So yeah. 

Visit the site!

Other than that Vancity's weather is nice, but I am uber-stoked to get out of here.  Its nice to be around the family, but I cannot simply be sucked into the depressing quicksand that is my Grandmother's house.  My mother hasn't slept at home once.  I have been out there everyday. I can't explain to you guys through a blog how weird it is.  I see nobody, this place fucking sucks.  I need to do my own thing for a while.  I leave May 29th, and come home July 3rd.  Indeed.

Hope all of you are doing well, at whatever it is all of you are doing, and I hope you all are happy above anything else!!

PEACE OUT. (A-Town) [Yes that is a "YEAH!" reference for those of you keeping score at home. Chalk it up!]

And a big shout out to MOMO (BRI) have a great time in ALASKA!! WHAT WHAT!

hardwick

so like the good vermont hicks that we are, we have friends that have farms. ethan is one of those kids. on his farm, he has a shitton of field where he has a leanto (sp?) its basically a shack with three walls and a roof. we go "camping" there sometimes. when we first started drinking thats where it would be. make a fire, have some brews, talk about life.

thats what i did last night. it was a chill night, just my guy friends around a fire getting drunk and high. hah so i went to bed around 12 ish after making some phone calls that maia and alice should know about. this is where it gets interesting, apparently after i went to bed, I got up like 30 min later and wanted to go pee. I get out my tent that i brought up, stumble to some bushes and appaerntly just pass the fuck out. like fall down, in the middle of the grass and start snoring.

my friends find me, pick me up and cant wake me. so they drag me to my tent and put me back in. now, I wake up again an hour later actually having to go pee. i get out, my friends rush towards me and hold me up because i was so drunk i couldnt walk straight or even stand up. kevin grabs me from behind while i piss, then puke basically everything that was left in my stomach.

haha they tell me the story about how i passed out and i couldnt believe it. so i just chill by the fire with them for a hwile and then go back to bed. great night, first time i actually needed help from someone. never needed to be taken care of, but thats what friends are for hah.

the weird thing is that i only had like 9 beers from about 6pm to 12 am and was eating constantly. I dont know how I got so drunk and could just pass out, but i suspect taking zyrtec, which is some alergy medicine had something to do with it.

so long story short, I drank and passed out for a couple hours. now i'm goin to bed because i still feel like shit.

night

my dick. nuff said.

quick post

Got bored:

SEB ON THE JOB! 

Dealing with CMC UP B 80/20 

WHATCH OUT!

538 p0w|\|5 n00b5

Hello to all!

Its very nice hearing from all of you. Sounds like everyone is starting to settle in back home. As for me everything is going quite well. 

I will now present you with my daily routine:

• Wake up 7:30(shower breakfast pack lunch etc)
• Depart for work at 8:30 by bike
• Arrive at work around 9:00
• Do some basic stuff in the lab
• Eat lunch 1:30
• Leave for home around 4:30

(Alice I hope you enjoy my bullet points)

And there we go thats the basic weekday for seb. If you read my first post thing you should have an idea of what I'm doing. As interesting as it sounds the actual process is quite slow. We are often confronted with problems and have to re-do lots of our things. The main issue is that we don't have all the material necessary to do what we want (ie currently as I write this message we are missing some glass slides to observe things under the microscope, also waiting for the liposome specialist). Either way I'm pretty happy doing this since its quite easy and the hours are relatively flexible.  I get to spend quite some time procrastinating on the internet.

As for non job related things it has been quite boring here. I went to a small "house" party (as in the kids from 10th though 12th grade from my old hight school) and was DD so I got to see my sister and friends get drunk. I also got to hang out with Florie a fellow ISB alumni who goes to McGill and talked about school and future stuff like that. I now think that I am going to do four years, one term abroad and a minor in either management or technological entrepreneurship. I also watched Montreal lose against Philadelphia? I don't know it was sad. On another note I was the man of the party for about 30 minutes when I opened the beer botte with another beer bottle and proceeded to open the second one by hitting it on the pongpong table. This impressed everyone. THANKS MO for teaching me such a valuable and impressive skill.

Other then that I don't do too much. I try to go biking as often as possible and go enjoy the woods next door. I have also become my sisters personal taxi driver taking them all over town and driving them from place to place (took them shopping at the mall last night). Luckily most of my other friends here are coming back from college this weekend. I plan on going snowboarding with some of them this coming saturday. It will be nice seeing them all.

 And now for some interesting stuff that I found on the internet:

• Video of beer pong:
  

This one is very interesting and directly relates to what I believe was a big part of my college experience. I'm so jealous of their skill!

• Lab Notes

Diverting blog talking about new scientific discoveries and studies and stuff of that sort. Some stuff also relates to popsci.com blog posts. 

• OLED
  

This stuff is really cool. I can't wait for it to be implemented in everything!

I'm also trying to brush up on my spanish and have been trying to download Rosetta Stone spanish. Unfortunately I can't seem to find a good torrent or download site for it. So if anyone ever finds a good working mac version of rosetta stone spanish level 3 let me know. 

So yeah, thats about it for now. Hope that everyone else is doing well.

the roots

quick post,

Roots played tonight in vermont, sold out show. I snuck in by Xing my hands and acting like i had a ticket stub inside.

show was amazing, they played for like 3 hrs, everyone member of the band was super talented and great. awesome show.

went to uvm for a little after, saw about 6 of my friends, felt finally like i was home.

bed now, and who knows tomorrow.

edit: this is what my friend posted on a thread AFTER being at uvm with all the other SB kids hahaha

I just want to share that Emma O'brien and I had to drag Andy Gower's drunk ass into his house after he had 20 or so shots tonight. I dropped him twice on the sidewalk.

He pissed in the radiator in my common room. I mean god damn, there is urine running down the side of the godamn radiator. Andy may hate me later for sharin this, but I'm drunk too, so it's fair game, and it's HILARIOUS.

We just put him on his couch at his house, and his mom comes down, and asks him how many he had, and he says, "Fuckin' shut up, don't even worry about it!" Then he shares, "I don't know, like... 20?" Andy's Mom: "ohhhhh andy, I'm getting your father." Gest shit ever. poeuirhpaodisjgho

Andrew Gower is sort of my hero. I hope you're still alive buddy, give a shotu tomorrow if you're up at UVM. I can't wait to see all y'all cool cats this summer.

now its definitely good to be back home.

Hiii guys! Sorry I just figured out how to get on this whole blog business ( mo hold back your women in the kitchen jokes), because it's not that i'm technologically retarded but more because I never got the link from Nicks email. 

Home has been pretty good for me thus far, I have been loving the mild weather and the intense greenery that is everywhere. I joined a women's Div A soccer team made up of girls mostly from my team last year which has been sweet (just a lil step up from our intermural level), although my fitness is ridiculously bad and thirty year old ladies totally kicked my ass... ug how embarrassing.

I'm back working at the same restaurant for the rest of May down in Granville Island. I wear my hooker books and secretary shorts every night to rake in the tips... my dad is super proud.

Panama is getting closer, I leave June 8th to Miami and then into Veraguas. I have been trying to get myself ready to go, searching out "conservative professional work clothes" that wont suffocate me in 90 degree weather. I'm trying to brush up on my spanish too so I'm taking lessons with my Mexican uncle and watching spanish movies (Volver tonight!). All in all, I'm super excited although a bit nervous to do something 100% out of my comfort zone. I will try to get on a computer at least once to let you all know I'm still alive but I'm making no promises. 

Keep in touch, i miss you all! Have a stellar summer and KEEP SWEET

Life

So here it goes.  I came back on the 28th of April, and haven't really left my Grandma's house.  The funeral was only on Sunday, and I was asked to speak, along with my sister.  We did, 1400 people showed up, and it was probably one of the most difficult things of my life.  My family is taking it well (for a brown family) with the notable exception of my mother.  She hasn't slept at home once, and she is pretty much taking over the role my Grandmother filled (taking care of my uncle, my cousin, and essentially serving as an unpaid social worker to the Indian community).  I realize I will not have a mother for an extended period of time.  I must say though, in complete seriousness, I know that all white people are not the same, but maybe 95% that I have talked to since the funeral, have mentioned closure.  This is a cultural difference.  If one more white person asks if I feel that I have closure now that the funeral is over, I will go apeshit.  No, I do not have a sense of closure, simply because her body is no longer where I can see it.  Traditionally, Indians (Sikhs) take months of mourning, not days.  I know I have said on numerous occasions that I hate brown people, but when it comes down to it, blood is thicker than water.  Remember that.

Enough of that, I start work on Monday, and it will be good to take my mind off things.  My Dad recently fired one of his two IT guys, so I get to work in the IT department.  Quite excited about that.  Get to program the software to adjust to the variables of market price and cost.  Much more interesting than the paperwork I would have had to do otherwise.  I am also starting, very slowly, to get things in order for Europe.  Flights booked, trains booked, but now I seriously need to start looking for hostels.  Nick Chang, my traveling companion is in the middle of exams, and understandably refuses to do anything in terms of looking.  If you guys have any suggestions, please comment.

PS. Alice stop with the colours (yes colours, not colors) my dog had a seizure. 
PPS. Alice you are not allowed to use bullet form. Ever.
PPS. Maia, you can't send mail when you are not on the McGill network.  But if you set up another account on Mail, then you can respond using that one.
PPPS. Spiva, if you don't get in to Claremont/Mackenna (which I hope you do) then come back to McGill.
PPPPS. Guy Mo, nice username...not!
PPPPPS.  Girl Mo, way to specify that you what Mo you were...
PPPPPPS. Seb I don't think Guillaume is allowed to pick up the keys without you or I...
PPPPPPPS. Did Alex Cartmell join?
PPPPPPPPS. Maddy is retarded.
PPPPPPPPPS. Most PS's ever? Tight.......

I'll try to keep you guys updated, please do the same! PEACE OUT

Colleges

So I have heard back from both Tulane and Colorado College, got into both again. Tulane offered a fatter scholarship this time round. Tulane doesn't have to hear back till june 1st. Colorado College was supposed to have a postmarked decision by May 5th. CC sent the letter to montreal instead of nashville, and I didn't find out until may 5th that I had gotten in. They gave me an extension until this Friday to issue a decision via email to them, but I don't hear back from California schools (Pomona/McKenna) until next Thursday. CC is also strictly against double depositing (saying yes and then withdrawing later, because it holds up the waitlist people). And I understand and agree with policies against double depositing the majority of the time, because at that point you have been issued a decision of some form from all your colleges. Unfortunately transfer deadlines are all over the place, so I don't think it's fair for them to request a decision so early, it would be as if you only had an early action option, and no regular decision. So I'm a bit twisted up decision wise.

In terms of books for maia, it depends on what you're looking for
the baron in the trees by italo calvino is a really good story
zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance is a good story and great philosophy by robert m. pirsig
watchmen is one of the best graphic novels I have ever read and is in the times best 100 novels list, so good (frank miller)
time travellers wife great romance story
blow-up and other stories by cortazar is a great short story collection
white noise - dan delillo is a great book (*this one you should definitely read some time)

i am so fat i broke my leg and gravy poured out

the 802

so, Ive got my apartment subletted to three mexicans, hopefully they wont run out on me. my land lord is still crazy and aparently a homophobe (we thought at first that 3 guys were gonna sublet but it was 2 guys and 1 girl, but told the land lord it was 3 guys and he goes "thats utterly disgusting, to think of three of them sleeping in a 2 BR place. one shoould never share a bed with another man"...or something on those lines.

vermont is beautiful in the summer, lake champlain especially. ive got a old road bike from a friends dad that i have been using to get around here, which i will bring up to montreal. Its been sunny now for 3 days, before that it was constant rain. i went to uvm once or twice but didnt really party there. everyone is in exam mode. my friends are coming in slowly, by the weekend ill have some people to hang out with. Ive done nothing really, slept, read the 4th bourne novel which is by a different author and have been looking for jobs

after this post, i will go to this Inn and get an application to be a barback for them. if I get the job, its easy work and could help me score a barkeeping job later on. I am also applying to work as kitchen help at a nearby retirement home. I want to work as a line cook in the future sometime. but again I need experience so its the dirty work for now...washing dishes, peeling potatoes etc... another option would be a PCA position with a kid that has autism or some disability like it. Ive been looking at schools/camps that need that kind of service.

things have not changed in vermont, im prolly go see death cab for cutie in a month, feist is playing in vt also in a month and then i want to go to warped tour in mtl. no other plans really, maybe a road trip or two, who knows. I saw forgetting sarah marshall the other night and it was hilarious. and mila kunis is mad fucking hot in that movie.

cheers to everyone, enjoy the summer. oh and im trying to get my parents to bring up two 30's each month when they come up to visit. if there are no other objections i will get Keystone, maybe splurge a little and get coors light hah. we'll see. later kids.

Math Education

Stumbled across this on popsci and got more info in the nytimes article.

Pretty interesting study, all math should be taught this way.

Article

Greetings to all. I am finding I am not technologically saavy enough to do this, but I will continue to try. I have been home for about a week and its been rainy every day up until today. At first I wasn't into it, but then I got in my rainy day creative mode. I wanted to make some belts for this skirt/dress I bought right before I left, so I went to the fabric store and got stuff. I went to the sewing machine in the attic and found all these unfinished projects and some cool scrap fabric so I made three pretty cool shirts but am still trying to figure out how to make the belts clasp. I spent a nice afternoon wandering around in the state forest too. It started off as a run but there was too much cool stuff so I kept stopping to climb boulders and cross streams and I shimmied up a fallen tree that was propped up against another and climbed all the way to the top! I have one friend who is here but she has been doing a lot of family stuff, and has a lot of senior friends so I have only seen her once. We went to Kimballs (DELICIOUS- I got coffee and cookies) and then watched The Office and Lost, which I enjoyed so much that I have already watched the first ten episodes online. Today is sunny so I went and got a gym membership and have been gardening the rest of the day. Alex is back from Israel and wants to see me so we might meet up today, but its gonna be pretty awkward at first. I am also trying to read For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway in an attempt to become more literarilly (ya I made that word up) cultured, but I have only gotten through thirty pages all week, so as much as I hate to, I may ditch this book for something more intriguing. Any suggestions people (Nick?).

Also, is there a way to get notified when people post? Is that what subscribing to the blog means? And Senga my mac mail that you set up receives mail but won't let me send it. I need you guys to help me figure out things like this, I don't know what I will do. Nick thats good that you are staying busy and back into frisbee. Have you heard back from any schools yet? Seb, the internship sounds really cool, thats awesome you get to do things that are actually important on a larger scale.

Hope everyone is enjoying themselves, and I apologize for this being impossibly long.

Cool New Yorker Invention Article

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/12/080512fa_fact_gladwell - seb you should read this, and if you haven't checked out the last link thing I posted you have to, it's a super cool 3D hologram demonstration using a rotating mirror - pretty cool. The article is really confirming that innovation is something that most often occurs at crossroads between disciplines, where an idea/concept/procedure from one can be used to solve problems of another in order to progress.

Other than that, been playing lots of frisbee, finished memories of my melancholy whores (really enjoyed) still waiting to hear back from my interview people.

PS Post more n00bs

Funny

Life Update

Been back for a little while now; Nashville is verdant, lush, and as gorgeous as I remember it. It's weird having all of my grade gone pretty much, but there's still enough to do around town. I'm helping out with my old highschool frisbee team, they brought 3 teams to state last weekend girls/guys/guysB so they needed some extra coaching help. Coaching is irritating. I believe it's the captain's responsibility to get the guys going, but none of the captain's will take the necessary disciplinarian stance in practices to get the guys focused and intense.
Job-wise I have an interview today with the people working on facecard (www.facecard.com) a pretty innovative start up project, that is eventually going to be tied into facebook. Fingers crossed, I'd like to be working with them over the summer; also would get me closer to designing/producing facebook applications.
It's insane how much I start reading as soon as school ends. Reread two long forgotten books this week, and now almost done with Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and I have decided the next step for me is to educate myself on the history/religion of the middle east. So next up are The Middle East (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684832801/${0})
and a book called Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare, coupled with the actual (omg!!!11 if you're still reading) US Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual. This recent Middle East interest has been sparked by my desire to become something more than an ignorant observer of others' arguments about the region.

On the other hand this(http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1773271) thing is so sick. Watch all the way through. Soon we will be holoconferencing my friends.

Nerd part II

How cool is this.... GOD PARTICLE

Yeah thats right. But actually computers are going to be crazy in 25 years.

oh yaayyyyy

Summer Job

Went to the lab today and figured out what I'm doing.

I'll be working with a few people that are working on finding a new technique to deliver drugs to cancer cells and more specifically melanoma. I'll be testing new bio-engineered nano-particles on cancer cell cultures and observing them under the microscope.

This is the basic method of how its going to work: click here

Awesome! (actually very nerdy but wtv)

People to invite to the blog

list names, i invited senga/maia/maddy/seb need to also do mo/alice who else

Alright this is it

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