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Thursday, May 08, 2003 @ 12:43 PM
Screw Week: Thursday
Julie, Liz, and Erin all wrote lists of all the important things they learned this year. And I tried to come up with things that I had learned, but every time I thought of something, I realized it was something I had actually said before, something I had learned long before I started college.
So I decided to make a different list. Take a moment to nostalgialize with me, because here are (some of) my favorite memories from this year.
Going to Chuck E. Cheese with Dan, Seth, Caitlin, and Jeff, and turning in our prize tickets for a light saber. The picnic by the lake that followed. Running into Spencer. Dan wanting to set a fire. Everyone claiming to see the Loch Ness monster. Jeff and Dan embarrassing everyone who tried to use the elevator that night.
All the times I had to crash at Dan's last semester because Karissa was having sex in our room.
Steve's outgoing messages on my answering machine.
My philosophy professor telling us, "Most men are merely seamen."
Seeing Jill Sobule at Blue Moon. Thanks, Renata!
Going to Maxwell Park with Seth and Megan Hannah.
Otis, on the first day of Chem 102: "This isn't F.O.I. We aren't going to put our desks in a circle and sing Kumbaya."
All the lunches with Michelle, especially the day the waitress gave us a free pie.
Watching American Beauty with Seth.
When Chewy asked Dr. Beck if she felt "over-qualified" to teach F.O.I. When he later said, "You know what I said about you being over-qualified? I take it back."
Paul Talk. Every single session.
Pete finally losing his perkiness long enough to tell Danny to shut up.
The Attack of Fat Lupe in Watterson Food Court (and the petty theft that follows and continues to this day).
When my math teacher called us a country full of raging sluts. Adding, "No glove, no love, people!"
Sunday night cartoons with Dan (and later, with Dan, Donnelle, Caitlin, Jeff, Julie, and others).
When Erin and I gave our numbers to the guy with the cute feet in Chatter's.
Games of Fuzion Frenzy. With Dan, Erin, Julie, Liz, and Eric. Repeating the things our characters said when they gloated. "I'm so good it hurts!" Trying to catch Glitter. Describing one of the games as, "It's like musical chairs. You know. If you were to carry the chairs around with you and hit people with them."
When Dan and I went to Iowa and decided it was the mouth of Hell. Making a list to figure out how many people Dan has made out with. (Twice as many as me, that's how many!) The song we started writing, my "disappointed" face, getting kicked out of a bar & grill, the reality detector, and some guy in Taco Bell getting pissed at us.
When my math teacher discussed kissing the over-head projector, but decided not to, because she would get blue marker on her lips.
Reading Zac Chase's editorials in The Vidette.
Lunch with Dan and Eric, their endless discussion of comic book characters.
When Darvy mistook me for Dan. (Again I ask... Buaaaah?)
When Prof. Rutter spent an entire class period reading us Woodsworth. Because he said it would be good for us.
Performing "The Hangover" at Theatre of Ted.
Stealing the orange road cone and bringing it to Dan.
The Christmas and New Year's Eve parties in my basement... Megan Dougherty playing the guitar, looking like Yente, the never-ending game of Fuzion Frenzy... the cartoons we worked so hard to be able to watch, and which almost everyone ended up ignoring... everyone sprawling on Justin Lomelino as the party dwindled to a close...
The party at my dad's apartment while he was away, when Lauren asked for Polish sausage, and Seth actually brought her some.
Every Tuesday night I spent at Improv Mafia - but especially the first time, and the last. Also, the game of Fucked-up Charades that involved an orange peeler...
Getting emotional over episodes of "Buffy," for instance: screaming out loud when Dan accidentally changed the channel for a millisecond.
Going with Erin to see Dreamcatcher, and the conversation we had on the way back to the dorms, the jist of which was, "What the hell was that?"
When Dan wrote and performed, "I Am Deeply Sorry For..." at The Coffeehouse.
Writing the letter for Seth and hiding it in an empty orange Tic-Tac box, then slipping it covertly into his jacket pocket for him to find while on his road trip.
When Nate and Mischa showed up in my room because I tried to sleep through lunch.
The awesome conversation I had with Michelle at Guiseppe's about our Time Crunches.
The first time I went to Rocky's. Kristy's borrowed yellow shirt. Collin coming to the door in his boxers. Collin losing his shoe at Rocky's and singing Weezer on the way back to the dorms, hopping on one foot to avoid broken glass.
The road trip to Dekalb. Singing, wrong turns, the restaurant, the liquor store, and, "Don't you mean your Apollo...?"
The second time I went to Rocky's.
Going with the Feministas to Champaign to see Bitch & Animal.
Telling Donnelle that I hated her during a performance of "Identities for Sale" when she screwed up her lines.
Selling chocolate vaginas in Stevenson Hall with Erin, and the resulting Theatre of Ted piece.
Dan and Steph kidnapping me and taking me to Peoria of all places. Trying to get into a strip club.
The girl in Watterson food court, who told her lunch companion, "I'll tell you something about church! I'll stab you with this pencil!"
Going to see Alix Olson at The Coffeehouse.
Coaching my Speechies.
Mike's absolute bullshit being praised by Prof. Huff.
Helping out with The Vagina Monologues, and handing a program to Nick Izzo (because I gave him the one entitling him to a special door prize... which was a vibrator.)
Filling out the course evaluations for English 100 with Julie and Liz.
Watching Return to Oz with Dan & Donnelle. "You addressed your chips!" and "Good question, Talking Chicken!"
Seeing Rent in Braden.
The night we filmed Dan for his "Real World" video: A spectacular Night of Nietzche with Dan & Seth.
I know I'm forgetting some. Probably many. But this is a good start. I've had some really good times this year, and I think that proves that sometimes the things you don't plan for are the most spectacular.
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