The Admin Loves Me!

Boo!
Ya so I'm happy. First day of school and all, they couldn't get me in to yearbook. I'm really bummed about that, but in the long run, I'm gonna have less work. And then they switched my TOK from Cooper to Sharp... So happy about that! I'm in a class with 18 other ppl, but it's better than Cooper. I could acutally feel my intelligance level drop when I walked in. I feel bad though cus I abandoned Hope in there. But she has to change her schedual anyway, so maybe she can get out of it... And then because they love me even more than just that, they gave me a job as an office aid. I get to hang out in the admin wing F period and run around and stuff, but like half the time I'm not gonna have anything to do, especially because Abbey Moore is doing the same stuff as me and Roxanne (also doing it with me). So I'm happy... It's awesome and I'm excited.
Also found out that there's an IB HL English trip to London this year. Totally gonna be fun. Also excited about that... Unfortunatly it's the long weekend and we have to take the SAT that Saturday, so I'm not sure how that's gonna work out... We'll see. Ya so not much else. Classes are as exciting as always... French I'm already in over my head about. It's fun. Skove as a history teacher is gonna be awesome. I'm already terrified of Sharp. I'm in the same class as Julie though, so I won't have to be the one making the blond comments. And we always manage to pull each other through this kinda stuff.
Ya, so I guess that's it... Not much else.
Miss you guys!
Love
Katie

Let Me Just Say...

Whitman rocks like no other. I went to this international people camp even though I'm only "international" and met all these cool international people... including various upperclassmen and stuff. And I was invited to join the snowboard team... ha ha ha. The campus is the most beautiful college campus I have ever seen in my life. We've got tons of green well kept grass and trees and ponds with ducks and stuff. Like... it's even better than Berkeley's campus. Everyone here is pretty darn liberal even though the local population is pretty conservative. We played all these awesome games and stuff. And so far I haven't met any jerks or anyone that is at all close to being a jerk.

And yes, to answer your question... I have met a lot of uber-geeks... girls too! Here, when I start talking dorkily about chaos theory, instead of looking at me funny and saying "I don't get you!" They're like, "oh my god... that stuff is so awesome, have you read James Gliek's book!?!" yeah.. apparently this is the place where "dorks go to be cool." The only problem is that no one understands the concept of homelessness the way I see it. Everyone asks, "where are you from". I just put on my name tag "from Earth". yeah. I know I'm a dork... but so is just about everyone else here. except in a cool way! I even met a guy that likes linux, snowboarding, and Napolean Dynamite! It's such a rare combination!

The dorm rooms are awesome, I'm in the biggest dorm with 170 people. I live with the Big Man Upstairs (Jesus) on the top floor (coed). ok... so shoutouts. Katie - tell Norah that it turns out her friend Cole lives down the hall from me. Lynsey - soon you'll be participating in corporate takeovers! Chris - People from Seattle who like to snowboard are Awesome!... There are a lot of them here. And just remember, you're getting a full year of free education! And a six pack at the same time! I wish I had a six pack. or like... something other than bones and skin. Justin - you must look for my friend Hannah; she will rock your socks. Everyone else - I would have done individual shout outs... but I have to go to a math geek meeting.

p.s. The Whitman men's acapella is *way* better than the Yale Alley Cats... they did Stacy's Mom and it was incredible.

p.p.s. If you don't believe everything I say about Whitman:
Surveys Shine Spotlight on Whitman

The BUS GOT HIT!!

How did the bus got hit? And are you kidding, the 1 am shift was the best! Well, I had Chris and Courtney with me...who did you have with you? And don't mind Little Ms. Wigglesworth, she only ever really thinks about herself anyway, lol. When are you guys sending the yearbooks!! Have you seen them yet?!? Dude, I'm so anxious you wouldn't believe it.

My job is getting better. My other 'boss' is back so I'm pretty much left alone, and they keep saying how happy they are with me, and I'm getting higher wages so why should I even complain? Haha, my co-worker's pretty cool though. I carpool with her and she has like 8 or 9 grand-children. We like complaining about our bosses so she's my kind of person! Only 3 more full weeks of work and then I move in the 17th of Sept...Whoa...too long.

Liz, tell me how your room is and roommate! Classes too when you start them. Courtney, have you started yet!? I haven't heard from you in like...a month. Tell me when you'll have internet so you can be on messenger. Justin, frat parties and drinking...why is this no surprise to me? Have you pillaged and raped anyone yet? Chris, vent...it helps. Oh, and choking the rednecks is a good way to vent. :) Katie, you are now a senior and taking on everything that we as an entire group did...haha. Don't push yourself too hard, and remember, the yearbook room is a nice place to go at night to nap and be alone and listen to music (but not to make out in! ok! haha) Paul, tell me how it is? Have you met any uber-geeks like yourself yet? Like, uber-geek girls?!? You might need to vent too...yea, frustration needs venting.

Don't you all forget that I'm always by the mountains and have shelter and food. Thanksgiving break for whoever can, there should be snowboarding available and I want buddies! Oh, and last and least, I might move to Alabama...it's actually a big possibility. My dad's funds finish in January and he has to decide where he will be working next. So Huntsville...and I'll still have to fly home when I didn't want to, I mean, that's why I went to WESTERN!!!

Hello and Good Morning from LAS

Hey All!
Ok, first off, we haven't forgetten you Lynsey, how could we. Especially me, I have no idea how you did so much here... Second, Justin, your dedication has made me realize how much my life is worth. I'm gonna go jump off the roof of Vermont... Just kidding, you definetly made me laugh, I miss you! Oh and who was in 201 last year? Cuz that's where I am. Oh and Paul, my little brother got your room. It's entertaining... Ya. He has a Japanese kid who never speaks and a Kazahk kid. Dude, there are so many Kazahks here this year, it's insane... some of the new kids are nice, some are bitchy. Ya. But like no new seniors. I think we got like 12 new ones... most guys... yay! well and on that note, things are VERY awkward with the brit and I. Haven't gotten to break up with him. He probably knows I'm going to... I talked to Julie about it. ya..

Anyway, getting the feeling that this year is gonna be hard simply because I know so many ppl. I've been hanging out with the juniors sorta, you know like Brooke (even though she's a sophmore) and Phil and Matt and ya.. anyway them, So then I went up to Steph (W) today and she's like, "wow i haven't seen you in so long, you've abondoned us!" man, way to make me feel good.. I've been hanging out with my mom since she leaves tomorrow... and then Lauren Brown was acutally really nice and saying like, we know you've been kinda lost, but know you have friends with us. So that was awesome, but it's still gonna be kind of a weird year I think...
Oh dude, I now have Mr. Ott as a second father... So ya, that's exciting... Matt's talking about moving which would really suck, he's the only one accept the Chinese kids that came back. Some of the new kids are kinda nice though...

Hmm, ya anyway. I donno, not much else really going on. Being an ambassador has acutally been fun, but it's been a lot of work. The luggage got messed up on Monday, the very first day, everyone was really pissed and stuff, we were working so hard delivering stuff, and then like 6 of us were up until 1 am delivering the second bus. It was acutally utter chaos. One of the huge buses got hit... ya, i know weird huh... it was fun...

Ok really not that much else going on. If any of you have new cell numbers, send 'em this way!
Miss you guys!
Love
Katie

Disappointed in You

You people are all forgetting about me. I feel sad.

My Dedication

Good morning or afternoon, whatever time of day it is.

I have had the most intense five days. Three frat parties, meeting so many new people, and making people think I am the biggest racist ever (they knew I was joking).

College is so much fun. I am a beer-pong champion in the Sigma Chi fraternity, I also chugged three quarters of a liter of beer while playing Beer Pong just to make a point (that was to show that no matter how smashed I am I am still the man...)

Courtney is now on my bad girl list a) because she most definetly showed off her tush and b) because she didn't swing by and say hi while she was in DC.
Don't worry Courtney you are not on the bad girl list. But I might just have to come up to Philadelphia just to say hi. You made an old man happy you say? You honey, are an American heroe. If it were not for you, old horny men would be humping anything and everything. I salute you!

Katie has now made her way back to LAS. I would like to dedicate the next few lines to all of Katie's accomplishments in her 18 years on this earth.





Boobie




Sex Deprivation





Horny








She can read



And the dedication is complete. KATIE I LOVE YOU! YOU KNOW I DON'T MEAN IT. But I know deep down somewhere in your heart, or maybe your esophogus, maybe even your stomach, or your intestine, or maybe even your shphinkter (spelling?), you love me like a fat kid loves cake.

Best Regards,
Justin

one last communication

Hey guys!
So I'm at my aunt and uncle's house in Houston. Just drove down from Dallas... Ya it was fun. So we're just hanging out for a while i guess... I leave early tomorrow morning. It sucks I spend my entire b-day on an airplane. I'm so not happy about it. But i'll live.
Not really looking forward to going back. I talked to Daniella who's there for SAT prep and she has my room. Well the room i wanted. So i'm either sharing it with her (NO!!!) or they screwed me over again. With either option I might have to kill someone. So if I don't write for a while, it's cus i'm rotting away in a Swiss jail cell... Ya well they probably treat you pretty well there anyway...
Ya so it's our last night and i really want to go to Target. I've become obsessed. I'd never been to one before. Now I love it. I need more stuff! ya right, i have like three suitcases almost. My brother is worse, course he's moving there... so that's fun.
Chris I really hope you get re-accepted and all that, it sucks that you don't like it... making me reconsider merchant marine (besides the fact that they think i have a 'disablility' b/c i'm asthmatic)
Courtney wow, i'm impressed that you managed to flash that many ppl, you probably beat my record!! anyway... good luck with that... i'm arriving on the same day as brookie i think... Jeremy will be very excited. I hope he doesn't rape your sister during the year...
Paul, you're oreo thing made me laugh. it entertained me. and my brother. and my cousins. and my mom. and... ya anyway you get the idea... ah the states, a magic place that i'm glad i'm leaving soon...
heather... ya i just talked to you nevermind..
anyway miss you guys so much! you have no idea... ya school will be interesting. Jeremy keeps asking 'is liz gonna be there' and i'm like 'no' so it'll be funny. he's gonna think i have no friends left...hehe
miss ya!
love
katie!

The Trouble with Oreos

So, you walk into an American grocery store and think to yourself, "hey, I'm in America now! I'm going to get me some of those oreos!" Then you walk over to the cookie section and it's like "Holy shit, what happened to the oreos. I only see the double stuffed zebra striped mint flavored vanilla cookie o's. wtf mate." That's when you realized, "holy shit! I'm in America now! There are like 50 million types of toe nail clippers here; how could I ever expect to find the kind of oreos I'm looking for?" Eventually you give up and go home. You get onto your email and bam! There is a big fatty pop up add that says "Get your free original oreos here!". And so you think to your self, "Oh yeah. I'm in America now! There are advertisements for freakin everything, like oreo flavored braziers." You click on the link, fill out like 5 forms, each requesting a different credit card number (strange huh?) and click the big blinking button that says "Get My Free Original Oreoes Now!"

*Six weeks later*

You get back from class and laying on your bed is a pack of original oreos. You know the ones... like Justin inside out. And you think to yourself, "Oh yeah! I'm in America Now! They always deliver stuff on time! Not like those government pouches!... stupid kangaroos."

The End

Sure!

Hehe, I'm right there with you! So long as you agree that he must die, then sure... I'll take care of it!

Let's Kill Them

This is how it works. NHS only (and under the table only) allowed Justin to sell his candy. He technically worked with NHS on the matter. We knew what he was selling, he knew what we were selling and how much, etc. We were able to schedule a time for when he was out of candy.

I doubt you can do this with this kid. So I say we kill him, and I mean making him suffer, only slightly of course. We do want NHS to have the first big sale don't we?!?! I mean that's what we depend upon...so tattle-tale...while you're there early :)

Other than that, you can laugh at your little brother later, point and laugh, teehee. That's all right now. I have a full-time job, 45 hours a week, and it's only slightly boring...and tiring. I have classes and a roommate, now I just need school to start. Talk to you all laters.

LIve from Houston Texas

Hey Guys
Ya so, I'm down in Houston now, as I'm sure you guessed. I'm also typing on my new computer! Yay! No more dying Dave. As much as I 'loved?' my Dell, I'm so glad to have something that is not a piece of shit waiting to fall apart. So ya.
Anyway, not really doing much down here but driving around. And for anyone whose been to Houston, you know that driving around is the most accurate statement I am making. We really are. It takes forever to get from one side of the city to the other. Anyway, so that's been fun.
Yesterday I did an interview at Rice University and saw the campus and stuff. It was awesome. I'm really excited about it. If I decide I can live in Houston, I'll probably go there... I don't know I have to see I guess. My Dad is big on Rice, so I have to figure out if I'm big on it cus he wants me to be or not. I donno.
I also got this Trust thingy signed over into my name. Turns out my parent's are signing over my college fund to me. Since I'm turning 18, I get it this year. It's very scary. I know have like, more money than I ever dreamed of having now. It's awesome. And very weird. Anyway, I'm not gonna touch it for a long time, my parents promised to pay for my tuition. And I discovered that the average starting salary for a Chemical Engineer is around 50,000. So I'll be able to do student loans and pay them off fast. ya.
So that's what's new and exciting here.
Ya not that much really. My dad leaves today, I'm interested to see how my brother's gonna take it. He's coming to school and is convinced that like, once he leaves the house he won't have to come back. He keeps asking why I never go places. Like on the Tanzania trip. Cus I miss my family and I wanna go home. Well he's determinded to skip that step. Which is funny, cus he's even more dependent on my parents than I am, and I really don't know how he would travel by himself. Or figure out how to, like, buy the tickets? ya. It'll be interesting. He's convinced I have no social life, and no friends. Which hey, when I get back to school, maybe true! hehe, Whatever, I think he'll be surprised to find, more people know and like me than he thinks.
Oh Lynsey, you know all the NHS candy I got someone to ship over? They bought it all, (won't let me, but whatever) but she's shipping over massive amounts and half of it is going to her kid to sell in the dorms. The kid got this idea from Julien Stevens who (heroically, depending on who you talk to) sold stuff in the dorms to the Saudi's and made a lotta money. For heavens sake he had to have been selling more than cokes. I'm convinced he slipped some alcohol in there. But now this kid is selling the exact same think as NHS in the dorms. My parent's are really pissed off. I am too, so I'm thinking about asking Mr. Kelley to ban him from selling it. It is illegal anyway i think. but anyway, we'll see...
anyway, my ipod now has only 177 minutes left to load all my files on it's disk drive. but I have to shower and stuff anyway. Any of you ever come to Houston, the downtown Hilton is an awesome hotel.
Miss you guys!
love
Katie

And you wondered why planes turn me on?

For all of you that never understood why I thought planes were awesome, I have the sexiest video with the sexiest music showing some amazing landings.

Just ignore the portugese and enjoy the music.

Boeing Crosswinds

Simply amazing.

Here's a theory:
McAvoy was obsessed with time and whether time was linear or circular. I'm sure most of you remember. Well I looked at the problem and I think I have my own solution to solve it. Because time can be linear such as a song starts and ends, and because it can be circular such as the circle of nature with life, death, crops, etc...Well I figured because it can be both than there is somewhat of an issue. Well, we've restricted our self to ideas which if drawn are only 2-Dimensional right, so why not try 3-Dimensional and so on. Somewhat like the threads the fates used. They were flexible and were connected to eachother on many dimensions. Simply put, picture a cube and all the lines that connect each corner to all the other corners. You have 7 different directions you can go, and sometimes they overlap others on a linear level or you can come back across the same line, going in a circle. That's only on the simplest level. It just gets more difficult to picture when you go onto more sides and shapes. That's only if you believe in some kind of fate though and time being choices...I guess.

When I say ORDER I mean ORDER

Ahem Ahem Ahem

Now that everyone has hopped on the tell the life story bandwagon, I'll catch up in my Ferrari to address everyone's little statement.

Katie - I am flattered that the long white slender object that crashed into those bushes in Toronto reminded me of you. Again, I must ask you to keep those thoughts to yourself. It is so nice to know that the programs started by Roosevelt in the mid-1930s are now reaching you in the barren rim of God's butt hole that you call Alaska. I'd buy you a beer to celebrate your acheivement, however, we are in America, so Katie - Welcome to 1940! Oh and Katie, you are not allowed to think of me in a perverted way for the next few months (until November 3rd to be exact) because that would be "Conspiracy to commit Statutory Rape" in California. Just to let you know.

Lynsey - I do not know where to start with you. Unfortunately your dreams involve me in a less than flattering way. You should definetly spend more time with Katie, your dreams would not be so morbid. You should definetly email me about the dream though. It is also nice to know that you are working towards that job... you can FINALLY make it over to the east coast. Oh and those fantasises should definetly involve the "long white slender object that crashed into those bushes in Toronto." Poor French people.

Courtney - Hey... Courtney... How do you like them dots??? Courtney it is so nice to hear from you! I now have access to a computer thanks to my -late- return to Los Angeles. I'm so happy that I got to call you for your birthday. Unfortunately I managed to lose my cell phone right after I called you (I think Andres stole it).

Anyways, I'll finish the list as soon as I finish checking my email.

Can we have some order here?

Ahem Ahem Ahem

Definetly Time to get out...

Hey guys!
I'm loving the blog thing! It's awesome that we can do this instead of the mass e-mail thing. ya... anyway.
I celebrated my b-day today (like forever early don't worry...) I'm gonna be on a plane for my 18th so ya... we had massive amounts of king crab and steak and stuff. And we had the best wine ever, that my parents actually let me have some of (totally freaked out now...) it was messed up, i mean they were letting my brother take puffs of my dad's cigar. I was totally freaked. My parents are anti-smoking all the way, and Jeremy would definetly pick it up at school cus he's an idiot who thinks it makes him look way cool. I mean it's weird, all the teens here smoke. In town I mean, so his friend Ross thinks it's fine, so Jeremy will, and I'm gonna freak out about this and you're all gonna write back and tell me to stop being such a fucking hypocryte. Ya. Hmm, well I never thought i'd say this, but if he listens to Brooke as a role model, he might be ok; ya wow that's a new one... hehe. just kidding.
Anyway, so i'm gonna stop freaking out. I do have good news though! I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to geiko! Ya no... we got electricity at the cabin, so my brother has been watching massive amounts of tv, including commercials. But that's not the good news. the good news is the dog just ate some shit out of the toilet (someone didn't flush) and she's gonna barf now. the good news? it's not my dog...
but really, my dad said it's official so i can say words now and tell ya'll that we're moving to Kazakhstan! Yay for well courtney and me! not so great cus now i don't know when i'll get to see lauren next. It was supposted to be christmas. bummer. so ya, mixed feelings, but my parent's are uber excited. My mom especially. She's so ready to leave Africa it's ridiculous. so ya.
well it's getting late so i'm gonna go to bed and well sleep with the knowledge that ellie (the dog) is outside my door, barfing shit away from me.
courtney - got your letter! cheered me up! i also got my victoria secret order and learned that my boobs went up a size and my bras that i ordered won't fit until i eat nasty school food and lose weight. Letter made my boobs feel better...
justin - was definetly thinking of you when i saw that the air france flight crashed. tried to explain to my dad your 'special' relationship with all things airborne and french and failed miserably. your magic is not reproducable... sorta..
lynsey... hope you get the job! anything beats boredom and hey money is fun! but 30 mins away? that's like... far! ya... however i have been to a linens'n'things and i definetly can see you in there.. it just fits. i can also see you discouraging people from buying the pink barbie rug in favor of the incredables version. course, it's really not a hard decision...
heather - wow stealing a car, that is one i cannot ad to my list quite yet. i have to say this just to appease my good side, you're a horrible influence on us! but hey if it was fun and you lived and will continue to live, rock on!
anyway, really missing you guys, had a nightmare the other night that involved justin and then george yelling 'you're cheating on me' and me saying, well no not physically, but emotionally you're really quite boring and i'm gonna run off and have a threesome with justin and liz thanks...' ya... so definetly time to go back to school, dump my boyfriend and find new friends to have threesomes with... just kidding, dont' think i'll find willing friends like you guys!
miss ya'll!
Love
Katie

Interesting Week

So I went to my job interview. It went awesome, and now I'm supposed to take a test because they couldn't find the answer sheets. My mom thinks they won't call back because it isn't worth it to train and employ me until Sept 18th...My mom is so encouraging isn't she? I just want something to do...

In two days I have orientation and registration. I'm getting nervous and anxious. I'm really worried I won't get the classes I want! I didn't get the dorm I wanted so I figure if I don't get the classes I want that I'll be off to a bad start. Who wants to start school annoyed and disgruntled?! I sure as hell don't... You will all hear about afterwards, and by my mood...you'll know.

Justin, I had the oddest dream with you in it, it wasn't the happiest of dreams though. I think one of your relatives had died or someone was in trouble. Yea, it was weird. Court, I didn't get the kitchen!! I'm sad...now I have to share a bathroom with 8 other people. Write more often! I can't think of anything else but I'll write later. Katie, don't forget my package is coming to LAS and the nuit des fees poster!!

Told you so Airbus

The title says it all. A few months ago I wrote a short "executive report" about the long term viability of the Airbus 340-300 (that's a plane by the way) in Air France's fleet. One of my three major points against the A340 (I had no pro points) was the plane was an insurance liability because of it's inability to slow down as quickly in an emergency landing as the Boeing 777-200, it's main competitor.

Lo and behold, an Air France Airbus 340-300 crashed on landing late this afternoon (August 2nd) because it was unable to slow down. The plane subsequently caught fire when it's fuel tanks were discharged in the impact. I'm going to giggle and say I told you so. Casualties unknown.

By the way, Air France is French, and Airbus if 1/3 French... Can't wait to see how the Bush administration is going to deal with this...

Oh, and from now on, all posters will use the spelling "Irak" instead of "Iraq"