Another Departure

You know, it's strange. Despite all these months that we've been seperated, it seems like nothing has fundamentally changed. And that's good. It seems like we could all get back together one of these days, and we would all just know how to act, know what kind of things to talk about, and be able to live together once again. Lynsey drove down today. Everything was just like before. Even saying goodbye. Those of you who were there that night, in that hotel room, surely remember the kind of emotion there was. Strange how up until that last moment, we didn't know we had it in us to feel that way. At least, that was my case. I always liked to think of myself as that loner type that could up and leave, never looking back. And I have done that before. But this time around, something managed to stick, and I didn't realize it until the very end. Just now, I was able to experience that again. Again it kind of surprised me. I guess you are supposed to meet all these new people in college who become your life long friends and all that, but some how it doesn't seem to work just like that. I've already got a bunch of friends that could probably last a lifetime. I feel bad that I haven't spoken to all of you that much if at all... but I'd love to talk, anytime, about anything. My number is on facebook.

Anyways, it's already been too long. Especially you Chris... how come you call Lynsey more than you call me? yeah, maybe I can't even fit into an A cup, and maybe I'm not pretty, but I was your roommate! Call me... and I'll call you.

ok... I'm going to go console myself now. And maybe call charlie. If anything is worth half a dollar per minute, it's her (not 1-800-hot-babe, although I suppose some parallels could be drawn ;). Sorry, couldn't resist.

Drunken Lessons

Paul told me to write down my adventures, so if I must, I must.

Saturday I was hanging out with the guys downstairs, and they discovered that they were supposed to be going to a Pimps'n'Hoes party. No one had any 'costumes' so one of the guys decided he wanted to be a Hoe.

1) When guys wear skirts make sure that their man thongs are at least funny to look at. Like fuzzy leopard print works well. And a skirt that doesn't fall off their hips works well too (guys have smaller hips than girls!)
2) Use a bra you don't mind being stretched out by their wide chests...
3) Make sure you actually get to the Pimps'n'Hoes party... :D

So when dressing up as Hoes, it makes it interesting going to a Black and White party...hehe. I mean, imagine Lynsey, in a tiny green skirt, velvet tanktop, and fishnets...yea, I went out in public. I swear! I think being around Alex, the guy in my skirt, helped a bit...haha.
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PS...Letting one of their friends sleep in your room leads to awkward situations. Hence the "Let's Wrestle" lesson.

When a guy who is shorter, younger, and even more inexperienced than you asks to wrestle while in his boxer shorts and muscle tee...just ask 'What?!?!' over and over again. Then tell them honestly when they ask, "No...you're not creepy."
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IN OTHER NEWS:

One of my best friends from Saudi named Neal, is someone I've been looking for for the past five years. There were five of us, call us a gang, and we were Tara, Sarah, Lynsey, Neal, and Steven. I keep in touch with the other three. Steven messages me today and asks me "What was Neal's little brother's name?" and I tell him. He replies, "WOW, He just e-mailed me admitting that he was gay and lives in Arkansas..." Well we always knew he was gay, that's not new, but, what did he add later? A transvestite? Now that was unexpected...but Hey! Now we can get a hold of Neal. Good for us. Later on, Steve messages me again, "I just talked to Neal and Matt on the phone!" ...yea...cool..."Neal's getting married!" WAIT, WHAT?! (He's younger than me by 6 months) You're kidding..."Nope!" Wow...shock. So I decided I'd e-mail him. We'll see how that goes. Five years...and all this news in one day...I think I'm going to have a heart attack. Goodness Gracious Ar-Kansas.

Boston

So as some of you may know, I'm going to be in Boston for 4 days during thanksgiving break for zome Zope3 training stuff. Hopefully I will be able to meet up with some ex-LAS Bostonians. I am so ready for a break. College seems to have gotten a bit harder in the last few weeks... or maybe I'm just trying harder. Anyways... that's it for me.

I'm bored again, so extremely bored. The only breaks in my boredom have been talking to you guys and a few people I knew from Saudi. A three-day weekend and NOBODY was here. I will not count the hours I spent in my room for three days straight. And yes, I was supposed to go snowboarding Saturday, and yes the two people who were supposed to go with me backed out, and yes I don't have chains or traction tires...so no, I didn't go to Baker this weekend. Maybe this could explain my grumpiness.

We moved our room around for the 2nd time this quarter. Not on my behalf of course, but my roommate's. It typically seems to be like that. I clean, I take out the trash...and still I'm considered messy. Yea...not going to get into that. Definitely not. It's ok. I can keep calm. Grrr...

Dammit, now I'm frustrated. Bored and frustrated. You don't want to listen to that crap.

The pic is my room before we moved it around again. I'll show you another one now that we've changed it again. That means my bed was moved. My bed.

Time to disagree with Paul

As many of you know, I recently converted to an ultra-conservative sect of Christianity that identifies itself with evangelical views of our Lord and Savior, George W. Bush and his Prophet Pat Robertson and Prophette Harriet Myers. It is about time that our children are taught how to appreciate what the Bible tells us, and not what godless communist-Democrats have to say about that famous heretic Charles Darwin. Everyone knows that Charles Darwin was the greatest heretic of all time, he even says so in his posthumously published autobiography I am a Bloody Heretic and the Church was Right all Along.

The decision to teach children in Kansas about the beauty of what our Lord George W have told us in their novel entilted El Bible. Evolution is a Liberal lie aimed at destroying our values - values that came from this great book. Creationism, or as well shall now call it - "We are right and you are wrong therefore you are going to burn in hell", is the only way to understand the world.

Paul, you are a godless liberal. You need to find God. To get back to God, I'd recommend watching the 700 Club on a regular basis. God also recently signed a contract with Fox News to broadcast his goodness 24/7. Watch Fox News regularly. As for our godless Sex Phene Katie, it is only a matter of time before you find Gawd - Gawd being the French Word for Dildo. Katie, you are hopeless, maybe Lynsey can write your obituary, but besides that, there is no hope for you... Acutally there is, and it involves sex with the leader of this new religion. I happen to be the leader of this new religion.

TOK

Ya so I'm in TOK now. We're talking about Capital Punishment. Anyone ever read about Gary Gilmore? The guy who didn't want to appeal his death penalty? Ya we're talking about him etc. Damn Paul, you French ppl are messed up, you used the guillotine up until the early 60's. I'm a dork...
Anyway, very proud of everyone updating all at once... Anyway, missing snowboarding Paul and Lynsey, I hate you both! Hehe, But I'm totally visiting both of you this summer! I wanna go when Charlie's there too! Ok and Courtney, Andres and I figured it out. We're picking up you and Justin and Lauren (if you're there) in DC and road tripping it to Flordia, we're gonna pick up Liz and party it up in Miami.... Hehe, ya so seriously, I'm gonna be in the states at like the end of June, so everyone pick a state and stay there! hehe.
Anyway, it's only 20 minute classes today, so I gotta go walk to English now (damnit, Henderson is being a bitch these days, she says we have senioritus but quite honestly, she never does anything, for a while she made us teach!!!)
Miss you guys
Love
Katie

NNoooo....

Kansas Board of Education just approved the teaching of intelligent design in public schools. Katie... don't bother coming to the States for your education... it's not worth it! we're all crazies! Oh, and here is a link to the slashdot posting of this. There are *really* *really* funny comments. But don't read them if you sympathize with the School Board because you might be offended. Or in other words... they are *really* *really* funny. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/08/2338233

In other news... here is a picture from my Cruise in Italy that I took after grad. Enjoy!

Basketball Junkie

Did any of you ever realize Basketball players are sexy? Justin, you know what I'm talking about! So yea, basketball all the way. Every day, as often as possible. I do like to play though, and that's a bonus. It's good exercise too and I can only get better. I see absolutely nothing wrong with being addicted to basketball guys... I mean just basketball...not the guy part, just basketball .

So we're discussing classes eh? Here's what I wanna take then:
Eng 202 -- Writing about Literature
Phys 115 -- Principles of Physics II
+ either/or
Egeo 209 -- Geography and World Affairs
Plsc 271 -- Intro. to Int'l Relations
Lbrl 278 -- Intro. to Islamic Civilization
Soc 251 -- Sociology of Deviant Behavior

Can't say much else. Yea, I'm a gonna go snowboarding, screw you east coast people. Hope everyone's doing well. Katie...the ho train thing, I can't believe those underclassmen girls are such sluts! lol. Stupid bitches. Geez. I'll make calls soon, make my rounds, lol.

ummmm

ok, i guess it is time for my own monthly update type thing. Firstly... I can't beleive you didn't mention me in your trip to Washington Katie... unless i'm the "bears." I want to go camping too you know. When are you comming? Secondly... Lynsey... we are going snowboarding on my Birthday ok. it's on a sunday. We can go to mount baker... that sounds pretty sweet. I'll take a bus up there that friday... either to baker... or to belingham or something, and we will drive over and go skiing on saturday or sunday. To all of you who chose the east coast... BITE ME! I'M GOING SNOWBOARDING!!. ok, I'm done with the guilt trip now. In other news, turns out I'm going to be in bostong for the 4 days before thanksgiving. My boss is flying me out there for this Zope training thing. In other news: LAUREN: COME TO WASHINGTON!. Let's see. that is about it. Oh right... my next semester classes look sorta like this (assuming i get all the classes I want):

Esoteric and Mystical themes in Islam
Differential Equations
Linear Algebra (hell yes!)
SNOWBOARDING (yes... it is worth 1 credit)
piano lessons (also 1 credit)
and general studies (required of freshman... basically TOK without Sharp - a.k.a. easy as pie)

I for one am happy with Whitman and am happy with a liberal arts school. Everyone here thinks they are talented... and they are! My roommate freakin composes music. And it is good too. And it's classical too... not that cheap and easy cry me a river stuff.

I know I may not write much on this blog... or talk a lot to all of you online... but i do read this blog diligently. And I do miss the good LAS life (as opposed to the Bad LAS life... i don't miss that). I miss fondue, and top pub, and chocolate, and cantedou, and Les Fers, and yearbook (which I got by the way). I miss thinking we were cool for being in IB/AP lol. it means nothing! I miss watching Chris do stupid stuff or say stupid stuff. ha ha ha. no hard feelings right? or Katie's seal style laughing. do you still laugh like a seal? Justin's *rude* remarks (how are those working out for you in our nations capitol?), and lauren's piano playing. then there are the blondes... I won't mention their names. ha ha ha. And then of course there is Charlie. I guess I won't torture you all by explaining how much that is torturing me. But if you want to know... I'm only a phone call away!

If you don't have my phone number/mailing address... well you should. If you want it, email me.

Confuzzelled

Is that one l or two?
Ya having been mentioned twice in the past two posts... I feel obligated to reply. First, yes I am probably further along in my college search. In fact my first two applications (Stanford and Rice, Yes I am applying to Stanford, no I will not get in ;) oh well) are due this week because, oh ya Ms. Galbraith is leaving right when we need her the most... Anyway. And second, God I wish I was snowboarding. There was a trip to Saas Fee last weekend, but I had to do SAT II so that was fun. Then I'm booked solid. I have my Extended Essay rough draft due the 28th, right after Thanksgiving, when my parents are coming. And the week before that, next weekend, I have to do this stupid French immersion thing. So basically, I'm screwed. Also trying to do a History Internal Assessment. That's fun. Anyway, enough random complaining.
Hehe, this weekend, I was in the Red Frog Friday night for a while, and Ali stole my phone, so I was getting it back (a long process it turns out) and then George comes up to me in Top Pub the next night thinking I was hitting on Ali. It was entertaining. George has been weird one... Not in a bad way. We're friends and I actually am really glad we are. Hehe, he made out with Chelsea in Top Pub the first weekend of drinking permission. It was so funny. I made so much fun of them... Anyway, that's my random story
mmm... Oh ya the admin hates our class, the girls are totally screwed over... Some of them decided to bring back the ho train... well the girls got upset and called their parents and Kelley. So if any senior girl calls an underclass girl a whore or a slut or anything, off-campus. Ya as much as I'd like to go home.. bit extreme.
Ya so sorry I don't have better news. It's been a bit depressing around here to tell you the truth. I miss having upbeat friends! Goddamnit. hehe, anyway
Miss you guys
Love
Katie
PS. I'm doing the tour of the US. Confirmed stops include Flordia and Washington State. If you wish to be added to the Katie does the States tour please contact her... Hehe, i have no dates, but if you're gonna be in a specific place at a specific time, tell me. And we are totally gonna go camping in Washington. Even if it's just me, Lyn and the bears...

Oh MY GOD!

Whistler-Blackcomb opened this weekend.
Mount Baker opens this Tuesday.
Steven's Pass opens this Wednesday.

Other Info
MT. BAKER WILL BEGIN DAILY OPERATION TUESDAY NOVEMBER 8th at 9:00am which will be the earliest opening day we have had in over a decade.According to snocountry.com's data base, we now have the deepest snowbase of any ski area in the world right now!With mountain forecasts calling for more snow between now and Tuesday and freezing levels down around a chilly 2500 feet, is looking like this coming Tuesday will be the deepest powder day opening we have had in more than 25 years! . . . . . maybe ever??We are also advising you that due to this tremendous snowfall, in simple terms: stay out of the backcountry. It is extremely unstable and extremely dangerous.See you Tuesday!

WHY DO I HAVE CLASSES TUESDAY??? Grr...I'm so going next Saturday. Katie, you better be snowboarding up there!

News of the day: I am transferring out of Bard, there is no way I could stay here for another year, must less another three. Liberal arts college = a bunch of people who think they have talent but dont. And the fact that there are a total of 6 people majoring in Chemistry and Physics doesn't help, and most of the Biology courses are ecology-based because everyone wants to save the rainforest. And hey it's not just me, other people I've talked to think Bard kids are dweebs too. But end result is I have to start looking at CollegeBoard all over again, and I'm probably farther behind on my college search than Katie, hehe. On another note, no more doctor thing, my new fad is bio research, probably because my job is to be a lab slave to a bio researcher. It's the only thing keeping me sane here at the moment. Anyway, I'm not exactly the happiest camper right now and I miss everyone so much. It's just hard coming from such an international background, and a compounded, world-within-a-world type of community to something like this, I think, so I'm upping and moving to Canada! Hehe. Well that's about it, nothing much interesting has been going on, since I'm at Bard, so I'll cut this post around here. Miss you guys a ton, whats going on with this summer?!?

Lauren