1993-94

•Sunsets

•Friends

•Hershey's Kisses (and Hugs)

•Sleep

•Caffeine

•When you get to play in the mud

•Bill Clinton's face on a milk carton

•A sky with millions of stars

•True Love

•Miniature Golf

•Hugs

•Figs!

•The Red Cedar as the leaves ran down swirling and melting down into the water, as the sun disappeared behind a cloud, yet the red leaves continued to remind me of Fall . . . a perfect fall day

•More figs!

•More hugs

•Smiles

•Warm autumn days and hot chocolate with someone you care about

•Songs which bring up past memories

•A perfect day with a hayride and a bonfire and coming home smelling like a woodfire

•Ice cream

•Staying up all night to finish my homework so I don't have to do it Saturday

•60,000 hugs (Not dollars)

•Jumping

•Purple!

•Smooches

•Halloween

•Being

•Leaf fight!!!

•Exclamation point!

•Indian Summer

•Violins

•Deep dreaming

•Unwarranted gratitude

•Smiles

•Ticketed cars with U of M bumper stickers

•Deja vu

•Candy

•Falling asleep in a sunbeam

•The smell after it rains

•A full moon on Halloween

•A beautiful holiday season

•Deja vu

•A warm smile and a soft laugh

•Huge bear hugs

•Winter nights full of stars when you can see your breath rise

•Blue skies, colorful trees, long shadows, a rising moon

•Getting out of Chem lab an hour and a half early

•A hot rhumba on a cool night

•Apple strudel ice cream

•Free pizza

•Music

•Amoebas

•Daydreaming

•Recovery from a bad morning

•An unexpected surprise

•Powerful winds

•Kittens

•Being able to sit and do nothing for more than 5 minutes

•Realizing you aren't the only one

•Small marshmallows for hot cocoa

•Beating fate

•Being done with an exam

•Long drives in pretty places on an open road in the sunshine with good music playing on your loud stereo and a good friend in the passenger seat

•Getting the classes you want

•The promise of snow

•Fig Newtons!

•A cynical board

•Passing CPS 330

•Passing Statistics

•Popcorn balls

•Good band practice

•Sharing popcorn balls

•Having terrific friends that love you and that you love a whole lot!

•. . . And friends who know your name and think you're cute but who won't say so if you don't want them to

•Denise (because she's Denise)

•Jay (because he's a math genius)

•Being in love

•Solitude

•5-0, 5-1, 5-2 in fencing

•Happy! Happy! Joy! Joy!

•Life, in general

•Being loved in return

•Only two more physics tests to go -- more happiness when they're done and over with even if I fail

•Driving a jeep

•The tree with the orange leaves by the river and stopping to pick a leaf

•A happiness board

•Rivers

•Fridays!!!

•Knowing a certain test grade is worth squat when figuring out your final grade

•Grins and laughing at stupid things with friends

•Bork! Bork! Bork!

•Taking an Organic Chem test and feeling that you passed

•Sitting on the shore with the sun going down, with a drink in one hand and the world in another!

•Snow!

•Cuddling in a fuzzy blanket while the wind is howling outside!

•4.0's in Plant Biology

•Flurries while raking leaves

•Raking leaves with new friends

•Running in snow flurries in the woods!

•Raking leaves with elderly friends!!

•Trick or treating

•Walking through the woods, at night, in the rain, with only the glow of the forest to see by

•A place with no one but yourself so you don't have to worry about any one but yourself

•A small hand-held portable incendiary device

•Letters from old friends

•QD runs for Squirt

•Unstolen pens

•Mahna-Mahna!

•Owls

•Finishing outlines

•Rainbows

•Sitting on windowsills

•Being happy just 'cause -- reason enough

•Instantaneous wisdom

•Other happy people

•Having Organic Chem in Wilson for a day and biking there, so by the time you get there you're really awake!

•Silly grins

•Love...Love...Is it luck?

•'Juglito ergo sum'

•The cannons at the end of the 1812 Overture go 'Boom!'

•The whole entire, wide, warm, wonderful world

•Hopping on one foot

•Good friends who love you

•String? ... String!

•Music

•An exam three weeks away

•A great weekend without stress

•2 1/2 hours of nonstop ping-pong

•Birds

•Sleeping like a toad

•Basketball

•Frog and Toad

•Sombreros

•Storytime with warm blankets

•Carpet

•An unshakable, irrefutable, positively solid belief in the Lord above

•Having lots of things to write on the happiness board

•Beating Denise time and again in staring down contests

•Losing, not due to stupidity, but due to a lack of anything better to do

•Watching a shooting star

•Four-day weekends

•Getting strange stares when being goofy with friends

•A brand new album by your favorite group

•Finishing a book that you were reading for pleasure

•Getting big assignments done early

•Dry erase markers

•Sunsets over Lake Michigan

•Finding your eternal mate

•Brownies

•Going home!!!

•Love in Christ and God

•Vegging out

•Poinsettias

•Mistletoe

•New Testament Action Figures

•Just knowing

•Swimming on summer nights

•Happy times and good friends to share them with

•Quadriceps

•A full moon night reflecting in the ocean and casting shadows in the most beautiful way possible

•Secular happiness board

•Singing praise

•Being home

•Lunar eclipses

•Learning to juggle

•Snow

•Christmas music

•Poetry, poetry, poetry!

•Fish on your ears

•Time on your hands

•Friends on your mind

•Friends' birthdays

•'Socialist' Sweden's rich people and companies pay less taxes than Americans

•Sitting on an Amtrak train headed for home while talking to a really interesting person

•Head-butting a Mermelstein

•Head-butting a Cruikshank

•Primus

•Teen mist

•Fresh fish

•A good snowball fight!

•Sunshine shining in the windows

•Windows!

•Japanese football cheers

•Horking up hairballs

•Making chicken noises

•First drafts

•The past, present, and future when all viewed together

•Sitting up late talking with friends

•Wolves

•Brians

•'May Joy and Innocence Prevail'

•Non-socialist governments

•A 1980 Pontiac Phoenix without an inspection sticker

•When you ask someone out and he says 'Yes'

•Big, whopping hunks of DNA

•Gels that don't melt

•Loved ones

•A day without interruptions

•The sckuller of the ki

•Blue skies and puffy white clouds

•Papers that are done

•Books

•Endings

•Friendly happiness board wars

•Uncensored happiness boards

•Giant dreidels

•Riding on latkes

•Hurting CPS profs and TA's

•Destroying things

•Ripping things to shreds

•Star Wars

•Slinkies

•Birthdays

•Chocolate cake

•Going to bed early

•Finishing a homework assignment way before it's due

•Aerosmith

•Teaching a young dog new tricks

•Sleeping in

•Having a roommate stacking Coke cans at 1:30 in the morning

•Finding your keys after being scared out of your mind of losing them

•Charades

•New beginnings

•Balloons

•Having really cool friends tuck you in at night

•Finishing a class and never having to return (HA HA HA!!!)

•Not ever having to go back to another boring 1 1/2 hour Spanish Lit lecture

•Paper maché fish

•Not having Raulet as my Anthropology prof

•Jamocha shakes NOT in the dorm even if it's very cold outside

•Needing only a 73% on a final to 4.0 a class

•Barney! (In jail!)

•Puppies

•Teddy Bears

•Letters from friends

•Care packages

•Cool guys named Jay who let me print stuff up on their computer

•20 molar water

•Getting a term paper over with

•Getting over the flu

•The end of finals

•NyQuil

•Suprax

•Acetaminophen

•Really good backrubs

•Tigger

•Crayola Crayons

•Mahogany

•Oreos

•Jay and Edric

•Laughing fits (Like a glove)

•Spontaneous poems

•Running at twilight

•Clear skies with lots of stars

•The smell of new crayons

•Being happy because the world is a warm and joyous place

•Bloomington, Minnesota

•Cincinnati, Ohio

•Cleveland, Delaware

•Cairo, France

•Des Plaines, China

•Jay's Christmas Cards

•Ouagadougou, Indiana

•Brighton, Tuva

•Minnesota, Wisconsin

•Excelsior, Minnesota

•Hana, Maui

•Waiminalo, Oahu

•Kaho'olawe

•Moloka'i

•Kalaniana'ole highway

•Bagels (Good ones)

•Sleep without nightmares

•Hugs that make you feel safer

•Laughter

•Bengal Tigers

•Kowabungee cord

•The Second Amendment

•Free speech

•Freedom of religion

•Really incredibly spectacular and understanding friends

•Robin (because she's Robin)

•Flushing toilets when Tom's in the shower

•The Liberty Bowl

•Winning the Liberty Bowl

•Returning to loved ones

•Your Poly Sci exam being over

•Yeses

•Jim and Illinois

•New dagger/toys

•Monkeys

•ADV 207

•EC 251H

•Killing a six-pack of goblins without help

•Seeing Jesus Christ Superstar with a Jesus look-alike

•Seeing J.C.S. killing a six-pack of goblins without help

•A perfect mixture of pleasure, excitement, fun, friendship, music, intrigue, adventure, and the unexpected

•Bondage!!!

•Gaia

•Jesus Christ Superstar with the end done well

•Cheese

•Eggs and brains

•Aardvarks and platypuses (or is that platypii?)

•Warm ears

•A good friend's open ears

•Mango/pineapple juice

•Snow and stars!

•No snow

•Snow and high 20s

•No wind

•No rain

•No sleet

•No mail (hail)

•Perimeter guards around your bottom perimeter

•Study breaks

•Having a happy roomie!

•NO SCOOL NO SCOOL NO SCOOL

•Snow days

•Jane's Addiction

•HOME

•Porno for Jane's Pearl Temple Melon Garden of the Nirvana Chili Dog in Chains

•Funny-looking circles

•11-sided Canadian dollars

•Music you can't hear outside someone's room

•When roommates go bye-bye

•Green!

•Stuff and stuff and too and too

•Scuffed, worn hiking boots that fit your feet perfectly!

•Not falling down

•Only falling down once

•Falling up (any number of times)

•Ice skating

•Zambonis

•Interviews

•Renewal

•Procrastination

•Peace, music, direction, hope, friendship, truth, and love = happiness

•P.M.D.H.F.T.L. vs. Reality

•P.M.D.H.F.T.L. the winner by decision in 15 rounds

•Who was assassinated by the competition only two days after

•Unfortunately, reality can no longer participate in the '94 Winter Olympics

•Getting rid of some lame-ass bitch board where grumpy people spread misery

•Like Julia Roberts and Bon Jovi, P.M.D.H.F.T.L. and Reality are actually one and the same

•Jay's hair in a ponytail

•Washuu-chan

•The Buffalo Bills going to the Super Bowl 5 years in a row!

•A free mind

•(Or at least one on sale!)

•A liberal mind that is unable to commit itself to any concepts

•A twisted mind

•(Or at least one slightly bent!)

•Rough sketches

•Staying up all night and not being dead the next day

•Finding out your prof's not quite as much of a jerk as you thought

•Cowboys twice in a row

•0-4

•Other people's pink shirts

•Jay being snide

•Her

•Pinky and the Brain

•Cartoons

•No work tomorrow

•Not having to work, but being paid for it

•Pete's shit

•Escape

•Clogged arteries

•Jujuy!

•FREEDOM!

•Not accidentally drinking a jar of amoebic dysentery

•Cute little spaceships named Ryo-oh-lai

•Neat Physics on the Physics 842 midterm

•Neat words

•Woo! Woo!

•Flowers

•Running through mud puddles

•Anticipation

•Valentines and flowers from friends who love you

•Bouncing in new running shoes

•Baby mandrills

•Lemur life

•Brief prose

•Clean briefs

•Ecstatic existentialist educators

•The end of the 26-hour mid-term triathalon from awfully close to hell

•People who come to get you and get you outta here

•Watermelon

•Women with hairy backs

•Dancing

•Climbing trees

•Skiing trees

•Jogging trees

•Jingle trees, jingle trees. jingle all the way...

•A button found in the dirt that when washed in a puddle turns out to be navy blue with a gold design in the center

•Good plays where after, some guy comes up on stage and proposes to his girlfriend in front of the whole audience and she says YES!

•(Virtual) Reality

•MSU Football/Hockey

•Chew toys

•Ronald and Patsy

•Blue skies, Barfee burgers, Girls!

•Rooftops, skylines, and empty buildings

•Aladdin

•Genuine-imitation laser beams

•Dancing in the rain

•The rooftops of MSU

•Passing ZOL 141 test

•Morning insight: x=aN b aN -- Since |uv| = N, v must consist of only one or more of the first a's. Subsequent pumping will cause the resulting string to be non-palindromic, thus defying Theorem 8.2a

•Sheep (and being one)

•Cadbury Cream Eggs

•Sculpting with Ramen noodles

•The Cadbury Bunny (buk buk buk)

•Cargo nets

•Throw rugs

•Barney off the air

•Narf!

•Seeing a huge (and I mean huge) shooting star while listening to bagpipes after studying for three hours

•Tsukino, Vsagi

•16 year old

•Having a ten-year-old wonder what you'd look like with a mustache

•Mortal Kombat

•Blood, Blood, your precious Blood!

•The sun sets and I am alive

•Godjira

•Classes, and the skipping of them

•Melting pieces of chocolate cream Easter bunnies from a friend's care package

•Red-tailed hawks that swoop over you and land right near you while you're running

•Guitars!

•Teddy Bears!

•Saying 'WooWhoo!'

•Spansh!

•Spanish, too!!

•Monosyllabic words

•Greek (Examplia gratia: Carpe Diem and Id est: 'Go for it!')

•Sneezes

•Hair

•Baby butts

•Not pulling a muscle during preseason

•Local bands

•Free beer

•Say Anything

•The smell of freshly cut grass

•Care packages!

•Hot chocolate with tons of mini-marshmallows

•A cool shower on a hot day

•Forgetting to put on sunscreen and not getting burned

•A new mouthpiece

•Beanbags

•Penguins (Just kick ass)

•Catching up on sleep

•Watching old movies

•Meeting President McPherson's cat whose name is Diane who is male and who only has three legs

•Rubber chickens

•Talking rubber chickens

•Ed, the happy ax murderer

•Sporks and magic sporks

•Cornell!

•Wicker

•Hank

•Infectiously bouncy music

•Kittens and string

•The Sailor Man theme song

•Popeye the Sailor Man theme song (toot toot!)

•Meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow

•Smashing pumpkins

•Topographic surveys

•Making up after a fight

•Ang Pang Umagang News Service Ng

•Finding the Lord's purpose for your life

•Cool guys from Musicland

•Perspective

•Eternal things

•Howard Stern for governor

•Green. California. Vincent van Gogh.

•Flexible Personnel

•People who are too tall for you to know them

•Trap doors

•People being catapulted during intermission because they came in late and the orchestra falling through the floor

•Acting improvisation

•Gee, little kitty!

•Korean lab partners who pay you $50 for 'explaining things so I can understand them'

•Lemurs eyes

•Jaguarundis

•Eating glop

•Tim finishing it!!!

•Gluing Tim's sphincter shut

•Listening to silly discussions about hermaphroditic fish go on into the wee hours of the morning

•Driving around town with the windows down and the stereo blasting on a hot and sunny summer day

•Climbing trees and jumping in mud puddles on windy March days

•Making it to CPS 230 at 8:00 after staying up to 5:00 am

•Lab partners who make you feel smarter through their stupidity

•Plastic man!

•Boing BAA!!! Boing BAA!!!

•The return of the Muppet Show!!

•Nosferatu

•Dos Wampyr (or however it's spelled)

•April Fools Day!

•Soundgarden!

•Fortuosity

•Toxic, glowing Easter eggs

•Non-jelly beans

•Nietzsche Pops -- The Uberbreakfast

•Cheez-its

•Ribbons

•Cash. The gift that keeps on giving

•Easter

•Climbing trees

•Cool conversations with new friends

•Good books

•Warm, sunny, happy days out walking in the fresh air and experiencing Creation

•Peach vanilla cream soda

•Dried pineapple

•Memories

•Safety pins

•8:00 pm Sunday night sunsets

•Watching Jurassic Park at midnight

•Kansas! (Dorothy, Toto, etc.)

•Finding immense happiness in tiny things

•Finding tiny happiness in immense things

•Past loves

•Past lives

•Another 500 happy thoughts

•Brothers and sisters (the spiritual kind)

•Horses

•Bonfires

•Explosions

•3¢ stamps on bad days

•My roommate next year!

•Smear

•Food I haven't had in a long time

•Any food

•Laser of Library Destruction

•Living for weekends

•Threesomes

•Drinking orange juice, not cappuccino

•Summer jobs with cute coworkers

•Sociology

•Today, Curt Cobain was sighted at a Burger King in Kalamazoo

•Scandal! Scandal! Scandal!

•Duets!

•Writing fun letters

•Guilt trips to the zoo

•South Dakota

•Anything west of the Mississippi

•Big sky

•Political cartoons about MASA

•Hay fights

•Rabbits

•Long nights talking and singing with new (and old) friends

•Learning more about love

•Bittersweet yearnings

•Cups full of water with lots of straws

•Learning new guitar songs while jamming with friends

•3-D comic books

•Goldfish

•Lightning!

•Being held when you're crying or holding someone when he(she)'s crying. (It may not seem like it at the time, but looking back, it's the best feeling.)

•Ditto, Ditto

•Finally beating that video game

•Fidelity

•V. being silly

•Planning the room for next year

•Thunder

•Stupid nicknames

•Staying up all night to have a deep, emotional, and spiritual conversation with terrific friends

•Molasses cookies

•Friendly peanut butter cookies

•Realizing that I have an apartment next year!

•Dry-erase markers

•Green pens

•The realization that the mysterious error in your program is due to referencing the pointer and is therefore probably not my fault

•Dropping an H-option

•Attack of the Green Slime

•Unprompted good moods

•Simple joys

•Falling asleep on a soft couch under a warm quilt

•Homemade pizza crust

•Being valued and respected

•Bright crescent moons in indigo skies

•Getting absolutely drenched on the way to Calc class while thunder crashes and lightning streaks the ashen sky, and laughing the whole time

•Volleyball

•Drunks

•Continuances

•Really cool chord progressions

•The Prayer Chain (Good music!)

•Not running

•Night running (especially when it's still 65 degrees at midnight)

•Pina Colada Slurpees

•Single digits!

•Canoes

•Bombay instead of Jay

•Brillig and toves gyreing in the wabe

•Treasure hunting with Super Soakers

•Snark hunting

•Drip torches

•Grass

•Fire!

•Jay didn't get his computer pregnant!

•Baptizing a good friend -- Praise God!