1994-95

•Friends

•Preseason

•Intramural George (Hail George!)

•Fuzzy things in the lawn

•Cute girls on ISCA

•Love

•Pigtails!!

•Laurel's 19th birthday!

•Me! (Angela)

•Getting through the first day alive and not skipping anything (including the lame-ass CBI meeting!!)

•Preseason is over!

•Elephant jokes

•Elevators

•Climbing trees

•Funky shadows

•New friends

•Soccer

•The Happiness Board being back

•Being called 'awesome x's three,' even if you're not

•Nicknames

•Pants

•Making animal shadows on the ceiling with your hands

•Perception

•The coming of the Cynical Board

•Physiology 431

•Mornings off

•Matt and Edric!

•A note from a girl asking for a date

•Actually getting a call from her, too

•Victor Borge at Wharton in November

•Collapsible shovels, vomit, and school plays

•People who appreciate a good story

•Eating ice cream

•Stuffed animals

•Finally finding someone (I hope!!)

•Going home for Labor Day weekend

•Postage stamps

•Tweeds catalog

•Mail in general

•Piano music

•Girls (that includes feminists)

•Angst

•Bubble packs

•Demon spawn, the centipede who saved Christmas

•Succobi

•No, Inclubi!

•A good phlebotomy

•Thirty minute scalp massages!

•Mmmmmm . . .

•The Hare Krishna when they hug you on a bad day

•Good cats

•Having an apartment

•Having a co-op that pays $9 per hr!

•George the novel

•Muppets

•Doom (II)

•Darn -- I missed Myst

•Sleep

•Enigma -- Return to Innocence

•Chocolate chip cookie dough

•Reeses Pieces (and peanut butter cups)

•Reeses products in general

•Laughing a lot at dumb jokes

•Finished Physics homework

•Scrunchy wars

•Blue skies and gray clouds

•Reflection

•Job possibilities

•Flubberdeebubberdeebubberdeebub

•Gray skies and blue clouds

•Cheesy James Dean flicks

•Wearing grungy shorts on a date against the advice of Robin Shea and having a great time anyway

•Nine Inch Nails Live!!!

•Spaced out drivers with an accomplice

•Cheesecake

•The Children's Gardens

•Sea foam

•Human pillows

•Dreams, hopes, and aspirations

•Matt in jail

•Psycho tag

•Safety orange traffic cones

•Hey -- safety orange, period

•Skinny blond phreaks

•Phallic L's in Little Minnesota

•Pool cue jousting

•Girls who actually like to touch 'Nice Guys' (both of them)

•Firefly safaris

•'Bob'

•'Yeah . . . but my parallel construction beats your double negative!'

•Orange caution horses

•Blammo products

•Hats

•Long runs with winds blowing at just the right angle to perfectly cool you off

•Changing leaves

•Painting your face

•Painting coconuts

•Toads

•Having a perspective Naveen wants

•Edric!

•Stack-a-derm

•JETS!

•Friday night

•Robin's 20th birthday

•Finally being happy for a few days

•Being dirty, filthy, stinking rich

•New Year's

•Pocket knives

•Soundtracks

•In's

•Calla lilies

•Ancient symbiosis of lichens!

•Letters from friends

•Red hair, blue-gray eyes, and a dazzling smile that puts the sun to shame.

•Getting massages and doing the Hokey Pokey in THR 101

•Lynn's backrubs

•Mother Love Bone

•Long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days. -Bull Durham

•$6 per hour

•Blue jeans

•Treasure hunts

•A freshly shaven scalp

•Popping that really big zit

•Climbing trees, sandal-chasing, then magic

•'How do you make this thing work?' -- 'Eh -- whatever.'

•Typing paper

•Woody Harrelson collages and Naveen's reactions to them -- 'What the hell?!'

•Love that lasts!

•Or, barring love, fooling around once in a while

•Gooey love letters from my boyfriend. (Kinky ones, too!)

•Carnivorous fish

•The Breakfast Club Massacre

•Edric's hair

•Baskin Robbin's trips

•Simple joy

•Sunlight enveloping you

•Spinning

•Stars

•Friendships that endure and grow

•Strength, joy, and transparency

•Wild horses

•Finally being able to see the 3-D parts of those funky 3-D pictures

•Day-knights and Night-knights

•Chinese food

•Reservoir Dogs

•'Hardy fuckin' har.'

•Rikki-tikki-tavi

•Wild roses at Rose Lake Wildlife Research Area

•Picking up drunk 23 year olds in clubs

•Roller blading with Jay

•Frogs that spit

•'Give me the duck, Harry, just give me the duck!'

•Duck, duck, animal

•Tom and Gina

•Blob (the kind that doesn't reproduce)

•Armor Potted Meat Food Product (Just the name)

•Oom-pah, oom-pah, oom-pah, oom-pah!

•Aimee

•My turntable finally arriving! Yeaa! I love my LP's

•Happy friends!

•Sisters who aren't idiots

•On a crappy morning, having someone walk up to you in the caf and give you a pair of panties

•Having a long slow evening!

•A 200 lb. magnet and more creativity

•Having the almighty power of being a TA

•Walking in on ... no, wait, that's pretty gross actually (Yes, it is)

•Heh heh heh ...

•Passing calc ... plus EE ... plus CPS .........

•Bean burritos from Taco Bell

•A big eye on my wall

•Hell Spawn II -- Melissa's nightmares

•They Might Be Giants songs

•'If you're gonna look at her, you mighta swell sleep with her.' -- Steve

•'Akira!' ... 'Canada!'

•Rain

•Psychiatry

•Game Day!

•Running your fingers through the hair of the one you love

•Ticklish people

•Spending the entire day with the one you love

•Actually beating Notre Dame (for the first half!)

•Chiaroscuro

•Mutant dandelion things

•Or field hawkweed

•Fresh laundry

•March 5th

•Waking up in a pool of blood

•Going to dinner and finding out it isn't raunchy

•Being 91.2% pure

•Not being 91.2% pure

•Being less pure than Mike

•Fearso begunion

•Lions beating Dallas on Monday Night Football (Even if it was ugly)

•Driving down I496 without actually touching the steering wheel

•July 19th and August 20th

•July 6th, 1998 -- X-day

•Earning a paycheck

•Corruption!

•Spending the weekend with my boyfriend

•Zorn's Lemma

•Sucking Jello

•Kicking Tom's butt

•Doing some heavy breathing with Becky

•Pregame off the field, then parade block

•Death gravy!

•Bill's funky chin

•Michigan losing to Colorado

•Raggedy Ann and Andy

•Tickling Andy (Everyone should try it!)

•Highway-making snails that go blub, blub, blub

•Escaping from Brody to come to Mason

•Walruses

•'My Way' as performed by Sid Vicious

•Paper-producing penguins who live on top of a mountain in Zimbabwe under a palm tree with lots of computers

•Jason in Mason

•Toothless beavers

•Potatoes that look like the Elephant Man

•Smashing pounds of currency beneath tons of roaring train

•Being in love in the morning

•Tag

•Rolling down hills

•War cries

•Acorns and chubby squirrels and chipmunks

•Praying in the middle of a big field while it rains

•Learning a new song you really like

•Getting up early and not feeling tired

•Getting hugs from joyful people when you are really joyful

•Jay playing goalie

•Getting taught wise discernment

•Daydreams of conquering the Physics Monsters

•Zachariah!

•Record shows

•Bisexuality

•Green Styrofoam peanuts

•Forking Matt

•'Gobs of lube'

•Humpback whales

•A fresh happy board!

•The color blue

•Mail

•Being five chapters behind in CPS 410

•Being AHEAD for the first time in my life

•Glow in the dark stars on the ceiling

•Gratuitous rejection (Whee!)

•Radio stations that play DEVO

•Hockey season tickets

•Love for the sake of disease

•Take this, brother, may it serve you well

•Being scratched behind the ears

•Getting your whiskers scratched

•Purple sunrises

•'I hate those fuckin' shoes!'

•Justasunazi

•Shaving Kim's head

•Feeling Kim's shaven head

•Floating bog mats

•Wilderness

•Not having to get up in the morning

•Kicking Wolverine ass on Saturday

•Blatant displays of androgyny (i.e. Kim's shaven head)

•Fishbowls full of Ramen noodles

•...And other stuff

•Motherly reactions (i.e. Kim's shaven head)

•The Happiness Board II

•Not having to cut wood

•Cold apple cider

•Not having your wood cut

•Fall colors

•Being told you give warm hugs

•Friday Wooooo!

•Stylin' and skankin' on the 7 seas

•Icky Poo

•Drawing by the river

•Spontaneous midnight trips to Windsor

•Beets cure cancer!

•John Muir

•Mountains

•Nature

•God

•Rain

•Silly migrating geese

•Enchiladas

•Smurfilicious

•Jurassic Park

•Matt's Laugh

•Staring out the window and watching the leaves fall from the trees

•Sunny runs

•Kids

•Being the cat in a game of cat and mouse

•Having a sword and using it!

•My dad coming to visit from California

•'Well, in that case, I give you permission to move the clock.'

•Doing something a Fragel can't!!

•Love in the afternoon

•Temporal summation

•Rats (can I have one, please Brad?)

•Going home to see Cliff (Yay!)

•Apples!

•Beautiful fall days spent wandering around a cute small town with someone you love lots!

•'Third and a millimeter, third and a skosh.'

•Genuine Bulgarian scrounge

•Droogs

•The wavelength of a Whopper

•National Coming Out Day

•Not having to go to any classes on Friday

•Stuart

•Karen

•Walking back from music in the hazy morning, watching the sleek, black squirrels play, with the sunlight streaming down through the trees by Beaumont Tower

•Packages from Genie's mom

•The prospect of someday having my face back

•Q: Are we not men? -- A: We are D-E-V-O

•She-ra -- Princess of Power

•'Autobots, roll-out!' -- Optimus Prime

•Beautiful fall days

•Mr. Happy

•Girls with short black hair

•Tori -- a real woman

•The Quiet Man

•Being able to play trumpet!

•Playing in the leaves with friends on a beautiful fall day

•The Woods

•Ego trips

•Camping trips

•Finishing a very long, very boring IAH paper way ahead of time -- thank you Steve and Stephanie!

•Industrial-sized Quik

•Physics curves

•Backrubs

•Eating a home cooked meal

•Lethargy!

•Refusing to be passive

•Apathy

•A good KISS on the phone

•Father Visa

•Ducks

•Muskrats

•Sitting in the sun on a fall afternoon and watching the two above critters

•Ducking falling muskrats

•Mountain Dew

•Empty pizza boxes with melted cheese stuck to the bottom

•Being tucked into bed

•Being in love!!

•Being free

•Improving your eyesight

•Faithfulness

•Leprous genitals

•Healed knees

•Running to Mason and back

•Playing trombone

•Sitting for hours listening to the ducks

•Keeping someone warm

•Early enrollment

•And being able to get on!!

•Being a grad student

•Being an eternal child

•Eternal Father

•Netting for the first time

•Snuggling

•Getting mail for the first time in a month

•Bos Milkicus and Bos Meaticus

•Lard for personal adornment

•Fridays

•The popcorn that the buffoon ate

•Love for the sake of affection

•Clashing

•Bobbing for oranges

•Caramel popcorn and apple cider

•Unbelievable sunsets

•Trust

•Feeding the ducks

•Upside down

•Feeding upside down ducks

•Getting your neck scratched

•Really knowing you're in love

•Blushing and acting dumb as a result of the above

•Rocky Horror Picture Show

•Trick-or-Treating

•Blowing your nose

•Snow!

•More snow

•Christmas thoughts

•Waiting for Loralee Fleming to say 'I hate all this fucking snow!'

•Having a nose

•Spending an afternoon curled up with my honey

•11 jars of honey

•Golden tree and building tops

•Rain galoshes

•Meeting people from GA

•Long goodnight kisses

•Mickey's Ice Malt Liquor

•A buzz!

•Some perty girls

•Sloths

•Dijon snowbaby

•Red drumsticks

•'Speed of light -- 100 m.p.h.'

•Steaming dung piles

•Cheewy pants

•Seeing happy un-birthday signs up 12 hours after they were posted

•Guys with pretty brown eyes and loonngg eyelashes

•Fire! Fire! Fi -- Oh yeah!

•Having your toes sucked while sitting in a hot tub. (Or just sucked)

•Matt's belly button

•Having Andrea not hate me

•Standing on your head (preferably naked -- try to picture it, you'll laugh)

•Chocolate flavored kisses

•Cute butts

•They Might Be Giants

•Hot nipple lava

•Blushing gud

•Happening to get up, go to the bathroom, your roommate wakes up, locks you out and takes a shower. I don't know -- it was odd and made me kinda happy . . . go fig

•Getting in at 6:00 in the morning from a party where you were stared at by an incredibly gorgeous man all night

•Sheep

•Yeah, sheep. Sheep are cool

•Kleenex

•Clean socks (make it all better)

•I quality . . . You qualitii . . . He/she/it qualiteases

•Reindeer on drugs

•Snafu wars

•Cuddling on a bean bag chair

•Hangings

•My lover!

•Mine too!

•My liver!

•Mine too (my beloved, I mean)

•Old Testament names (i.e. Jehosephat, Zebediah, Jubal, Zachariah)

•Especially Jubal

•Wind

•Friendly, leaping, kicking goats

•Friendly, leaping, kicking screaming salamanders

•Naveen's birthday

•Friendly, leaping, kicking girlfriends

•Corned beef sandwiches from all-night delis

•The desperately bored cops in New Hudson, MI

•Balinital shankroids

•Friendly, leaping, kicking sheep

•Trans-orbital frontal lobotomies

•Proliferating smiley faces

•Dominic Scappaticci

•Awakening

•Artificial ornamentation

•Killing the smiley faces -- squishing the smiley faces beneath my boots while I laugh the whole time at their miserable, pitiful fate

•Taking a study break and watching Robin Hood

•Being able to see Orion's sword and bow and the Pleiades and lots of other stars like flashlights

•Stargazing with my honey

•Giving blood, then eating lots of ketchup

•Kim, yer bleeding!

•When your eye turns from black to blue to yellow to almost normal

•Mountain Dew and mountain dew

•A good book, a warm blanket, and a bowl of popcorn

•Helping Andrea schedule, thereby preserving her sanity

•Movie Marathons -- Star Wars and Star Trek -- 12+ hours -- yes!

•Saturday mornings

•The slow wave

•Winning a football game in the second half

•Meeting my boyfriend over the net -- him visiting

•November 18th, 1994

•'I don't understand this stuff.' -- 'So throw some more stones, dude!'

•20 minute labs

•Depressing day

•Lovely day

•What? Oh -- time delay hearing

•Whomp!

•Broken mornings

•My numb is completely leg!

•Victor Borge

•Suffocating while trying not to laugh in an almost silent, very full Great Hall of the Wharton Center

•Feeding the ducks and watching them fight over bread while quacking hysterically -- all with the one you love forever

•Lovely immortal ducks

•Phallic nightlights

•A day off!

•Drawing in the butterfly room in the greenhouse

•Not having any more tests to study for!

•Bondage bear

•Goofy faces

•Kites

•Fulfilling requirements

•Graduating early

•Free time

•The first day off of the school year -- Saturday, November 19th, 1994

•The Grey Girl

•Practical jokes

•Green-haired heteros

•KISS, Def Leppard, and Black Sabbath

•Dads who take the whole day off work for you

•Fun with cranberry sauce

•Smashed chocolate cake with pepper ... not bad, actually

•Cats (The animals, not the musical)

•The Carrier -- one spiffy movie!

•Going to meet your boyfriend's parents (hopefully!)

•Fun

•Magic straws

•Brad Pitt

•'I think I understand, and you might not have a clue, either.'

•Break

•Decorating for Christmas

•Christmas music

•Christmas lights

•Snofari

•The dictionary game

•Cats who like to have their tummies scratched

•Nises who like to have their necks scratched

•Bandanas

•Throwing bandanas

•Throwing ice packs

•Puns

•Good books

•Justified laziness

•Even unjustified laziness

•Especially unjustified laziness

•Homemade apple pie

•Homemade (very) apple cake (without raisins)

•Lost and found Christmas music

•Where The Read Fern Grows

•Uncle Remus stories

•Inexplicable laughter

•Inexplicable wisdom

•Squash

•Rodent deodorant

•Misunderstandings

•Cats dressed up like Robin Hood

•Getting wet

•Red cheeks from cold winds

•Really sad, pathetic, comatose cats

•Scratching really sad, pathetic, comatose cats

•Paper wad tennis balls

•Maple anything

•Leap months and the plague of frogs

•Choking (don't)

•I'm not, I just can't breathe

•Being unsecular

•Victory!

•The Victory Chant

•Laughing at Nise (sign of infection)

•Getting laughed at (it must be catching)

•Seedy jam

•Jam with class

•(I still prefer the first)

•Olibanum

•Muzzy

•Being muzzled (at least to everyone else)

•Slings

•New biorhythms

•Having biorhythms (unlike a Ring Ding)

•Talking to my mommy and daddy

•E-mail from California!

•Clean socks

•Brownies -- lots of them

•Hanging snowflakes

•Smuggling

•My sweetpea always

•Slurpees and Pork & Beans

•Firsts of the month

•Decorating the tree with my lover

•Yak in the box

•Winning Clue

•Raised hands

•New eyes

•Bugles (the snack) on your fingers

•The smell and feel of pulling warm laundry out of the dryer

•T-I-Double Guh-er

•Little siblings

•Pillows

•Soap-on-a-rope

•Ants

•R.E.M.

•Tang

•White things

•Christmas lights -- lots of them (700 or so)

•Good climbing trees

•A really good hug

•Pick-up trucks

•Johnny Braincloud

•EEK! the Cat

•Kum-by-yah!

•'Gee, little kitty!'

•'It never hurts to help.'

•'...Get 'em off! Get 'em off!!'

•Elmo the Elk

•50 degree weather in December

•Chicago -- my home town

•Bulgaria

•Coloring Jeff's hair with red, blue, green, purple, orange, and black markers

•Fulgham

•My blankie

•Carrie not studying

•Talking to my Jenny at Berkeley

•Applesauce with lots of cinnamon

•Mashed potatoes with lots of butter

•Clean bathrooms

•Baby oil

•Baby powder

•Babies

•My baby (I love you, sweetpea!)

•Changing majors

•Indiscriminate hair color

•'No meat, extra cheese!'

•Coughing up pus

•Dessert night

•'What is one suck?'

•A roll of quarters

•Snowman cookies

•Snowmen

•No more 181H!

•Strawberries

•Kiwi

•IAH can finally go to hell

•Figuring out how to turn around and go backwards while ice skating

•Looking for Slick?

•Finding Slick

•Hugging Slick

•My suede-like carrying case

•Caffeine

•Snakebite

•Caffeine (Ben is back, it seems!)

•Leaving on Monday

•Home cooked meals

•2-ply toilet paper

•Crunching snow

•Being two years old

•French fries!

•Santa

•Indecision and desperation

•5+ day weekends

•Getting hugs because I am happy

•Liebe machen mit mein honig

•Starfleet

•Going to boot camp in 16 days

•Bastardized great stellated icosahedrons

•Going home

•Jay talking in his sleep

•Schwa

•Fixing a broken Loralee

•Being fixed ... um, well, you know what I mean right?

•Snuggling up with my sweetie when I only get to see him twice a month

•Getting a dozen roses

•Anticipating getting over my sickness

•Getting done with finals

•Causing pain

•Electric rat soup

•Receiving pain

•Arooroorooroo!

•The establishment

•34th street

•No ... 36th ... no ... 35th ... no ... 32nd ...

•Slurpee chills

•Rockefeller Center at Christmastime

•The Mafia near South St. Seaport

•Large bronze bulls

•Animal Science classes with friends

•Ezekiel the Hermit Crab

•Snooze buttons

•REM

•New ski boots

•No 8:00 classes

•Your dearest love curled up in your lap

•Sneeze buttons

•Belly buttons

•The imaginary number i am the square root of negative one

•Strip poker

•Fantasy strip poker

•200+ breeds of sheep worldwide

•'Felted lustre mutant'

•Late nights in the lobby

•Wrestling sheep all around the judging pavilion

•Head-banging sheep

•Psycho-sheep

•Dreams

•Sheep! I like sheep! Do you like sheep? I like sheep. I love sheep.

•I love cows. I touched one!

•I once fell down the stairs . . .

•Making a birthday Jello

•'The Black Knight always triumphs!'

•Sleep

•Beavis and Butthead

•Bombay

•Power = Voltage x Amperage

•Power = Amperage2 x Resistance

•Power = Magical Abilities

•Power = Psionics

•Cutting someone else's toenails

•Eating someone else's toenails

•Lar-Dog

•Lar-Dog's driving skills

•Flying cheese sandwiches

•Solid ground after being with Lar-Dog

•Shastokovich

•Fructose enemas

•Snow on trees

•Left, left . . . left!

•Stop red light

•Snowmen

•My significant otter

•Snowflakes

•Tylenol

•ChapStick

•REM tickets! Weeha! May 7th! Can't wait!

•Hiccups

•Sneezes

•Clowns

•James Earl Jones

•R2D2

•Lovers, liars, and clowns

•Glorious snowflakes

•Tai Chi Quan

•Those amazing showers in IM-Circle's Men's locker room

•Not being ugly

•Not being a mongrel

•Jay being inherently God

•New breeds

•Getting unchained

•Getting chained

•'Can I have a cinnamon roll, Aaron?'

•Teddy bears

•Whining

•Catching a free bagel

•The unsingable song

•Westerburg Museum

•Scott Vaughn in something sheer and translucent

•Death to the same

•Tickling Brian's brain

•Disco

•Big hairy Indians

•A resonant choir

•Baby bonnets

•Bringing pain to consistently happy people holding hands

•Fuzzy beard on my naked body

•Lisa Russo

•Peanut butter on one's inner thighs

•Mashed potatoes in one's middle ear

•Sneezing

•Coughing up phlegm and feeling sexy

•Incoherent moans

•The language of love

•Being naked and completely comfortable

•Dancing naked to tribal drum music

•Gary Cooper

•Garlic

•Gauze

•People who buy me stamps so my bills can finally go out

•Catching a free bagel

•'Yeah, whatever'

•'Are you eating . . . going to . . . now?'

•Being at FAT

•Being a mongrel

•The sun

•Feather pillows

•Idaho

•Sunshine

•Imaginary fishing

•Ice designs

•Learning a new language

•Finding God

•Everywhere

•Fuzzy slippers that meow

•Books, novels, short fiction, poetry, plays, essays!

•Dolphins

•Chicken salad croissants

•Edric's Happiness Boards

•Body massages

•The bathroom floor

•Antibiotics

•Vanilla milkshakes

•Spider-Man

•Really old video games

•Caribou

•Baby showers

•Rats

•Cats

•French roast

•Coffee lushes

•The idea of free time sometime eventually

•Being able to breath kind of

•Not stressing over Physics exams

•Meatloaf

•Forehead buttons

•Caribou parasites

•Cold wind

•Friends

•Family

•Cookies baked by aforementioned

•Mountains up there somewhere

•Contacts

•Basketball

•Sunrises

•Skis

•Blue sky

•Night sky

•Wild animals

•Wild plants

•Ecosystems

•A 2000 year continuum

•Word

•Water

•You!

•Cookies baked by caribou parasites

•My sister visiting

•Me

•Money

•Edric playing 'Send in the Clowns'

•Flowers!

•America? America!

•Chasing people up and down 1 flight of stairs

•Yukon Nise tripping -- multiple times

•Fire drills and drive-by caulkings

•'I stab you with the flag! I stab you with the flag!'

•Indiana Jones hats

•Hair dye

•Snowball murders

•Yanni

•Called Herefords

•Getting whapped upside the head

•Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup

•Tim and Tom

•Smelling flowers while studying

•The Rite of Spring

•Emmett

•Ball pits

•Fuzzy warbles

•Dr. Boring Sonofabitch

•Cross country skis

•Frozen rivers

•Crest Tartar Control Toothpaste

•Almost having a sister! I love you, Sophie!

•Hickeys

•The amazing lizard-boy!

•RHA movies in Conrad

•Barbaric yawps

•Long kisses hello

•Sunrise

•PCP CADAVAR -- FRASS!!!

•'Actually, I fixed yours!'

•Pigeons and crows and clouds

•'Our RA has a bulbous head!'

•Writing with your toes

•Beeg steenky cee-gars

•Backrubs

•Scott R. Vaughn's head on a platter

•The Bridges of Madison County

•Balloons on birthdays

•Watership Down

•'Gotta be the right. Gotta be the right.'

•Juicy Fruit gum

•Drawing pictures on frosty windows

•Magazines

•Procrastination

•Collages and paper maché and encyclopedias

•Rainbows bursting from sunsets over the sea

•It's hip to be Buddha

•Love notes

•Wind-pinked cheeks

•Shiny Happy People

•A winter heat wave

•The jingle of keys

•Privacy

•People who whistle in the hallways

•Curt's smile and eyes

•Straightening things out

•Having an open mind

•Sharing a private expression in a crowded room

•Worn shoes from many miles

•'Steve, Holly Acorn, Steven Jr. and Gunther -- and my wife, Soosan.'

•Making an e-pal feel better

•Engagement rings

•Nylons that run faster than the cheetah

•The smell of the library

•Platonic intimacy

•Screaming jelly lizards from Nantucket

•'Jelly lizards from Nantucket!!!'

•Special dinners

•Second row REM tickets

•Melvis

•Hands that smell like oranges

•Making Edric's life difficult

•Sparkling crystals of sunlight

•Getting accepted into the College of Education

•E-mail telling you that someone thinks you're cute

•Pregnant girlfriends

•'His dollar came out!'

•AAAAA! Not pregnant girlfriends!

•Watching your roommate and his girlfriend get into a shaving cream fight

•Shaving cream in my ear

•Burping on the carbonation of your love

•Istanbul was Constantinople, now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople

•Snowflakes on eyelashes

•Those neato crunching sounds snow makes when walked on

•A great vacation with a wonderful girlfriend

•New pens

•Chocolate malt soft serve ice cream

•A new REM poster

•Washington D.C.

•Serving the one you love

•Cool beans

•Demo!

•UIGHURS

•Neat colored clouds

•A guy who can belch and still be sexy

•Getting a taste of my own medicine

•Cliff being here

•Getting my tables turned

•My doorbell seashells

•Afternoon surprises!

•Sunny afternoons with the one you love

•New noserings

•Asking stupid questions and still getting good answers

•Daryl Hall and John Oates

•225-pound bench presses

•Empty weight rooms

•Red heads

•Being mostly sober but slightly fuzzy

•Being a toad

•Rebecca Anne Lorig

•'Of course she's going to sleep with him, Edric. It's a Disney movie, and she just got drunk!'

•'God is all-powerful, all-knowing, benevolent, and doesn't mind a little ass-kissing every now and then.'

•A newborne son

•The beginning of Spring

•'I'm going to put quotes around this resistor. ==PAUSE== I've got the chalk, I can do that, right?' -- Prof. Hetherington, PHY 440

•'I get to spit on Christ and help nail him to the cross.' -- Denise Bickel

•Major shopping

•Geology

•The impending performance of EL SHADDAI

•Sibling squabbles

•Mock battles

•Real wars

•Rock beats scissors. Scissors beats paper. Paper beats rock. Plasma cannon beats all.

•Restoration

•Cinnamon ice cream

•Thunderstorms

•'Think ... Move ... That ... Order ...'

•Lifesavers

•Flowerflies

•Fractus homo?!?

•Tachyonistic gunfights

•The feeling that lasts for the first few minutes after a long, hot shower

•Invisible senators

•Days that kick your ass, and the people who populate them

•Warm mayonnaise

•Strawberry blow-pops

•Breaking ice

•Windows

•Camp counselor interviews

•Bubble packaging

•Slurping noises

•Puppets

•My son

•Finally getting picked up in a bar again after five months

•New nephews

•Having people stop doing something that really annoys you -- because they respect you enough to not mind altering their behavior slightly, especially if it means that you'll be better able to enjoy each other's company

•Preachy happy thoughts

•Letters from Gina

•New drinking glasses in the cafe

•July 31st deadline for Berkeley

•Beaumont Tower

•$200 paychecks

•Cows who listen

•Feeding cows at three a.m. and watching them get excited when they see you coming

•That incredible feeling of waking up after a really deep sleep resulting from extreme exhaustion

•Sunshine

•Being more in love than you ever thought you could be before

•Anticipation of things to come

•Power and Authority

•The sweet joy of knowing simultaneously both who you are and whose you are

•Sunrises and cold fresh air

•The smell of hay

•Speed

•The fullness of time

•Promises and faithfulness

•Being in love in the evening

•Being in love at dawn

•Leaving key diagrams for people to break into my room

•'If you want to live, come with me.'

•'If you want to come, live with me.'

•'If you want me to come, live with me.'

•5 months

•If want learn fight, first learn stand, then learn fly!

•'Don't smile . . .' -- Gina

•Being in love with the woman you'll marry!

•Misery!

•Heick -- giv me mor!

•Low-altitude geosynchronous orbits

•Empty classrooms, chalk, smart people and non-linear pendulums

•'That's private information -- you have no right to beat it out of me!'

•Bastard roommates

•'People grew up with Kermit the Frog. I mean, Kermit taught me the letter L. Yoda taught me jack.'

•Faithfulness

•Thursday? Thursday. Thursday?? Thursday. . . . Thursday, huh? -- Thursday.

•Having a sibling who obviously can't stand me. (That's OK -- I'm sick of her too.)

•Sarcasm

•OK Cola is not OK

•Service

•Biff!!!

•'McIntosh Jr. -- The power to crush the other kids.'

•'The mighty hand of God smite all fraternities!'

•Really cool mimes

•I'm a mime!Jimmy John's guy with purple hair

•Who, do you think?

•A week of afternoons off

•Honey on my honey

•The first warm rain of the summer

•Bring a tickle bag, pillow, and . . .

•Sticking it out 7 1/2 months and being happier than the first month

•Fishieee!

•Brown leisure suits

•Waking up to a warm hug and a sloppy kiss

•The IRS (Ha ha ha)

•Sponge

•New computers

•Life's little suffocation book

•Corn dogs!

•Henry Rollins movies

•The Tick!

•'My code name is Nick'

•'Zoit' could be a 'clang-trill'

•Mid-michigan

•Home brew

•No zemon done!

•'Goodbye demons, goodbye demons, goodbye demons, it's time to say goodbye!'

•Black squirrels

•'Matt and Edric's loom -- please weave a message.' -- Matt Cruikshank

•A clean hop -- darnit!

•Being halfway done with a long important paper

•'Give him games!'

•Stuff

•Being minded

•Restoration

•Coconut jelly beans

•Knowing God does stuff right all the time

•Bring done with a paper

•The last one

•Carbonation

•Carbournatalation

•Touching a nerve

•Seeking

•Love. Beyond all.

•Mike's big, big warm fuzzy shirt and absconding with it

•My guitar

•Ill-fated delivery boys and ice skaters

•MK3

•'You can't justifiably punch somebody's face off, either'

•Ivy Fest

•'I had a pimple once . . .' -- Andrea

•My cuddlebunny

•Big, hairy moles

•Being elected A.L.B.G.S. co-director

•Apopoetic high school friends

•The MAXX!

•Isz

•Weddings

•Old ladies in dresses doing the 'Dying Cockroach' on the dance floor.

•Worship!

•Mahler

•Vineyard music

•Getting unwrapped

•Knowing more and more and more of God's faithfulness

•Having people think you're cute when you laugh

•Having God think you're cute when you laugh

•Cute happy couples

•'Appalachian Spring'

•'Nise

•Overalls

•Tired hugs

•Sweaty hugs

•Long haired CPS chicks

•Education majors

•Numbers -- like 1000

•Hugs that make your glasses fall off

•Winning Ivy Fest (Yes -- go Mason Abbot!)

•Three games of soccer in one morning

•Similar visions

•Climbing into bed when I'm really tired

•Wanting a pet scrubbing bubble for my very own

•Dominatrix bear

•Chuck's Amazing Sea Voyage

•Chuck action figures

•Writing evil scripts for a TE class

•A real book

•Fresh popcorn

•A yellow thank you yo-yo (a Duncan)

•Sunburns

•Cutting all your hair off

•Getting the biggest laugh of the evening (Did you want a picture?)

•'Get out there and work, work, work!'

•Happy memories

•The thought of potentially never seeing Darnel Jones again

•Ignoring copyright laws

•Early morning backrubs

•Shopping for silverware for my summer apartment

•Being done with exams

•Ending my undergraduate career

•No more math for the rest of my college years

•Spanking

•One more final to go!

•No more finals or papers

•Done packing

•I'm done!

•Bike . . . big bike

•Damn, I'm smooth