1995-96

•Beginnings

•Possibilities

•Seeing friends again

•CD's

•The third Happiness Board!

•Lofts that are very sturdy

•A really cool roommate

•Being back with all my friends!!!!

•Plaid pants which remind me of Matt

•Fans

•Working again after an unemployed summer

•Making plans to marry the love of my life

•The Spartan Marching Band!

•Meeting new friends

•Brand new socks

•Low humidity

•Stuff, not things

•Clam Chowder

•Getting promoted to TA for Calc 2!!!!

•Hole

•Plan B -- hence Jermy Wray and Rodney M.

•Jello every day

•Zog archer

•Gaelic

•Kool-aid

•Tangerines

•Orange Juice

•A really cold refrigerator

•Flyer-plastering all of campus in only 2 hours, all by myself

•Burning pogs and fallen empires

•Trucks with happy electrical systems!

•Quiet

•Jay's shirts

•Me

•MSU

•The new girls

•Mugu-mugu?

•My own room (Ha ha ha)

•Brian

•Nise's curls!

•The butterfly at the Children's Gardens

•Popcorn and Mt. Dew (Yum!)

•Computers

•The RA-initiated eradication of pizza flyer purveyors!

•"Religious services" in the name of the god Somnus (and/or Morpheus).

•After all, we are only brainstems

•"We are all geniuses in hindsight."

•Scaring the freshmen

•Scarring the freshmen

•Mein lieb und mich zussamen

•Mein Susshart und ich

•Waruber deine Susshart? Ich kann nicht sie sehen. Was ist los? Bitte schreib auf Deutsch mehr. Ich habe funf Jahren gehabt. Ehrlich! Ich werde spater schreiben.

•A good time with a good friends

•Realizations of future ease in the scheduled tense

•Easy classes

•Women

•No class

•"But, Paul, Belgarath was there when Torak cracked the world!"

•The second annual "Win a Date With Paul Contest"

•No Monday classes

•Being done at 10 am on Friday!

•Subway employees not being able to cut the bread any way other than how they were trained

•Rice Krispie Treats

•Free movies and stuff

•Sleeping in late

•New t-shirts

•Bonk!

•Ze Sveedish Chef (Bork, bork, bork!)

•Sleep

•Pizza

•Poster sales "cool"

•Shiny happy people

•Naps

•Movie nights

•Open door night (Meeting boys)

•Just . . . meeting boys

•Jason Chouoweth

•REM

•Winning

•My yellow wrist band -- REM

•Jenny

•The key to Wyoming

•Cork

•Asymptotic bitchiness

•John Holmes -- the philosophy prof.

•The Lesbian Boy (Hot)

•Being told you are manipulative

•Knowing that there is someone who knows different and loves you

•Harvest moons, stars, autumn chill and good friends

•Men

•One of my students learned something from me!!! ("I assume that the definition of parallel lines only refers to continuous lines. The discrete lines do intersect, which is also a thing that parallel lines cannot do, they don't have any points in common, but it is only because they are discrete.")

•Spring Break in Candyland

•The Abbot Lobby Copier Machine -- NOT!!!

•Heather teaching us ballroom dancing!

•Christmas cards

•The Happiness Board

•Sex

•Stuff

•Life in general

•People who don't backstab

•The fairy wand

•"There's only room on this floor for one fairy" -- Henry

•Sock fights

•Trowels and ghosts

•Not having to walk around with one of those things between my legs

•Hitting people with the fairy wand (*ling!*)

•Jerry Garcia

•Kisses from my sweetheart

•Discovering cute guys on the brother floor

•Winning the 2nd annual "Win a Date With Paul Contest"

•Patrick Swayze and Wesley Snipes in drag

•Relieving sexual tension

•Becky

•Clean carpet

•Utilizing wasted space

•Making love in a hot tub!

•Quilted toilet paper

•People who don't use the possessive "you're" incorrectly

•People who don't use the Happiness Board for personal messages

•My Jenn!

•Rubber cement!

•Leaving SATR meetings early

•Undesignated singles

•2 Un-Friday classes

•The cafeteria finally serving a decent dinner

•My rainbow slinky

•Too much flannel

•Being read to -- especially fairy tales

•Football

•TDF

•Giant pickles

•BYOB

•Being a woman (Mike adds: "I don't know how happy that'd make me, but it would keep me occupied a couple hours!)

•Peanut butter on toasted English muffins

•Sporks

•Catching 15 min. of Days of Our Lives

•A ball point pen that never runs out of ink

•Drizzle

•Bright green umbrellas

•Scrunchies

•Dial soap, Pert Plus shampoo, and Crest toothpaste

•My SOC prof whose entire wardrobe consists of three bland dresses

•Red licorice whips

•Orville Redenbacher's Gourmet Popping Corn (may he rest in peace)

•A good editorial by Ken Van Steenkiste being shorter than usual

•Being taller than usual

•Being in love with the perfect woman

•Eating Subway at 11:03 p.m.

•Skipping physiology to go shopping

•Enormously fattening cookies

•A kiss

•Big ass books with juicy plots

•Finishing a crossword puzzle all by myself

•Happiness is Patti LuPone in Sunset Boulevard

•Edric-hugs

•Breathing

•NyQuil

•"Snakes, nipples, and beer!"-- Karl Nelson

•Flannel shirts from Seattle (like oranges from Florida)

•John Oleksy

•Monopolizing the message board

•Amy Ray as Jesus

•Unicorns with hooves like silver bells

•Mist on the Red Cedar River at dawn

•Leather pants

•The women you love spending the day with you!

•'Nise's overalls

•Learning how to skate backwards (and doing well!)

•The 'Chariots of Fire' theme song

•Singing to John's guitar

•Quantum Leap

•Rugby

•Being a hooker

•Getting your hepatitis B vaccination

•Being in love on ice

•Plastic chickens and super-glued eggs

•Black lotus

•Michael Bolton and David Hasselhoff on T.V. together!

•Heidi

•"Be still my loins"

•Alternative chicks

•Stud boy on skates

•Tinkertoy salamanders (NOT!)

•Seeing Delphinus on a chilly night

•Seeing Orion before dawn

•Warm fuzzy clothing after being borderline hypothermic for 2 hours

•Running sprints

•Knowing you got to worship twice in one Sunday

•Having multiple families

•Looking (not!) like your siblings

•Tackling your friends

•Being tackled by 'Nise

•Croissants at breakfast

•Robin's cool handwriting

•Complementary hugs

•Coffee and good conversation with (too [sic] long lost) friends

•Steak!

•E-mail from Zog!

•E-mail from God! (or just the pope)

•Top 10 lists and long phone calls

•Incredibly good days where you get virtually nothing done

•Nifty revelations about people you really don't like who really don't like you either but then you realize they get hurt sometimes too and then everything is all OK

•My new glow in the dark Frisbee!

•Getting a really good grade in a class I really care about

•Running out of room on the Happiness Board

•Playing soccer at midnight in "The Arb" with only your boxers on!

•Understanding that life isn't always happy -- but that's what makes it interesting

•Finally allowing yourself to get really angry at people, and realizing it's OK

•Genie

•Jazz

•Erin

•Finding something that you thought you'd lost

•Boys who puke when told to

•Seeing their bean again!

•Kelly and Sarah

•Bean, after waiting 3 1/2 hours

•Sidewalk chalking at midnight

•Being the only sober people on said sidewalks whilst chalking at midnight

•Seeing my love in 7 days . . . 6 . . . 5 . . . 4 . . . 3 . . .

•Overalls

•My mommy sending me a package with my new jammies and "treats"

•Seeing my friend Leeman after months!

•Group naps with Karl, Paul, and Becky baby

•Karl's tongue ring . . . erm . . . stud . . .

•Parents

•Bowling with parents (and them sliding down the lanes too)

•Calling my best friend in California after not talking with her in over a month

•More e-mail from Zog

•Chuck's sound effects

•Undestroyed H-Boards

•Finishing a reading assignment list for BCH 401

•Hearing the Chem building siren go off

•Twitchell's' hours

•Care packages

•Food

•1st hour going better than 6th!

•Getting a free Ani poster at Wherehouse

•Watching my friends SMILE!

•Fire! Fire! Fire!

•Ani!!!!

•Fiery, beautiful blue eyes

•Gameday skies and the Simpsons' opening credits

•Running into people I haven't seen in forever and having a really long conversation

•Noses, elbows, etc. correctly identified -- and remembering how (and how to make someone laugh and hug you very well)

•"Never sit next to Heather (W.)"

•The new Indigo Girls Live CD!!!

•Things to do on Friday nights

•Remembering all of my wonderful friends back at Michigan State University, including, but not limited to (don't KILL me if I don't list you -- just MAIM me and leave me for dead...): Denise Bickel, Kim Caldwell, Courtney Chapin, Curtis Clark, Mo Devaney, Brian Dauernheim, Zach DeYoung, Jason Dimkoff, Robert Dix, Cindy Emch, Loralee Fleming, Andy Geweke, Stephanie Gillain, Paul Harris, Scott Harrison, Becky Henry, Chris Hoving, Lynn Jacoby, Genie Johnson, Mike Joseph, Jay Judkowitz, Katie Ketchum, Tom Kochinski, Gina Kring, Jeff Laus, Becky "Never Trust Becky" Lorig, Karen Musicant, Heather Miller, Robin Sinkey, Edric Spivey, John Supanich, Anne Wissman, and Alan Wrobel. Oh yeah, and that 'T' chick, too. -- Emailed with love by Matthew Cruikshank: I miss you all.

•Courtney's paper pirate hats

•Courtney in general

•Spinning protractors

•Orenthal

•Warm sunlight and a not-too-cool breeze coming in through my window as I lie half-asleep on my bed in the late afternoon

•Messages from Matt

•"Big Brian" Hunter

•Costumes

•Kismet

•Bihac

•Dressed-up neighbors

•Junior Mints

•Pens

•Really cool songs that people write for you and you can still play not too badly a year or two after the last time you played it

•People who write really cool songs for you (thanks yet again, Edric)

•Run-on sentences

•Being able to whistle "Hot Cross Buns"

•Appropriate and thoughtful (and unexpected) gifts . . . like a pen . . . like the one which Anne gave us . . . and the poem . . . which is tremendously cool . . . and stuff

•"I am inclined to believe that I exist"

•My first black dress ever coming in the mail

•Discovering that someone you've known for a long time is fascinating and wonderful

•Sandman and Death

•Having your marbles

•MK3

•The Denny's in Plainfield Township

•"W.T.D."

•New people to hug

•Dust bunnies

•Finding what was lost

•Hearing really cool songs from the past, that you can finally relate to. "Wicked Games" -- Chris Isaak

•Near naked men in boxers

•The Big Chill

•Raspberry Newtons

•Hair

•Candy from Becky

•2 cappuccinos and a handful of chocolate covered espresso beans

•Giving a two-hour-long massage

•Giving massages in general (yes, long ones are best)

•Bubble baths!!!

•Everything that is hockey

•A good sneeze

•A massage

•Kicking a frat's ass in floor hockey

•Finding sides to people you didn't know existed (but hoped)

•Yellow Zingers (i.e. -- REAL Zingers)

•Suisse chocolate truffle cocoa

•Friends who help you when you're in trouble

•New contacts

•Two Reeses for the price of one

•God

•Letters from dear friends who understand and trust you

•Not Jenny -- she makes me sad -- she is a good girl

•Leaf Wars II

•Somersaults in the leaves

•Getting 4.0s

•Tight vinyl dresses and thigh-his

•Getting out of class early

•Watching ER

•Reading about kids

•Potato chips and other fattening yummies

•Stress = motivation

•Energy

•A dynamic universe

•Exploring

•Discovering

•Learning

•Absorbing

•Understanding

•Teaching

•Listening to Bolero

•Oh! The light just went on!

•Snickers wrappers

•Nylon Nipples

•Getting Loralee's goat!!

•My vinyl vixen

•A weird-o

•Friday Morning 2

•The New Jenny

•My sweetheart

•Goodies from my sweetpea

•Left-handed smoke shifters

•Right-handed bacon stretchers

•Brad's hideous laughter

•20 days till Andy gets here

•Depositing!

•Key Lime Pie

•French Gazelles

•Pop Tarts

•Rainbow Boy and his colorful skulls

•Spaghetti

•Breathing pocket watches

•Captain Kirk and Jean-Luc Picard watching over you

•Tina Turner behind Albert Einstein

•Nieces visiting

•'Nises visiting

•Anonymous surprise gifts

•Comic books

•Anonymous surprise gifts from Ryan

•28-25

•Billy Joel

•Being disgustingly cute with my boyfriend

•Walking in synch

•Zrbts

•Fuzzy tummies

•Eskimo kisses

•Quiet, soft, meaningful glances from bottomless pools of darkness

•Finding ticklish places on a Becky

•Revenge of Potted Meat Food Product -- it's "SMEAT!"

•Raspberries

•Getting to the top of the stairs

•Getting mail!

•Really warm, cuddly, and cozy evenings with lots of pillows, comforters, and someone you love!

•Radar

•Rushing the field

•Really getting to understand those close to you

•Homemade applesauce with lots of cinnamon

•Fixing a problem (one way or another)

•Frazzled Happy Stoner Boy

•Tortellini pizza

•Pizza with tomatoes on top

•Dragnet on Lois and Clark

•Fixing whirly bugs

•Weekends with your nephews!

•A good friend waking you early in the morning who has a new haircut and a hot cup of hazelnut coffee . . .

•Pilot doesn't exist! Neither does Socrates!

•Good hair and contact days

•Visa, JH2, Capt. Stella, B, Stella Jr., Lemmilee, Goash, and J.D.

•And, of course, Kerry M.

•Listening to piano music being played just for me

•A backrub (etc.) that makes you feel like you're floating

•Caffeine

•Surprise attack hugs

•Hugs from Tom

•7.7 oz. can of Iced Tea

•A really long walk by yourself in the pouring rain

•The rain . . . in Spain

•Marilyn

•Manson

•Friends

•The snow

•Not giving a fuck

•Rumors

•Receiving a dozen white roses from your love

•Shaking, not stirring

•Tim and Tom's James Bond 007 75th birthday jubilee movie marathon weekend extravaganza

•The above being over

•The above being under

•Being loved in return

•Herr Hermi and the impossible exhumation

•Reject furniture

•Old books

•E-mail from a guy I've never met

•Writing letters on graph paper

•Discovering a warm, sunny spot in my room and sitting in it

•The office of withdrawals

•Learning how to ice skate

•Coaxing your friend into going to Vermont and Europe!

•Iowa

•Resolutions

•Blackmail

•New roommates and old roommates

•New jobs

•Land wars in Asia

•Sleep

•An' then what happened?

•"Good, but . . . dang." -- Jennifer Ketner

•Beautiful sunsets

•Friends from home coming to visit

•Figuring out that, "Yes, you can smile!!"

•Your friend distinguishing that a Q is actually not a H . . . (Sheds a whole new light!)

•Eh -- shmuck, shmuck!

•Colors

•Anne

•Long Weekends

•Red ribbons

•Sleeping in late, and then sleeping in later

•Dancing at Beaumont Tower

•Sunshine

•Being comfortably warm

•Pecan pie

•Christmas lights

•Christmas decorations

•Nothing at all

•Gathering one's courage (even if it is quite Dutch)

•Getting paid for no good reason

•Remembering the past, living in the future

•My last home game in the Spartan Marching Band

•Someone who loves you voluntarily getting bumped off his flight so he can spend one more day with you -- and then getting 2 round trip vouchers for his sacrifice

•Getting to spend the best week of your life with the man who made the week perfect

•Dust free

•Being part of something bigger

•Getting a chance to hear the Spartan Marching Band

•Shadows

•The hug I got when Andy got off his plane in the process of getting "bumped" from his over-booked flight

•Friends returning

•Having a friend pulled over for driving a Zamboni down the street

•Turning in a term paper

•Spending time with family and purple X-mas trees

•Going to bed four hours earlier than usual

•Putting a stamp on my wishes

•Unexpected phone calls

•The Chipmunks singing "Take A Chance On Me"

•100% scores on tests

•When the chocolate milk dispenser flows quickly

•Being voluntarily bumped off my flight and thus being able to go to see my best friend for spring break

•Getting cool phone calls in a hotel room in Cleveland

•Seeing my family and friends

•Twice!! (Click)

•Goldfinger! Wa Wa Waaaaa!

•Wutzits

•Writing a long letter to one of the world's truly wonderful friends

•Monopoly

•A smile

•Two or three smiles

•"There is no life on this planet -- Jehova 1 replaced all life with machines five centuries ago. The industrial revolution was just another hoax and we all fell for it." -- When screamed from the top of one's mind.

•Reading new things on the Happiness Board

•When Golbez turned out to be a good guy

•The thought of actually touching and holding Artemis Entreri's jeweled-magical dagger

•Just being me!

•Savage fury

•Andy

•Andy's cool shirt

•Dinner with 30 South Africans even though the food makes you really sick

•Little kids who have a lot more fun playing with your toys than you ever do (so you let them keep them)

•Raking leaves

•Reading a lot

•Getting invited to do research in your ZOL 365 prof's lab

•Nise-level hugs

•Stu and Myrtle's tryst

•Wells' mistletoe

•A relaxing, peaceful dinner at the Tuba Museum with three really wonderful friends

•Funny, happy drunk people

•Hugs from the right height

•Not being able to fall asleep next to my beloved

•"So, how was your weekend, Mr. Spiv... -- oh, wait -- it wasn't a weekend, I just didn't go to school. Never mind!" -- Jill Gomoll

•Beavis & Butthead

•"OK, I'll put you on my pending list."

•Christmas carols

•Cold pizza for breakfast

•Money in the bank

•New information

•Knowing I really don't have to worry about any of it

•Strangling someone with your own intestines

•Pushing people down the hallway on a chair (especially when it's someone else's chair)

•This Happiness Board

•Having too many happy thoughts to fit on the Happiness Board

•Smoking a Newport while taking a night-walk in the snow

•Bach! (Brandenburg Concerto #3, 2nd movement)

•Magically heated armor burning a drow

•Huge tracts of land

•Turkey franks

•Druids!!

•Fakemail

•Duran Duran

•Knowing that everyone is aware, but she thinks we're all in the dark . . . (HAH!!!)

•Bihac again!

•The Electric Amish

•Coke

•Quantum Fy-sucks problem sets done in an hour

•Two weeks to go until I see my fiancé; who is 850 miles away and who I haven't seen since August 20th

•Shaking, and stirring

•Psycho-Punk-Spaz-Boys

•Being a visity-head

•Ding!! -- ETHER!!!

•Dinner at Quizno's that includes a nice long talk with a close friend

•The peace that comes from friends that are good enough you don't have to be having an exciting, fun time always

•Once Were Warriors

•The peace that comes from friends that are good enough to have that are always having a fun, exciting time no matter what . . . even if it's just watching the grass grow!!!

•Cocoa with whipped cream and peppermint sticks

•Being comfortable enough to tell someone their breath stinks -- and them not pulling away! (For you, Kim!)

•Friends like Vikki

•Beating your best friend in air-hockey . . .

•Edric's J's

•I won't write her name this time, 'cause I don't want to jinx it, but she is the one

•Being cleanly shaven and smelling good

•Physics!

•60 cents

•Sunkist stickers you got in the morning from oranges 'cause your banana didn't have one that aren't on a forehead but are on the back of your hand in a lab that's really short

•The end of CBI

•Cutting a boy's hair and making him look "purty!"

•Massage-o-thon

•A clean desk

•Not writing a paper

•No more Chem 181H

•No more Cognitive Psychology!

•Cool mixes from opera profs

•Being able to whistle "Angels We Have Heard On High" with only minor modifications

•People from Minnesota

•Sunshine for the nth day in a row! (Knock on wood)

•I'm not crazy!

•"My parrot only likes treats that he can throw . . . like lasagna."

•1 down, 3 to go

•Special screenings of The Empire Strikes Back at Target

•No more papers 'til next year

•Knowing things really are okay between you and someone you really love

•"Long walks, long talks after dark"

•Light poles, black skies, and falling snow

•Reminders

•Dragons

•People who consider buying dragon puppets (not those who actually did buy the dragon puppets. * Pout! *)

•CEM 141

•Reading aloud

•Thinking about people

•Being thought about

•Being read aloud to

•A warm lap to sit in after coming in from a cold (brr!) outside

•Getting Hank to say, "I don't know."

•Pink Post-It Notes

•Red pens (again!)

•Being here

•Cute "items" -- with a massive disparity of altitude

•7 pages done

•Playing "You Don't Know Jack"

•Having Matt back for a week

•"Shell" . . . . "Bell" . . . . (ding!)

•Squeaky snow

•Matt in general

•Matt being gone

•Cookies

•Surprises

•Bear hugs

•Old friends

•Finding your name on the Happiness Board

•"Oh . . . oh . . . PEROXIDES! Yeah!"

•You!!!

•ISS 210

•Annoying your TA by forgetting your ID when you go to take the final

•A night

•Antelopes

•Towel Boy II

•Always knowing where the ball is (soccer, that is)

•Roses, and kisses

•Doing really well on 2 important finals (or so I think)

•4.0 (Wahoo!)

•MTH 132

•Belly-buttons

•Failing easy exams

•Moochas Smoochas!

•Rott: Drunkmissiles

•Prissy-Snotty Int. magical swords

•Matt's hair

•Finding out that I kicked some MONSTROUS ASS on my Chem final! (Boo-yah!)

•Captain Freeloader!

•All done (Yahoo!) (And w/ 4.0's!)

•Cheesehole Easy-Arse Exams

•Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

•Biting wit

•Waking up at 6:15 and hearing on the radio that East Lansing schools are closed for the day

•Going back to bed!

•The giving of love

•The making of love

•"Damn I love it when she does that shit with her hair."

•Goldeneye -- 4 times and counting

•Egypt a go-go

•Peace on Earth

•Goodwill towards all

•Judy Collins

•Chesu

•Edric playing silly tricks on me while we're . . . trying . . . to do rounds. (If I could just quit giggling!)

•"Did you know that picking your nose can kill you?"

•Uncontrollable, raisin-bread-filled laughter

•The first kiss

•Keeping promises

•Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches

•Outer Limits

•Vermont!

•Unlocking a car door in 20 seconds with a coat hanger

•Cooking for 9

•Being back for less than 20 minutes and getting a flying-attack hug

•Pushing a van up an icy hill then trying to jump in it as it drives away

•Outer Limits (it's good enough to be up twice)

•Janeway's new hairdo

•"Want another Nutter Butter peanut butter sandwich cookie..."

•37,000 in "You Don't Know Jack"

•Pantene

•611 Happy Thoughts first semester

•Going home and relaxing with old friends by being mind-numbingly crude

•BEEEEEEP!

•Seeing a sunrise for the first time in many moons

•"Groundhog to Grey Squirrel, Groundhog to Grey Squirrel!"

•Listening to Jonatha Brooke hit all the blue notes in the space of the line "We were meant to be together."

•"Hey -- I'm getting $75 for today -- I'll split it with ya. Let's make a deal . . ."

•(static)

•Curt's drinky-bird impression

•Laughrodisiacs

•"It's like a Zamboni for a ski hill . . . but it doesn't put down hot water."

•The Dave dance

•5 people in a truck cab

•"I have a 3.1 -- that's not lower than a 3.2"

•Having a vehicle

•Finding someone with whom you have a lot in common

•Happy memories of my beautiful Dakota

•There is no fucking happiness! Except, of course, writing on this board. You guys are weird.

•I disagree to the point above. Happiness is found in little things . . . like sitting on a beach alone at night with only your thoughts and the sound of water gently lapping, crickets humming, and nature alive in the rising morning sun. --Questa

•Creamed corn

•Actually having the time of your life at a danceclub

•Relaxing and letting other people have control

•Continuity

•My acting class!

•Sing ho! For the life of a bear!

•Designs of a floral kind

•Orange

•Mid-January warm weather

•Rains that smell like the summer

•Running through that rain and jumping in its puddles

•Long late-night talks with the truly wonderful ones

•Hugs from them

•Cool friends

•No snow

•Right after a large snowfall when everything is covered in it and is pure and crystal-like

•Potential

•Finishing The Eyes of the Dragon

•StartingThe Eyes of the Dragon

•Peaking

•Confetti

•Grapes and strawberries

•The Rutter Requiem

•New drivers

•Boys for Pete!

•The power of apathy (and even in ways you might not think)

•The corruption of governments?

•Fields of snow-shavings

•"X is for Xylophone. Because X is ALWAYS for

•Xylophone . . ."

•Pennies

•Playing with your family (and laughing and crying and praying with them), knowing they really are your family and always will be (praise God!)

•Being tickled until you are totally breathless with laughter after having been really depressed for several weeks

•Accidentally running into that beautiful girl in one of your classes -- and having her talk to you for a long time

•Having a hug tucked away somewhere

•Summer frisbee in January

•"Well, I like the really big candy hearts, too!" -- Jeff

•Dan Lopez

•"What do guys want for Valentine's Day?" (Becky) "Girls." (Edric)

•"Guys." (Don)

•"...at least some guys!"

•"Tom would make a good pregnant woman."

•New doors

•Having people worried about your door

•My birthday!

•Strip-solitaire

•When the toilet paper unravels real easily

•New neighbors

•No Mr. Roger's Neighborhood!

•Sensitive men (Yes. I know this is an oxymoron.)

•That's OK, you can have fantasies on the Happiness Board...

•Friends that keep coming back and being friends again and again (you can't knock 'em out)

•My wonderful friends!!

•Dan Lopez again

•I'm happy to see Robert! (His mom)

•Rainbow-colored EXPOs

•Being "too sexy"

•Care package! (Mom makes good cookies)

•Spitting mouthfuls of water at good friends

•Spectrum analysis

•"You're too late! Your diction is good, but you're too late!"

•Free weekends (2-9 to 2-11)

•The reactions on my friends' faces when they receive gifts from me!

•E-mail lists

•Boys in my room

•Being the boy in the room

•Finishing chemistry

•M'lady

•Fostering anticipation

•Fairy tales

•Lots of wind on days that are warmer than usual

•Things you're not quite sure you really want to mention -- even to yourself, but that seem to be pretty much undeniable

•Ban, Ban, Bean, Doki, Doki . . .

•Understanding

•Many quiet nights in a row (even with little sleep)

•Leonard

•Terri

•Cuteness

•Selling Girl Scout cookies

•Being done with lesson plans early

•Arranging music

•Those feisty New Jersey veterinarians

•Finishing group projects and graduate project proposals, then picking up a Crunchy's burger and a 25 oz. beer

•New CDs!

•Taking care of Edric

•Suspenders

•Driving someone crazy

•Interviews!

•Spring Break in Florida!

•I agree!

•Being deliriously happy, and nobody realizing it

•Winterfresh kisses

•My truck is done and I get it back soon!!!!

•"Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons?"

•Colorado

•Railroads

•Tricycles ('n' cockroaches)

•Squish!

•NOMP

•Nomp is back!

•Tulips

•Macaroni duck

•Chicken a la king

•New homepages!

•New tattoos

•Getting new shoes

•Getting a check for $1059.82 to buy new shoes

•This coming weekend . . .

•Alice in Wonderland

•Da Chronic

•Colorado

•Skiing, and a FREE condo in Colorado!

•Dre day

•Mom

•Not leaving your keys in the door (hint, hint)

•Getting the world and a heart

•Cardioid boy!

•Frank & Louis

•Making him say "Wow"

•Cajun Chicken Fettuccini

•Sunshine and a warm lap to lay on

•Finishing Honors Chem II homework

•Collaborating in the hallway

•Getting my beautiful truck back

•Coffee with good friends

•Florida!

•Spatula City rocks

•Peaceful evenings

•Beauty, no matter where it lies

•Ted

•Raves

•Credit cards with my picture on them

•Microbiology labs lasting 15 min.

•Getting disco ball earrings from Stephanie

•Jennies! (Especially mine)

•Phones that work

•Having a cute, fuzzy bunny to play with

•Getting something right in fencing class finally!

•Having a cute, fuzzy Edric to play with

•Chinese fried rice -- it's alive!

•Opera is for lovers

•Edric's wonderful smile!

•The Listening Ear

•Nice legs on men

•Plane reservations

•Yawns

•Stretches

•Doing nothing with the one you love

•Passionate kisses

•Enveloping hugs

•Talking to Loralee

•(I'll second that!)

•I 8 the sandbox

•New speakers!

•Cute blondes

•Cute brunettes with a bun and glasses too!

•Sharing opera with a friend

•Black thigh-highs

•Seeing two cool people hanging out

•Memories of running in the summer as a child

•Flowers in bloom

•Being incredibly warm and comfortable, and not wanting to leave

•A hole in my tongue

•Dancing

•"I can see the punctuation . . ."

•Jenny Merrill

•3 1/2 hours of sleep

•Getting your butt kicked

•Lentil!

•1-800-TACOBELL

•Birthdays (even if you don't get a sign)

•Being older than God

•Being too old to die

•Being too young to care!

•Crunchy Frog

•Relevé; and . . . hug!

•Being older than dirt

•Climbing big pine trees as high as the 3rd floor windows!

•Getting really groovy birthday signs

•Turning in a damned good paper (and knowing it)

•Oxytocin

•Hello? Spring Break!

•References on the Board

•Knowing what oxytocin is

•Coffee

•Spring Break

•Florida

•"If you're not Anne's mom, shut the hell up!"

•Ben

•Raves

•Actually acquiring a car for Colorado

•Hot raver boyz!!!

•Frozen grapes

•Having people compliment your dancing

•Feeling his "Karma!"

•Orca

•"Everything would be perfect, if you'd just shut up!"

•Being stopped at customs for having an eyebrow ring

•Being from America

•Rolling!

•Sparrow Hospital -- go fig...

•Doing homework during Spring Break . . . NOT!!

•Hugs

•Being a passenger in a car with a good driver

•Driving your own car!

•Heated swimming pools

•Goggles

•Lamaze for sneezes

•Claratin

•Tapioca pudding

•Hi Craig!

•Meeting a straight guy at a gay club

•Neosporin Plus

•Seeing your name on the Happiness Board

•Living, breathing people who are here

•"As the Cock Crows" world's first chicken love story

•Dr. Spock

•Finally getting Netscape to work . . . after ninfinity weeks!!

•Relatives visiting

•The NY Jets getting a real QB

•Madison

•Seeing Susan Mermelstein

•Soccer

•California under 2 months

•Clean Happiness Boards (so much to write!)

•Lentil's goofy ways!!!

•Plastikman CD's

•Having Phun!!!

•The Cheery Yummy Cafe

•Lieblings

•Someone who knows my teddy bear as well as I do

•Yucca Bowl

•The Ideal Mall

•Hard 'n' Floppy Electronics Store

•Coming home to warm arms and lips

•Amer's in A2

•Receiving the gift of rainbows

•Hunting for rainbows

•Anne being back from vacation

•Finding out cool stuff in your classes

•Juliene

•Doing your first handstand

•The lovely weather

•Poop

•Washable gutter glue for your face

•Making friends with new people who work at coffee shops

•Dry heaves

•Toolkit, you have toolkit?

•Shopping for brothers

•"Oh good!"

•Talking about tough questions

•Love amidst rainbows

•Being employed

•New CD's again!

•New coats

•An abundance of possibilities

•My best friend

•Finished lists

•Mercury falling

•Freedom!

•Tying Eric's shoes too tightly

•No circulation in your toes

•I look for me, and I look for you

•"Merry Christmas to all, now you're all gonna die!"

•Space Hog

•Onions and the gastrointestinal tract

•"'I'm having a great day.' 'How come?' 'CAFFEINE!!!'"

•"I'm doing bad in all my classes. . . . Except Calculus."

•Getting flowers on Thursday nights

•"You do it forever and you end up with 8"

•Adding perspective

•Living in something approaching the real world

•"Demented and sad . . . yet social"

•Another long late-night talk

•Peace

•Pinworms

•Beak

•Gina and Robin's Quote Door

•Reading to the woman you love

•2,4,6 Trinitrophenol -- BOOM!!!

•Meeting Alice

•Finding a way to beat the library's undecipherable filing system

•Kappa Kappa Hangman

•"How was your day?" "Laundry."

•Alice and Edward

•Glitter

•Uncle Scrooge

•Donald Duck

•Huey, Dewey and Louie

•Duck Tales

•"Life is like an hurricane here in Duckburg; racecars, lasers, aeroplanes -- it's a duck blur . . ."

•Double rave weekends

•Toronto?

•The "You Don't Know Jack" rebirth

•It wasn't Picric Acid . . . the first time!

•Twelve-mile, four hour walks for the hell of it

•Killing people every time

•Getting virgins drunk

•Dumping your very screwy boyfriend

•Easter egg hunts!

•Plastic bags

•Toy Story

•Guelph

•Rolling tape

•Carpet Curling

•Finally being able to afford a string, and a rock to wind a string around

•Finishing your taxes

•"STUDENT is not an occupation!"

•Getting tax refunds!

•Smegma Boy

•Rolling a McPherson

•Perspective

•Patience

•Dusting the attic

•Dated literature

•Toolkit sphincter

•Skin (may it stay on everything!)

•Braveheart

•5 lb bag of Gummi Bears

•Raisin bagels

•Adding 8 MB of RAM to your computer!

•Raising beagles

•Razing bugles

•Playing wiffle ball on the tundra

•Large quantities of Vaseline

•Pierogi

•6 pounds of lentils

•Tripe

•Eating a wetwipe

•New CD's yet again

•Working out misunderstandings

•30 ft ceilings with beauteous blue trim

•"Poop"

•Pants

•Visity-heads

•Happy singing heads

•Getting to bed on time (not that I'd know)

•Pride Week

•Rocks

•Tickling my best friend

•Being a slut

•Laughing at jealous pathetic people . . .

•The singing mice in Babe the Pig

•Robocop

•Looking like a goof

•"thesus rhesus"

•"Dewdrops in the garden"

•Jeff

•"The capricious Golgi method"

•2 hours of sleep!

•Civilization

•Maggie's homophobic ramblings

•Cloaking devices

•Warp core breaches

•Being a straight white male

•Warm weather!!!

•A good, hard f*ck

•When the person you love realizes one of their dreams

•Boys in fruit stripe shirts . . .

•Jeff licking

•Olga's

•Al Capone's hide out in Lansing

•Women

•Heterosexuality

•Men

•Being comfortable with my homosexuality

•Thunderstorms in the background

•Gwar

•Vengeful, vindictive, judgmental harpies!

•Friggin' cold baseball!

•Absolutely fabulous La Croix, Dahling!

•Poultry

•Kicking butt in Ann Arbor

•Kissing ass in Ann Arbor

•420

•Birthday spankings!

•Happy Birthday, Don

•G.F. Handel

•Black jellybeans and mustard (hmm . . .)

•Receiving more than 1000 happy thoughts so far this year!

•"Eric, what a guy!"

•Hazelnut coffee by Zach

•Being right about choir

•Lots of sleep

•El Grillo

•The Peanut Barrel

•Arkanoid

•MUS 125 (Sec 2)

•High score on Arkanoid

•17th level on Arkanoid with only one continue

•2 more weeks 'til the end of Spring Semester 96!

•A boy in my lab coming out to me

•A boy in my lap coming on to me

•Being complimented for something other than my looks

•Uranus

•No more chem lab for the rest of my life!

•Rings around Uranus

•Walks in sunshine

•34% A.P.R.

•Obscenely gargantuan credit card bills

•Dorks

•L-psychose

•Taking people's pictures

•Purity test score = 28%

•Sluts that get 28% purity test scores

•Braids

•That guy's curly afro

•Friends who are having a lovely time

•New Riddler!

•Canada!

•Cuba and Castro

•That smiley feeling one gets the next day

•Post-coital bliss

•Real Canadian

•Molson Canadian

•The Detroit Red Wings socking the Jets

•The Colorado avalanche

•New bikes

•Eternal life and good rainstorms

•Primordial Chemistry

•Crab legs nite

•The absurd acoustics at Fairchild Theatre

•Going out with an Am

•Strong Japanese green tea

•Evening runs

•Gonorrhea

•Getting the runs

•E

•Apples

•Being able to talk

•Fencing

•Nise

•Nise's lion

•Nice lions

•The unforgiving purity of fire

•Bread

•New close friends

•Friendly lizards named Draven owned by girls name Shira

•Having a job!

•Wendy's

•Arby's

•Burger King

•Fairy Queen

•Finishing a bunny

•A movie far from here

•Good conversation

•Finally kissing the boy you like . . .

•Finally finishing "the" conversation!

•Boyd and Joy

•Sleeping

•D

•Boys!

•Joe Momma the MTH 110 student

•Acing the ANP 363 final

•Having the same number of happy thoughts as last year!

•Having more happy thoughts than ever before!

•Honors Chem is over!

•Finding something to keep me from studying

•Having a "rap name"

•Henry Ng in the State News. Whippie!

•Not seeing Henry Ng in the State News

•Doing nothing and getting paid to

•Chemistry!!!

•No more chemistry ever!!!

•E-Dog, D-Skillet, J-Clip

•D-Love Daddy, J-Slice

•Premature endings

•Premature what?

•Living in Ann Arbor this summer!

•Not being around judgmental, ignorant, and naive people . . .

•Apples

•Compliments from your wonderful friends on your style of dancing!

•$90 per month rent

•Not having to live near fat, ugly, conservative republicans

•"I lied about J-slice."

•Dancing . . .

•Terry Mullan!

•The thought of new Q jeans!

•Carmina Burana

•Sex, pure and simple!

•"Wanna come along?"

•Having nothing to do

•Being Paul Harris for the summer . . . heck, always being Paul Harris

•Being done!!!

•Endings

•Knowing that Curt will continue the Happiness Board next year . . .