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Alright folks, so the two coolest things I saw today were:
1) A guy walking around on Mill with a cat walking around on his shoulders and the top of his backpack.
2) A privately owned hearse, complete with bumber stickers. "Harold and Maude" is the best movie ever.

Alright, so there's all sorts of stuff to share. First off, last Friday was my rockin' 20th Birthday. That's right, I'm old. Ha! I win! I made it past 20! Now I get the bonus round!
On my birthday I got to get up at six for Camp Sparky. We had a Natural Disasters Camp at Baltz Elementary, and it was pretty sweet. Lynne, Eric, and Alison were awesome! When I arrived at Lot 17 in the morning, they greeted me with big helium balloons, a card, and a doughnut with a candle in it. They all sang me "Happy Birthday," and then I got to blow my candle out. It was awesome.
My station, which was talking to the kids about Tsunamis and then writing letters and poems about them,went pretty well. Counselors kept getting the kids to sing "Happy Birthday" to me, which cracked me up.
After the camp, when I was thinking about taking a nap, I decided to go work out instead, so I was crazy-pumped at dinner. It was at Tres Margheritas, and a couple of non-CS folks came, like Alex and Levi. Lynne of course told them that it was my birthday, so as I was sitting there telling a story, I suddenly had a giant red-velvet sombrero on my head, and a plate of sopapillas before me. Everyone started singing Happy Birthday (for the fifth time that day, lol), and the waitress behind me attempted to feed me a spoonful of whipped cream. Unfortunately, I had not been advised as to its arrival, and therefore I ended up with whipped cream all over my face, and a large glob on my left breast. Here's the best part- apparently a waiter across the table from me leaned over, stuck out his tongue, and said, "I'll get that for ya!"

Riiiiiiiiigggght.

So anyway, after Tres Margheritas Alex and Lynne went to see "The Wedding Date," and I stoically let them do so without inviting myself along to make sure everything stayed platonic. I'm very proud of myself for that, let me assure you. You should be proud of me too. Yes, you.

As for me, I went with Tom to his friend Daniel's wine and cheese party. Turns out I was the youngest person there- Daniel is a thirty year old Peruvian who was brought here by AISEC to do an internship. (This didn't prevent him from hitting on me all night, and insisting repeatedly that he was only 19 years old, hahaha.) The wines and food were all wonderful, with the definite exception of the 5-Liter box of "Sunrise Blush" boxed wine that Tom brought. I thought it tasted like sugar water, but Danny insisted that it tasted like Church. Having never tasted church wine before, I'm afraid that I cannot corroborate his account.
So the wine and cheese party was a rollicking good time, even if I have trouble hearing what everyone's saying sometimes. Tom got hilariously drunk, and kept saying things like "Eleanor's a lesbian!" and giggling unstoppably, at which I would have to jokingly correct him and insist that I'm only half-way there, since I happened to find Danny kinda cute. Daniel kept trying to pour me more wine, and giving me more cigarettes, and we got into an intense discussion of soccer. Turns out that when he was a kid he played on the Peruvian national team until he broke his tibia and fibula in a game against the Argentinians at age 13. Awesome!!!

Speaking of soccer, the Camp Sparky Team had its first practice on Sunday and its first game on Teusday... and we whooped ASS!!!! Seriously, we stomped them, 4-0. I play goalie, which is way exciting. Zak brought this hilarious padded shirt for me to wear, plus gigantic goalie gloves, so I can actually grip the ball. I got to block a goal kick that totally would've made it in if I hadn't gotten it, and I got to do some yelling. The ball was coming across my box, and I started to run for it. This girl from the other team was also going for it, and knowing that I'm a slow runner, I started yelling as I ran towards it. It worked! She totally slowed down, so I got there first! Wo0t! I really enjoy the role of the aggressive, intimidating goalie- the number on my jersey is 666. I was so pumped after the game! *Triumphal roar!*

Also, I went on Saturday to see "In Good Company" with Hanners, Lady Hayden, and The Mapes of Wrath. I like that movie. I thought you should know. Anyway, after that Hayden, Hanners, Tristan, Linds and I went to dinner at the Phoenicea Cafe, and then went back to my place for rasberry screwdrivers and a rousing game of Apples to Apples, which is right up there with Cranium, Scrabble, and Zigity as an awesome game.

Ooh, and this weekend is CCI, and Ryan bought a sleepingbag for me for $20 with his discount at Sports Authority! Huzzah!

Oooooh!!!!!! And we did an awesome Raku Firing! It was incredible! I have orange/moss green/copper pots with pretty feet! Everyone should come over to see my pots. Or maybe I'll put a picture of them online. Yes, I'll do that.


Alright, so for today's online quizzes:

You are a Fork. You are special, unique... and shiny.... but you just don't know it. Many admire you for your outward appearance, but you haven't truly expressed all of the great stuff inside of you. You have the potential to do great things and help others, and this will help you in the future. When you hold a grudge at someone, however, this can be dangerous. Despite your calmness that most people perceive about you, you keep a lot of feelings bottled up inside that one day can make you explode and stab something. Instead of resorting to that, you can say, "Go Fork Yourself!" Most compatible with: Knife, and Sock. Click here -- What Random Object Represents Your Inner Self?

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