TASP 2003 at UT Austin:
The Mystery of Creativity |
Monday, February 23, 2004
congratulations to our two cornell branch acceptees, and cigarettes and porn to our two birthday boys!
o man o man adrian, your post made me laugh out loud (quite literally) about seven times. happy birthday! i'm sorry to hear that you're not getting any (telling the truth is indeed overrated, especially to girls), but congrats on the animal husbandry qualification - at least you're knocking somebody up. (rimshot, cue applause) also, yeah, jacob, that lagunitas is quite a poem, keep 'em coming.
so yesterday i went to the bay area tasp reading day and read hundreds (okay, tens) of essays from potential future taspers. there were sushi and grapes. i had a lot of fun letting my judgemental side run free (okay, even more free than usual.) i just want to let you know that if any of you had wondered how you got into tasp....you should stop. there were some real stinkers. i totally fell in love with a couple kids' essays, too. if they don't get in i copied down their phone numbers so i can stalk them.
i got a ride back to the city with a man who had been the president of berkeley branch when it was still around, and he confirmed that paul wolfowitz is indeed an asshole. (apparently, he had been strongly against berkeley branch's existence...because they smoked pot. in 1967, in berkeley, big freakin shocker. abram shulsky, though, was a nice enough dude.) there were about 10 people there from all different eras of tasp and we chatted it up about all sorts of things. it kind of made me sadder about getting rejected from telluride house, because i realized that my connections with telluride pretty much end here, and there are all sorts of really fascinating folks that are a part of the association. so, i know that you guys who got in have a whole bunch of excellent options and it's gonna be a hard choice to make, but...just don't forget what a rockin opportunity you've got in the telluride house, even if it is ass-cold in ithaca. just my two cents.
OMG OMG i'm TOTALLY getting to see a bunch of you in a few days lyke 4 rEaLz OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111
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