TASP 2003 at UT Austin: The Mystery of Creativity



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Tuesday, March 02, 2004
geez, tae-yeoun, the pressure...it's not like i was the only one at those reunions, man...

they were fabulous, of course. i wrote an unbearably long post about all four parts of it, but i decided that it might be more prudent to break it down into digestible chunks. so you will get the whole story over the next four days. other participants please feel free to embellish, correct, or plausibly deny my accounts.

part 1: my whirlwind tasp weekend began on thursday in baltimore, where i met alex b. despite the best attempts of san francisco weather (a thunderstorm?!??! wtf?! interroBANG!) and beltway commuters to keep us from making our rendezvous. after a hearty pancake breakfast (we discussed jesus and john edwards), alex took me on a lovely walking tour of baltimore, during which i drove him absolutely nuts with my constant architectural observations ("did you how they got that texture on that there harbor wall? here, let me tell you even though you're clearly not interested...") he showed me a fabulous book/record store and a very cool folk art museum. i think my next artistic endeavor will involve 50 foot tall windmills, somehow. or matchsticks. (next? first, more like it.) we had a hurried farewell at alex's school which is a castle, for real. gargoyles and everything. i was sad to go and even sadder when i got lost on the baltimore bus system.

tomorrow: susan, french food, korean soap operas. don't miss it.

in other, reunion-related news...although i don't think anyone was seriously challenging me, i will further extend my record of most post-tasp tasper encounters next tuesday, when aimee will arrive in san francisco for a whole week! for the record, that is one-sixth of tasp but there will be six times the hot roommate-on-roommate action...and by hot roommate-on-roommate action, i mean dirty laundry, unwashed dishes, and complete fucking squalor. hellz yeah. once again, i extend an invitation to anyone remotely in the area (jared? mónica? uhhhh...bryan?) to come join us.

in other, non-reunion-related news...after submitting my application last thursday, one day before the deadline, and completely convincing myself that i was not going to get into any college anywhere, i got a call from st. john's (santa fe) last night telling me they love me and they will offer me a sexual favor from a faculty member of my choice if i agree to enroll there (or, you know, something along those lines.) needless to say, i'm fairly excited (i hear that eva brann is pretty hot.) i'm not sure if i'm going or not - i'm waiting to hear from plan ii at ut - but odds are pretty good. i mock all of you waiting for april 1st notification dates with my rolling admissions acceptance. take that, you future ivy leaguers!

anyway, so life here is pretty good, what with aimee and st. john's and all. these things are supposed to come in threes, so i'm waiting to hear about that freak marshmallow-and-caramel hailstorm (who remembers cloudy with a chance of meatballs?)

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