Dear brothers and sisters of tasp,

tae-yeoun has... tried to get me to post... as you see... she has succeeded.... in any case, i think it's only fair for me to share with you all what we said. Happy holidays and god bless...

Leniss - back!: whether you like it or not, whichever way you move on is inevitably shaped by what's happened

Ender137: ha

Ender137: oro

Ender137: anyhow

Leniss - back!: mmmm. : )

Ender137: i don't deny that what happened effects me

Ender137: but i like to savor it in the hidden alleys of my own memories

Ender137: it means more to me that way

Leniss - back!: *sigh*

Leniss - back!: i know what you mean

Ender137: once in while... ill come out and share what i think

Ender137: one day

Ender137: i will

Ender137: :)

Leniss - back!: thank you. :)

posted by Bryan Lee   [7:31 PM]

So I've abstained from the internet for ten days now and am now sorting through a flood of Christmas greetings and virtual snowball fight ecards (who started that thing anyway? it's so annoyingly addictive!), and at the same time trying to send out mass emails confirming that I'm alive and well: while the earthquake and its aftereffects hit everything in the area and managed to move Sumatra by 37 meters, it just so happened to miss the Philippines. I was vegetating at the beach while it happened and watched it on the news later, and came home well-rested. Thank God for the Indochine penninsula.

John, as flattered as I am, I can't take credit for the blog - we all helped keep it up. :)

The past few days have looked like this for me, and I'm attaching the photo with hope that it'll brighten your winters for those of you who are not Aimee or Tara (as to the extent of my knowledge Kelsey and Jared have ditched California for colder places):



Happy New Year!

posted by Tae-Yeoun Keum   [9:06 PM]

I am not surprised to see you surrounded by beautiful women, John. You Nebraska Dems have something to smile about with Johanns' appointment to Secretary of Agriculture. (Note for non-Nebraskans: Republican Governor Johanns planned to challenge Democratic Senator Nelson in '06. With Johanns now in the Cabinet, Nelson is safe). I will never forget watching a canoe race across when I was seven. It was across the occasional wetlands (is there a term for that?) where the Five State Compact wanted to dump nuclear waste. I was wearing a yellow shirt that screamed SAVE BOYD COUNTY and Ben Nelson did. Around here he almost has an epithet. They say "Ben Nelson, he's a good man."
(a similar note: Implicit here is "even though he's a Democrat." Bush won every county in Nebraka, a state where box elder bugs are called "Democrat beetles").

posted by Matthew Schmitz   [3:30 PM]

I have to thank Tae-Yeuon's foresight with this whole blog thing. It would have taken me until just about now before I even read one if it were not for her, instead I've been "posting" and whatnot for a year and a half. The point though is

my college democrats group has a blog: www.unodemocrats.com/blog and if you go sometime vaguely soon you'll find a photo of the "central committee" including yours truly wearing his old "femenist chicks dig me" tshirt.

And a very very merry christmas for those celibrating it this year. (and a merry day of gifts and lights for everyone else on the 25th)

posted by john owens-ream   [12:01 AM]

Looking at that brochure really makes we want to apply... but I think I'm ineligible.

Hey, who here has read the Little Prince? I think they made us read that in like 4th grade, but I went back and read it today and it is really really deep. The Flower he loves is like a woman, and there are sexual undertones to his relationship to the fox... The people on the planets are all like the folks in this life, so self-absorbed that they construct small painful personal worlds in which they ignore the beauty of the universe... right. well, it's a good book, and takes a couple of hours to read.


Everyone, remember to eat your vegetables. They're good for you and they keep you regular.

posted by Adrian   [11:11 AM]

Is anyone currently in Chicago? Call, 708-703-7636--my cell number. anyone call, for any reason, not just being in Chicago. The last day I'm here is the 27th, at the field museum (drawing a shrew foot), but if the reunion starts in the evening, it would be wonderful to catch up with anyone. I'm utterly behind in the blog, but hope that everyone's finals went doubbleplusgood and that families are well and so on.

posted by Adrian   [11:05 AM]

I will be in chicago with my brother and sister from the 27th through the 10th! So if I get to be part of my first reunion (besides the Eunice Recital Roadtrip) then it will add joy to my holiday season.

I will also be in DC for the counter-inaguration on the 19th-22nd, so if anyone wants to viva la revelucion at the other capitol (the one not in Austin) then I will gladly see them there.

posted by john owens-ream   [12:52 AM]

if you think the olga-susan-eunice-travaganza is exciting, just wait for the truly incomprehensible blog posts that are sure to result from the upcoming yablinnis sexplosion, scheduled for january 7th through 11th in ass-cold chicago (just thought i'd brag for those who were not aware of the impending minireunion.) also, tara and i are always in austin and always ready to welcome taspers with open arms (legs?), so get your asses down here (it was 75 degrees last week.)

an interesting twist on the whole canon argument - john mcwhorter, my current intellectual crush, in his excellent book word on the street, has a very compelling essay arguing that shakespeare should continue to be read and performed widely - only it needs to be translated into modern english. he dissects a famous passage from hamlet to show just how much meaning we're losing, and argues that foreign audiences (who often seem to profess a much deeper love for the bard) are better off because they have the advantage of seeing shakespeare translated seriously and artfully into their own languages. worth looking up for you thessssssssssspians and linguists out there.

as for long-lost taspers...i should admit that i have spoken with jamie fairly recently, so i can substantiate aimee's claim that he is still alive. apparently he has a houseplant now too, and a thesis to finish. also drs. chapelle and randall send their love, and more importantly their deep desire for gossip about you guys. oh, and randomly, to finish this typically incoherent post, for john: i have, in more than one class this past semester, been singled out for speaking as "our marxist." viva la revolucion, in texas and nebraska...

posted by Kelsey   [11:55 PM]

news of the long-lost. Jared, come back!

posted by Tae-Yeoun Keum   [3:17 PM]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MATT!

posted by Tae-Yeoun Keum   [2:30 PM]

May I bring your attention to the TASP 2005 brochure, in which at least half the pictures are of us. Us, as in, exclusively our TASP from last last summer.

Stay beautiful--

posted by Tae-Yeoun Keum   [8:44 PM]

Spring break trip!!!!! ISoundz good but i am going to be in NYC for break- doing art-therapy at a shelter (yayy!!! & tara, I thought of your final project :D) But if you pass through the city come see me!!! besides I have some free time at the end of break.

posted by aimee   [6:05 PM]

its 8 am before a chem final and I'm waiting until 8:30 when a friend and i are yogaing. I've seen all my notes so many times that the mere cover of "chemistry" has a nauseating affect so I'm reviewing the elements and their names in the AM quiet- what should i stumble upon? Te: Tellurium.
teehee. Primo Levi should've written about it.
time to yoga
-aimee

posted by aimee   [5:23 AM]

Jacob-

I'm doing a giant art instalation project involving bathrooms and gender representation. It's been expanded to include literary pieces and I was wondering if you would mind me displaying a copy of your "in the bathroom at barnes and noble" inside one of the literary instalations.

If you get this by the end of December (it's due turn of the year) please drop me an email or post.

posted by john owens-ream   [5:49 PM]

That long night in the Secret HQ that I spent with Olga and then later Eunice and others coming and going while I sorted and resorted the rocks is perhaps my favorite memory from all of TASP. If I remember correctly, I missed almost 100 pages of OAFK reading just to work on the rock problem.

In two weeks when my finals are over, I will probably be kept up at night by this next one. But the 2 minutes to read and post on the blog I've just spent were more procrastinating than I probably even should have done.

TASP according to blogger's spell check is now "Teacup"

posted by john owens-ream   [7:30 PM]

The original rock problem was, you have 12 rocks, of which 11 are of the same weight, and one is either lighter or heavier than all the rest. You have a scale and you can use it three times. How will you find which is the odd rock out?

It drove us crazy for a few days and lots of the colored rocks in the rock bowl in the couch place went missing.

So, the next level up is, you have 39 rocks, 38 are of the same weight, and you don't know if the last rock is heavier or lighter. Find this rock using the scale four times.

posted by Tae-Yeoun Keum   [11:04 AM]

We haven't had a discussion question for a while, so I'll propose one in a new area of knowledge (I sell myself as a ToK brat too easily):

Can we handle the next level of the rock problem? How much have our brains expanded (or shriveled...) since last summer?


39 rocks.
4 uses of the scale.

Go.
(eunice and kelsey, this means you!)

posted by Tae-Yeoun Keum   [11:54 PM]

Susan, blogger doesn't do image hosting except through this thing called hello, which I never figured out how to use. I personally use www.photobucket.com (when I started they had unlimited storage; they don't anymore because they're cheap but I'm just as cheap and I resorted to using multiple accounts) and I'm sure there are others that are better. If it's a hassle, send the pictures to me and I'll post them for you. Yay! Pictures!

I am all for the road trip.

posted by Tae-Yeoun Keum   [11:43 PM]

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