September 1st, 2006

Current Music: Damn kid playing a horn Current Location: Kassel, Deutschland Subject: Deutschstunde Time: 02:43 pm Current Mood: zufrieden

So last week I arrived in Germany. After only twelve hours of hell, I arrived in Frankfurt. The trip was organized by my German language professor at University, so it was me and about twenty others. We took a train from Frankfurt to Kassel, and a pleasant pair of gentlemen drove me and two others to Lohfelden, a little suburb outside Kassel. The drivers are neighbors of the Höflings, so they dropped us off. I'm living a great german couple while I'm here. We seem to be getting along fantastically. A (cute) 18 y/o from Russia and a (not as cute) guy from Hungary, both from students at Europa Kolleg. Schedule (during the week) 700 wake up call from my guest mother, get dressed. 700 - 720 Eat breakfast, usually bread, cold meat, heated milk, jam, and cheese. 730 Catch a bus to Kassel, and take a tram to Europa College 815 - 1230 class with three 20 minute breaks 1300 ride the tram down to the Mensa and have lunch 1400 go shopping, go to the internet cafe, head home or all manner of things. 1900 dinner with the Höflings (unless I'm eating out with the other students) 2000 Head back to Kassel for a night of bar hopping, site seeing or just hanging out in a cafe 2330 catch the train home 0000 sleep I'm here to learn German, to practice my speaking skills, so I spend a lot of time talking with my host family and people I bump into. More to come when it happens.

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November 20th, 2005

Current Music: Fall Out Boy - Dance, Dance Subject: Weekend Fun Time: 10:53 pm Current Mood: cheerful

The highlights of my trip to Portland: I was making out with a really hot guy under a bus stop shelter in downtown Portland at 12:30am, when a black couple wandered by. The woman said, "Hey" to which my make-out partner responded, "Hey, how's it going?" and she replied, "Good." As they continued onward the black man turned around and asked, "Ya'll wanna add a little chocolate to y'all's mix?" We respectfully declined, but it was simply hilarious the way he put it. Yay, Portland! The making of a documentary on Club Escape in Portland may end up featuring myself and another guy making out in the background on more than one occasion. I wish I could find out who was making it, so I could get a copy when it comes out. Wee! Except from Instant Message: Me: So someone watching may be like, "Hey, isn't that the gay couple we saw making out in the last scene?" Albert: HAHA Albert: you'll be the most famous gay ever! Albert: more famous than Dick Cheney Me: haha Me: Yeah, that time Dick was making out with some dude in a documentary. Albert: HAHAHAHHAHAHA My gratuitous making out does not necessarily reflect my sluttish behavior, not at all. I am fully capable of a commited monogamous relationship... or a polyamorous one... or none at all it (if the make-out sessions remain steady and I still have my many friends). The highlights of my trip to Western Oregon: The Serpent by Jean-Claude van Itallie was being performed at WOU. The play was rather well done, with few props and minimal costumes. In one scene, a number of performers were portraying a serpent, moving across the stage as one, tempting another performer with the apple from the tree of knowledge. Some would hiss while some others would speak, which created an excellent and fiendish-sounding voice for the serpent. The serpent tempts Eve with the apple from the tree of knowledge, who eats and in turn tempts Adam with the apple. After this scene, the "serpents" dispersed into the audience and tempted audience members with real apples. I was a little hungry and feeling very blasphemous, so I eagerly took an apple. Mmm, original sin is tasty.

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October 2nd, 2005

Current Music: Sophie Ellis-Baxter - Murder On The Dance Floor Subject: Dance Party Time: 07:16 pm Current Mood: chipper

Bob and I went away for the weekend to Monmouth and Portland. We spent Saturday with Marcus at Western Oregon University. It was Marcus' birthday, so we went up to Club Escape in Portland to celebrate. We got to Portland at about midnight and danced the night away until about 3am. It's an awesome club. Its small, but its just big enough for a lot of people to get really close together. They have multiple tiers of dance floors on the main floor, lots of impressive flashing lights, thumping gay techno, glowsticks, and a whole lot of hot shirtless gay boys and men. A delightful cachophony of people stood outside Escape. Queers, fags, twinks, and all manner of dykes, drag queens, and androgenous emos. The bouncer pats you down for weapons and a lady behind a cage takes $10 and stamps your wrist with the word "Gay" (They stamp "Lesbo" on your wrist on Fridays I was told). The whole club was black: ceilings, walls, and floor. The first thing that caught my eye was Mel Brooks' "Young Frankenstein" was playing on one of the walls. The first thing is a bar and coatroom, attending by a very slight-framed twink with short spikey pink and blonde hair in a Chinese-style shirt with rainbow ribbons barely binding the front together. Escape is an underage club (which according to Kingsley is called a "juice bar") so they do not serve alcohol, but rather water and various rehydrating drinks. Moving on, the main dance floor was a large central room, surrounded by multiple raised platforms. So one could stand on one of the many platforms around the main dance floor and see the whole room. Above the main dance floor was a sophisticated grid of stationary and moving lights and speakers spewing forth a dazling light show accompanied by pulsing gay techno. The DJ, a blonde twink in a wifebeater, was in a cage in the wall on one side of the club, raised up about 6 feet from the floor. Periodically, a plumme of smoke would billow forth from one of the walls, slowly filling the club, keeping the whole room slightly obscured. Lights of all kinds filled the room as well, strobe, colored floodlights, flashing floor tiles, movies being projected onto walls, and glowsticks kept the whole place an ever-changing visage. The most common type of person in the club was of the shirtless twink variety. Hot, young, sweaty bodies gesticulating to the clatter of synthesizer rhythms mixed with contemporary and popular music. Others included the androgenous man-woman femmes and butches, who ranged from the FTM husky male looking types to the skinny emo boys in tight pants. There was a boy dressed as a naughty angel, some drag queens, men in high heels, and an unlistable number of variations of styles. After dancing for several hours, the club quieted down and they put on a floor show. :-) Given the relative closeness to Halloween, they had a show which played a slight variation on tradition fairy tales, or more accurately, a little closer to the original stories which more sexual emphasis. None of the actors talked, but the music they played was a dark collection of haunting, charming, and eerie Fairy-tale-esque and hard rock music. Everyone on the dance floor took a seat and the stage was on one side of the club. They started with a drag queen dressed (rather elaborately I might add) as a witch dropping candy about the room. Shortly thereafter, a man and a woman dressed in matching red lederhosen (Hansel and Gretel of course) came out and followed the candy up to the stage, where the witch was waiting with more treats. She then tied Hansel to a chair and dropped Gretel into a tall steel pot as the two happily continued munching on snacks. The witch then seasoned Gretel in the pot. She then went over to the Hansel with a knife and cut out one of his eyes and ate it. :-) Afterward, the witch wandered off and a woman in a small red hood and clock (Little Red Riding Hood) came out of the audience and made her way to the stage, where she helped the children out of their predicament in time for the witch to return with the Big Bad Wolf. In this case, the big bad wolf was in jeans, shirtless, decorated in wolf-esque tribal paint and a long, tall mane of dark hair. He put out a cigarette on the stage and walked on all fours into the audience as the children and the witch looked on. To the thumping rhythm of techno-rock, the wolf went to several audience members and petted, licked, and grinded on several of them (boys and girls). Making his way back to the stage, the Wolf began to seduce Little Red Riding Hood, eventually disappearing behind stage, her legs in the air and him on top of her. ;-) The witch returns at this point with a mirror and Snow White shows up and the two have a brief dance competition, which Snow White wins. Then the witch gives her an apple, which she eats, and the have another competition, which ends with Snow White passing out. Then the witch puts on a surgical mask. The wolf reappears from Red with blood around his mouth and a bloody handprint on his chest, and begins handing the witch surgical instruments. Once their cosmetic surgery is complete, Snow White wakes up and the witch gives her a mirror. Eventually the with controls all the characters like puppets and the whole thing degrades into an orgy between all the characters. :-D Finally, it culminates with the Witch and Wolf being burned to death by the children. Yay! It was a fun little floor show. Afterwards, we retired back to Monmouth and we stayed in Marcus' dormroom. The next morning, we drove back to Corvallis. All in all, a fun weekend.

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September 18th, 2005

Current Music: Frederic Chopin - Nocturne for Violin and Piano Subject: Updates Time: 01:01 am Current Mood: happy

I thought I'd lighten the mood with some good old-fashioned babbling of my life right now: I met a guy when I was in Corvallis and he was up here in Spokane visiting we went on a date and hit if off pretty well. So we made plans when I get back down there to pick up where we left off. This, I am looking forward to very much. A friend of mine in Corvallis is having a tough time and for some reason I sense he is drifting away from me. Girls are finding me and wanting to be my friend. wtf? I'm into dudes. And no, it doesn't all look the same from behind. ;-) I went to a block party on the Monroe bridge for the opening of the downtown bridge. There were fireworks, which makes me happy. :-D That's about it.

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August 19th, 2005

Current Music: Death Cab For Cutie - Death of an Interior Decorator Subject: Friendships Time: 11:38 am Current Mood: happy

Hanging with Erik So I spent most of yesterday with my straight best friend Erik. I picked him up at his house early in the morning and the two of us had breakfast. Afterward, I took him to a job interview for Virgin Mobile (Customer Support). When I picked him up later, he got the job. Hoorah for minimum wage! =P He and I went to lunch and then hung out. We watched some "Penn & Teller's Bullshit" which is an awesome show, wandered around the mall, and had dinner at Applebee's. After I dropped Erik off at his house, I went to the Merq. At the Merq Alex, a friend I’ve known since middle school, has decided to not go into the Navy, because it would mean going back in the closet. That’s one step forward and two steps back. Which is a good choice on his part. I had intended to join the Navy also, but decided against it for the same reasons. =) Alex and I had a rather meaningful conversation about relationships, which was unusual for us to have an intelligent conversation. Afterward I spent the rest of the night talking to my friend Jon while Alex chatted with some guy in the table next to us. Jon was in his businessman garb and was looking rather professional. He and I talked about his roommate, politics, sociology, and psychology. This was also a rather unusual conversation to have with Jon, because he and I spend most of our conversations talking in Family Guy™ quotes. =P It was rather eye-opening to be able to talk with Jon that way and I certainly respect the man more now.

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August 9th, 2005

Current Music: Snow Patrol - Whatever's Left Subject: Night Out Time: 11:55 am Current Mood: energetic

Last night, Brad, Bryce, Grant, Jon, Shane and I went to the downtown mall and had dinner in the food court. We all had quite a time. Afterward, we went shopping around downtown and retired to Brad and Jon's apartment. Massages of all shapes and appendages ensued (no "happy endings"... I don't think) and we all just had a fun time relaxing around the living room. Whenever Pat, Shane and Jon are together tickling tends to be a common activity as well. Mostly because Jon and Shane are so sensitive to tickling. =D As Pat and I were leaving, he hugged Shane on the couch and Pat's bag hit Jon in the face and his nose bled a bit. =P

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July 22nd, 2005

Tags: gab, philosophy Current Music: John Cameron Mitchell - Origin of Love Subject: Love and Life Time: 01:36 pm Current Mood: contemplative

So I've been working on my theories of the types of love, while this is all rather theoretical, it makes sense in my head: Two types of love (based partially on Plato's Symposium) Eros: 'desire' Philia: 'friendship' Eros involves the need or want to possess another human being. This is the reason we feel jealousy and protective toward this person. This is also rather arbitrary, the basis of who we feel this for is rather random or possibly based on biological/neurochemical factors that we do not fully understand. An example of this is the crush. One could feel Eros toward a lover, a crush, or even a family member because it is not necessarily sexual in nature. Philia is more want for acceptance or social agreement. We associate w/ people we feel like we share a great deal in common w/ and identify w/. This feeling is very different. An example is the typical friendship. Also, I would not say that each are mutually exclusive, ideally, we could feel both for our ideal partner. Criticism is more than welcome, I could easily be completely wrong.

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July 14th, 2005

Tags: gab Current Music: Green Day - King For a Day Subject: Recap of Events Time: 11:00 am Current Mood: bouncy

So over the course of the last few weeks I've been hanging out w/ friends in Spokane, frequenting gay bars, driving about town, cruising the mall, reading at Barnes and Noble, wearing women's panties (well, not that last one-- I read at Borders). Just generally keeping busy while here in Spokane. I've rekindled old friendships and started new ones, which is awesome. Romance is still a possibility, even though things w/ Drew and I are dwindling w/ new complications beyond both our control. :-\ Plus, a lot of my gay friends would like to remain just friends, which is fine, but I certainly miss being in a relationship. Perhaps I can refocus my romantic side into something productive-- like arts & crafts or genocide. Also, Ian and I are working on a D&D campaign, which is proving to be interesting. I've played Dungeons & Dragons a handfull of times, but have found it quite interesting. Last night I got the chance to listen to a gay couple's stories about their relationship of 6+ years. It was very enlightening to hear them bicker like a married couple, just proof that straights and gays aren't that disimiliar. Despite the little differences they still love each other very much, which was very uplifting. Delightful.

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June 16th, 2005

Tags: gab, zack and i Current Music: Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity Subject: Arrival in Spokane Time: 11:45 pm Current Mood: hopeful

Ok. Some catching up to do: Got back to Spokane to find out my computer's power supply died en route. :-P Crappy. My computer is my connection to the outside world, so I was cut off. Events: Monday -- I visited teachers at my old high school. -- Bored, because no computer. Tuesday -- I visited teachers at my old high school. -- Bored, because no computer. Wednesday -- Yay! Computer fixed! Thursday -- I visited teachers at my old high school. -- Computer still works = happiness. Love/Life: Zack, a boy who still goes to my high school is growing more and more a part of my circle of Spokane friends. Now my friends are pushing for Zack and I to hook up. JJ wants Zack and I to be boyfriends, Tyler wants us to be fuck-buddies, and Ian doesn't care, he just wants us both to be happy. Personally, I like the guy. I want to get to know him better, but people are getting in the way, namely his mother, who keeps him at home by default to prevent him from going the way of his brother. :-P So crappy for me again. AIM should help the process now that I have his screen name and our first chat conversation went rather well I think. :-D

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June 9th, 2005

Tags: gab Current Music: Whitney Houston - My Love Is Your Love Subject: Departure Time: 07:38 pm Current Mood: amused

I'll be heading back home to Spokane tomorrow for the summer and be back to the university in Fall. Yay! I get to return to Eastern Washington's bastion of conservativism! ... please kill me ... :-) That means I'll have to say goodbye to my new friends. :-( and this BEAUTIFUL campus. Next year I have to look forward to being the Head Homo of McNary Hall, all round great guy, and excellent student! :-)

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May 27th, 2005

Tags: gab Current Music: Mae - This Time Is The Last Time Subject: Pool Party Time: 11:23 am Current Mood: happy

Last night, around 10pm, my residence hall got together and went over to the swimming pool at the Dixon rec center. I had been there before, but it was more fun to have Alison, Jason, Max, and Caitlin there too. We swam, dove, generally screwed around. It was really fun. I met this guy online last night too who seems pretty cool, but I've met other online that didn't go anywhere, so I don't expect much. Today, I have to debunk my bed so the Hall can have it back. That means rearranging my room for the fifth or sixth time this academic year. :-) I can be quite the interior designer when I want to be. Otherwise, I have one class. Lunch with Jason and then nothing special planned.

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May 19th, 2005

Tags: gab Current Music: London Symphony Orchestra - The Duel of Fates Subject: Late Night Movie Delight Time: 07:02 pm Current Mood: cheerful

Jason, Chris, Marie, Kingsley and I went to see Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith at 3:00am today! It was awesome. We drove 2hours to Portland, watched the movie and got back to Corvallis at 7:30am. Luckily I got to sleep until my first class at 11am and a nap afterward until 3pm. The movie was good, probably the best of the new Star Wars trilogy. The dialogue was corny and dry, special effects scenes made up about 90% of the movie, and I was disappointed at some of the character developments, makeup, and the plot, but otherwise it was a good movie. :-)

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May 13th, 2005

Tags: gab Current Music: David Bowie - As The World Falls Down Time: 03:38 am Current Mood: tired

I left Health class today to the expected gaiety of Queer Pride Week on campus. Lube wrestling, which consisted a kiddie-pool filled with industrial quantities of lube while two half naked competitors wrestled each other into the visceral liquid. Yay! After Lube wrestling was Drag Racing. :-) Myself and a bunch of others signed up to perform a gauntlet in drag. With two contestants competing at a time, a girl and myself, raced to boxes of accessories, shoes, makeup and clothes and dressed as best we could in only a few minutes in drag. We then moved on to using hoola-hoops. Next, we were to carry a water filled condom across an obstacle course and back to the finish line intact. Finally, both contestants were to display their exemplary dance skills in a few minutes of depraved ass-grinding. :-) Then, a panel of judges would make the decision as to a winner. I threw on a blue wig and high heels and was the better drag queen in the end. :-D As much as I get kicks out of challenging traditional gender roles, cross-dressing to way too much work for me to do with any regularity or with any proficiency. :-) I'll leave being Queen of the Beaver to Mona and Kiki. After drag racing, I wiped off my lipstick and headed to the booth in the quad that peaked my interest earlier, which featured several big posters asking, "Are you Sick of Religion?". So I talked to the people at the booth and they turned out to be from Campus Crusades for Christ (C.C.C... Hmm, reminds me of another Christian affiliated group...) and wanted to learn more about people's opinions on religion. So I struck up a conversation with one of the girls at the booth on the topic. In the end, it was a fun conversation from which she probably learned nothing, but I did learn how intolerant even college campuses can be when I say some of the comments people would write on the topic. Literally: "I hate Muslims" "All muslims are violent and oppressive" "All Christians are intolerant and ignorant" and "Jesus Slaves" While Ian would get a kick out of the knocks on Christians, I fail to see how gross generalization on a group really reflect a well-educated individual. I've met some very open-minded Christians and some very feminist Muslims, but the fact that people don't differentiate between followers and ministry, dogma and practice, or beliefs and doctrine just disappoint me. Religion, god(s), the afterlife, and related topics have been major philosophical concepts I've had in my head for a long time. I think, however, that I've got the basics of existence and where all that stuff comes from. In the end, people tend to assume you need religion or god(s) to believe in something. The truth is that socialization has been instilling morals and values in humans since long before religion developed. Religion is the common-interest group that facilitates agreement on the topics that cannot be tested objectively. We can't prove god(s), afterlife, immortal souls, etc., but they do give people a clear pathway to deal with real issues like coping with death. Religion's secondary trait has been to give the powerful a tool to subdue the masses. "Don't worry about being poor and oppressed now, in heaven/hell/reincarnation/karma/nirvana/Hades/generalized afterlife you'll be rewarded if you just put up with it." ;-) Yeah, great... Anyway, it was a fun day. Except that I spend a little too much time in the sun and now I'm all red with sunburn. Yay! Cancer!

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May 6th, 2005

Current Music: My Chemical Romance - You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us Subject: Fun Times Time: 03:30 am Current Mood: tired

We had the "pride panel" in Human Sexuality class today. The panel is just a collection of queer students on campus that are available to share stories, answer questions, and otherwise educate students who want to learn. I knew everyone on it, of course, and joined the panel a while back, though I have yet to be on a panel. It was pretty good and hopefully a future generation of economic elites will internalize the full variety of sexual identities in our culture (and I would claim species). Caitlin and I went to the Hardcore Show on campus tonight, every hall is suppose to send a representative to RHA events, and I was it. Luckily, enough hardcore rockers showed up that Caitlin and I could leave after a few bands. I have to say though, hardcore boys are hot. Tight pants, shirts, dark hair, and hard bodies. :-D Caitlin and I hung out with Ramsi for a little while in Buxton Hall, then returned to McNary. Caitlin and I talked for a while, then I left her boyfriend and her alone when he arrived. I caught Drew online and we chatted for a little. Then I went downstairs and we hung out for a while with his roommate and his best friend, Jessica. Drew's roommate, Nick, was on NationStates.net playing at building a country and it looked interesting so I went to the website and did some nation building of my own. So I filled out a survey and I created my Socialist Left-Wing Utopia where crime is non-existent, but where "The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising fourteen-year-old boys selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out." :-D That was about it for the day.

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May 3rd, 2005

Current Music: Tim Curry - Sweet Transvestite Subject: Precautionary Measure Time: 01:35 am Current Mood: calm

Jason and I went last week and made appointments to get tested for STI/Ds. Mine came up first, so I went into Student Health Services today to get vaccinated for Hepatitis A+B and get tested for other STI/Ds that I might have picked up in the course of my existence. I get another shot before the end of the term and another next school year, then I'll be pretty well free of Hepatitis A+B for 20+ years. The doctor had me drop my drawers and she felt around my nether-regions, otherwise, nothing unexpected at the doctor's office. :-D

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May 2nd, 2005

Current Music: Walt Disney's The Jungle Book - My Own Home Subject: An Evening on the Town Time: 12:15 am Current Mood: blah

Me and friends saw Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy today. It was well done, it leaves a lot out, but I suppose if everything in Douglas Adams' book was on the screen it'd be a four hour movie (like the one made in the 70's). :-) 'You'd better be prepared for the jump into hyperspace. It's unpleasantly like being drunk.' 'What's so unpleasant about being drunk?' 'Ask a glass of water.' -- Not in the movie. :-( Oh well. Then we went to Queer-doba for dinner where we all marveled at the new 5 cent piece. Tonight was also the premier of Family Guy's fourth season after being canceled for a couple years. It was ok. It could've been better. That's about it. I haven't seen Kingsley in a few days. I've been spending a lot of time with others, though, so I'm not surprised.

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April 28th, 2005

Current Music: Hoobastank - Running Away Subject: Early Bird Time: 09:44 am Current Mood: happy

I have been trying in vain for the last week to catch Dr.Greaves at breakfast in the morning, but so far no luck. Dr. Greaves is a professor of Human Sexuality here and I love talking to her; she's very personable and knowledgeable. I would be sleeping right now if not for the fact that I wanted to talk to her. :-P

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April 27th, 2005

Current Music: Marvin Gaye - Everybody Plays The Fool Subject: I'm not the only one dealing with rejection Time: 11:48 pm Current Mood: content

As Vice President for my residence hall (dorm), I was required to go to the election for the Residence Hall Association executives, which cover cross-campus events, mediation, representation and such. Charles, my good friend, ran for nearly every position on the board, and lost every time. Poor guy really worked on a great speech for each position and really wanted to get involved with RHA, but the representatives from each hall were just against him from the start it seemed, but he kept trying regardless. What a champ. I just got out of relationship with Kingsley, my boyfriend of one month! :-) Unfortunately, he'd rather be friends, and while I'd prefer to pursue him as a partner, he's not interested in a relationship right now. :-( So, I'm trying to cope with the rejection and cherish the friendship we can share. I guess its taken me a while to convince myself that there is someone out there who wants to be with me (in THAT way), it's just not Kingsley. I'm not dwelling on it much at all anymore, so now I can return to looking for Mr.Right. :-D

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April 25th, 2005

Current Music: Backstreet Boys - As Long As You Love Me Subject: Surpise! ... Ooops! Time: 12:30 am Current Mood: loved

So I got a call today that said I had a perishable item waiting for me in the mailing center downstairs. I went down and low and behold, I got a cake with a "Happy Birthday" on it. Later, my grandfather IMed me and when I mentioned the cake he got a little irrate. Apparently, Kristin (the Resident Director of McNary Hall) was supposed to get the cake and surprise me tonight at McNary Hall Council with the cake. A goof-up in the delivery brought the cake to me instead, ruining the surprise. :-) Like a good sport, I talked to Kristin and said she could surprise me that night anyway and I'd pretend to be surprised. :-D At the Hall Council meeting, Kristin brought out the cake and explained the whole story, and everyone partook in cake. It was vanilla with a banana layer and vanilla frosting, which was delicious. Something like that lets me know that there exist a select group of people who do love me. One day, hopefully, I can find someone who will join that group and want to pursuit a romantic love with me. *sigh* But until then, I have my family and my friends who love me deeply and greatly and to whom I return such affection and respect that they (and I hope I) have earned.

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April 24th, 2005

Current Music: Happy Birthday Song (copyright Coca-Cola Corporation, 1999) Subject: Birthday Party! Time: 12:03 am Current Mood: pleased

Friday (4.22.2005): Charles, Max, Chris, Caitlin, Jason, and I drove to Newport, Oregon to stay the weekend at Caitlin's beach house. The beach house was on a rock outcropping overlooking the Oregon coast. It was beautiful! We stayed up late, watched "As Good As It Gets" with Jack Nicholson (Cuba Gooding, Jr and Greg Kinnear play gay lovers! YAY!), we put a puzzle together, went down to the beach and walked on the sandy beach, and we played poker and other assorted card games into the wee hours. Then I slept in a bed in a little alcove next to a huge window to the sound of the Pacific Ocean. :-D Saturday (4.23.2005): I awoke the next morning to an exciting game of pillow fight. We greeted the addition of Scott, Rachel, Alyson, Lea, and David to the group. We spent the day shopping and fooling around in Newport. The rest of the day was spent reading, watching "Better Off Dead" with a young John Cusack, walking on the beach, sitting by the fire in the beach house, snuggling in bed with Alyson and Lea (and Max too). I slept again to the soothing sound of the Pacific Ocean out the window. Sunday (4.24.2005): The final day we had donuts and bagels with Orange Juice for breakfast which we'd purchased the day before, we cleaned the beach house, played frisbee and went to the Newport Aquarium. I saw the sea otters (the cutest animal ever in my opinion) and bought a stuffed sea otter for my bed that is as soft as the real thing. :-D I got to know Alyson and Max a little better over this weekend. April 24 is my birthday, so I returned to Oregon State University to be met by a birthday cake made by Janelle. Chee Sing, John, Tristan, Chrissy, Betsy, Nathan, Jason, Bob, Janelle, and a bunch of others wished me a happy birthday as we ate cake in the courtyard outside. It was one of the few times that that many people remembered my birthday. I feel so special. Kingsley was there too.

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