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Cool photo!

She is con not elected by congress.

Also, good morning, etc.

Oh, good morning!

I totally want to get con elected.

It's FB's vision, his dream, his reason to be. Join him!

ahhhhhh... thanks FB, i didn't realise that. i figure i need to start learning all this stuff since i'll be living in the US in the very near future.

w4lter, that is a way cool pic of your bro.

To make it even more entertaining, the rules of how caucuses work are completely different depending on what state you are in, and which party the caucus is for! WHOOHOO WACKY AMERICAN SYSTEM!

You might not actually want to come here, we're kind of stupid.

i'm getting more and more scared about living in the US, and more and more appreciative of the lifestyle available to NZers. your healthcare system for example: totally fucking wack. it's gonna cost me and the boy an extra $380 p/month to insure me. and the shit that your politicians get away with, with practically zero accountability - i almost can't fathom it.

but i guess it's a trade off. living day to day is so easy in nz, but it's BORING - there just isn't the same kind of arts/literature scene available as there is in parts of the US.

Make sure you move to a non-boring place and you'll enjoy those aspects of the US anyway.

And yeah, the It's Different In Every State thing is really confusing. Yesterday I had to explain some of how Minnesota does it to another Minnesotan. It's really only the hyper-interested who participate in caucuses and primaries.

In Texas the winner of the caucus is anyone who can beat the Bush daughters in a beer bong race.

i'm off to oakland, CA. every time i tell an american this, the first reaction i get is 'oh GOD, oakland is AWFUL'. i met this old guy from south carolina a couple of weeks ago, he was here on holiday with his wife (she's a professor giving lectures here in nz on race relations) and told me to BUY A GUN as soon as i move there - 'it's a really dangerous place, and it's a very BLACK city'. is there some statistic that says if you own a gun you're way more likely to be injured or die from a gunshot wound?

Well, have a good trip. That guy sounds like an idiot (wow, his wife gives lectures on race relations and he's that blatantly racist... just WOW). I think Alice Waters was quoted as saying that Oakland is not so great because "there's no there there," but I could be mistaken. At any rate, even if you don't like Oakland, you should be able to take the BART into San Francisco, which is a fantastic city.

If you get a change, go to the Mission District in SF and eat crepes at Ti Couz. You can get ones that are a meal, but the dessert crepes are to DIE for. SO YUM.

Dammit, if you get a CHANCE, go to the Mission... etc.

In Oklahoma, canidates are chosen by their ability to throw live snakes through a hoop 20 feet away.

John's from the south, Rubyredd. He has won elections in Texas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, and I think one in southern Florida once, but Jeb Bush invalidated that last one somehow.

It was Gertrude Stein who said of Oakland that "there's no there there." I don't know what I was thinking!

GODDAMNIT SARA YOU BASTARD OMG WTF!!!

John really hates crepes.

I have no fucking idea what the previous exchange is about but I approve of it regardless.

Dan is so easy to please.

i was thinking that sounded like a stein quote!

I don't know how I managed to confuse a Stein quote with an Alice Waters quote. Come to think of it, I can't imagine why I'd even think I KNEW an Alice Waters quote in the first place.

I THINK I'M SUFFERING SEVERE MINNESOTA BRANE FREEZE

Who the hell is Alice Waters? Unless you mean the Chef? Which would make no sense at all.

Yes, the chef. Which, YES, makes no sense, which was kind of my point about the brain freeze.

I want to go to San Francisco and get very fat and die in an earthquake.

Okay, that is only a third true, but I am bored so anything sounds better than sitting here freezing.

Finally warm due to exciting evening of weight lifting and laundry.

Of course as soon as I finish these tasks I will go back to being an ice cube. ;_;

hi hellow

good night probably i think maybe?

Approximately 13 hours ago, Sara went insane.

It was probably more like 13 years, but it's nice that you noticed.

WHY AM I SO WOOZY???

is it because I didn't drink last night????

YES

NEVER MAKE THIS MISTAKE AGAIN

second order of business: why the fuck did I buy real cheese instead of easy cheese from the convenience store? I am not up to this right now.

hey I drank every night last semester and got straight A's so clearly alcohol is magic. xp.

jessie, it's good to get perspective now and again: "this is how i feel when i don't drink. and that's why i drink."

there are people hollering in the street. why?

'cause there's something out there to get hollerin' about!

January 5th is National Hollerin' Day (Observed)

are y'all hollerin'?

Are you questioning my patriotism?

oh heavens no. seeking advice. i was going to go on to ask WHAT are y'all hollerin'? cuz i am unfamiliar with the ritual, you see, and i want to do it right.

I generally holler the names of things I see.

MARS BAR

TIRES PLUS

like that

FAT DUDE

COMPUTER SCREEN

got it. thanks for the help, you guys. i really appreciate it.

i'm going to practice inside before i go out into the street.

CLIF BAR

how was that? did i do okay?