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Also, I don't know - I was away at college and therefore missed the party Dan is writing about. I don't even know who he's referring to! I think this is a Good Thing.

I just remember that the girl was S4r4h W4lsh.

*so thankful to not know who that is*

3 hours later bump (still reading textbooks, very geeky!)

saturday night hi sara bump

Hi lxy!

I am in desperate need of a snack. And about 10 more hours per day.

Snack = pita bread, hummus, dark chocolate, skim milk

Now I'm going to sleep

good night bump!!!

hello sara and lxy, good night bump

hallo sara, lxy, estela, good night bump ditto

bump beth ditto?

you are the narrator, remy (hello)

oh hi remy and estela and good night from me too. xox

just got home from work bump

you guys are always asleep by the time i get home from the restaurant :(

i am still awake but only barely

jergins you never got back to us with details on that fight at your work. what was the fight about?

o yeah. they hired a new lady next door and she got sat down with her training manuals on friday. i guess she spent a couple hours on what should have taken 30 minutes to read. when the boss asked what the holdup was, the lady told her that there were coded CIA messages in the manuals and was she concerned about eavesdropping. the boss told her get out, and then the lady through punches and the boss shoved her out onto the street where we saw her come out, disheveled, asking for cops.

it ended up being sad more than anything else because who knows if she'll get any mental health treatment beyond three hots and a cot. at the time though it was high exciting drama. none of us like the boss next door so we were rooting for her to get cuffed and frogmarched. does that seem mean? she's not a nice person.

through the ordeal customers and dancers walking by were comically quizzical. lol @ this high-class instition with a half-dozen cops and a lady in handcuffs standing around with the red and blue lights.

wow that's BIZARRE. nothing that exciting ever happens where i work!

not exactly a good reaction on the boss' part - telling the woman to leave immediately. she could have gone about it a better way.

one last bump before i go sleep

Sunday morning, I'm going back to sleep bump

three hour bump

people i expect to see @ lunch today:

ned, jbr, adamrl, nickn, max r, jeff treppel, elvis telecom, felicity, roger mexico

Wow, awesome! Have fun!

I am going ICE SKATING this afternoon with my family. Hopefully I will not fall and break my neck.

at a pond or a rink?

At an indoor rink. I prefer to skate in a controlled environment (i.e. at least there is no wind).

If you never hear back from me, I probably fell into the wall or something.

trying to psych myself up for big essay-writing day BUMP

i think sara fell into the wall

NOPE

But thanks for your concern.

I think I want to waste all my Sunday afternoons ice skating from now on.

I probably can't ice skate ;__;

i am, to the best of my knowledge, unable to ice skate

i was timid on ice.

i have always wanted to wear ice skates at a roller rink

and visa-versa

(my front yard growing up was a frequently-frozen pond)

John, you live in Minnesota; that is ridiculous. (You were a deprived child!)

Also, there's no doubt in my mind that both of you could easily learn. Alex, who is my super-cautious kid, learned; so can you.

There are plenty of places to ice skate in the Cities, John. Go try it.

remy, you could try it!

estela - it just takes practice...

Personally, I am always disppointed to realize how difficult figure skating must be. If I can skate, why CAN'T I learn to do jumps and turns? (answer: much more likely to break bones doing the latter)

i saw a mother once spend an hour patiently coaxing her scared child onto the ice, reassuring her that it was okay, that there was nothing to be afraid of, then the mother suddenly fell and split her face open.

Well, no wonder you're timid! Maybe I'm lucky; even when I've fallen, I haven't gotten hurt.

Both kids started out with those weird things that look like the walkers that old people use. By the end of it, Alex was skating independently; J. kept going back to it.

By contrast, my downhill skiing experience was fun, but the final time I went, I nearly hit a fence. Feeling out of control going down a hill and then almost hitting a fence was not fun. I have not tried that again, and that was probably 20 years ago.

my eight-year-old sister actually flew through a safety fence and ended up in a tree, where a ski instructor had to rescue her with a pair of ladders

I have never skiied.

remy... wow. I'm not regretting my Not Skiing decision here!

W4LTER, you obviously need to go try some dangerous winter sports. I recommend immediately visiting Minnesota for these purposes.

i've only skiied once and i was a duffer.

also water-skiing: once, timid, duffer.

I have not water-skiied either! I suck. I have ice skated once or twice, when I was in school. I was baddd.

i'm still laughing about 'sorry mate, your forks are fucked'.

Okay, water-skiing might be fun, but I could never manage to get UP onto the skis. Maybe I was just worried that I would lose my swim suit top, though.

W4lter, report immediately to Minnesota for remedial ice skating lessons. You and Alex can figure it out together.

lol it would be totally awesome if the Giants offense decided they had something they'd like to contribute to the Superbowl. >.<

Aww, I wish I was watching that ;_;.

I wish I was watching PUPPY BOWL.