Goin On a Man Hunt

My Haiku at staff appreciation day which included the words "she's going on a man hunt" was apparently a prelude to my staff retreat this weekend.

We went to the EMP (a music museum) and at the end we did this lip sync thing where there was a crowd and we all were the band. We were getting our posters printed off and I was talking to the guy at the desk. I joked around with him a little like I ALWAYS do. Then I walked away for a while and went back to pay for my posters. He wrote down this website that he said I should check out and flashed it to a couple of my ra's and whispered "no number FYI" cause I could tell that they were teasing me for talking to him. He handed me my posters and said "here you go love" which I found strange but I shook it off. Then alanna said "trae, let me take your picture with him" and I said "What" as the guy was saying "Oh, just let me come around the counter." Which I thought appeared a little anxious. The whole interaction seemed weird. As we walked away ben who I had said "look no number" to said "you are more hilarious than you know" at which time Alanna pulled out his phone number. She had said to him "my friend wants your number but she's afraid to ask." It was funny until she dialed his number with my cell phone.

And... Alanna is also trying to hook me up with her 24 year old brother who lives in Seattle. We went to his apartment which sits behind Pike Place Market and overlooks the water... (amazing) he wasn't there, he was in vegas but she made me talk to him on the phone. He offered to show me around seattle when I move up there. Oh, and apparently she gave him my number.

I should be used to it. I mean, my mom dropped the hint pretty strong at Christmas. She got me a tshirt that said "looking for a rock star" and then another that said "single and looking."

Maybe I should resign myself to my fate, go on a manhunt, shack up and people will get off my back. no cause then they will start trying to make me have a baby or something.

Mary Jane

I have never been more aware of 4/20 than this year. I expected a rise in marijuana incidents that day which was confirmed... BUT when I woke up reminders were everywhere including my white board. It said "happy 4/20" and "herb is awesome." I passed a girl who is most definitely a regular pot smoker who was smiling as she carried a pan of brownies across campus. I said hi and she nodded as she laughed, thinking she was pulling one over on me. Does she really think I am that stupid?

I am taking my staff to Seattle this weekend for staff retreat. We are going to the EMP (Experience Music Project) and of course we will "do" seattle while we are there. I am pretty excited to get away for a couple of days and to just kick it with my staff. I am going to miss them like crazy.

The other day we were playing Ultimate Frisbee and Dale said a joke under his breath and I heard it so I shamelessly repeated it aloud just to piss him off. I thought it was worth hearing and dale got quieter and said "that was my joke" so I clarified aloud that it was Dale's joke just to appease. Then I was thinking and I came up with an SNL skit... so there's a shy guy who is always coming up with KILLER one liners but the delivery is so quiet that the LOUD guy is the only one who ever hears it... he immediately steals the joke, claiming it as his own and the little shy guy watches in frustration as everyone laughs hysterically at his hilarious joke and he recieves no credit. Then when the skit is not funny anymore the shy joker can just kill himself or something.

Sorry if this is super boring and I am sorry that we haven't spoken in FOREVER! I still love you.

Cheap Entertainment

Isn't it funny how people feel the need to be entertained? I was thinking about this the other day. A while ago I held an impromptu talent show in my staff meeting. The winners got prizes cause I had these key cards to get rid of. It turned out to be pretty entertaining. I think that it would be funny to pretend that I had some better prizes and then have them do another talent show and then at the end tell them that I was only kidding. I just needed to be entertained. Then I could go into a little speech about how people these days just need to be entertained and they feel that they are entitled to it. What do you think?

I want to build a fort! Remember being a kid and playing under the blankets draped over couches and chairs and crawling through tunnels and such? Can you do that and still be a grown-up?

I have been having people from the International Church of Christ infiltrating my residence hall, targeting my Christian students and telling them that they are not saved unless they are baptized into the ICofC. then I found this "cult alert" about them and found out that they have been banned from college campuses across the country. Yikes. They are little charmers and have already sucked a few of my students in. http://www.reveal.org/library/activism/srausch-warning.html#WhatToDo

I need to go now.