Things I Learned Today So Far

[mrissa]

1. I need to think like Paarfi of Roundwood to enjoy Melissa Etheridge songs.

2. Ed is the H.G. Wells of Gustavus CS grads. (Timprov: "And I'm stuck being Orson Welles.")

3. Kieran's is the place to go if you want to watch them roll up Samuel Beckett.

4. I apparently bore a child named Sydney to a man named Bruce Gritters (asst. city atty. for Mpls.?) last fall. This is a surprise to all of us, particularly me, but my college's alumni magazine does know best, I suppose.

We were going along so well until #4 showed up....

Comments

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

hey, I think #4's interesting. All I've learned from my college lately is that there are an *obscene* number of kids from my class living within 3 hours of the college. I'm considering asking for an electronic copy of the list they printed out for us so I can get my dad to run it through a mapping program he has and I can see the exact geographical distribution. Which I really really want to see now, because I'm weird like that.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

One of my pieces of advice to a younger friend this weekend was to pick her college carefully and pay attention to where the grads ended up, because there was a strong likelihood that's where she'd be living or visiting. Sometimes it's not the college's actual location -- my cousin went to Drake in Des Moines, for example, and many of her friends moved to Chicago after college. But it's a strong influence.

Reason #673 why I love Minneapolis: all my Gustie friends. Reason #674: a bazillion other liberal arts colleges feeding into the same city environment.

[mechaieh.livejournal.com]

Paarfi of Roundwood?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

The "author" of Steven Brust's The Phoenix Guards and its sequels. They rock.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

"We were going along so well until #4 showed up...."

At least you found out now, before tuition bills started showing up.

B

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Hey, any fictitious children I have can go to state schools, dammit. I'll shell out for private schools for the real ones, but a fictitious parent does have to draw the line somewhere.