Tuesday, April 21, 2009

does this blog SUCK?

We are not too adamant about writing, so we apologize. I assume that you check the blog everyday and are disappointed when you see we've been neglecting it.

From Slog, our daily Muppets:


Updates:

Bianca and I will share a sink next year! This is the closest to being roommates as we can get. I tired to make a diagram but it didn't show up on the blog. To describe, we have two singles that are connected by a sink room.

Cool huh? We're living in forest hall west: http://www.middlebury.edu/campuslife/commons/cook/facilities

Beside that, we've been chugging along. I went to a frisbee tournament last weekend, sectionals, and all of our teams did very well. A boys and the girls teams won the tourni, while the B boys defeated all the B teams they played. Very good job Prankster's Ultimate.

Bianca got called pasta hair yesterday.

I'm in the middle of reading Maus by Art Spiegelman, who I've recently become obsessed with. I dreamed the other day that I was a Jew confined in the Holocaust; I hope to never again have a nightmare like that. Scary stuff.

Things we've done to occupy our time:
-Bianca received a poster from the Believer, a art/pop-culture magazine that pictures a whole bunch of stylized and unnamed faces. Our new pass time is attempting to name these faces, and then place sticky notes under their faces. Surprising finds: Smoosh, G.I. Joe, Emma Watson?
-We discovered creative club and shanghaied it from its founders so that it now takes place in Bianca's room instead of Hepburn lounge. Bianca has been doing a lot of moon journaling and I've been doodling.
-Homework and/or not doing homework/hanging out with Lucas in Bianca's room on a Monday afternoon while Bianca does her homework and Lucas and I help her.
-Deciding classes for next semester. I am not sure about Bianca but here's one possible schedule:
-American Landscapes (Geography)
-Chinese 101
-Natures Meanings: Farm Stories.
-?(Calculus 0121)(French 221)(Philosophy of Law)(The American Political Regime?)

Spring has arrived!
Welcome to the flowers! Smiles and Bounces!

auf Wiedersehen,
Carson

P.S. Funny photo from Spring break.

Saturday, April 4, 2009

read this NOW:

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-different-kinds-ofpeople-that-there-are/Content?oid=1206006

one passage that we find paticularly applicable to middlebury:

People Who Don't Watch TV

Symbolically not doing something for the sake of not doing it is almost never evidence of sophistication. It is evidence of not knowing what you're fucking talking about. Are we really still having this conversation? Television is a part of the cultural landscape at this point—a lot of it is good. A lot of it is bad, some of which is also good. You know, LIKE ALL THINGS MADE BY HUMANS? Obviously it is also a good idea to go outside once in a while. But the presence of a television in your home does not make that decision for you. You make it. Feel free to still go outside at any time.

AND

People Who Are Pretty and Smart and Funny and Nice

You probably want to hate these people, but why bother? They are absolutely wonderful, and all we can do is deal with it and hope to be charming enough that they will some day mate with us so that our children can absorb some of their impossible magic.