Monday, January 24, 2005
Highlights from the Rhode
-Perfect music moments, whether spontaneous (“Under Pressure” while driving through the Bronx) or scripted (Buckley’s “Hallelujah” on the way into Providence at sunset)
-Falling in love with the son of the woman who ran the B&B through the pictures of him (from sometime in the late ‘70s or early ‘80s, it seemed) in our room, one in which he was making the greatest funny face ever, and one in which he was wearing a T-shirt that said, “The Trend Is Your Friend.”
-Existential questions raised by A Very Long Engagement (and, to some degree, Muppets Take Manhattan)
-Finally admitting that Delaware does exist, upon purchasing a University of Delaware T-shirt in Newark (the first one). Concurrently, seeing the look on Dave’s face when he realized that the stalemate we’ve been locked in for the past year could have been avoided with just a T-shirt.
-Being the only non-Turkish people at a Turkish restaurant in Connecticut
-Finding my cell phone lying face down in the snow on the Brown campus after tempting fate by saying, “As a veteran of these situations, I’ve found that they usually work out for the best.”
-Making snow angels in Newark (the second one)
-Creating the fabulous game Break the Bucket (formerly named I Can’t Believe Throwing Cards in a Bucket Can Be So Entertaining), possibly the first-ever “collaborative game with a clear winner.”
-Pondering state mottoes (Does “Small Wonder” give Delaware a Napoleon complex? When Maryland says “You Are Beautiful,” is it being arrogant, or is it calling me beautiful? And if it’s the latter, does that mean I’m only beautiful in Maryland?) and coming up with new ones (my personal favorite, for Delaware: “Clare, stop telling people we don’t exist.”)
-The moment of cheesy revelations
-Perfect music moments, whether spontaneous (“Under Pressure” while driving through the Bronx) or scripted (Buckley’s “Hallelujah” on the way into Providence at sunset)
-Falling in love with the son of the woman who ran the B&B through the pictures of him (from sometime in the late ‘70s or early ‘80s, it seemed) in our room, one in which he was making the greatest funny face ever, and one in which he was wearing a T-shirt that said, “The Trend Is Your Friend.”
-Existential questions raised by A Very Long Engagement (and, to some degree, Muppets Take Manhattan)
-Finally admitting that Delaware does exist, upon purchasing a University of Delaware T-shirt in Newark (the first one). Concurrently, seeing the look on Dave’s face when he realized that the stalemate we’ve been locked in for the past year could have been avoided with just a T-shirt.
-Being the only non-Turkish people at a Turkish restaurant in Connecticut
-Finding my cell phone lying face down in the snow on the Brown campus after tempting fate by saying, “As a veteran of these situations, I’ve found that they usually work out for the best.”
-Making snow angels in Newark (the second one)
-Creating the fabulous game Break the Bucket (formerly named I Can’t Believe Throwing Cards in a Bucket Can Be So Entertaining), possibly the first-ever “collaborative game with a clear winner.”
-Pondering state mottoes (Does “Small Wonder” give Delaware a Napoleon complex? When Maryland says “You Are Beautiful,” is it being arrogant, or is it calling me beautiful? And if it’s the latter, does that mean I’m only beautiful in Maryland?) and coming up with new ones (my personal favorite, for Delaware: “Clare, stop telling people we don’t exist.”)
-The moment of cheesy revelations
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