Well, I've done it again...gone weeks without posting. Oh well. I haven't been at the computer lab too much, but I'm here now and it's HOTTTTT and I have to write a paper that should be a cinch before 5 or so. We're off to Carbondale today to camp, of which I'm very excited. I'll just give you some snippets from the last couple weeks, the greatest hits if you will.

Nick and I were at a diner at 5 in the morning or so after a bender that lasted about 12 hours. Some fellows of the Mexican persuasion start talking to us. Nick is silent, only concentrating on his pizza puff. They say, 'Your friend there is pretty silent, I like that.' Then I say, ' He speaks Spanish.' They reply, 'Oh yeah, you speak Spanish friend?' And Nick, through a mouthful of pizza puff replies, 'Si.'

Back in Champaign some churchys tried to convert me whilst I sat peacefully on the quad reading the paper. Churchy: 'Hey, anything good in there?' Me: 'Just a bunch of fucking AP stories like usual.' C: 'What do you think about the war?' Me: ' I think it's a load of bullshit. We never should have gone in - it's a distraction from the real problems.' C: 'How's your relationship with god?' Me: 'You mind if I smoke?'

Kelly was gone for Friday night last weekend and we were going to have a party, but that didn't pan out. Well, we had a goodly long night that ended with liquor store Joe, Ben Johnson, Ben Hoffman and the dudes from Kelly's house having a fire in the back yard at 4 or 5 in the morning. Erich started getting pissed that we were breaking wood. 'Quiet down, we don't want to get the cops called on us.' I argued that it wasn't that loud. Flash forward two beers. Erich (yelling): 'Let's throw a bag of yard waste on the fire!'