Caitlin - Gainfully Employed

A quick update to let you all know that I was offered a job and well on the way to receiving paychecks. I'll be the the Publicity Assistant at Basic/Civitas/Nation Books, a subdivision of Perseus Publishing. 

I have a 401K - YAY!

Lizzie-Argentina #2

So here’s another snippet of my trip. We left off at me seeing Pablo and finally having closure. Friday the 6^th I went to my friends’ apartment to eat pizza then we went out dancing. At the disco I went up to the bar to get a drink and a guy asked me to get his drink for him because girls always get drinks before guys. So he starts talking to me and asks me where I’m from. When I say the US he says “ohhh I saw a movie about your country!” and I said “which? There are many movies about my country” and he says “the one with the fat guy with glasses” and I was still confused then he tells me “the one about September 11^th” meaning Fahrenheit 911. Then he tells me “thanks for the drink I’ll meet you over there in the corner later and we can discuss the movie” HAHAH, so of course I avoided the corner.

Saturday I went to my friend Danny’s house for an asado (Argentine barbecue) with all his family. I was going to go out with my sister and my friend Emi but Anabel (my sister) was robbed so she didn’t have money or her ID and my friend Emi’s grandma has cancer so she went to go see her. So my birthday night didn’t turn out exactly as planned, but Anabel and I did go for a drink after midnight.

Sunday (my birthday) I slept, watched Enchanted with my family, ate empanadas and then went out to dinner with my best friends. Afterwards Anabel and I went to get a drink at a bar. Ana was flirting and waving with a group of guys in the corner, so when Danny came she went and sat with them. She came back a half-hour later and the boys left. The waitress asked us if we were with those guys, we say no, and then she tells us they left without paying, hahah. Of course we didn’t have to pay, but it was kind of a funny situation.

So Argentina is kind of in crisis right now. Here’s an article that kind of explains it. But basically the poor farmers are being affected and the rich farm owners continue to profit, and Cristina, the president of Argentina refuses to negotiate be she is afraid of being seen as weak. Meanwhile, the farmers have cut off roads (lucky I traveled by air because I wouldn’t have been able to go in bus) have been throwing rocks and milk at people going by. Also there are milk and beef shortages; I passed by a McDonald’s that was out of burgers because they didn’t have any meat one day.

So, anywhoo, during the day I just kinda hung out, shopped and drank mate with friends. I bought beautiful leather boots, a leather bag, and a purple shiny leather wallet that I absolutely fell in love with for myself and some other things. So on Wednesday I did “parapentes” which I think translates as paragliding although Chris told Cait and I that it’s really parasailing even though I wasn’t attached to a boat. Basically I ran and jumped off a cliff with a guide attached to me and we flew down in a parachute-type thing. But, me being the clumsy person I am, I fell on the first attempt. As in, I tripped and fell into gravel and bushes before I got to the edge of the cliff haha. So, we tried again and there was more wind so we were already flying before we reached the edge of the cliff. Horacio, the “pilot” told me I was very brave because when that happens to most people they usually decide not to try again. It was great though! I have a few bruises on my legs to show for it and I ripped the front of the sweatpants but whatever, we’ll call them souvenirs. We flew for about 15 minutes, the cliff is 2997 ft tall. And then when we landed I lost my footing and landed on my butt, Horacio laughed at me, saying I landed in the same style I took off, haha. I took lots of pictures and a video which I’ll be putting on facebook next. here's one picture here:

OK when I get another moment, I’ll write about the second part of my trip.

PS I'm pissed because I went to visit my brother at work today and Mariska Hargitay from Law and Order SVU was there eating while I was there and he didn't tell me, grrrrr!!

Yay for videos! - Claire

Okay, so here is a link where you can download the videos. They only get 10 downloads, so don't go doing it several times, because we have to share :)
There are 2 links. The first has 4 videos, the second just one.
http://myaccount.dropsend.com/file/d064bb4d9a069354
http://myaccount.dropsend.com/file/f0a2b49041f37dfd

Also, there's a super cool bake sale project that MoveOn.org is doing to support Obama, and I'm going to help out at one in Denver this weekend. It's a national thing and people are doing it all over this weekend, so you should go to the website and see if there's one going on near you. Anywho, I figured I ought to do my part to help, so I made a facebook event, but I don't have a lot of facebook friends in Denver, so I'm inviting you all too so that way it looks like there are more people possibly coming. A lame cheating move, but hey, it's all in the name of Obama, right? So you can just ignore or pretend to join that if you want, but I just needed to bolster the support, and of course let you all in on what I've been doing lately.

Miss and love you all

Caitlin - Long Time No See

Sorry it's been so long since I've made a post. I just got back from Florida yesterday, and New Paltz and Colorado before that. I have been quite the traveler. 

In work news, I am still unemployed. I went on 6 or 7 interviews and was called back for a second round twice, but alas, I am still without work. However, I am incredibly excited that Emily is working in Brooklyn! Yay! I'll make sure that I go to the unemployment office there. I am equally excited that you're working in Williamsburg - what a sweet place. 

Lauren, Chris and I went to his uncle's wedding, and the first dance was to a Peabo song. I imagined how much better it will be when he's actually singing the song at your wedding. 

Tony, Leah, Gretchen, and Ben, I don't have any definite plans yet, but I've been tossing around the idea of making a weekend trip to D.C. If I decide I can afford it, I'll definitely pick the weekend you guys are going. 

As I've stated before,  4th of July and the week preceding will most likely be an open house here on Long Island. If you're in the neighborhood, come on by. 

Miss you all. 

More Lost Footage... (Claire)

Okay, so that didn't work quite as well as I had hoped it would (it took forever to upload!), so for the remaining videos I'm just going to put them up on facebook, but with the option that ONLY WE can see them. And not just 'only my friends' type of only us, but I've specifically named the people that can see them, and that's only the people who are in the collection of videos, so hopefully that will be okay with everyone involved. They're nothing scandalous, just a bunch of us singing and such, though one does involve Peabs with a particular item of clothing on her head, so I'll only put that one up if she says its okay.

Miss/love

Lost Footage - Claire

So while I was looking through the old pictures that I keep on my camera, I came across some videos from way back in our first and second years of Skidmore. I'm going to see if uploading them here gives you the option to download them for yourself, since neither youtube nor facebook seem to have that as a choice (at least as far as I can tell). I'll give it a try.

Here is the first one: the most upbeat version of "Leaving on a Jet Plane" that you'll probably ever hear. (Sophomore Year, Tony's Room, when Lizzie's friend came to visit)

Tony - Summer Trips

Hey all,

My Summer has been pretty good so far. Just yesterday I did both go-karts and mini-golf. I know you guys must be so jealous. I'm also getting rather skilled a bar games, especially darts.

So far its been a pretty relaxed Summer, which is exactly what I want. I chose the graduate school housing at Cornell and completed all the necessary forms for the program so now I don't have to much to worry about until I start school in late August. I make a little money working for my brother and doing chores, but only to fund my adventures and endeavors over this vacation.

Anyhoo, I wanted to let you guys know about the trips I was going on this Summer in case anyone was interested and in the remote possibility that anyone wanted to meet up. I'll just put it in list form to streamline the whole process.

1.) I'm going to New jersey this weekend, but for a funeral so its not gonna be a lot of fun.

2.) Leah and I are probably going to northern Ontario on the July 4th weekend to my dad's cottage.

3.) Leah and I are definitely going to Washington D.C. to visit Gretchen and Ben in late July. Anyone thinking about going to Washington this Summer should go with us.

4.) I'm going to be in Skidmore on August 14th, possibly with Leah. I was gonna go next week, but andy told me that nothing was happening and that there would be a big party in August. I dunno if Erin and Phred are gonna be there at the time tho.

Well now I realize that this post is unnecessarily long so I'm just gonna publish it and be done with it. I hope everyone is having a good summer.

~Tony

PS: If anyone is bored, they should watch 30 Rock. That series is hilarious.