9 September 2007 · Comment [7]
A stalker's guide to people in this blog!
Hey everyone, we’re in Budapest! In the Pest part, if you want to get technical. This computer is having an impossible time uploading pictures, so I thought I’d do something a little different. I hate reading people’s blogs and hearing about all these strangers and not having faces to connect with them, so I thought I’d put together a little stalker’s guide to all the people that I mention here! Let me know if you want your stalker info taken down. Pictures are scavenged from facebook so sorry about the randomness. Okay, stalkin’ time!
Jono! I know there are a couple of other photos of him in here, but this one was too priceless not to post. Jono and I met in third grade but we didn’t get to be really good friends until like, sophomore year of college. I’m a big fan.
This is Nick. We met two years ago in Cal Band and then he came to Australia! He’s a fourth-year EECS major and he plays the piccolo same as me, except he’s actually good at it.
This is Jovanna! We met in the dorms freshman year and then we llived in an apartment with three other girls sophomore year and now we’re traveling from Prague to Santorini and then moving to Barcelona for a few months!
This is my mom and my dad! My mom is a synagogue administrator and my dad is a programmer for IBM. They’re pretty much the best parents I know.
This is my brother, David! Celebrating Clay. That’s a poster we stole from a free newspaper dispenser near Duke. That’s actually not very close to what he really looks like. He usually looks more like this:
He works as a programmer for Duke and he graduated from Duke two years ago but I’m pretty sure he should move to New York this winter (eh? EH? C’maaan, do it!) Also I have some really good pictures of my grandparents but they’re trapped on my computer in Virginia. They’re all three supertastic. My dad’s parents live in Maryland and my mom’s mom lives in West Virginia. Also I don’t think I have a single picture of my aunt and uncles or my cousins. I should really change that. They’re all super and they also live in Maryland and West Virginia.
This is Suzanne biting Nathan! Suzanne and I met in freshman year when we were assigned as and then we kept being roommates for all four years of college and someday we are going to get married! Just as soon as it’s legal for two women to wed. Nathan met Suzanne through Cal Dems and then I met Nathan through Suzanne and also through taking artificial intelligence together last fall. Do you see that face? Obviously he is so awesome.
This is a better picture of Suzanne’s face. It’s impossible to show you how many fabulously bizarre faces she’s capable of making, but this one’s pretty so there you go.
This is Mike Dreyfuss! I like this picture because it’s so creepy. Mike and I met in Hewbrew school during sophomore year of high school. He’s leaving for the Peace Corps in Ghana in about a week and hopefully I’m going to visit him! But no promises, Mike. Africa’s freaking scary.
This is Catie! And a man named Hilary at her graduation. We met in third grade and everyone’s in love with her. Right now she’s working in Boston teaching disadvantaged children. Oh my friends and their do-goodery
This is Chris! And a baby. From when he volunteered at an orphanage in Africa two summers ago. We met in high school band and then we dated for approximately forever (just kidding, two years) and now he’s a grad student at BU! I’m pretty sure he’s gonna cure every disease one day.
This is Jason! We met in Cal Band. He plays the mellophone and he’s a senior and he has an epic number of amazing catchphrases.
This is Noaa! We met in my second semester of college and she is so amazing. Now she works for Microsoft in Seattle. She gives the best haircuts and she was born in Israel and one time at this really boring party we amused ourselves by switching clothes and we called it “Freaky Friday!” Here:
Neat! Noaa went all around Europe last summer and I coveted her life but good.
This is Noah! And Heather at a band formal. Noah and I met in Cal Band and he graduated in 2006 and now he does social work in Stockton, CA.
This is Al! We met through Suzanne and I think they met in Cal Dems. Al just started going to grad school in New York so we’re going to have amazing adventures come December.
This is Brett! Suzanne’s lobster. This picture was taken right after he shaved off his creepy used car salesman mustache. Here!
Awesome! Brett and Suzanne met through our friend who worked as a lifeguard at the YMCA with Brett.
Okay! I think those are all the people in my blog. One time Sarah wrote a comment but she’s not on facebook and I think she’s anti-getting-stalked anyway so I’m not going to post a picture. But she is fabulous and we met last year at Pixar. She has curly blond hair if you want a mental image. Oh also! Tristan and Alex! And here ends the talking about every single person who has posted a single comment here:
This is Alex! I think we met freshman year in math class but we didn’t really get to know each other until sophomore year in an EE class. He’s an EECS major but he dislikes the same things about the major as me and Noaa (like how sickeningly in love with themselves most people are), so that makes him super.
This is Tristan! We met in Cal Band and he takes really good pictures so I was especially flattered that he liked my pictures from France.
Okay, awesome. Stalking guide completed. So, Budapest! It’s a great city. Today we went all around Pest, which is the new part. We went to a public bath, which is like a cross between a swimming pool and a water park. They had three huge pools and one of them had this whirlpool thing that swirls you all around and it’s so much fun. We kind of wanted to spend all day in it but there were signs saying you should only stay in for 20 minutes or it’s bad for your heart. Then we went to the touristy shopping area and I got new sneakers because my twelve-dollar ones from Thailand look like they exploded. So I sprang for some twenty-dollar ones but they really do seem a lot more substantial. I also got some jeans and a t-shirt! Because heretofore been wearing special travel clothes that made me look like kind of a freak and also I only had three outfits and one of them literally made me look like a foot. So now I can dress like a normie! But as Jovanna said, I’ll never BE a normie as long as I keep CALLING them normies.
After shopping we went to the building that used to be the headquarters for the Hungarian Nazis and then it was the headquarters for the Communist party and now it is a museum about the two regimes and it is really well done so you feel all creeped out just by being there. I learned that under Communist rule, at least Hungary was just like 1984 where children were encouraged to turn their parents in for “sabotage.” Like this one boy turned in his father because he didn’t have enough crops to give over the required third to the party so he lied about it and then his son reported him and the Communist party made a huge deal about how every child should be more like him. So unreal.
Then we got falafel for dinner and wasted a million hours on the internet! Embarrassingly enough, I watched “Closer” on tv links because I haven’t been able to get it out of my head since going to London. But seriously it’s awful and you should never watch it unless it’s stuck in your head like nobody’s business and even then you should think long and hard about it first. And now I think I’ve wasted sufficient time on the internet. Hope you found the stalking guide useful and I’ll be back with some real pictures just as soon as I find a computer that can upload a simple image file, nur. Later!
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like i don’t have enough stalkers as it is ;) so jealous you went to hungary! gotta be a stop on my next trip of awesome, connect w/the roots and all. You should have stayed in that whirlpool for days, i’m sure any resulting heart-failure would have been completely worth it!
— Noaa · Sep 9, 07:24 PM · #
Sbeee! When are you going to be in Barcelona? I want to come visit! I leave for France in a week. Also, those stalker pictures of the people I know are pretty creeptastic.
— Rachana · Sep 10, 07:34 AM · #
Just to mess with the blond curly hair image you have of me :)
-sarah
Me
— Sarah · Sep 11, 12:50 PM · #
Yeah, well lets see how not creepy your face looks after an extreme closeup out of nowhere. I’ll tell you how not creepy your face will look, not at all not creepy. REAAALY CREEEEPY. creepface.
— Mike · Sep 12, 10:36 AM · #
WOW I’m so totally honored. I feel like a part of something. A part of a picture. With me in it.
Your photos seriously are good, I’m not making that up. So is your blog, it’s fun to read! You really are having a glorious adventure! Sweet.
— Tristan · Sep 12, 04:15 PM · #
Haha Noaa, thanks for trying to convince me to kill myself. Though being whirled to death is probably the best death. I miss you! You should look into buying plane tickets to New York in your free time! Awesome.
Rachana, we’re getting to Barcelona at the end of September and my family’s coming from October 3rd to the 9th and I think I’m going to Istanbul from October 19th to the 29th-ish. Are you free to come on the weekend of the 12th? That’d be so rad.
Sarah, you look so gorgeous! And I had no idea you were such a good painter. How’d you get so awesome? The world may never know.
Ha ha Mike, way to say “not at all not creepy.” See? This is why I miss you so much.
And finally, thanks a lot Tristan! That’s really nice of you to say.
— Sarah Beth · Sep 13, 11:00 AM · #
It’s too late now, I suppose, but you should have tried to stay in Budapest for Yom Kippur.
That’s right, you could have been hungry in Hungary.
— Unrelated David · Sep 14, 12:42 PM · #