Man you guys I am super sorry I dropped the ball on reading through all this shit. I FEEL LIKE I MISSED SO MUCH WILL I EVER GAIN YOUR FORGIVENESS? I'm slowly working my way back through time, reading all of your posts and comments... I'll finish some day!
Anyway, I got really excited reading Missy's event list. I feel the same way... counting down the days until what? For me, I've got the weekend. Every week I count down until the weekend. But what if we had more things to count down to? I think it'd be great if we counted down to, well... each other.
So I'd like to make a calendar of 2014 events! The Summer Celebration is already undergoing planning, and hopefully that date works out well for everyone. Let's add some more stuff to that list!
-June 20/21st: Idk I just really want some sushi man. Also it's my last weekend before Brendan comes! Anybody been wanting to do anything special? Movie Marathon? Beach Day? We'll go do that!
-July 4th: Independence day! I'm not quite sure if I'll be in town (I was considering visiting my brother), but we should plan a gathering that day too (unless you typically spend it with your families?)
-August 9th: Summer Celebration!
-October 31st: Have we ever had a group Halloween party where we watch Hocus Pocus and eat entirely too much candy?!
-November 29th or December 5th: Second Thanksgiving!!
December 31st: Drunken New Year's! What should this year's theme be?!
An event each month should work out I hope!
In other news: The other day I was watching some ridiculous post-apocalyptic movie (oh, it was the new Godzilla!), and I had a crisis about my complete lack of useful skills in the event of a disaster... I just want to be a useful person who contributes something to the world! I'm thinking I'll leave my current job in September or December, and maybe go back to school part time or something at COD or Harper. I hear Harper actually has a good 2-year engineering program that, if you make the grade, will transition into an actual degree from U of I! Maybe I'll just go build robots, guys. Or maybe I'll just bake. Or maybe I'll build robots that bake.
Anyway.... I've also been reading this web comic, hopefully you guys have heard of it: Ava's Demon
It's by some like... Pixar artist or something, and I really like the art and how it's presented... I think it's how the medium of webcomics should be used. It's really slow to update sometimes so it's also pretty easy to catch up with!
