it's all a disguise!

at work today i learned a very important fact that might change your entire view on life. i know it changed my entire view on life. so. tell everyone you know! speak the truth to your children! let us not give way to another generation of lies and deceit!!!

but first, a few pictures from my most recent adventure:

Xanadu . . . with dynamite.

and by dynamite i mean tiffany. because her initials are TNT. duh.
she got to go on! and i got to see her! (thank you Mary Ellen and Roger!)



now. for the important stuff.

the eggplant is not a vegetable. it's a fruit. and not only that. . .



it is a berry.

what i come home to

going MY way...

Things are, that is.

So, I called COSTCO to setup an eye appointment so I could get my balls checked out so I can get some new contacts. The ones for my eyes, not as in people connections. So I called them, and they are like...blah blah, we're all full for the weekend. So I say..well, why don't you just put me down in case someone cancels. And viola, ten minutes later, some stranger calls me. And ta-fricking-dah. It's COSTCO. I'm in. 4:30 pm.

Amanda is leaving tomorrow to Plainfield so she can be a judge at the speech competition at the Weeg. So I'll miss her. But, I say....heck no. I'm not sitting around by myself. So I texted good old RAAB Silver. I was like, I'll go see mes an improv show. Yous wants to gos. He says nos, but he knows of a friend who is having a promo for a magazine at a bars tomorrow. So I'll be going to that for awhile.

ALSO, a huge THANK YOU to Allyson for emailing me a headshot. I signed up to audition for Mission IMPROVable on Monday. So, why not check them out here if you are bored: Do-do-do-dodo. (That's the mission impossible theme if you didn't notice)

However, do not. I repeat do not watch their (not they're) youtube videos. I can give you your time back for reading this blog, but not for watching bad youtube videos.

I also headed up to the neo-futurarium today on my bicycle to meet with a guy about a class that I missed the first session of because I was in Kansas. Everything is great and I'll be working on a few pieces for this class for awhile. It sounds fun, so why not.

Also, lastly and lately, while I was sitting here the girl across the hall came home...and I think she had a friend with her and was being silly. But, she started beatboxing....she's NOT BAD.

Kev!n

gettin' cultured

i'm seeing plays. which is extremely exciting.

first, i saw Great Falls last week with adrian (my friend who i'm learning how to be friends with because he says if i don't answer/return his calls, we are done being friends. i'm doing well, so far). then The Seafarer at Steppenwolf with this guy:it was good. and mediocre. and beautiful. in that order
(the acting. the dialects-ugh, jill, you would have thrown your program at the stage. the set/the feeling of being in a real theatre again.)

it was a fun night. we had thai food. and we were happy.

next week i'm going down to urbana to see my paige & friends in Necessary Targets. then kevin and i have to see brendan's Desire Under the Elms at the Goodman before the 17th. rachel/kristen/kevin/maybe brendan and i are going to see Our Town at Lookingglass sometime (because rachel loves ross, and he's in it). and finally, allyson might join me to see Somer Benson's show at Profiles after my class is over, because i get 1/2 price tickets. then there are still two more krannert shows that nothing would stop me from seeing.

plus, i bought some polka dots.these are all good things.

I'm amazing.

Because I'm totally capable of eating an entire cucumber a day, not only once, but two days in a row. Luckily I'm out of cucumbers. I may have made myself sick of them if I ate another one.

Kansas is well, Kansas. The weather has been ok. It's pretty cold in the morning but by 2 it warms up. And then we leave. So, we don't really get to experience the warmth. The archaeological provenience that we are working on out here is terrible. Terribly boring. Boringly terrible. No...there has been worse. We worked on an farmstead that had a long period of inhabitance from like 1870s until 1960s when the government used its 'imminent domain' technique and bought the land out from under some farmers.

Every morning I wake up, have a bowl of cereal, and then meander to the van where I chit chat and crack a couple of snappy jokes. Afterwards, I fall asleep for about 30-50 minutes until we reach the work site. That has been the trend, until today, we had to stop in at the archaeologists office on base. Which usually results in about a hour more of down time. So today, I slept for two hours before we actually started working. So....technically, I got paid to sleep for two hours today. Oh, I always fall asleep on the way home as well, which is about 30-50 minutes as well.

And so, today I went out to dinner with Chris, or X, or Turnstyle, or now 'Bottles'. All the same guy. We went to La Fiesta. Amazing Mexican food place (in case you couldn't guess by the name). I had Vegetarian number two. As odd as it sounds, I can't order meat from Mexican food restaurants anymore. I just don't do it. Tangent Alert! I remember the last time I did: it was with Kevin Schneider about two years ago when we went to Dos Reales on Prospect. This was probably around the time I met Amanda and thought nothing of her (I love you madly dearest). He convinced me to get the Burrito Bravo, and it takes a brave man to consume that whole thing. It was pretty delicious. This was also around the same time that Kevin and I sat around for an entire day and watched baseball. However, back to Vegetarian number two: cheese enchilada (standard, but good), spinach burrito (my first, and amazing), and a mushroom quesadilla (ab fab). Oh and the salsa and chips were great too. Afterwards we walked to the liquor store next door. Basically I was on an anthropological quest because you happen across the most interesting characters at liquor stores. Locals abound! We met a lovely student from Kansas State who knew a lot about alcohol. After learning a spell about tequila, X saw some moonshine (mason jar packed and everything). Soooo....he has never had it. I'm afraid its going to be a lot like that alchohol Amanda and I had at Mina's and Mieshkov's in Serbia (what was that called by the way?). It's peach moonshine. We'll see!

Therefore, plans for the rest of the night include a boardgame with Turnstyle, Nicole and Kathleen. Moonshine included (cups and ice brought separately).

Tomorrow is the last field day before I venture back. YES!

Kev!n

I'm a bad Uncle.

Averhy, Eden -

I apologize. However, in my own defense, I didn't have access to a car while I was down there.

Things I've learned recently: I can easily eat an entire cucumber in one sitting. Grandma, you'd be so proud. Also, avacado goes well with both cucumbers and apples. Who knew?

I'm in Kansas. Manhattan. The Little Apple as they call it. I'm about to head out to a place called Finn's or something like that.

Here's the list of movies that you all need to tell me which one to watch. My personal watch party will begin tomorrow...or later tonight if I'm lucky:

Ace Ventura
Ace Ventura 2
Alvin and the Chipmunks
American Gangster
American History X
An Inconvenient Truth
Balls of Fury
Boondock Saints
Captain Corellis Mandolin
Chasing Amy
Clerks
Clerks 2
Click
Definitely, Maybe.
Deja Vu
Dodgeball
Donnie Darko
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift (I believe that's the third installment in the series)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Rachel, I know you will already vote for this)
Fight Club
Finding Forrester (I always say this as though I am Sean Connery, and his name, so in my own head I sounded like him)
Flyboys
Freedom Writers
Full Metal Jacket (I think I'm going to save this one to watch with Amanda because she's never seen a Kubrick Film)
Get Over It
Get Smart
Ghost Rider
Gladiator
Grandma's Boy


Wow....that's all of them...thanks Jacob! Also, there are some terrible movies on this list. So, please friends, be kind.

Kev!n

Urbansas

This is what I am now calling a trip to Kansas via Urbana. Urbansas.

I looked down at my sock last night and saw that it had a hole in it, and I said "darn".

I'm currently sitting at the PSAAP lab waiting to leave. The past two days in Champaign have been good-

please hold...i need to go brush off the 6 inches of snow off the van we are taking with a broom because there is no snow brush...these are the things i do for my job

- to be continued in Manhattan Kansas

K!

-20 minutes later...

Okay. I now know two things. A broom is a great tool for mass snow removal from cars. Also, a frozen pb-n-j sandwich is delicious (thanks Jacob!)

Anywho, the brief hiatus here has been really lovely, I have gotten to spend a small amount of time with really good people. I went and saw the weekly Monday Night Improv show with Spicy Clamato and DeBono. I then went to Murphy's and sat and bantered with many a good people. Then I spent the night at Eric Roth's house, where at 3am he realized that he forgot his plug to his MAC at Greg Hall. So we ninjaed Greg and got his plug, and I found a sweet pair of gloves!

Saw Smiller and Matt Strick! last night. Jacob is good as well. His roommate is addicted to a computer game called Left4Dead. It's about zombies. You kill/survive a zombie attack, and then you become zombies and try to kill survivors as they try to escape you. It IS a good game, I HAVE played it with Matt Kula on his xbox 360. Will I ever get this system or this game? NO. It would consume me. Much like the zombie virus.

We are still waiting on a few people before we can leave. I've been here since about 7:30. It's now 8:10. We'll leave soon, hopefully. Let me just say that the MINI Van we are taking is already full. And we need two more people's stuff in there. It takes a lot of stuff to excavate an archaeological site. We need to bring it all with us. As well as enough clothes/personal items to survive and thrive for eight days and seven nights.

I can just hear Amanda asking me, "What else?". This is when you know she is interested in your life. YOUR Amanda, not YOU'RE. Also, if you mess that one up, she looks down on you.

OH! Jacob gave me his old external hard drive so I can clear the stuff off of my old laptop. Now I can back everything up, and smash it and return it to best buy. Three year warantees are fabulous! He also took the time to put a whole bunch of movies on it. So, I'll compile a list of movies so all you readers out there (not "Readers") can tell me what banal movie to watch next. Jacob has a bad taste in movies. He enjoys them though, please see: Stick It as an example. I know for a fact that the Alvin and the Chipmunks movie is amongst this to be coming list. As well as some actual reputable movies that are escaping my brain right now.

Urbansas ho! I'm going to see if I can pack the van any tighter with stuff than it already is.

Winter Wonderfully yours,

Kev!n