Scents

Placain: You know, back in my day (1994), if we wanted to talk to other incoming freshmen, we had to find people on obscure MUDs and explain how we had stalked them through a variety of .finger files and other ancient unix computer crap that you younguns don’t have to deal with.
Samiraro 2004: well thats the beauty of new technology!
Placain: Of course, back in my day SRC had a single 56kbps leased line to the net.
Placain: And four dialin modems for students to use to check email.
Placain: I’m not even making this up.
Samiraro 2004: lol..now they have ethernet connections available everywhere
Placain: Yes, thanks to Karl. I never would have thought he’d do anything productive with his life.
Placain: Sometimes I regret teaching him nearly everything he knows.
Samiraro 2004: haha..i dont know him, but apparently you didnt think too highly of his work ethics :)
Placain: I do not consider paranoia a performance art.
Samiraro 2004: thats good to know..neither do i!
Placain: http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=796819 may amuse you.
Samiraro 2004: very interesting
Samiraro 2004: i guess its just the common personality an SRC alum carries
Samiraro 2004: it take some key traits to make the decision you guys all do
Placain: You have no idea what you’re getting into :)
Samiraro 2004: do you say that in a negative way?
Placain: Here’s a pretty good endorsement from me:
Samiraro 2004: bc i still have tme to back out lol..jk
Samiraro 2004: go for it
Placain: I was all but kicked out due to various social circumstances. (I wasn’t actually ever asked to leave, but I was made to understand that I should leave so they wouldn’t have to ask me to.)

And yet if I ever get rich, I’ll be donating a good portion of my millions to SRC.
Samiraro 2004: so it was a positively life-changing experience..even though you were “asked to leave” and you dont have any resentment towards the college?
Placain: For all intents and purposes, the person I am today was created between 9/94 and 5/95.
Samiraro 2004: wow
Samiraro 2004: my parents kept on telling me that the experience would change me as a person
Placain: Yes.
Samiraro 2004: well..im sold
Placain: Once someone knocked on my door at 3 in the morning and dragged me bodily down to the laundry room of Dolliver.
Samiraro 2004: so you would do your laundry?
Placain: Apparently one of the people in a little circle discussing Kierkegaard had fallen asleep.
Placain: They needed a replacement.
Placain: So they knocked on a random door.
Placain: That sort of thing happens all the time.
Samiraro 2004: so you could participate in a discussion?
Placain: Yes.
Samiraro 2004: wow…i think i still value my sleep more than a discussion (depending on the topic), but perhaps that will change
Placain: So I had a mountain dew and woke myself up and talked existentialism until 8am.
Placain: Don’t plan on getting sleep.
Samiraro 2004: wonderful
Placain: At least not until you’re living in the mods.
Samiraro 2004: those are some dedicated people..
Samiraro 2004: any negative points that you think i need to be aware of?
Placain: hmm…. I’m told that there is less of a drug culture than there was; that’s good, in that I think a lot of my friends could have done much better work if they hadn’t been stoned half the time, but it’s also bad, in that apparently pot’s been replaced somewhat by alcohol, which is to my mind worse for creativity than pot is (Hemingway notwithstanding).
Placain: In any case, I would say the three things to be avoided at SRC are:
Placain: – drugs
- overconcentration with finding a partner of the opposite (or same, if you prefer them) sex freshman year
- jane austen (reportedly)
Samiraro 2004: well, fortunately i can avoid drugs and alcohol for the most part….and temptation of the opposite sex for one year..and im not a huge fan of austen’s either
Placain: Oh, and Discordianism.
Placain: And goths.
Placain: :)
Placain: Make your own creativity, don’t buy it at Barnes&Noble or Hot Topic.
Placain: I sound old.
Placain: sigh.
Samiraro 2004: lol…looks like ill be ok for the most part…try experienced on instead of old
Placain: Heh. Well, I must go home and take care of kitties and such… feel free to IM me, I’m always on 3pm-11pm
Samiraro 2004: OK thanks a lot for your help !

Amy:
I was attacked on the street today
I left my apartment and a woman stopped me and was telling me that the rabbi needed money to feed his eight children
then she asked me to go to logan airport to help her sell flowers.
I said no i had to go to work and started walking away
she asked me where I worked I said BU
then she started screaming about how there were no universities
and started telling me that she was at the top of her class
and on and on
we got to the corner ( by the funeral home)
and she stepped in front of me and I couldnt get around her
then she started hitting me
she pulled my hair and scratched me
I was just screaming for someone to help me
a guy on a bike came over and pulled her away from me
I hyperventellated in a puddle for a while
then I found a cop at the book store and brought him over to her
she told him she was trying to “give me the trashing of a lifetime”
and she was calling me names and stuff
the police officer said she was a psych case and called for back up
they took her to a hospital
I had to go to the doctor and get a tetnus shot

MrGetzburg: I hate it when I, who’ve been coding for, oh, eight-odd years now, forget a semi.
MrGetzburg: It makes me want to split my forehead with a fireaxe
Placain: *giggle* I took a Pascal class at TIP in 1992 and the TA would always tell us that if we asked him for help when our program wasn’t working and it turned out to be due to a missing semicolon, he would cut off our balls.

Placain: i wonder if there is a FNORD license plate in every state
Placain: once driving from boston to NJ i saw a MA plate that said ‘PRAYZIM’ and a NY ones that sais “PRAISHM”
MrGetzburg: Pfft.
Placain: in the same trip!
Placain: what are the chances of that
MrGetzburg: Goddamn Jesus Freaks.

Jenn0a: torque
Placain: theta
Jenn0a: gamma
Placain: radiologist
Jenn0a: malignant
Placain: painful
Jenn0a: drugs
Placain: lidocaine
Jenn0a: oxycontin
Placain: oxygenated
Jenn0a: hypoxia
Placain: breathy
Jenn0a: bubbles
Placain: blossom
Jenn0a: puffs
Placain: shower
Jenn0a: pool
Placain: ocean
Jenn0a: wave
Placain: amplitude
Jenn0a: magnitude
Placain: richter
Jenn0a: scale
Placain: fish
Jenn0a: clam
Placain: crabs
Jenn0a: net
Placain: wireless
Jenn0a: wier
Jenn0a: *weir
Placain: canal
Jenn0a: channel
Placain: station
Jenn0a: dock
Placain: connect
Jenn0a: port
Placain: transfer
Jenn0a: intermodalize
Placain: translate
Jenn0a: transfer
Placain: ferric
Jenn0a: ferrets
Placain: ferretto
Jenn0a: ferrari
Placain: rarity
Jenn0a: hilarity
Placain: nitrous oxide
Jenn0a: laughing matter
Placain: dark matter
Jenn0a: mattress
Placain: The Sleepy’s Guarantee
Jenn0a: mattress professionals
Placain: the first profession
Jenn0a: the professional
Placain: sniper
Jenn0a: striper
Placain: men at work
Jenn0a: chippendales
Placain: Chipmunks
Jenn0a: cheeks
Placain: Charmin
Jenn0a: quilted
Placain: kitchen
Jenn0a: aid
Placain: NSAIDs
Jenn0a: ICBMs
Placain: ISDNs
Jenn0a: ISP
Placain: Ipswich
Jenn0a: pale ale
Placain: Nantucket
Jenn0a: man with a bucket
Placain: *giggle*
Placain: Dear Liza
Jenn0a: Dear Abbey
Placain: Schlessinger
Jenn0a: laura
Placain: Sarah.
Jenn0a: lee
Placain: Levi’s
Jenn0a: 501 blues
Placain: 64 colors
Jenn0a: crayola

“Don’t put the diner in the same category as having sex or I’m never going to get any root beer.”

- Rachel

At 19 I had been out on my own for 3 years. I owned my second car, a giant brown monstrosity that could fit a queen size bed in the back and had 8 ashtrays. The hood was as long as I am tall. It was older than my boyfriend at the time (Alex, version 1.0). Once Daniel and I drove down the entire state of New York in a blizzard in that car. The highway was closed, and we were the only people on it. We listened to the snowfall and listened to Simon and Garfunkel. We spent all day on that highway. It’s one of my favorite memories.

— Liza

Placain: The three people I have unreciprocated crushes on all IMed me within 30 seconds of each other. :)
Jenn0a: unreciprocated is such a strong word.

Jenn0a: heh, i like little dogs, they are cats that fetch

MEMO TO THE REST OF MASCULINITY: Dude, that girl does not want an unsolicited massage. Quit looking for reasons to touch girls. Work out and wash your hair. Seriously. She’s gonna have bad dreams for a week. Maybe because you’ve been wearing that T-shirt with the wraparound picture of a wolf on it for like two weeks straight.