Andrew's frat's senior brothers all dressed up as the cast from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. Kaylock, the Asian Canadian, made a surprisingly good Abe Lincoln.

Justin, our resident "babe magnet", and Jason, aka The Hamburglar. For those of you who might be wondering, yes, Jason did later on go to McDonald's and try to steal hamburgers.

Roomies!! Terry is definitely the hottest nurse I've ever seen.

Haha, I actually can't NOT laugh while looking at this pic. Josh Kamins was a big baby. He even brought sippy cups!!

LANCASTER!!!

Where's Waldo? Mike, aka the Fonz, Tom, aka a huge nerd (props for staying in character all night buddy!), Amy, Kate the pink lady, and Jeff as Waldo.

Scary and Baby Spice (aka Jasmine and Amy).

Brigit, a saucy little gypsy.

Pre-party shot of Amy Schneider and myself! We are such hot stuff.

Halloween etc.

So as many of you know, my house hosted an absolutely fabulous Halloween party last Friday and, I must say, it turned out quite well (with the exception of the fog machine setting off the fire alarm). Everyone put so much effort into their costumes, it was amazing. And I want to make a big shout-out to my one-and-only mum right now for making me the greatest costume ever!!!! (there'll be pics posted, don't you lovelies worry)

Besides that, it's been the same old. I've been asked to speak at a scholarship gala next Thursday, and I'm having lunch with some trustees tomorrow, and some notable alumni on Friday. It's Homecoming this weekend, so the football game should be a good time. Brigit and I have decided that hot chocolate with peppermint schnapps is the way to go.

Besides school and interviews, nothing else is new. Life has deteriorated into an unending cycle of school work, work work, and drinking. Does anyone else's life feel like this, or just me? Oh well, things will come together eventually. Until then, I suppose I just have to enjoy the ride. Kisses.

P.S. Much love to Paul, who just celebrated his 19th birthday! I love you hubbie!

100th Post on this Blog!!!

What a landmark post! This is actually going to be quite a Hemingwayesque entry - just the facts, folks.

Stars/Death Cab for Cutie concert - SUBLIME!!! In all ways. Firstly, it was great catching up with Tom beforehand, because, due to mass quantities of academics, we haven't seen eachother in awhile. Stars were impressive - get some of their music ASAP. Death Cab were as great as I knew they'd be. Ben Gibbard is my hero.

Download: "First Day" by the Futureheads (particularly Whartonites heading out into the job market soon), "Precious Metals" by the Russian Futurists, and "Casimir Pulaski Day" by Sufjan Stevens. Ciao lovers!

Music

Death Cab tonight! Yay!

I can't stop listening to "Evil" by Interpol (for some bizarre reason) or anything by The Rapture. I don't know what it is. I just love booty-shaking music.

Also check out "Eleanor Put Your Boots On" by Franz Ferdinand and the remake of "Solsbury Hill" by Erasure. I also forgot how much I looooooove John Denver's "Thank God I'm a Country Boy". =)

Good weekend, intense week.

After an appendicitis scare on Thursday night, I felt the need to go home last Friday and be waited on by my mother so I could hopefully recover fully in time for my uncle Ralph's wedding on Saturday. So my mother and sister picked me up Friday afternoon and I spent the night receiving back massages, warm Alkaseltzer, and puppy kisses. And recover I did, dear readers!

I traveled to my uncle's wedding totally refreshed and rejuvenated. It being a Keen wedding, there was an open bar even though the wedding began at 11 AM (reception was from 12-5 PM). Needless to say, there was much dancing and everyone was drunk by 5, including my darling grandparents. It was also the first time I caught the bouquet (actually I didn't catch it - I know better - but my 15 year old sister Katie did, so everyone made me go up there for the garter part - which was hilarious, since everyone in the room knew me and Eddie (who caught the garter)). What a horrible tradition!

So, it being early still, my uncle Kevin invited everyone to his house. I drove Eddie's massive diesel truck over there and the fam continued with the debauchery. Then Kevin and Ralph's friends mentioned a jazz festival in Media and wondered if I'd like to join. Well why not? It ended up being an INSANE night of bar-hopping, jazz, and computer games (has anyone else ever played them at a bar? so much fun!). Which actually meant that we had all been drinking pretty much from noon to 3 AM (we actually ended up hanging out in this one bar almost an hour after it closed). All in end, friends, it was a wonderful weekend.

Unfortunately though, all good things must end and I really must get back to studying for my real estate investments midterm. I have a TON of schoolwork this week (as usual), but a forgotten-about treasure popped up today. I had failed to remember the Death Cab for Cutie concert ticket I purchased way back in August, I think, and the concert is tomorrow! Very exciting! I can't wait - the opening band, Stars, is quite good as well.

So I'll keep you updated. Hope you are all doing splendidly.

Natasha and Natasha! (Like that Woody Allen film... you know the one I mean) ;-) I love my new puppy.

Laura was the only one who actually climbed a tree to get at the apples. She looks so happy up there too!

Brigit enjoying the sweet fruits of our labour.

I love pumpkins... a lot.

Lura and Natasha bringing home our bounty!

Fall Break

I've only been back one day and I'm already exhausted again. I can hardly believe it. But fall break had its moments.

I didn't go anywhere, but my favorite girls and I rented a car to go apple-picking. We went to Linvilla Orchards in Media, PA. Lura, Laura, Natasha, Brigit and I had a blast! Seriously, apple-picking is highly underrated. I'll put some photos on.

Then, I got a call from my parents - they got a new puppy! It's a sweet little golden retriever and so we drove to my house to go see it. My mom got it for my little sister Katie as her Christmas present, so when we got there, there was a small Christmas tree set up and my mom had gone to look for some Bing Crosby. Katie was at a volleyball tournament, so we got to play with the pup and take some pictures. Katie came home and we had placed the puppy in a basket underneath the tree. Katie came in and hugged me and started to tell me about the tournament, not even NOTICING the fact that it had turned into Christmastown at the Gilbert house. Eventually I had to guide her attention to the tree where she stood in shock as if she didn't believe it was real. But once she got it - it was perhaps the cutest thing I've ever seen. She was SOOO happy and jumping up and down and hugging everyone. It was a truly wonderful moment. She ended up naming it Natasha, which N. Fedder was pysched about. I'll put some pics up of her too.

Since then, I've turned into the same old workaholic. Ah well. Life is still pretty good and I do like my classes, I'm just afraid they're going to kill me.

This is what I got from the 45-question one, which is supposed to be more accurate! =)

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