Here are some pictures of F of F and F for you all:



stouffers lasagna by chef jlo



leah and kara



a game of scum

And now some pictures of a Christmas party:

Okay, so you are wondering what this festival is all about? Here is the detailed itineary for those who already got the email about F of F and F-- below the itineary is detailed info about the first annual foffandf:

after church--
12:00-1:00 lunch (meet @ the sMall)
1:00ish- Jason's apt. (if you don't know where he lives, let me know- if you need a ride, let me know that as well) for movies, crafts, dance, fun, and games-Mike's tune playing time (I request whatever you want to play- i do like SandF and DotR, oh and "iheartbanjies" aka as "banjo love" by the author of the song)
3:30-4:30 worship/bible study
5:00- drive to Toledo
6:00- Live Nativity thingy
7:00-8:30- din din (my vote is for don pablos- oh, and since i am in charge, my vote wins!!! yes- i love b-day month... muhahahahaha!!! no... if someone really hates don pablos (the restaurant, not the man) we don't have to go)
9:00- whenever bake Christmas cookies at Jason's, call Lee n' Becca, much more fun, rented movies, dance, and games (we are not watching What About Bob again;)

What to Bring:

-games
-strobe light (Jason- bring this to your apt so we can play strobe light spoons-oh and don't forget the spoons)
-a vehicle with gas so you can drive those who do not have a car
-instruments (Mike)
-craft supplies
-movies (be warned- As the leadership body of Eff of Eff and Eff, Jason, Kara, and I have the right to veto movies- movies like "What About Bob" or "Total Recall")
-$$ for dinner- also, we were playing with the idea of seeing a movie at the cheap theatre- "I Heart Huckabees" and "Napoleon Dynamite" are both playing there around 9:00 pm. but we probably won't do that since it would take up a lot of our time.
-other people

What Not to Bring:

-homework (I will personally swish it around in Jason's bidet- Europeans think those things are clean- well, let's just say they may be clean enough for what they were designed for, but certainly not clean enough for your research paper, textbook, or iBook.)
-flamable items-- Kara is scared of fire and things that might catch on fire, so leave your kindling at home.
-corny christmas decorations- yuck
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For those who know nothing about this so-called foffnf:

For some of you, it's been awhile. For others of you, I just haven't seen you around so much.
So what should we do about this plight? Maybe we could have an all-day party to make up
for all the lost friendship time, fellowship time, and... I can't think of a third one that would
make the sentence truely alliterative-- o-well.

Anyway, so it was my birthday last week and I only got to see a few of you. How pitiful. My
roomie's email program messed up and so most of you didn't get the memo about my b-day
party at campus corners- that's okay. We will just celebrate my b-day times 10 this Sunday...
That is right ladies and gentleman... I am telling you now so you do not complain of exam-
week overload. This is your incentive to get things done early or to procrastinate past
Sunday because your whole day is going to be devoted to friendship and fellowship.

Yes- that is brilliant- Sunday December 12th will now be recognized (by few) as the Festival
of Friendship and Fellowship. You must come, so there is no need for RSVP. I and the others
will expect you to be there with your valuables.

What will the day hold for those attending?

Well, let's start the day off right with some devotion to our awesome God by going to church;)
At 1:00ish we will meet at the food court in the sMall (the bowliing green mall) and eat some
lunch together. Then we will go to Jason's Apt. to have some fun.

From there we can do the following:

-watch movies
-play games (bring your valuables means bring games and things to do- anyone have
mindtrap-- i love that game)
-make Christmas cookies
-worship the Lord together (Mike, bring guitar- please)
-for my b-day, I request a song or two from Mike's new solo project played live at the F of F
and F and maybe some Baby Hot Dog playage or maybe just some playage in general- I don't
know if Mike's new stuff is ready for a live audience. I haven't asked him personally so I don't
want to put him on the spot.
-it may snow!- snowball fight... sleds... woo (the weather channel changed it's mind so nevermind)
-maybe I could arrange a video scavenger hunt... ah... don't worry... won't be as typical as a
5.19 one... I will make it very very... uh... challenging
-I suppose you can bring homework, but I will tear it up- for my birthday, of course- my
present to you
-spoons, anyone?
-get wasted
-make Christmas presents (bring your glue gun and pipe cleaners- or any other craft supply)
-a phone call to Lee and Becca to sing them Christmas carols
-maybe we could go to a nursing home or something to sing Christmas carols (Mike, do you
have a shaker, a tamborine- we can shake it up while you play the guitar or banjo!:)- who
said caroling had to be bad).
-a phone call to random people in the phone book to sing them Christmas carols

At nightfall, a few more options are optional:
-a rousing game of zombie
-Toledo Zoo lights
-some Christmas/church thing (Kara has details)

Dinner would be good at some point too:
my suggestions:
-don pablos
-major magics
-chuck e. cheese
-an indian restaurant (except that Kara would have to bring along something bland to eat
because the spice would give her chest pains and then we would have to go to wood county
hospital, and then who knows what would happen- we think the last time was bad- this time
would probably be worse- "Miss Hull, to a high degree of medical certainty, we know you are
infested with monkeys. These monkies are invisable to the naked eye, but my eye is fully
clothed and therefore can see these monkies. We need to rush you into surgery..." )
-we cook?!

We will probably do things until the wee hours of the morning. As I said before, do not email
me with an RSVP or excuses of why you can't come or can only be there for 5 minutes or silly
things like that. What is more important in this world than God, festivals, friendship,
fellowship, and fun? Exactly... If you can't come, that sends a clear message of unlove to
everyone of us. That's right, "unlove." Unlove is worse that hatred- it is love that was once
present that has been un-ed from one's consciousness. It may have been merely repressed
into the subconscious, but as Freud says, we are not aware of our subconscious and are thus
not aware of that love. Your freaking SUPER-ego has reasoned us away into oblivion. You
are not aware that the other exists which is way worse than hatred where you at least know
the other person exists. If you can't come, it'd be better to send me hate mail than to tell me
you love me but I have been repressed into your subconscious- ouch... what a major diss.

I am not even requiring that you bring me presents- No one can top the Usher poster Tess
gave me. Yes, I know that sounds super-cool. That is why I will bring it and hang it at the F
of F and F in Jason's apt.
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So that's it... enough about F of F and F... How about something substantial- something about my real life... wow.

I'm feeling a little lonely today, which is silly. I just turned down an invitation to hang out with Tess and the crew. Silly me. Maybe I will change my mind in a few minutes. I hope so. It is weird how one can get into a funk and enjoy being in it. I am ready to get out of this one- maybe not. Bah..

Anyway... so I went to Yale last weekend and it was marvelous. Our team got second place in our division. I only got to perform once though, so I wasn't a huge help to the team. I only get a sliver of the trophy:) We stayed in Yale dorms which were also marvelous. Someone compared the dorms to Harry Potter in that each dorm/college competes with the other and they have four walls, a court yard, their own dining hall (that I hear looks just like the harry potter one- I didn't go in) and they have a huge common room. Their rooms are like Founders, except they each have their own bedroom and then they have a smaller common room (with a faux fireplace and bay window). We stayed in someone's common room and slept on the floor. It was great.

It only took us about 13 hours to get there-- geez. I rode with Allison, a mock trialer who drives the famous Mockdor, the Mockinator. Bethany, Dan, and Corinne were also in the van with us. I controled the radio with my iTunes skills. When we got there Thursday night (early Friday morning)- we went to right to sleep and then early in the morning, I went to the Art Gallery with Garrett and we checked out the law school a bit. The art gallery was so good for being an art gallery on a college campus. They had paintings by Hopper, Kandinsky, Picasso, and I was introduced to a few new artists whose names escape me right now. The law school was very cool too. The people were quite interesting too. I talked with a couple kids from Harvard. They just don't get it. I don't think I would be aware of my surroundings for the first year I was at a school like that. They just don't seem to care that they are one of the few students in the whole world that have things like art galleries and award winning faculty and all of the other perks to going to an ivy league school right at their fingertips.

Transition, Transition (why don't we just come out and say "transition" instead of inventing so many ways to do say it "creatively")...

Transition, I've been examining the way I deal with problems lately. We talked about Freud a week or so ago in IMPACT and it seems that the natrual reaction to problems is to repress them- to forget difficult feelings, confusing thoughts, and harmful hurts. However, those things tend to pop up and keep arising to the surface no matter how strong our super-ego is. The obvious thing to do would be to release such feelings and thoughts, but where would release them to? To whom should those things be given? Well, for the Christian the answer seems obvious. We are told:
"Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous fall."
"Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you."
and such wonderful things...
So what's my problem... no need to repress... many needs to release...
ahhh....

i'm outie,
boo

Oh my gosh is Yale a beautiful campus. Details of my weekend to come (maybe). Now I have work to do.

later,
boo

p.s. Tess, blog!