Bart: hey
how are you?
Blacktop: hi!
i’m great
2:45 PM i just found out i don’t have to take a fourth class because of my ap credits
Bart: awesome!
Blacktop: i can’t believe i didn’t know that already
this sounds stupid but i didn’t know they actually counted for anything
except to get out of 100 level classes
Bart: haha
well that’s good news
2:46 PM Blacktop: its going to be so nice
only 3 classes two days a week
Bart: amazing
what will you do with yourself?
Blacktop: relax!
plan sorority parties
Bart: hahahahahha
Blacktop: for once i won’t be behind in my reading
i hope
2:47 PM how are you?
Bart: good
working
sort of
lol
listening to music
Blacktop: haha
2:48 PM what are you listening to
Bart: the shins
my music player just died
have to restart it
2:49 PM i was thinking about you earlier… miss hanging out with you
Blacktop: i miss hanging out with you too
2:50 PM winter break was so much fun
Bart: yeah it was great… i had a fun 11 days off and a special time with you
when are you coming for a visit? march?
Blacktop: ummm
2:51 PM i think its march 1st
let me check
spring break is march 1st through 15th
2:52 PM Bart: you coming home or going to cabo or something?
Blacktop: haha
definitely not cabo
i’m planning to come home
i don’t really have money to spend on traveling or anything
2:53 PM the only thing i’m considering is getting a ride to dc to see a couple friends from my ireland program and then flying to seattle from dc rather than columbus
2:54 PM dc is only like 5 hours from here and it seems like half of kenyon is from the dc suburbs
everyone goes there for the summer
Bart: really?
weird
haha
Blacktop: i know its random
i’m like the only person who hasn’t done an internship there
ok that’s an exaggeration
2:55 PM but its a big destination for kenyon for some reason
Bart: lol
you’ll be well connected in politics at least
right?
2:57 PM Blacktop: yes
and that’s very important to me
jk
2:58 PM i’m not very political
but it could come in hWindowcleaner
Bart: get yourself a pardon after you commit some heinous crime
Blacktop: true
its good to maintain the option of getting pardoned
Bart: just in case you know…
2:59 PM Blacktop: definitely
so my weekend starts tonight
Bart: ridiculous… i’m so jealous
Blacktop: i was going to try to squeeze my way into an overenrolled seminar
but no
all i have to do is work out
and eat dinner
Bart: wow
that sounds amazing
want to trade places with me for the next few months?
3:00 PM (i still get my paychecks though)
Blacktop: haha
Bart: (u can have half)
lol
Blacktop: sure
i’ll need a little training
Bart: easy as pie
Blacktop: the sorority will be confused as to why there’s a tall guy leading meetings
but they’ll just have to trust me
3:01 PM Bart: hahahaha
you’ll come back to a sorority full of drunk girls passed out on the chapter floor
Blacktop: lol
3:02 PM that’s not my vision for the group
Bart: but why not?
it’ll be excellent
they’ll all be homeless drunks in two years
what else do you go to college and join a sorority for?
3:03 PM Blacktop: i have no idea
what are you going to do this weekend
3:04 PM Bart: not sure yet
no big travelling plans
u?
Blacktop: just focusing on rush
which starts tomorrow
3:05 PM Bart: wow
what do you have to do?
3:06 PM Blacktop: its really fun actually
we just plan events that tend to revolve around food…and try to get to know the freshmen girls who are interested
tomorrow is meet the sisters
saturday is pizza
Bart: do you make the freaky sisters go into hiding?
3:07 PM Blacktop: plus a semi sketch party
i wish
lol not really
i don’t think we have any really freaky people
3:08 PM Bart: haha… c’mon, what about the sister who eats her hair?
at least keep her at the back of the room
Blacktop: hahaha
ok i’ll tell her
Bart: good call
3:09 PM u should also tell them that you are the hottest sorority and get all the fresh young studs
3:10 PM Blacktop: good idea
we’re doing something a little different this year
throwing a rush party with another frat
so that will be interesting
3:11 PM Bart: great idea
Blacktop: hopefully the guys won’t go too crazy
Bart: that’ll actually really help both of you
Blacktop: i know but in the past we’ve avoided that kind of stuff
Bart: it could backfire if the guys are ugly though
Blacktop: b/c we don’t want to get just party girls
3:12 PM hmmm
that frat has a lot of football players
Bart: ooo
3:13 PM yum yum
Blacktop: haha
Bart: yeah… you will have to hold a seminar on crocheting to get the smart ones
balance it out a little
3:14 PM Blacktop: crocheting lol
ok
i think we have the highest gpa on campus
so i’ll just say that constantly
3:15 PM Bart: lol
how many girls do you have totoal?
Blacktop: 24
3:16 PM Bart: do you carry that average up?
Blacktop: we’re almost the biggest sorority
lol the biggest is 25
Bart: really?!?!? i don’t think there’s a sorority with less than 40 at uw to my knowledge
Blacktop: but 3 girls went abroad
Bart: some have over 200
Blacktop: yeah but compare the size of UW to kenyon
Bart: true… but still
weird to think of
completely different dynamic
Blacktop: its a totally different kind of thing here
3:17 PM its just another activity that people do
it can’t really be your “life” the way it can at a bigger school
Bart: yeah
3:18 PM makes sense
that’s why you ran xc
3:19 PM Blacktop: exactly
edm is definitely a bigger thing for me though
but for other people its the opposite and its just another thing to do at school
3:20 PM Bart: you are the president
was it bigger for you before that?
3:21 PM Blacktop: umm no i’ve always been really into sorority stuff
i did like everything sophomore year
and then was president 1st semester junior year
then i went to ireland
3:22 PM and then last semester i did alumni relations which was kind of boring but easy
so its good to be back in a more central role
Bart: do you go to bed at night and whisper to yourself…
“power, power, power, power”
hehe
3:23 PM Blacktop: haha i literally laughed out loud just then
yes i do
my life is about the pursuit of power actually
i am on the verge of ruling this school completely
Bart: haha
awesome
you go girl
Blacktop: next i will conquer senior class committee
3:24 PM Bart: and then from there,
THE WORLD!!!
muahahhahaha
Blacktop: lol
exactly
you see through my plan
good thing you don’t go here
i’d be ruined
3:25 PM Bart: haha
i’ll come and visit
and put a halt to your grinding war machine
Blacktop: lol
don’t underestimate me
3:26 PM you can try but i don’t guarantee success
Bart: hmmm…
i know the source of your weakness….
3:27 PM Blacktop: you do…
what is it
Bart: i can’t tell you that
or you will be able to defend against me
3:28 PM Blacktop: hmmm
Bart: i will use it to attack your soft underbelly
mmm… soft underbelly
arggh!
Blacktop: wow
Bart: you are taking advantage of my weakness
lol
3:29 PM Blacktop: that just made me remember that i need to go the gym
Bart: hahaha
Blacktop: i was going to go right after class
Bart: i didn’t say super soft underbelly
or fatty soft underbelly
lol
i am magical with the ladies, eh?
stick my foot in my mouth right and left
3:30 PM hmmm
Blacktop: hahaha yes
3:31 PM Bart: thinking about your underbelly makes me think i should go to kenyon for a visit lol
Blacktop: lol
i can’t believe “underbelly” could be a turn on
Bart: lol
i am lovingy like that
Blacktop: you say underbelly and i think GYM
Bart: hahaha
my friend Brohim thinks “feet”
and he gets turned on
Blacktop: hahahaha
3:32 PM Bart: so underbelly isn’t so strange
Blacktop: well you’re welcome to visit my underbelly at kenyon any time
i can show you…the corn fields
i live next to a lovely field
but its not corn, just grass
3:33 PM Bart: haha
sounds exciting
so exciting i’d probably spend most of my time sleeping
3:34 PM preferably with you… but i could be like that weird guy you mentioned and go try the corn field
Blacktop: what weird guy
3:35 PM Bart: u said some guy got drunk and went and laid in a corn field and died of alcohol poisoning or something like that
right?
Blacktop: oh god yeah
please don’t be like him!
Bart: lol
i ate a kabob for lunch
and now i smell like a kabob
3:36 PM sort of spicy
Blacktop: yummy
3:37 PM Bart: Ah, work
i like my job
i can play with spreadsheet
s
and talk at the same time
Blacktop: that’s impressive
i’m not very good at multitasking
3:38 PM Bart: me either
but i do it anyways
Blacktop: i can do minor things at the same time
so if spreadsheets are as challenging as…facebook
maybe i could do that
but spreadsheets sound like they take a little more concentration
3:39 PM Bart: yeah a tad
3:40 PM which is why i haven’t gotten much done since we started chatting
lol
Blacktop: do you spend a lot of time chatting on gmail
i love that they added aim to it
3:41 PM Bart: i definitely do
i never use aim
just msn
and gmail
Blacktop: google is the best
3:42 PM Bart: for sure
Blacktop: i was so excited when they added colored labels
3:43 PM so what have you been working on today
3:44 PM Bart: a report on the value of our different websites
ooo i forgot about those colored labels again
i should try them out
3:45 PM Blacktop: you will love them
3:48 PM i just looked at your blog
what’s up with the password protected entry?
Bart: its kind of a ridiculous post
3:49 PM i only want a few people to be able to see it and definitely not my boss
Blacktop: oh i see
Bart: you can check it out if you want
“friends”
it’s a little shocking and forthright though
just to warn you
Blacktop: ok
3:50 PM wow
3:51 PM that isn’t what i expected!
Bart: lol
Blacktop: i’m glad you’re alive
Bart: told you to be careful…
haha
yeah it kind of freaked me out
Blacktop: that was a very vivid story
Bart: not sure what actually happened
Blacktop: i feel like i was there
Bart: i’m sorry
3:52 PM Blacktop: yeah actually it is kind of scary
Bart: just a really weird thing… i guess i understand why sometimes they advise people not to have loving unless they are in good shape
3:53 PM Blacktop: but you are in good shape
Bart: yeah
3:54 PM i don’t think i actually had a heart attack, but it made for a funnier story
it felt almost like it
my face and body started going numb for a couple seconds
then i stood up
and it went away almost instantly
3:55 PM Blacktop: that is the weirdest thing
but nothing like that has happened since
right
Bart: no
not since monday
i will monitor myself more carefully
3:56 PM lol
weird thing to think
Blacktop: perhaps you should wear a heart rate monitor
lol
Bart: hahaha
i should get a watch that can do that
do they make those?
Blacktop: i think so
3:57 PM Bart: i’m going to buy one online right now
3:58 PM Blacktop: haha seriously?
Bart: yeah i have wanted one with a stopwatch on it too
so i can time my sprints
4:00 PM Blacktop: you should go to runnersworld.com
they review products
Bart: oo thanks
4:01 PM Blacktop: http://runnersworld.com/article/0,7120,s6-240-321–12350-0,00.html
4:02 PM wow i’m getting sleepy
i shouldn’t have gone out last night
4:03 PM Bart: what’d u do?
4:04 PM Blacktop: my friend’s grandma gave him $10000 so we celebrated
Bart: wow
why’d she do that?
4:05 PM Blacktop: she said she wanted to see him enjoy part of his inheritance while she’s alive
4:06 PM apparently she gave money to everyone in his family
Bart: wow
what’d u guys do to celebrate?
Blacktop: just went out for drinks
i was home pretty early
but since thursday is a day when i actually DO have class i was tired today anyway
4:08 PM Bart: ah
4:49 PM Blacktop: i was supposed to be done working out about 3 hours ago
so i’m going to actually go to the gym now…
Bart: good call
what held u back?
tiredness?
Blacktop: yeah
distraction
4:50 PM there were packages for me at the house
and i said good bye to my friend whose going abroad
and went to the registrar…
talked with you…
lots of fun things
Bart:
Blacktop: and tiredness
Bart: yeah
i enjoyed our conversation
Blacktop: me too
Bart: i’m about to head home too
4:51 PM have a good workout
Blacktop: thanks!
have a good night
Bart: good night