The Story from This Year:

indy is my wonderful new roommmate. I met her because she knows Desirée's mom. She is an engineer, and she studies a whole lot. I think she must be a good influence on me, and we always have a ton of fun together.

osh and I have a fantastic story of how we met. One day last year, just before finals, I stumbled accross Chris Shumway's page, because he is a fellow cinemaspace user. I thought that he had the niftiest program, so I contacted the maker, Josh, to ask for help in putting it on my page. I couldn't get it to work at all, and school ended before Josh could help me. However, before school ended, I applied to be a computer consultant here at Berkeley. The week before I applied for the job, I asked every consultant that I encountered if this is a good job. Josh was one of the people I asked, but I had no idea that he was the same Josh that I was e-mailing about his program.

more tommorrow . . .

The Story from Last Year:

esirée is the best roommate anyone could ask for. If she's in a bad mood, all you have to do is buy her some donuts from Kingpin, which we conveniently live across the street from. I am thankful that she is a vegetarian. I'm a vegan. We have tons of fun cooking together. Des and I have the best apartment. We have bay windows and we live next to the video store. What more could you want? And as a bonus, we live right next to the eatery which is open the latest at night on the southside of Berkeley. Thus we have the pleasure of hearing all of the drunk frat boys stuffing their faces with bits of barnyard animals well into the morning.

urora is a wonderful lady that I met first semester of freshman year. She is fabulously exotic, so look for her in her funky garb around campus. Aurora and I have crazy adventures together. We once met a man named Bruce who had a stuffed animal of a buffalo on his dashboard. Aurora has a stunning roommate named Lily, who is also an impressive artist. Lily's boyfriend is Martin, who Aurora went to high school with in India. If you see Aurora, ask her to tell you about when her, Desirée, and I ate an entire apple crisp together.

rea is going to be a famous storyteller someday. She is dating Mike, whom I have heard is a "sex god of the world," but I just think of him as Drea's plaything. Mike is Desirée's ex-boyfriend. It gets more complex. Drea lives with Jen and Adam, who are now dating each other. Adam is in a fraternity with Harel, whom Desirée dated last semester. In between Desirée and Drea, Mike dated Betsy. Betsy goes rockclimbing with Yoni. Yoni lives in a house with Cory, Phil, Joe, and Brian. I lived with all of them in the dorms last year. Cory is my one of my best male friends (along with Eric and Ben, but we'll get to them later. Phil . . . well, you have to know him to understand. He gave me my first persimon. Joe is so cute and all the ladies are after him. Brian, too. He has the most irresistable dimples. I think that Yoni is adorable beyond belief. Don't think that I don't tell them this ALL of the time!

k, so back to my one degree of seperation story. Joe's semi-ex-girlfriend is Barbara, who lived with Jenny in the dorms last year. Desirée and I went to highschool with Jenny, as well as Shannon. Jenny, Desirée and I also went to highschool with Shannon. Shannon lives in a house with David, Erin, Sarit, and Taryn. Erin and Sarit are boyfriend and girlfriend. Tarin is one of Susie's best friends. Susie knows everyone! Susie's ex-boyfriend is Jeff, who used to be roommates with one of my best friends, Ben. Ben and I dated last year, but now I just torture him and provide excellent girl advice. My favorite part of this story is that Ben and Betsy went to a date party together last week. Nothing like making the circle just a little more complicated! Susie knows Rich from the dorms and Rich is in drama class with William. Confused yet?.

spent last Halloween doing volunteer work with Charles, known to everyone else as Chuck. Charles is now dating Ida, who is friends with both Desirée and Aubie. Aubie spends a lot of time with Karlyn, who lives with William, who spends a lot of time with Robyn. Karlyn and I met through friends of friends last year and now we have become so close that she lets me cut her hair. Karlyn and William met at Peirce, which is also where they met Aaron. Karlyn and I like to have crazy adventures going to museums in San Fransico, though most recently I went to the Ansel Adams museum with Steve, who is a co-worker of Aubie. I have also gone rollerblading with Steve and a bunch of his co-workers, who were very nice about my inability to rollerbalde. Karlyn and I once made vegetable tempura without a recipe, which was quite the challenge. But it turned out delicious.

love to cook with my friends, or for them. For William I made vegan pancakes more than once, while Ben and I discovered a wonderful roasted pepper dish together. One day I will have all my recipes on this cyberspace information exchange forum (aka: the web). Did I mention Ben's roommate Andrew? He dated Jen for a brief time last year. Not to mention Aaron, who pledged and de-pledged Ben and Andrew's fraternity twice. Rich only did once.

ric is the best! I adore Eric, and it's not just because he doesn't know any of my other friends. He lets me page him at all hours of the morning and he always cheers me up when I'm down. He made me an awesome logo, and he promised that I can bug him whenever I want over the summer.