Flowings of Your Everlasting Taffyman

Oh me oh my, its been a long time since i actually updated this piece of crap site....


So here goes...

Last semester i took 2 anthropology classes and decided I liked it better than sociology (which often has to deal with statistical information, which i am no good at) So i decided to switch my area of focus (informally since, officially i am still undecided, I believe) eh so yeah now im a secondary ed, social science major with an emphasis in soc/anth (since they arent mutually exclusive here at UMM) with a possible women studies minor or major on the side (part of the 5 year plan). I also took and passed macro econ in which i learned a lot, including that i dont know macro econ very well. My prof was bart finzel who was a pretty cool guy and apparently works within labor economics helping unions or something.... i like i like... also i had another women studies class which dealt more with the history and structure of women's movements rather than the areas in which we can find focus on women's issues (the previous year) both classes were with J. Purdy who left this semester I believe to retire... sad. This semester I am taking my intro to education class, "foundations and issues" which has a student teaching/tutoring component in which i will be working with a local high school history teacher who i will meet manana at 8:25 (early in the morning) I have no idea what exactly i will be doing and my only hope is that it wont be so early in the morning. Along with this class I must make a sort of resume/webpage (something i was thinking about doing anyway) and it will probably be liked to this page in some manor. In addition to that I am taking a US history class (basic though taught in a different manor than most, through various novels and essays rather than a text book) a basic pysch class about drugs and human behavior (9th grade health) environmental geology (pete's field) with cotter a very funny and likable guy who i had for my first year sem class and an anth class taught by the best anth prof on campus (there are only three) but shes great and probably the only one of the three qualified to teach a class on indigenous cultures (becuase she is a meber of one). so far the class has been a but dry becuase its been theory based but the prof saying swearwords and party comments livens the mood up a bit.
hopefully I will also be taking voice lessons which i hope to have settled by tomorrow night, and start by next week. This is something that has been troubling me for quite awhile (the loss of my singing voice) and hopefully with some work and a boost of confidence i will be able to sing again (if i ever could)

I am also planning on applying to become a resident advisor next year so more kids can despise me... i mean so i can make more friends and stuff.
this is actually something i have sort of been getting excited about and will probably be slightly dissappointed if i am not chosen because i have a large ego... and feel tht i might be able to help some cats or at least get paid and free room and board (sp?) for doing the same shit im already doing. my experiance can choke the living day lights out of freshmen and my red eyes (dry skin?) seems to make me appear pot headish so thats cool. whateva

Um lets see. Over winterbreak i hung out with some cats, had a b day and such. Saw some friends, some of them left town...

Tim recently graduated and is looking for a job as far as i know.

Kristen cut off her dreads i think in part as a rebirth of herself (my own thoughts) she seems to be doing what she needs/wants right now so that she can fully explore herself as an adult and individual and i think thats awesome even though it is sometimes tough, and i just explained that badly. shes leading mpirg again i know and i think at least one other but i forgot cuz i suck. She will be graduating soon, a full year early and as far as i have heard is planning on taking an elem ed program so she can teach little kids how to be peaceful.

Gabs should be in nicuaragua (sp?) by now, or soon, chilling in the sun (i guess?) studying doing her thing. meeting peoples and such. (she as far as i know is reomantically involved and loving it, unfortunately at a bad time since she just left the more northern countries of the americas, for the more central americas...

My friend illy is taking classes at the U twin cities working and trying to stay out of trouble i hope.

Aimee is i assume partying it up with her pup in the mountains in montana where the weather is always better than here (or so she says)

Pete recently spent some time in vegas with his lady and is working his ass off in CO trying to get residency so he can fix problems that humans cause in their interactions with nature. We are currently trying to figure out whether our spring break schedules for possible visits and such wth stops off to see grinnell of course (as always)

zach is working it at st thomas his lady just came back from spain and they been doing well.

becky is trying to get her pysch stuff all up in order (shes got a year left) she recently was accepted on the pom pom squad and will once again be on the dance ensemble team/group performance though that hasnt really kicked off. she has one of those trendy things too hopefully these links are actually getting you there.

hmm who else.. nova and james are still working it, my rents recently had dinner with nova and her parents in order to discuss their recent travels to suth africa in which i know nova had a blast. Now she is back at grinnell doing it up, finishing up. James (the big bro) just got back from a road trip to LA in which he almost took a job offer that was aainst his morals but ended up doing what he needed to do. (the right thing) and is now back working for grassroots solutions (i believe, according to my moms) He has still not graduated and maybe we will at the same time (even though im a year behind and on a 5 year plan) (he could have been a doctor)

Speaking of my mom she is giving up being a pastor for private counseling practice. Shes got an office and brochures and possibly even a book soon...
She is happily married to Grant who is still a pastor, they recently went to bonair (sp?) to scuba dive
he claims to be running on a course that could put him in public office within a few years something he doesnt seem to shy away from. I for one would vote for him, hes a good guy, very liberal, makes dumb jokes sometimes but tries to make sure things are really working out to help people. Thats pretty important...

Steve (my lil bro) is coaching 4th grade travelling and going to mctc he loves the coaching and is currently dreaming of it as a profession which doesnt seem too far off if the hype around slp is correct.

lots of other cats are doin the same stuff.....hollie, chris d, nick h, and the cats at home. Gabs friends who i love to hang around with but still refer to as gabi's friends are also doing their thing i guess. check out ryans page for that....


the floor, is not as tight as it used to be, in fact we recently had even more cats move on the greener pastures but they still come back... to taunt us. no its all good, but from a floor which can have 29 (?) we have 18 meaning just about everyone gets their own room. becky shares her's with me

mike the rock (of penis on face fame) is taking over MARCH (the animal rights group tim started *i think*) a job i think he is well suited for good luck to him getting recruits...

i dunno what else.. i was gonna start writing again and havent started... i tried drawing this morning and it was shite... my guitar playing skills havent improved a bit and i hesitate to call them skills at all.


uh other than that new years (maybe) more from the wedding reception at bens (maybe) my b day (for sure) maybe a pic becky took of me trying to get a senior pic (the ones i never took and thus never sent to my grama, who hooked me up with this college career and some cash for my b day)


anyway thats it for now.. so fuck off. just kidding, but seriously.... get the fuck off my property or as getty put it "get out of my yard" or something