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"Hey Michael, wake up!"

"Mrrpphm..not now."

"C'mon Michael, come play with me!"

"Go away California! It's too cold to leave bed."

"Get up! It's going to be a great day! First we can hang out in the sun, and go to the beach..."

"Shhhh. Shhhh. I'm enjoying my New England wintry mix and frozen streets."

"...and then after the beach we can go sailing, and then after sailing it's going to snow six feet and then..."

"Wait, what did you just say about six feet?"

And thus began a cross-country (and cross-continent for some) adventure to bask in the paradise called California.

We rented a tiny condo over New Year's and crammed in more people than recommended by CDC pandemic guidelines, not to mention the policy of the condo owners.



As it turned out, the only contagion breaking out and spreading like wildfire was dance parties



We spent most of our days alternating between sitting around



and careening down mountains to our almost-doom









Despite our best efforts, everybody survived, so it looks like we'll just have to go back and do it again.


Other highlights:

We started a band. So far all we have is the cover art, but that's all you need nowadays, right?











If you missed out, don't worry: We're definitely doing it again.



6:23 pm edit: I thought this might make an interesting comparison:

This is why I'm in France

The update is that I'm at extended space camp in France. The important part is this:

I made a 3 mushroom soup tonight*.
it was really good
it had leeks, carrots and shallots to make up a vegetable stock.

Then i sauteed 3 types of mushroom:

Crimini Mushrooms (delicious and familiar):


Chanterelles Mushrooms (succulent and exotic):


Trumpets of Death (dark, mysterious, expensive, fragrant, rich, evil):


I failed to take a picture of the soup but it was delicious.

*This was a few weeks ago back in early December. But it captures the spirit of my enthusiasm.

A MANLY MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM THE GRAND CANYON

I even found a reindeer! Naturally, I named him Kolin the Raindear (featured below).



Kolin and I made a snowman.



And then went hiking into the Kanyon..





Kolin took this photo of my shadow.



I'm also taking the liberty of pasting an entirely random photo below:



FIN.


Miss u, men. Write soon.

The beginning of the night I didn't remember

Colin went as Charlie from Always Sunny, complete with Riot Juice that
proved to be both of our downfalls.

Missing Photo!

WOAH, I don't think we ever snapped a shot of our secret Mansuite squares behind the bathroom door (!?!??!) A beer on me to whoever (Mansuite or not) can first get a photo of these bi-colored quadrilateral remnants of manly nirvana that was EC H1006 2008-2009 to the following address:

winstoncb@gmail.com

Mansuite lives

Like one of those flatworms which you cut apart in 8th grade science class and then somehow all the pieces you butchered remained alive and began to regrow into individual worming wormy things--that's the parable of mansuite's members.

Summer is over. One year ago to this date we were crashing over the rips in a small motorboat off the coast of Cape May, NJ. Now we may all be in separate boats, but we all exist on the same sea--the sea of life. And before this gets any more corny, a recap of what all of us are doing.

Jon--Couldn't get enough of beautiful California, and despite all his pleadings, he unfortunately was torn away and forced to march onwards to France, since he had already paid astronaut tuition and they'll be damned if he's not getting on that spaceship now.

Tom--Got tired of his morning-til-night backbreaking internship of laying bricks in Switzerland and built a robot who will do it for him. The robot is coming to New York to lay bricks in an exhibit there. He now returns to Philadelphia for a Salabol selling marathon.

Winston--Packed up his belongings, caulked the wagon, forded the river and headed for the desert. Nobody has heard from him since.

Jordan--Surfed and lounged in the sun for 10 weeks straight in Papa New Guinea. On the last day he wrote an 8 page paper (double-spaced, 1.5 inch margins) about surf culture in paradise, thus fulfilling his obligations as an anthropology major. He heads to Australia now to hope to do it again.

Colin--Began his acting career running puppet shows in small-town Minnesota. Soon he was discovered and began featuring in independent films in the area. Now he is big-time living in New York and becoming a star. And it only took 8 weeks!

Michael--Picked a name out of a hat and moved to Boston randomly. He deletes porn for a living and basically deals with the 9-to-5 drudgery of life. He also wrote an ebook and learned that his website will rank higher in search listings if it has other websites linking to it. The book is a resource to help prepare students for succeeding on their exams and the website is http://www.examstudytips.com . Putting that link here may or may not have been the entire reason for writing this post.

The Beginning of a New Chapter

Whitewashed, dismantled, disfigured, H1006 has regressed to its primitive, sterile, initial state. But infused within two particularly colorful hidden squares, all of the memories persist (picture to come). 

VIVE LA MANSUITE