Species Parade in Olympia

The Olympia Art's Walk is here! From Friday to Sunday, Olympia is full of art, music and crazy costumes as all the Greeners and Olympians turn out to celebrate in downtown Olympia. Today (Saturday) was the Species Parade. The idea is to just dress up as an animal species and be a part of the fun! It was awesome but absolutely packed (I'm glad we took the bus because there was NO WAY we were going to find parking). And the fact that it didn't actually rain is a huge bonus. Enjoy the pictures! You can enlarge the pics. by clicking on them, they'll open in the window in their original size.

I think they were supposed to be air.
There were a couple giant gulls flying through in the "air" section. The parade was divided into (I think) Air, Earth, Wind, Fire and Water sections as it moved through the city.
An owl.
Bees.
A water... goat? I'm pretty sure that's a goat.
A prize to anyone who can figure out what THESE sepcies are...

Now THAT'S a goat!
A guy riding an ostrich and a float with an albino bison.
A peacock man and a walking tree (it was a REALLY impressive amount of foliage).
These guys were my favorite. Monkeys riding on fake mens. I think I've found a holloween costume for all occasions.
A water dragon.

We've (D-dorm and co.) have decided that this is definitely a must see if you're in Olympia during Arts Walk (it's a once a year feista so huzzah to those of you who DO wind up in Oly.) and that I am definitely going to see this next year.
Happy Species Parade!

Prom a Llama Ding Dong

Jessie in her dress.

It's prom, with a James Bond theme... what part of that equation is NOT h.o.t?
Me, taking pictures of mom, taking pictures of Jessie.

Jessie has managed to secure her corsage, but the boy has yet to figure his out.

Clever girl.

How many ladies does it take to pin a man-corsage on a boy?

Steve is Our Master

Here's the deal. We have a game going on on the Fourth Floor of D-Dorm, Steve of course, is the master.
so the point of the game is to pretend to blow dart someone. So you hold your hand in front of your mouth and pretend to shoot a dart. The person who is darted has to fall down and pretend they're dead right where they're standing. No talking, no nothing until someone comes along and pretends to pull the dart out of your neck and saves you.

What happened last night was UNPRECEDENTED!

Steve (NOT in the picture for reasons that will soon become clear) was standing in front of the elevator so I stopped to see what was going on and BAM! He darted me. Down I go just when the doors of the elevator open. Inside are Star and Ben, already darted. I get piled in and Steve sends the elevator down to third floor. He calls it back up to fourth floor, the doors open and in goes Jullian. Repeat two more times with Jessie then James. And thus the Great Elevator Massacre was begun! He made up his little sign, took a picture and then undarted everyone.

Clockwise from left: Ben (his crotch at least), Star, James, Jessie, Me, Jullian.

The God of Cheese is an Old German Woman

When you go to the Greenery at Evergreen for lunch or dinner, you have the option to get a "to-go box" which you can cram full of food and take out of the Greenery. Now in the Greenery there's a sandwich bar. You can custom make a sandwich with your choice of cheese, bread, sprouts/lettuce/tomatoes/onions and the generic hummus. I usually go with a sandwich becuase they don't leak or get all over your other food and you can pretty much stuff it in a box and still have plenty of room for other things. Now, along with the sandwich bar there is the Sandwich Lady. She likes to shout (what sounds like German) at the soda machines, people within fifty feet of her, the bread knife, the stack of cheese at her elbow... essentially everything in the Greenery gets to be barked at. Jessie asked her a question, once upon a time, and was answered with

"I DON'T HEAR SO GOOD OUT OF MY RIGHT EYE."

Beyond being old, crazy and allowed to wield a knife, she also likes to load sandwiches up with cheese.

This is an example sandwich.
And this is the seven pieces of cheddar cheese she slapped on top of the single tomato, two leaves of lettuce and a handful of sprouts.
Thank you Sandwich Lady.

You may not know who I am, or be able to hear me out of your right eye, but I sure know you and your complimentary seven pieces of cheese I always get at lunch.

I sure as hell am paying enough for that sandwich, I might as well enjoy a little extra dairy.

Facebook

I have a bunch of pictures of things and people at Evergreen on my Facebook account and now I can share them! Some of them are already posted on this blog and some aren't, I don't know how this works so I thought I'd test it out. Enjoy...

http://evergreen.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2003536&l=6d9f7&id=82301570

Tulips

My tulips are finally wilting but they're managing to look very pretty in the process.

Sunny Spring

It was such a nice day on Thursday that we all went out to the soccer field to lay in the sun and avoid horribly boring homework.

I'm throwing a frisbee but it looks more like I'm fighting a tiger.

Huzzah!

Steve.
Ben and James.
Star, Jessie, James and Ben.

Happy Birthday Jessie!