5-5-02 - Reader Mail
5-4-02 - Cast of Characters
5-3-02- Man HQ Memo
5-2-02 - THURSDAY RAMBLINGS
5-1-01- To Britney or not to Britney
4-30-02 -Top 5
4-29-02 - Shotgun Rules
4-28-02 - Vegas, Baby, Vegas
4-27-02 - Brief Intro
The reception began at 6:30, dinner is scheduled for 7:00, my friend and I pull in around 7:45. This turns out to be about perfect, we immediately find some friendly faces near the front of the dinner line and stop to catch up for a few minutes. Before we know it, we have a full plate of food in front of us. It happenned that way, seriously, we never intended to cut...alright we did. It was like 5th grade all over again, cutting in the lunch line. So about twenty people in line had to wait an extra 2 minutes...is that so bad? It doesn't make me a bad person, right?
Anyways, back to this party. All of the guests were seated at a series of miniature tables in the back yard. This collection of sixty or so young adults could only manage to produce one coed table...the other ten or so were all unisex, I kid you not. On top of this, all of the tables seemed to have an obvious theme running through them. For example, my table was the male 5th year table... all three of us. Let's see, there was also the goofy guy table, the cool guy table, the nerd table (and let me tell you, you have to be something extraordinary to be a nerd at Rice), the friendly girl table, the "wild" girl table (where my girlfriend happenned to be sitting), the people who disappeared from view after freshman year table, etc. You get the general idea...it was like junior high all over again. Then again, we at least sat at coed tables by junior high...funny how we have regressed. Dinner wasn't so bad though, saw a lot of people who I'd been friends with on and off, a few who I was actually close to, a lot more who I didn't really know. The food was good, dessert was better, the wine and sangria was free.
So far sounds like a decent night, but don't be fooled by the incomplete picture I have presented. I have yet to describe the location or the co-hosts. Our fabulous "senior dinner" was held at what can only be described as a mansion in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Texas. The house was enormous and really quite amazing architectually. In the back yard there was a small swimming pond, full-sized basketball and tennis courts, and indoor/outdoor spa, and a lifesized chess board on the back lawn. In your average house, a lifesized chess board would qualify as the most memorable feature. Not here, though (more on that later).
The owner of the house was a Roseanne-sized woman who made her money the old fashioned way...she married three rich men, was so heinously unattractive that they cold not help but commit adultery, and then sat back and collected the alimony. This hippo came dressed in this black smock which could only be deemed acceptable if she was graduating with us next Saturday. At this point, dear readers, you probably feel that I am being too hard on this poor,.
1) "Alright Guy" - Todd Snider
2) "Firecracker" - Ryan Adams
3) "The Same Boy You've Always Been" - The White Stripes
4) "Dope Nose"- Weezer
5) "Renegade" - Eminem & Jay Z (who's still overrated)
6) "Talk Her Down" - Starsailor
7) "Ball & Chain" - Sublime
8) "Bridging the Gaps" - Black Eyed Peas
9) "Holland, 1945" - Neutral Milk Hotel (thanks JW)
10) "Take it or Leave It" The Strokes
Oscar Robertson averaging a trible double over a season
Boston winning 8 consecutive championships
Wilt's 100 point game
Stockton's assist record
AC Green,1000 games played, 0 girls laid.
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