Throughout the year I keep a list of warm-fuzzy highlights. It’s complete nonsense to the unknowing, but every bit makes makes me smile. Here is 2016’s:
- The Beautiful Possible
- Getting a spilled coffee replaced
- Catching up with Dr. Cummings in the Shakespeare book shop
- Meeting Caleb’s Kat
- “If you know Cassidy and Caleb you must be good company.”
- Attending Caleb’s stage reading
- Spring Awakening with Lisette, Katie, and Laura
- LC – Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue NS – Meditation in Thamis CC– Appalachian Spring Song
- “NO how are YOUR cats.”
- Baroness – Purple
- Pandora bracelet (Ratsmas)
- Galentine’s cupcake from K & L
- Sushi with Jennie
- “They do not have your back for lunch.”
- Balmorhea / On Being (Stranger)
- #acleftbehind | #neverin | #cteam
- Old Man Rafferty’s and College Fancy
- Nutbag
- Stage management workshop
- “Mike’s buying shots” – they’re going to be a) cheap b) nothing good – i.e. gasoline
- Raymond’s french fries
- #whynotzoidberg | #shamfriends
- Fixing the children’s room faucet
- Trevor’s birthday dinner
- Metaphoric box of glass
- $500 for a $20 pizza | #whogetsthechange
- #greencardweddingcrashers
- Chats with Laura
- Tea with Nate – “Are you happy?”
- Renwick Gallery
- “I would hope that…”
- *Yikes*
- Surprising Kaytlyn
- Dingaling
- Ox Bellows
- Johhny & Crystal crashing slum band practice
- Crocsfuckcore
- Mr. & Mrs. Lavin sharing a newspaper
- Underwayer basketweaving
- Sancutary in New Brunswick
- The knee
- GP on July 4th
- “I’ve given uuuuup.”
- NWHL hockey finals
- Ness the emo lion
- Bouldering with Jennie
- Conveyor belt sushi
- Pi Day with Katie and Laura
- 300 Rainbow Trout
- Out running a bear with Mantonio
- Fireball and Crocs
- DD pistachio iced coffee
- St. Patrick @ The Office
- Workworkwork video
- Network: 60 Hellstreet password: killmyself
- Thai (spring rolls) with Laura
- “The only people who stop here are buying cigarettes.”
- Mike’s homemade pizza
- RU Geology Open House
- [title of show]
- Grease: Live!
- RU Climbing Open House
- VA / Laura, Katie, Nicole, and Michelle (UMW)
- “You’re aggressive for 10AM” “You’re just aggressive enough for 10AM”
- Raptor Trust
- Vagina Monologues at MSU with Katie and Sabrina
- BPM Treasurer
- Reference Section Co-President
- Little Bob @ the Library
- Harry and the Potters with Clam Jam
- “You’re late.” “I noticed” – Justin A.
- #shamsibs
- Sonia Sotomayor at RU “It’s not a sin to make money.”
- TWIABP with Dan in NYC
- “It’s been a while since I had a burger.”
- Poems & Pies
- Welcome to Night Vale / Amalgam / Sketchburger with Amanda
- “This ain’t high school.” – Chris Gethard
- Empire! Empire! I was a Lonely Estate (Last show) at 10th Street Live
- RU piglets
- King Falls AM
- Chris M.
- NJ Long Branch Half Marathon – beat the boards
- Brooklyn (film)
- Sea turtle scurrying on the beach
- “It’s because you’re awesome.” Rachel P.
- Jay Asher dancing
- PC Sweeney / EL
- Dark MBMBAM
- “I could have taken a whole sleeve of saltines.”
- “I have a story for you.”
- Gravity Vault scavenger hunt
- JL in Arizona
- “Art is our middle name” (Phoenix Art Museum)
- Hours of Fixer Upper
- “It smells like rotten bananas”
- Ida Mae Rosselet C.
- “What kind of g-d Quick Check closes”
- “Shrimp fried rice”
- LML’s Tonys speech
- Garlic Run 2016
- Hamilton Mixtape
- Delaware seaside camping with Kaytlyn
- CT16
- “Can I date my professor.”
- “What happens after I die?”
- Dirty firetruck red
- Diner puppet
- “Mom, get the puppet.”
- Sussex County Paramilitary Airforce
- 98-degree bonfire at Mike’s
- Acadia National Park
- Another Look podcast
- Cassidy Charles Sleeping Outside Management
- Park Ranger Ben
- “How many types of blueberries are there?” “One.”
- Huckleberry / Meat Hands Mike
- Milky Way
- “He’s a high brow dude.” | a 2-part TV movie from 1995 based off of a novella
- “4 phones in this car and no directions.”
- “We never have maps.”
- Scaling the Beehive
- “What’s Rocket Power?”
- Fixy – goddess of wisdom
- Harambe
- Pity campsite
- “Dear Neighbors…”
- Shit speed
- Wing sauce on the car ceiling
- “Grocery shopping together is a very intimate task.”
- “I was going to that dark place.”
- Yes/yes/yes
- “We’re going to Otter Creek if it kills me.”
- Furby Target Truck Fire
- Captain Boomerang was short.”
- Cyclops family
- “I’m not racist.”
- “ALL OF THESE PURSES ARE SHAPED LIKE FRUIT.”
- “I was prepared for the gulls, not the flies. Those are from hell.”
- Yikkity yak, I’m gonna make you eat glass, kid.”
- “Why the fuck do you own non-Maple syrup, you heathen.”
- “Cassidy’s not sentimental so that probably meant a lot to her…”
- “How clear do you think the CATS can hear us?” “Real clear”
- “November. 8 months. Half a year.”
- #blessingsonharambe
- The witch’s house
- Homemade gillysuit
- #michaelpoole
- “We’re just in the fucking trap now.”
- 30th candlelight ceremony
- A thin film of filth.
- “I’m going to need you to throw me in the lake.”
- “Josse, Josse, and Casey…I don’t know why I said Josse twice.”
- Talon Robbins
- Shitlords gonna Shit
- Old Man Jenkins (game)
- Mike – dabbing
- “Why are you wearing shoes you can kick off.”
- Volunteer of the Year
- Kyle Kowell Memorial Bathroom Wing
- Michael Poole v. Family Feud
- “Watching Cassidy, Mike and Jesse crack up at Michael Poole during the Feud”
- “I thought this was LMTI.” “OH, this is the army.” “These are some low-hanging streamers.”
- “They are the wire management system.” “They lost the intern.”
- “I did the homework last night because I couldn’t BS it this morning; I didn’t do it and it was a choice.”
- “I thought I was angry before but now I’m fricken pissed.”
- “You chose shit.”
- “Either you can can be a leader or a shitlord.”
- Tim Am-a-chaperone-a-hell-cabin: twin swap, lighter, mouse, and glow stick in toilet.
- “I don’t want you to be good, I want to you to want to be good.”
- Nahm with Jennie
- DWG Hiking with J, T, M & M
- “It would be more fun if you were here.”
- Dirty Little Secrets Toxic Comedy Show with Kyle
- NJLA Emerging Leaders
- Becca’s love of TAZ and “Magnus rushes in”
- *Dumpling Fest*
- King Falls AM tweet
- “The gum is not a litch.”
- YAC coordinators for life
- Bowl-making with Laura
- Dan the Home Owner – weed-whacking in an Atreyu shirt
- Bones & Scones 2016
- Indian at Louisa’s
- Indian with Jennie
- LBI with Louisa
- ASF16
- “I was always looking for a person as the journey and not focusing on my own journey and how that person goes with the journey.”
- “I really wanted to see you.”
- Venison jerky with A & C
- Writing Center reunion at Seig 2016
- “So much Jesus”
- Morristown Turkey Trot
- “You don’t have to put airs on for me.”
- Accidental forever nap”
- “Okay, I’ll wear the bra.”
- Chris Gethard’s Career Suicides
- “You don’t get to choose what breaks you.”
- Montclair Bread Company Donut 5K
- #protecttheunderbelly
- Completing an orange route at GV
- Rogue One with Allison
- Josh M. is not dead | #stillnotdead
- Black Tap with Kaytlyn
- Kaytlyn and LC meeting
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