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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