I have a few really significant posts in my heart that are being slowly written down. In the meantime, for you impatient readers, feast on this…
This is the “Aquinas Sampler” I happened to have in my purse during my five day trek to ‘Teranna’ in May 2006. I wrote down funny quotes all weekend on this and then stuck it in a pile of papers, which I found during the massive move in May 2008. I laughed so hard that tears were coming out of my eyes. So I thought I’d share it with you. 
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“Find me a man and I’ll make out with him!” - Chester on love
“I put my interests on the wall. I like romance, I like… building things.” - Jason from Freetown (which I think was the restaurant we were eating at?)
“I don’t like it when people talk a lot / he totally sucks you in!” - Chester on listening
“I didn’t know if five days was too long to stay at Lisa’s place but then I thought ‘Who cares about Lisa? I’m staying til Wednesday!” - Liz as quoted by Andrew
And, of course, my preposterous number of Lisa quotes:
On Relationships:
“He’s very pale and skinny, I’m like ‘Here’s a donut.’”
“Maybe I should stop questioning you… but I can’t stop!”
“I want to take my brain out of my head because you are so boring my head hurts.”
On Faith:
“My toilet seat got stuck in the up position. ‘You should pray about that!’”
“Guitar- the Christian instrument.”
“Jesus, why don’t you treat me better?!”
Etc.:
“I ate some sort of weird testacle [sic], I can’t remember what animal it was.” - on international travel
“I slew 5 spiders!” - her feat of strength
“This is embarrassingly laborious.” - as she vacuumed cat hair off her rug
“Under my cheapness tutelage.” - on her mom
You can read Lisa’s tale of this visit here. We attempted a Toronto 2008 trip, but it didn’t quite happen… which is sad since we didn’t get to see Ches and Dave much during their, you know, wedding this Christmas. I’m holding out for 2009!
6 Comments
June 17, 2008 at 8:47 pm
you’re funny. so is this scientist called lisa. will you put her in your pocket the next time you come to chicago? a girl needs a couple LAUGHS!
June 17, 2008 at 9:14 pm
dude, even better… her family LIVES in chicago!!
June 17, 2008 at 9:36 pm
i can’t believe how hard I just laughed at my own quotes. I can’t remember saying any of those things! I wonder who pale/skinny was.
I *do* remember Liz doing a bollywood dance on the street in Little India, and my getting my nose pierced the first time, and riding bikes home drunk from a bar called “the Gem.” Oh, now I might cry!
June 18, 2008 at 8:07 pm
I see now that trips to America’s little brother are more important than trips to the south. Excellent. It is a ‘great success’
June 20, 2008 at 2:44 am
aw snap! i feel a funny girl (re)union coming on!!
June 21, 2008 at 8:40 am
I just re-read this and realized that Jason from Freetown was Jason, Andy’s old roommate — you called Freedomize “Freetown” in those days.. that’s also when “frunning” was born. hee!
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