Woot! Robot Chicken on DVD! More exciting than King Kong, grander than Memoirs of a Geisha.

I don't know why I'm excited; Robot Chicken lives permanently on my Tivo.

Fondly known at my first college as the Who's New To Screw

How sweet! At mine, it was known as the Meat Book.

The face book was so fun in college! Picking out guys to meet, laughing at girls' high school hair, etc. I think honestly, though, my favorite was the row of three guys named James Lee -- two Chinese and one black.

If you were a planner on the wedding you would know what was going on. you weren't, you don't, shuddup.

At this wedding, everyone was kind of a planner, due to the whole back-yard-ness of it all. But yeah.

I just got a quickie freelance assignment that's going to be totally fun and fairly well-paid! Suh-weet.

Oh! But I forgot why I really came in here! Have you people seen this voice-controlled blender?? [link]

All my worst fears about the facebook confirmed. Who thinks/thought this would be a good idea?

I still think it's a good idea. You meet a lot of people that first year, and it's nice to have a reference. Of course, I love reference materials, so.

Our picture book of incoming freshman was called the Baby Book.

At my aunts' wedding (which was in my uncle's backyard), there was a carefully pre-selected mix of songs that was TOTALLY THWARTED when someone pullled out a "Favorite Group Dances" or something CD. A group of like 8 of us did the Chicken Dance, the Electric Slide, the Cha-Cha Step or whatever, on and on, with lessons from a 12 year-old when necessary. It was hilarious.

As JZ notes, I dealt with this by locking the little closet where the CD player resides. At my first wedding, I told the DJ he wouldn't get paid if he played the Macarena, Chicken Song or anything off-list. Then I gave him extra champagne.

Never heard of a facebook. We had yearbooks in college, but I don't know anyone who got one, except for maybe their last year.

The Tribune has an article today (too lazy to look it up and link right now) about how high schools, colleges, and employers are using MySpace, et al, to track down info on students, potential students, and potential hires. All I'm thinking while reading the article is "Hasn't anyone ever heard of using a pseudonym on the Internet, for cripes sake?" If I ever got a LiveJournal or blog of my own, for sure I would not be using my own name or including personal info or pictures on it!

This facebook thing is one of the few reasons I'm glad I went to a very small, semi-agricultural college. All the freshman stayed in the same dorm complex. You wanna know who's new? Hang around in the quad. None of this skeevy picture book thing...*shudder* Of course, it was/is a hippy school - we had no football to team to speak of.. I think we had one but they coulda gotten thier clocks cleaned by the middle schoolers and our marching band wore T-shirts that said "kiss our axe".

Who thinks/thought this would be a good idea?

I should clarify that mine was known as the Meat Book by the returning students (who weren't supposed to get copies at all unless they were dorm supervisors, but some older students had a nasty tendency to cheat and steal in pursuit of young, naive tail). For the freshpersons, it was a sanity-saving reference book -- when you were already all flustered and discombobulated and in a state of semi-permanent panic over fitting in and remembering everything, it was hugely comforting to be able to go back to your room after a new class or orientation or party and reconfirm which face went with which name.