HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Ladies ladies...
HAPPY HALLOWEEN...
I am sure you all brought sexy back and I want to see proof
(aka pictures of all your costumes)

much love

kasia

Where my girls at?

Where are they?

Missing the lot of you. Can we have another reunion soon? Cause I sure could use some Maidenhead love.

-L-

halloween: oooooooooo

Hey girlie q's
Well, Halloween is nearly upon us. I don't know why I'm excited though...I don't even have a costume! I think I'll just throw on a wig and some make up, we'll see what I turn out to be. Hoping to make it to em's party on Saturday with the lovely Andrea in town! Can't wait to see both of them! Sounds like Noelle might make a trip out here to have some Seattle fun (oxymoron?). I just had a meeting with a director who wants me to Assistant Direct with her. The play is call "A Dream Play" and it sounds totally out there. I can't wait to read it and start working on it. It's going to perform in May, and she wants to get started now, so I think this will be a huge piece! Lot's of crazy Expressionist stuff!
Hope you all are great and that your fingers aren't broken so you can blog back.
Ps, I'm on myspace now...I never thought it would happen!

HB 25 EC

10-4 good buddy!!!!
now it is your turn to celebrate being old!!!!
party it up maidenhead style and know that I wish I could
be there with ya.... cake....party hats...cake...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EM!!!!!

miss/love ya,

k to the p dizzle!

WE LOVE YOU MAIDENHEAD OH YES WE DO

WE DON'T LOVE ANYONE AS MUCH AS YOU

WHEN YOU'RE NOT NEAR TO US

WE'RE BLUE

oh MAIDENHEAD WE LOVE YOU

love emily

VEGAS BABY!!!

ladies:
so I was thinking 2 things:
1. how much I miss hanging out will all of you.
2. that I have never been to vegas

so.....

how about we all meet up in Vegas for New Years?
Yes? No?

I am looking into availability etc and will keep you posted.
and if $$$ is an issue, charge it baby... you only live once and
god forbid I die without seeing the pyramids in vegas.
plus we could all dress like old lady gamblers
I am thinking lots of shiny spandex! :)

let me know..

xoxo luff xoxo

k to the p dizzle

HB 25 AM

andi:
happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday my dearest andrea...happy birthday to you.

birthday greetings from the east coast to the west coast.
celebrate this quarter century mile stone as if we were all with you.

xoxo much luff xoxo

kasia

new address

Hi All,
So I have moved. I am sending out an email with my new address, but just in case you check the blog more than your email - yeah........
It was a good couple days of chaos b/c of stupid lease timing we had to move everything to my parent's garage first and then to the new apartment, even though my old and new apartments are only 3 blocks apart. But the new apartment is nice and it is almost completely unpacked.
I hope you are all still doing well. Also I updated my 'back from the ice' post and included two pictures.
e.

Wowee Zowee

Hi everyone! Emily here. What exciting adventures you have all been up to! I love the pictures and the stories:so cool. I have been bogged down in correcting papers and surviving the intense land of inner city middle schoolers. I ended up teaching 6th(going into 7th) grade reading at WA MS in Beacon Hill. All of my kids were there because they flunked at least 2 classes during the year. Because my class was added on at the last minute, my 2 classes were made up of the kids that the other teachers "gave to me" because they didn't want to deal with them. In one class there were only 4 girls, fights everyday and a lot of apathetic, self-concious namecalling. Not to mention being spit at. It was quite a learning experience. My first partner teacher quit after 2 days, the second one after a week and then we had subs. They didn't give us the curriculum until the second week, so I made up a lot of stuff. We analyzed song lyrics and did readers theatre with Agust WIlson and Romeo and Juliet. I had to fail people which was hard, some kids wouldn't do anything but sit, tap their pencils and glare. I think most of them liked me though. I've learned some new slang! It made me feel kinda old to have to ask, "what does that mean?" Anyway, now it is done, and I am moving! Phil and I and our friend Jorden have moved into a cute 3 bedroom in Shoreline, just north of Seattle. We have a great yard and fireplace! I still have lots to move in, but it is great and now we just have to get our cats to get along. WE ARE HAVING A HOUSE WARMING PARTY ON OCTOBER 28th AND YOU ARE ALL INVITED. So, if you should find yourself in the northwest, you know you've got halloween plans availiable. We are planning it now because then we can hope to get as many people to come as possible. AND WE WANT YOU. Ofcourse, I agree with Lex that Seattle is a great place to visit anytime, and please do. I really want to go to Disneyland sometime soon. Well, this overdue message is long, Mostly I want you all to know that I am thinking about you, and lookingforward to when we can be all together again. Can you believe summer is almost over?! AH! ok, by now, love Emily

Images of China

sorry, I have over 500 pictures, so I tried providing a limited assortment.

just in case you wanted to see the others. go crazy
http://www.kodakgallery.com/AlbumMenu.jsp?

China is the new Prague

Knee-How (Hello) from China. ok, actually I am back. After a flight from Shanghai to Beijing to JFK to having the 3rd flight of the day cancelled, so a night in New York, I finally arrived in Washington DC about 36 hours after I left the wonderful land of China. China looks so much like Eastern Europe, from the buildings to the transport, to people's little stores, fruit stands, clothing, advertising, etc. I had a great stay, almost 2 weeks, we did 2-3 days in Beijing (the Great Wall, Tiannamen Square, the Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, Lama Temple, Pearl Market, etc)Xi'an (the Terracotta Warriots, Big Wild Goose Pagoda)Guilian (river cruise, markets, crazy night life, and yes this is the city where we ate dog) and finally Shanghai (awesome bars, Chinease acrobat show). Ok, so I could go on and on, but basically it was amazing, friendly people, beautiful country and yes I ate Chinese food every day, which was surprising similar to American Chinese food (but I did try goose foot, chicken feet, duck cheecks, and dog, otherwise it was a lot of pork, chicken, rabbit, celery and watermelon) and yes I was very glad to have a burger upon my return home.

much love and peace,
kasia

Back from the Ice

Hi All,
I am back from Greenland now, and returned to a pretty intense week of heat and humidity here in Madison which has just subsided in the past day or two. It was quite the change to go from almost zero humidity and below freezing temperatures to close to 100% humidity and hundred degree heat.

I had an excellent time at Summit (named so b/c it is at the summit of the Greenland ice sheet). I learned a whole bunch and met a lot of really cool people. I also got to eat so much really excellent food. There are two cooks on staff over summer which make very yummy food for all of us at the camp to eat, and you get to eat so much b/c you burn so many calories up there digging and all, in the cold climate. The research station there was about 30 people while I was there, 10 of which are summer over staff that run the camp. The 'winter' conditions are great however because unlike winters here it is really sunny all the time (b/c the sun doesn't set), and b/c you are always dressed for the cold it doesn't seem so bad. All in all I really enjoyed it and I would definitely go back.

(The first picture is an overview of the camp from the plane on the flight in, the dots in rows are the 'arctic oven' tents, aka tent city, and the second picture is me in one of the snow pits we dug)
Love you all.
Erika.

Is anyone feeling like they need to come to seattle? Bumpershoot is coming up and this is the year to go. Kanye, Atmosphere, Steve Miller, Yellowcard, AFI, Blondie, New Pornographers, Matt Costa, Blue Scholars, and MOST importantly, Macha Monkey. We are doing a staging of the songs from our last play. It'll be fun!
If Bumbershoot ain't your cup of tea, there is always late/early Sept/Oct when MM's next show is. It's gonna be awesome too. Anne Marie is working with us, and hopefully we'll get Raz and Ellie in on it too. PS-If any of you (leah, andi, or em) know of any guys that want to audition for a play in SEattle let me know. All the guys that have audition suck...well all but one. Just a side note.
Case in point, Seattle is great place to visit! And I would love to get you guys to see some of my work. This time I'm only assistant directing (not doing both ass.dir AND stage managing) so the director is giving me scenes to direct and running some rehearsals. It's cool to know that people are going to see (and HOPEFULLY LIKE) some of my work. I'm ready to get out of the stage managing booth and work with actors more. I'm very excited :)
Hope everyone is great and call me some time.
Love Lex

Favor?

Ladies-

Does anyone live near a Zara? I am looking for a gift for Mr. Michael. He wears the homme fragrance they make and I am having a hell of a time trying to get my hands on a bottle for his birthday (mid-September).

If anyone has access to the store and could pick me up a bottle and ship it here, I would be so, so grateful! Of course I would reimburse you for all costs: cologne, shipping, gas, and maybe a little some-something for your trouble.

In other things, life goes along truckin'. Looks like we might be making a trip to the east coast for Laurie May's getting hitched ceremony in October. I am craving more travel, so perhaps this will satiate me for the time being.

Thank you all for the updates! Keep 'em coming!

Loves,
-Leah-

I'm Baaaaaack!

My lovely ladies!

How great it was to see all of you and have you in my humble abode. Thank you all again for being part of the wedding experience. I felt so fortunate to have you all with me.
Japan and Hawaii were so wonderful. I will have to post some pictures of Japan (we didn't have a digital until we were in Tokyo) when I learn how to do such a thing. We saw so many temples, shrines, Ancient castles, really great arcitechture, and met some wonderful people. Our favorite was staying with Ko, our friend in Matsuyama on Shikoku Island. Being with his family (3 kids, Yuki-9, Mina-11, Kengo-14 and wife Yuko) was such a needed rest after having been through Tokyo and Kyoto.

I would love to go on and on, but alas, I am at work!! But here is a link to the wedding photos!!

http://web.sendtoprint.net/proofbook/login.asp

login: mo

there are great pictures of all of us at the wedding, you other late arrivals, please enjoy vicariously!

Love noey

trips

speaking of totally awesome trips...

noelle: are you back?
how the hell were Hawaii/Japan?

lex: how was yosemite?

andi: how was it to be back in seattle for a few days?

leah: when was/is New York/Chicago?

em: beach house? although, more importantly-how's the teaching of 8th math(?) going?

hmmm, I guess what I am after is-how are you guys? what are you up to, etc?

luff & kisses,
kasia

Greeland eh? Don't get too close to those calvings...we want you unfrozen when you get back:) Good luck in all your endeavors there. You are awesome for venturing out there, so make the most of your trip! Lex

hello from the coast of greenland

Hi all,
Thought that I would write a quick hello as I am on the coast of Greenland waiting to go up to the ice sheet. To be specific, I am in Kangerlussuaq. Kanger (as it is frequently shortened to), is on the west coast of Greenland, somewhat inland, relatively speaking, and is on the longest fjord in the country. The people of greenland, although they are technically part of Denmark, do have home rule, and speak Greenlandic (which I have found out has way longer words than German - I know, hard to believe). I have had a couple of days here on the coast while we wait for weather to be acceptable for flying, etc. to do some hiking and touristy stuff. On the coast greenland is quite green, but it doesn't really have any trees, but it does have some cool flowers, even if they only sparsely dot the landscape. I have done some hikes onto the top of the hilly landscape here and had some amazing views. Also, about 25 miles further inland is the edge of the glacier, which is a pretty amazing sight. We got to see parts of the glacier calving (breaking off) into the river below. On the coast here the temperature isn't even too cold, about mid-50s.
Hope you are all enjoying your summer.
Erika.

photos granted

Hi all,
So I have posted a selection of the photos that I took at the Noelle and Aaron's wedding on my flickr site. Check it out if you are interested. I am also burning some CDs of all the photos and will be sending them to all. (yes, that will include you too Lex!) Hope all is well with everyone.

There should be a link here, but i don't know if it is showing up - so in non-link form just in case, http://www.flickr.com/photos/erikavons/

photos

hey all of you in digital camera land, would you mind posting a link so we can access the week(end) that was...thanks.

esKape POD