the princeton summer list

dear friends,

i meant to blog about my trip home which was fabulous (thanks heather, shelley, hilary, sofi, tasha... no thanks the phoenix)... but that ship seems to have sailed... so instead i will tell you the list of things i came up with on the train back to princeton.

by the end of summer 2006, i want to have done all of the following (primarily, although not exclusively with fellow members of the we're all moving painting co-op)

1. trip on dinky to good friend's chinese-- an adventure for $4 return!

for you non-princetonians the dinky is the two-car train that takes you from the main train station (princeton junction) to campus/walking distance to ms.cam's home. i recently discovered the dinky is not free. just to go to princeton junction is $2 dollars. this made me wonder who just goes to princeton junction. there is nothing out there except for parking. and one sketchy chinese resto. and we're going.


2. 24 season marathon
this one spring break in highschool after i had purchased the six degrees of kevin bacon book, my posse and i rented every single kevin bacon movie (32 at the time) and watched them virtually non-stop in a room filled only with mattress (a friend was moving from one house to another). it took several days. lots of good memories. no scurvy. jessica's mom brought us citrus and carrot sticks.

3. group trip to see sofa
you have heard me talk, perhaps you have seen fabric samples, but i want you to give it a test sit at room and board in nyc. the latest dilemma-- grass or mocha?

4. random stop on train to nyc
(saturday in metuchen? friday night in rahway? sunday morning in edison?)

5. bad movie sequals night
long talked about. dirty dancing 2, grease 2, the cutting edge 2-- suggestions welcome

6. coney island
see the kitch, ride the ancient wooden roller coaster, recreate the mariah carey "fantasy" video, eat a nathan's hotdog (or veg equivalent)

7. bake off
the last one i went to was super-fun. fabulous kitchen-store prize to be awarded.

8. attend taping of something horrid (like regis and kelly) in nyc bonus points for finding someone in the audience from 10 other states. extreme bonus points for swapping recipies with a midwestern mom.

9. $10 contest
at target or in nyc. have a few hours to come up with the best stuff for $10. prize=ten dollars

10. berry picking- raspberries, blueberries or strawberries i don't care....

so far I am 0/10 but working on it.
cam