· Late night activities in bed: dead voices (“the treasure is buried by the ….b….b….”; “your girlfriend is your sister”, “I killed your parents”) and singing lovely tunes like “michELLE”
· Laughing week: Spongebob laugh, wheezy…etc
· Off-key singing and off-beat dancing
· New language…boles, atocks, be hurry, so me
· Birthday parties: Angela’s” Wayne as UPS stripper, Michelle’s: Barbie and then drinking party, Shannon’s: Gay poetry reading, Emily’s: Michael Jackson
· Watching Empire Records several times to get lines right: “who knows where thoughts come from…they just appear…uh huh” and prove it was funny to Kyla
· Writing computer stories because we were at the library so long and laughing so hard that everyone could hear us
· Emily’s first toot in the library
· Ninja turtle welcome home party for Emily to music by Real McCoy
· Finding out Kyla and Emily were “cousins”
· Kyla wanting to kill me because I kept beating her at California Speed, card game
· Calling Hoges in one night many times to open and close our door because that was her job
· Giving every roommate a “job” Emily’s: lights Kyla’s: food/drink Angela’s: phone Hoges’: doors Shannon’s: remote Michelle’s: car
· Paperball fights at night between Kyla and Emily
· Trey’s closet entrance and exit while home teachers: Kyan and Dallin, were over and they didn’t notice and thought Emily and Kyla were jerks
· Emily grabbing Kyla’s breast in defense at the library
· Playing “hot and cold” at the library with Emily’s coat
· Hitchhiking to Broulim’s and almost getting raped
· Miscellaneous phone calls: voice analysis/singing analysis; breakup with Jorge or he was breaking up with me-pretending on the phone
· Surveying boys over the phone and finding psycho Bob Smith who came over and scared the feces out of us by saying “You don’t know who you’re dealing with” and “I think I find this a lot funnier than you do” and then seeing him on campus several times
· Hitting each other with our backpacks on our way to Geology
· “Dr. Moore” – laughing uncontrollably during his lessons and him saying “I didn’t know rivers were so funny” and then when he caught us off guard and both of our faces went bright red
· Vern as our auto teacher in his little auto mechanic jumpsuit (Earnest P. Worrell’s Vern)
· Playing our extra credit movie in Geology and feeling like dorks because we looked stupid
· Our Hawaii report in Geology and it not working so we were flipping out and ran as fast as we could home to get Kyla’s laptop
· Our idea of honest attraction: “hey, I’m attracted to you, are you attracted to me?” “nope, k, see ya”
· Emily’s sweet present of a traffic violation for Kyla’s birthday
· Kyla talking to Emily while she was in the shower and not knowing Michelle and Hoges were outside listening and then Kyla getting caught as she was coming out
· Accidental exposure to Michelle Andrus of Emily’s privets because Kyla was trying to de-pants her
· “Hello Rexburg!” off the balcony
· Showing Harry and the Hendersons to Kyla’s mom and sister us cracking up and them not at all…except Mikey
· Playing dead all the time, especially at night by falling off of our beds, and then having Emily’s visiting teachers ask her what we do each night in our room…because they could hear us falling on the floor
· Michelle Andrus coming in several nights and telling us to be quiet or “Is there a problem??” in the A.M. and Kyla hiding under the sheets while Emily took the blame
· Burnt dog night when Hoges went crazy over questions of black males
· Kyla and Emily’s water fight, in front of Angela’s boyfriend, that started out small and ended with us drenched from shower heads to sink sprayers to buckets of water (and by buckets we mean buckets)
· Emily laughing hysterically at Singin’ in the Rain the song “Make ‘em Laugh” and crying because she was laughing so hard
· Talks of how to kiss and Emily telling Kyla the art of french kissing
· At the Rexburg Opinion Phone Center (aka ROC), where we worked, talking about Dr. Moore’s mistake of wearing socks with sandals and the noticing Emilys’ crush behing us wearing socks with sandals---the next day= no socks…just sandals…ouch
· Kyla sticking the pencil down Emily’s butt during a phone call to serve as a distraction during phone surveys
· Emily pointing but ending up poking Kyla in the lip right when Kyla’s phone picked up someoned and so she couldn’t stop laughing throughout the whole introduction
· Emily’s new hick pronunciation with vowels drawn out long i.e. “Naaaational”
· Poof hair guy in auto so we didn’t know if he was a poof or what
· The “sheman” at the play “Homecooking” and us trying so diligently to figure out the sex of that human-being…it was a woman…we think
· Emily’s going psycho one night over the perfect laugh for her monologue…it having a bit psycho laugh so Emily did all laughs possible with insight from roomies
· Emily’s night of halitosis at the play “Homecooking”
· Hiding behind the tree at the Hart building calling to people as if we were birds “Hey you two…you two….lookuphere lookuphere…kaa kaa”
Writing down our ‘best of’ names from calls at the Opinion Center:
David Junker
Edward Kargas
Marjorie Dykes
David Scruggs
Pamela Scheeflock
Janaki Kakarala
James Hickenlooper
Kaye Vandenboom
Sallie Poindexter
Wesley Engebretson
Sample introduction: “Hi I’m ____ from RoperASW, a national public opinion research firm. We’re conducting an important study of publications people read. We’re not selling anything…"
Best answering machine: Old lady: “How do you like me now…now that I’m on my way…you can leave a message…what have you got to say…. [beeeeep]”
