List #89: Favorite Video/Computer Games

List #89: Favorite Video Games

1. Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
2. NHL '94
3. Dr. Mario
4. Street Fighter II Turbo
5. Mortal Kombat
6. Winter Games (for Apple IIc)
7. Wings of Fury
8. Descent
9. Mario Brothers (original, not even Super)
10. Champions of Krynn

List #88: Sounds that drive me crazy

List #88: Sounds that drive me crazy

1. loud schmacky eaters
2. loud nasal breathing
3. sweaty flipflops walking (or flipflop walking in general)
4. young adult males laughing (it means something horrible, repulsive, offensive, painful or cruel has happened)
5. the waterfront drill siren (scratch that one off the list)
6. dripping shower
7. when something is buzzing on a guitar

List #87: Favorite Baseball things

List #87: Favorite Baseball things (in no order)

1. Stolen Bases
2. 1987 World Series
3. Centerfielders (especially current and former Twins)
4. Third Base
5. Home-run stealing leaps
6. Manufacturing Runs
7. Dominating closers
8. 1991 World Series (esp. Game 2!)
9. the Metrodome
10. 2001 World Series
11. Herb Carneal and Bob Casey (RIP both voices of the Twins)
12. Tom Kelly
13. Great fielding / defense
14. Pick-offs
15. Change-ups
16. Unassisted Triple Plays
17. The Cycle
18. Ballparks with character

bonus list: Least favorite baseball things
1. Homeruns (or, rather, the focus on them)
2. 4-6-3 Double plays
3. The Yankees and the Red Sox
4. Corporate Stadium Naming

List #86: Soups I have Made Today (food week)

List #86: Soups I have Made Today (food week)

1. Chickpea Gazpacho
-chickeas, tomatoes, cucumber, onion, red pepper, green pepper,wheat germ, beef broth, cilantro

2. Strawberry Soup
- strawberries, yogurt, apple juice, cinnamon, clove

List #85: Animals I have eaten (food week)

List #85: Animals I have eaten (food week)

1. Pig
2. Sheep
3. Cow
4. Deer
5. Chicken
6. Turkey
7. Boar
8. Alligator
9. Shark
10. Bear (only a tiny bite of sausage...)
11. Duck
12. Goose
13. Ostrich
14. Bison
15. Lots of kinds of Fish
16. Rabbit

Bonus List: Animals I have not (yet) eaten
1. Horse
2. Moose
3. Elk
4. Squirrel
5. Deep Fried Kitten Strips

List #84: Foods I will miss this summmer (food week)

List #84: Foods I will miss this summmer (food week)

1. Jello cake
2. Mac and Cheese (more specifically, my own special bowl from Shelly)
3. Breakfast corndogs
4. Breakfast Pizza
5. Not Grilled Cheese/Tomato Soup day
6. Daycamp cookout hotdogs
7. Boiled Tinfoil dinners
8. Chicken patties
9. Taco day (and the art of building one)
10. Fajitas
11. Midsummer DQ
12. Fish Nuggets (I like them!)
13. The good chicken strips
14. Floppy Bacon hunts
15. Any food that I can eat lots of because I'll totally work it all off being awesome at my job.

List #83: Foods I eat often (food week)

List #83: Foods I eat often (food week)

1. Tortilla Chips
2. Protein Bars
3. Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches
4. Banana
5. Apple
6. Water
7. Peanuts
8. Onions
9. Diet IBC Root Beer
10. Hummus

List #82: Soups I have made (food week)

List #82: Soups I have made (food week)
(many come from "The Ultimate Soup Cookbook" (aka The Book of Soup))

1.Chinese Chicken Soup
2. Chicken Kale (Chorizo and Chickpea) Soup
3.Chicken Noodle Soup with Dill and Peas
4.Cock-a-leekie Stew
5. Breakfast Soup
6. Pizza Chili
7. Moroccan Beef stew with sweet potatoes, chickpeas and dried fruit
8. Bolognese Beef Pot
9. Sauerkraut-sausage slow-cook soup
10. Cawl
11. Venison and root vegetable soup
12. Mediterranean Fish Soup
13. Sweet and Spicy Vegetable Stew
14. Tuscan Three Bean Soup
15. Peanut and Spinach stew
16. Pepper Soup (sierra leone)
17. Red and Yellow Pepper Soups
18. Mexican Red Onion Soup
19. Chickpea and Asparagus Soup
20. Reuben Soup
21. Blueberry Soup
22. Kalamojakka

List #81: Foods I don't like all that much (food week)

List #81: Foods I don't like all that much (food week)

1. Chocolate with Peanut Butter
2. Olives (but not olive oil)
3. Coffee
4. Chocolate Covered Coffee Beans
5. Grapefruit (but I'm willing to give it another try)
6. Fruit Ice Cream mixed with or adjacent to Chocolate Ice Cream
7. Candy Corn
8. Tomato Soup or Grilled Cheese that I didn't make myself

List #80: Favorite beverages (food week)

List #80: Favorite beverages

1. Water
2. Lemon Lime Gatorade
3. Diet IBC Root Beer
4. Apple Juice / Cider
5. Dr. Pepper
6. Lemonade
7. Melonade
8. PowerThirst
9. "The Four Bodily Humours" (aka the 4 original LifeWater Flavors)
10. Green Tea with Lemon and Honey
11. Chai

List #79: Foods I no longer dislike (Food Week)

List #79: Foods I used to, but no longer, dislike

1. Pickles
2. Mustard
3. Green Beans
4. Tomatoes
5. Peppers
6. Pickled Herring
7. Coleslaw

List #78: Five People I like, VII

List #78: Five People I like (and at least one reason why) VII

1. Jody Pea: For stinky feet and red sweaters (and imaginary friends and mittens)
2. Liz Pea: for the olden days
3. Emily B (or D): For being my prom date
4. Travis F: for teaching me how to get pumped, and for being a fan-tastic boss
5a. Gregg W: for not actually being married to a girl I had a crush on in high school (like he strangely was in my dream last night)
5b. Kristen W: for being married to 5a, and for imaginary Smith Island Cake.

List #77: Favorite Hockey Players of my Lifetime

List #77: Favorite Hockey Players of my Lifetime (NHL or NCAA)

1. Pat LaFontaine
2. Wayne Gretzky
3. Pavel Bure
4. Alexander Mogilny
5. Mike Liut
6. Dino Cicarelli
7. Skeeter Moore
8. Dominik Hasek
9. Kevin Dineen
10. Trevor Linden
11. Marian Gaborik
12. Brendan Morrison
13. Markus Naslund
14. Neal Broten
15. Jamie Langenbrunner
16. Brian Rolston
17. Grant Fuhr
18. Mark Messier
19. Steve Yzerman
20. Pavel Datsyuk

Lists #76: Reasons why this list isn't better

Lists #76: Reasons why this list isn't better

1. I've been figting with my computer for it having some sort of malware/spyware/virus/BS (one that seems to block the ability to go to any website where one could download software to fix the problem)
2. I'm too tired to be clever right now.

List #75: Things I am really really going to miss this summer

List #75: Things I am really really going to miss because they wouldn't hire us back at YMCA Camp Miller in Sturgeon Lake, Minnesota. (in no particular order, and not all-inclusive)

1. The Bell
2. The Old Fireplace
3. Daycampers (Mark, Logan, Aedan, Landon, Mason,... the whole lot of them)
4. Seeing another great group of CiLTs grow up to be coworkers
5. C(ampers) i(n) L(eadership) T(raining): and teaching what it means
6. The Four Core Values (wait, nope, we took those with us when we left)
7. Roadrunner plus Polar Bear (95% of the time, for the last 10 years)
8. The Chapel
9. ILAC
10. forgetting to water my mom's donated plants
11. Bernie (and even Sammy)
12. Little Baby Ducks, Old Pick Up Trucks
13. Tradition
14. Spruce Cabin
15. Garber Lodge
16. The "Colonel" card
17. "Chippy" (my canoe paddle)
18. The "Voyeur" pack from tripping
19. (N^2)^3 Every friday at 6:15
20. The Pinewoods
21. Just Dirt, Piracy, Sock Puppet PEGs
22. Oh-penniiiiiiiiiiiing CAMP Fiiiiire
23. Jello Cake
24. Shelley and the Kitchen Staff
25. The smell of the buildings on the first day back
26. The little bench at the Chapel
27. The full moon off the end of the dock
28. Paddling around the Island
29. Prisoner's Base
30. Making up new names for Run Til You Puke night games
31. RtyP in the Green Section (Rabbit, Rabbit, cross my field)
32. Explaining the Rules to CH to the kids
33. Explaining the Rules to CH to the staff (thanks Justin D)
34. Feeling like I'm giving back to somewhere that's given me almost everything
35. Being at a place where I can actually be myself
36. Helping kids learn archery
37. Helping kids learn in an environment based on fun and joy
38. Playing Mafia with the CiLTs
39. Playing Bocce with the CiLTs
40. Playing FOTAY with the CiLTs
41. The 3.X "C"s of Teamwork
42. The "No" rule of initiatives
43. Leading Initiatives in general
44. Toobeez
45. Parachute games
46. Creepy
47. Chops
48. Gumball
49. GNails
50. The rest of the dedicated and committed staff
51. Hop-errrrrrrrrrrs Oooooooout ofthewater
52. THEME DAYS
53. Working for a boss that listens (nope, I have that out here in MD too)
54. Getting a cool free T-shirt to wear with pride
55. Breakfast Pizza
56. The Rocking Chairs (because I'm a good person and never stole one from McCleod)
57. Closing Campfire Song
58. Leading off "If I Weren't A..."
59. The Bee Skit (though we retired from it)
60. Every other good skit
61. Creative Cabin Skits
62. Re-telling stories at Campfire from way back when Scott was the director
63. Hiding in-bounds for Counselor Hunt
64. All of the wonderful people I worked with through the past 14 years
65. Preserving Old Traditions (an unintentionally creating new ones)
66. Arrowheads and Dragonflies (and not adding 19 to my headboard this year (even though I think I pre-made one last year...))
67. Writing my name in the Spruce Cabin Cabinet another time
68. Working with people I've known since they were Pathfinders
69. The Glorious Exhaustion that hits you at 7 p.m. on a Friday Night
70. The Energy of Getting Ready on Sunday Morning
71. Sunday Morning Table Duty and leftovers
72. The Special "Mid-summer" meeting
73. Water Baseball
74. The Rubber Chicken (he might still be in the Initiatives Bag)
75. Using My Initiatives bag (I hope I didn't foolishly leave it last summer thinking it would be waiting for me next year, because that is my stuff and _not_ being donated)
76. Donating 1 paycheck's worth of stuff back to Camp each year (tables, markers, whiteboards, lacrosse gear, etc.)
77. Finally making my time capsule
78. All the things I learned from working with so many different people
79. Shooting a Gun, Riding a Horse
78. The Siesta Song
79. Alive Awake Alert Enthusiastic ! (the Exclamation point is key)
80. The feeling of the new (even after 18 years) on the very first day of staff training
81. Putting in the Dock
82. Setting up the boats
83. Koob
84. Kickball
85. Clark and Bruce
86. Standing in the office doorjamb
87. Ron Ball
88. Telling stories of the past to teach the next generation
89. Realizing that I was, to very, very many people, what my great counselors were to me (and not even feeling worthy to be put in the same category as people like Ashley, Jamie, Jal, Jeremy, Josh, etc.)
90. Making the "This is why we wear shoes" announcement
91. Boys-side Check-in
92. Working with my Sister and Brother (and Mom on the committee)-- I doubt I'll ever work side by side with both siblings again. Camp used to be about Family. (even more than Home was about family).
93. Feeling valued and appreciated (and almost believing it)
94. Singing a different song (not sung yet that summer by anyone) song at each campfire.
95. Fun Limit Infinity
96. Joining different cabins for meals
97. Teaching Styles of Leadership
98. Paper golf, musical chairs, counselor magic
99. Jesus on one end, Norm on the other
100. "The Final Countdown"

okay, I'm going to stop there for now. I may fire off another hundred or so the next time I have 20 minutes to spare.

List #74: Things I can do with my summer

List #74: Things I can do with my summer

1. Work at Camp Alexander with Travis for a week or two
2. Hang out with my awesome grandpa
3. Learn useful real-life skills from my uncle
4. Finally visit Jonathan Miller in the cities again
5. Road trip to Montana(?)
6. Enjoy Duluth unrushed
7. Be at all of Preseason and go to Virginia Beach
8. figure out how to stay in shape and not eat crap (that's a big loss)
9. Miss the daycampers
10.Try to keep my family alive

List #73: Fictional battles I'd like to see (part 1)

List #73: Fictional battles I'd like to see (part 1) (an my call on the winner)

1. Captain America vs Jack Bauer (Cap)
2. Faith Lehane vs Edward Cullen (Faith, FTD (for the Dusting... vampires. don't. sparkle...)). Buffy'd probably fall in love or some crap like that.
3. Mal Reynolds vs. Han Solo (tie. they'd go out for beers, one hand on their weapons)
4. Mogo vs Unicron (Mogo (assuming GLC back-up))
5. Bjork vs. Godzilla (Bjork. Don't Compare Bjork to anyone! She is off limits! No linking her, no comparing BJORK...)

...This one isn't mine, but it's utterly ridiculous
6. Composite Santa/Merlin/Superman/Jesus Vs Composite Dracula/Satan/Darkseid/Boogeyman

List #72: 5 Cover Songs I'd like to hear

List #72: 5 Cover Songs I'd like to hear

1. YES doing "All Along the Watchtower" (Dylan)
2. Bela Fleck and the Flecktones doing "Close to the Edge" (or any other YES song)
3. Low doing "Tommy the Cat" (Primus)
4. Faith No More doing "Float On" (Modest Mouse)
5. Victor Wooten doing "In a Silent Way / It's About That Time" (Zawinul /Davis)

List #71: CDs I got from the Library, pt 2

List #71: CDs I got from the Library, pt 2

1. Jeff Beck "Blow by Blow"
2. Rush "Snakes and Arrows"
3. King Sunny Ade "Juju Music"
4. Rough Guide to the Music of Central Asia
5. Rough Guide to South African Jazz
6. "Dawg Tales" (David Grisman tribute)
7. Bill Bruford's Earthworks "Earthworks"

List #70: 5 People I Like, chapter 6

List #70: 5 People I Like (and at least one reason why), chapter 6

1. Laura WL: for being my first MD friend
2. Risto W: for building the shower to end all showers
3. Corry A: for always wearing a seatbelt
4. Bubba: for being the best there is at what she does (camp counseling)
5. The Reverend Tom: for discussing "Grey vs Gray"

List #69: Things that were totally mind blowing in the last 8 hours

List #69: Things that totally blew my mind in the last 8 hours (aka highlights from Bela Fleck / Africa Project Concert

1. Being Dead Center, Front Row, Standing
2. Finally seeing Toumani Diabate perform (and Toumani in general)
3. D'Gary and Mario (who proved that all you need for percussion is a tin can and some glass shards)
4. Vusi Mahlasela's voice and him in general
5. Anania Ngoglia's voice
6. Casey Driesen showing up to fiddle
7. The Cello Banjo (and the Malian stuff he played on it)
8. Hanging out with Bernstein and Laura
9. Everyone Jamming at the end
10. Being Dead Center, Front Row, Standing (it bears repeating)

Bonus List: Thing I wish I did
1. bought the DVD

List #68: Stuff I need to do at work within the next week

List #68: Stuff I need to do at work really soon

1. Grade comic book scripts, comic book mock-debates, watchmen papers, etc.
2. Write interim grades and comics
3. Finish the documents for the new Library Catalog (TLC)
4. Do the Magazine order for next year
5. Finish the Professional development survey
6. Work on the new plan for CL9 next year
7. Help the 9th graders get their documentaries done
8. Thank Carole for helping us in class today and for being gracious about sharing the voice recorders
9. Get materials ready for the WWI paper for the 10th grade
10. Figure out how to shift some of the info literacy curriculum into CL10
11. Place another large book order
12. Write a new-book email for the random stuff that's come in
13. Plan a Survey Monkey training session
14. clean up my desk and office (probably with fire)
15. Never wear pants again (but wear shorts instead: Yay Spring Dress come early!)

List #67: CDs I got from the Library the other day

List #67: CDs I got from the Library the other day

1. Various Artists "Miles from India" Miles Davis tribute
2.Youssou N'Dour "Rokku me Rokka"
3. Lionel Loueke "Karibu"
4. The Fiery Furnaces "Window City"
5. Henry Kaiser and David Lindley "A world out of time. vol. 2: Madagascar"
6. The Academy Is..."Fast Times at Barrington High"
7. Angelique Kidjo --I forgot it in my car ---
8. Nick Cave "Dig, Lazarus, Dig"

List #66: A sampling of things on my desk at work

List #66: A sampling of things on my desk at work

1. An Apple (how teacher-ish)
2. VOYA from Oct 2008
3. MLA Handbook, (only 6th ed.)
4. Comic Book Class homework
5. A variety of AV cables
6. Post-it Notes with Neil Gaiman quotations
7. An email about a survey I have to write
8. Advisee course-selection paperwork
9. Many folders filled with Comic Class stuff
10. A tower of Highsmith and Demco Catalogs
11. Books on Copyright and Plagiarism
12. A necktie made of plastic bags
13. 4 9v batteries
14. A rubber band
15. 3d glasses from a magazine
16. A book of Ogden Nash poetry
17. A Justice League business card holder
18. This laptop
19. An avalanche of various other papers
20. My elbow

List #65: Things to look forward to this week

List #65: Things to look forward to this week

1. Bela Fleck and the Africa Project concert on thursday
2. Mock debate in comic book class
3. Three and a half day school week
4. Long weekend
5. the Frozen Four (let's go Bemidji)
6. Baseball season opens
7. Putting laundry away (since I haven't done it yet)
8. Eating leftover venison shepherd's pie for lunch
9. Eating Buffalo Wings and venison burgers tomorrow (though I have to watch basketball in trade)
10. Being 1 week closer to summer

List #64: Board Games (and other non-electronic games) I enjoy

List #64: Board Games (and other non-electronic games) I enjoy

1. Heroclix
2. Settlers of Catan
3. Tsuro
4. Hearts
5. Scrabble
6. Apples to Apples
7. Trivial Pursuit, Genus Edition I (not "GenIus"... ugh)
7a: Trivial Pursuit in a Can
8. Magic: the Gathering
9. Marshgammon
10.Phase 10
11. Guess Who
12. Trouble (and the Pop'o'matic Bubble)
13. Catchphrase
14. Risk
15. The Lord of the Rings board Game
16. Cannibal Pygmies in the Jungle of Doom

Bonus List: Games that many people enjoy that I don't really care for
1. Drawing games (like Pictionary)
2. Any bidding/betting game (Poker, etc.)
3. Speed

List #63: My favorite numbers

List #63: My favorite numbers

1: 3 (the number of the counting, the number of fatboys in the fatboy society, the number of antiquality)
2: 7 (only because it's useful)
3: 9 (3x3)
5: 16 (7+9, also one of my soccer numbers)
6: 63 (7x9, my product)
7: 79 (16+63, year of birth)
8: 97 (graduation year)
9: 11 (my other soccer number)
10: 2013 (my weight in fatboy pounds)

List #62: Favorite Soul Coughing or Mike Doughty Songs

List #62: Favorite Soul Coughing or Mike Doughty Songs

1. Madeline and Nine
2. True Dreams of Wichita
3. Soft Serve
4. So Far I Have not Found the Science
5. Circles
6. Idiot Kings
7. Mr. Bitterness
8. Fully Retractable
9. Sugar Free Jazz
10. 5 Percent Nation of Casiotone
11. I Hear the Bells
12. Tremendous Brunettes
13. Where Have you Gone
14. Frog and Banjo
15. Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago

List #61: Personal Greatest Sports Achievements

List #61: Personal Greatest Sports Achievements/ Records

1. 9th inning Grand Slam to seal a victory for meand Jason over Jeff and Brendan in a midnight game of Wiffle Ball on the Bald Spot the night before Commencement.

2. Scoring the game winning goal in Chicago to give the Carleton Field Hockey team their first winning record in a tournament.

3. Winning a u-12 silver division soccer championship with the West End-Piedmont Wingers. Beating the other team from our club twice in a double elimination tournament (once in a shoot-out) to capture the title.

4. Making a diving/sliding through mud touchdown catch in PE touch football in 8th grade.

5. Scoring 3 goals in under a minute in IM floor hockey

6. Running a 5:27 mile on a treadmill

7. IM Water Polo in Junior High

8. 3 goals in the most recent GCS Faculty/Alumni/Varsity Field Hockey game

9. Bench Pressing my Bodyweight

10. Some kind of ridiculous double home-run in kickball (mostly against 7 year olds though)

Almost moments:
1) Making two key catches at Tight End in the GAME V on the failed comeback drive.
2) Missing a wide open net in overtime against the Twin Cities Field Hockey team. It would've been our first victory against them.
3) Carleton IM floor hockey team that went 26-2-1 over two seasons (both losses were championship games). I went on to lose two more IM Floor Hockey Championships and an IM Soccer championship.
4) probably a lot more.

List #60: Favorite Desserts

List #60: Favorite Desserts

1. Strawberry Shortcake (with poundcake)
2. Dark Chocolate (80% min.) with Raspberry anything (sometimes it comes dangerously close to violating the rules... the danger makes it more delicious)
3. The shortbread cookies from Marriott with a glass of milk
4. Jello Cake with Coolwhip at Camp
5. Peggy's Pumpkin Pie
6. Salmiakki
7. Sweet Cream Ice Cream with Marshmallow Creme, Raspberries and Nilla Wafers from the Mix in Seattle (RIP the Mix *sigh*) It's not the same at coldstone
8. Raspberry-marshmallow malt from DQ
9. Chocolate Chip Cookies from my Mom's freezer
10. Carrot Candle Cake (the sentimental favorite)

Bonus List: 1 thing that is awesome that one might think is a dessert but is clearly a salad.
1: Snicker Salad