Saturday, March 7, 2009

The Youth Trustees Recommend

This section of the blog will include periodic lists of 5 things one of us has been enjoying or exciting about recently.

Ben Blackshear recommends:

-       Playing games

o      I love games, board games, card games, whatever; I’m even taking a class about them.  Point is, they’re great, my current fave is bananagrams.  You should try it.

-       Grapefruit

o      What a wonderful fruit, durable and delicious!

-       Making a Study Playlist

o      Some people say it makes them lose their focus, and maybe it does…but that can still be a good thing.  Anyway, I love jammin’ while I study, lately my playlist has included the following albums, which I also recommend: Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion, The Appleseed Cast’s Sagarmatha, and Grand by Matt & Kim.

-       Fires

o      Almost every night this week I have started a fire in the common room and studied by it, we even had a bonfire outside once.  The point is, if you are cold, if you have a fireplace, or the capacity to go outside, fire is the best thing ever.  It also often leads to marshmallows.

-       Pistachios

o      My roommate and I are hopelessly addicted to this wonderful snack.  But its more than a snack, there’s just something about the repetitive unfrocking* and eating motion.  And the taste, especially if you can get the salt & pepper flavored ones we got.


*unannounced to me, uncracking is not a word; unfrocking, however, is, meaning depriving of professional status.  now we know.

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