can you believe this crap?! from the papers of diana freeburg

worlds most fascinating college graduate

Saturday, February 25, 2006

Dear Diary,
I haven't posted since tuesday? that can't be right. What have I been doing with myself? Playing golf and trying to study. And listening to Jason Mraz of course. I went to this improv show last night. It was kinda strange, they took one word from the audience at the beginning of the show, and then just messed around for the rest of the time. The word they took was "lugubrious" They all tried to act out "lugubrious" but I don't think any of them knew what it meant. During the intermission my friend Kate explained what it meant. She said she had just read it in a book and had to look it up. I thought it was a dumb word for them to use. I said, "I've never seen that word in my life. It's an uppity word, I don't like it." Then I came home, and was reading this novel by Margaret Atwood. Lugubrious was right there. On the page I had opened to. I had never seen this word in my life, and now it's haunting me. Small thing to notice, but still.
Love,
Diana

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Dear Diary,
Sometimes, I get new music on Itunes, and I am so excited about it that I have to limit the number of times a day it gets listened to, in order to not get sick of it really fast. I'm like a little kid who eats all of her easter candy on that Sunday and then has a big stomach ache and no more candy. Anyway, I just downloaded some Jason Mraz. He likes to skat, it's adorable. Haven't been this excited since Jack Johnson's "In between dreams" came out last spring.
I had a HUGE revelation today. I like treadmills, right? but I never understood how people stay on them forever. I always just rage through a 7 and a half minute mile and then practically pass out (hey... don't judge. i play golf, not triathalons) But TODAY, I set it on a ten minute mile, and then i could run for a really long time! Can you believe it? I didn't know I had it in me. This changes everything.
Love,
Diana

Monday, February 20, 2006

Dear Diary,
OMG! it's snowing!!
Love,
Diana

Sunday, February 19, 2006

Dear Diary,
So I'm back from an exciting trip to Eugene, backpack stuffed with "Duckaroni" from the U of O basketball game on Saturday. Duckaroni, if you were not aware, are yellow foam sticks that they give you at the basketball games to wave frantically when the other team is trying to make a free throw. So when they make the free throw, it is a hundred percent the fault of the fans for not waving the duckaroni well enough.
After the game, we went to this cops and robbers party. Not the easiest theme to dress for. But the best part of the party was that the people who's house it was decided to leave a bunch of panties on a drying rack in a rather central location. I mean, come on, who does that?! My cronies decided to stuff them all into an couch cushion that can be zipped up. Then when the distressed hostess realized her panties had gotten stolen, we all played it really cool, like, "what kind of creeps would steal your panties!? that's so weird!!" But see, my cronies were clever, and they took pictures of the stealing process. Now, this morning, the pictures showed up on facebook, labeled with the name of the owners. So if all went according to plan, the no longer intoxicated hostess checked her e-mail this morning, and saw that so-and-so had added pictures of her on facebook. Then, she went to facebook and saw the pictures, and realized that, balls!- they weren't of her at all, but a couch cushion filled with her underwear! I really hope that she put two and two together and found her underwear. Facebook is changing college pranks as we know it!!
So folks, this is what America's future is doing on the weekend.
Love,
Diana