Telluride Association Summer Program ( TASP ) 2008

<p>As we approach D-Day (Decision Day), the gods grow hungrier than mere goats can satisfy! I believe we must upgrade to sacrificial llamas if we are to survive.</p>

<p>Why not go for broke-- elephants! Do you think endangered species would win us bonus points, or are the TASP gods environmentalists?</p>

<p>The UMich gods are. We better stick to invasive species only. Dead starlings and burned kudzu, anyone? :)</p>

<p>I actually read an article about how kudzu is a plant that we could use for a variety of purposes.</p>

<p>[here</a> we go.](<a href=“http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_strauss/20070904.html]here”>http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_strauss/20070904.html)</p>

<p>My Environmental Science teacher encourages us to burn cedar trees.</p>

<p>i bet you i am going to get “rick-rolled” in the TASP decision email</p>

<p>illuminar, that link just sends me to my home page. If I don’t get in, I’m planning on spending the summer volunteering.</p>

<p>I ended up leaving the group…</p>

<p>Oh. Fine then, I’ll make it!</p>

<p>Guys, don’t make one until AFTER the decisions. You’ll jinx us AND make a little bit more of the rejected’s hearts die on Monday.</p>

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<p>Eh, Kara’s right. I’m deleting it.</p>

<p>I’m going insane. I’m staying off of this website until Monday.</p>

<p>I have something new to lecture about, mostly because if I don’t occupy myself I’ll break the rules and let myself watch it. It’s A Shot At Love with Tila Tequila. Now, I enjoyed Season 1; I did. I know it was the typical taste-handicapped MTV dating show (granted, with a bit more razzle dazzle than normal) and that Tila’s as genuine as Obama and Hillary boozing it up in public for the blue collar voters, but I couldn’t have cared less if Tila had impaled herself on her own Key To Her Heart. I was watching it because 1) it WAS a publicizing of the existence of lesbians, even if all of them but Dani (and Stephanie, but she got the boot so early in that she didn’t count) were MTV “bisexual until I see you tonight, big boy” wannabe porn stars, and 2) Dani was adorable. Bobby was also adorable, and he came from a town 10 minutes away from mine. </p>

<p>However, the aftermath was a particular low even for crappy reality dating shows. Tila never contacted Bobby after the finale, dumped him ONE week after the reunion episode aired, and ONE week after that she announced that she’d be the star of A Shot at Love 2. Coincidence? Like a fox playing bongos in a hen house - planned out before Season 1 ever aired, I’m sure. Therefore, I vowed that the gruesome, horrible capitalism that is trying-to-get-to-famous-for-wearing-booty-shorts-and-taking-them-off-rather-frequently Tila’s 2nd season would never stain my eyes. Ever. Ever ever.</p>

<p>HOWEVER - the premiere was on last night, and I was tempted. I did not watch it, but I was tempted. It’s replaying right now and I’m reliving the parts - however entirely fake and overblown, I know - that I foolishly bought into during Season 1. I will not watch it. No. No no no. But oh, am I tempted.</p>

<p>Let me say again that Tila’s death would only improve the show for me. Also, there is at least one reasonably intelligent person that does enjoy, despite all rational thought, a dating show on MTV. But you children, you let it be. Adorable people on a show will cloud your mind and hypnotize you into ignoring its sole existence as a publicity vehicle for Paris Hilton’s Asian successor.</p>

<p>damn, that was random. and it helped me kill 3 minutes late-night boredom</p>

<p>sooo, do they email ALL of us on monday, or just the peeps that made it?</p>

<p>Just the acceptees, deadaim. But I think they e-mail us Wednesday, not Monday.</p>

<p>…Wednesday tis far…kinda. Only because I thought we would find out this weekend.</p>

<p>For the calling option, what day do we call? Saturday? Sunday? Monday?</p>

<p>im guessing monday, because it will probably take them the whole weekend to decide.</p>

<p>can anyone else confirm this?</p>