holy crap, i think he updated

to the tune of: Drumbone by Blue Man Group

Whoa. OK, so it's been a month. In my defense, it's been a busy month. And I've got the pictures to prove it...

The last month flew by. Ben's last Harmonics spring show, Dave's Swingtime spring show, and Becky and Kendra's first Decadance spring show all were awesome. Ben was a scorned mime; Dave danced to Dragostea Din Tei.

In the midst of finals I thought it was a good idea to begin my quest for a new car. So far it's been foiled at every turn: every car out there either is really old, has too many miles, is ridiculously expensive, or gets snapped up by someone immediately. You snooze, you lose on su.market. One guy had me wait around at the econ building for half an hour before eventually telling me he sold the car to someone else while I was there. Like vultures these people are. But...I have a date with a '97 Altima tonight so it'll be OK.

Guy and Stewart both had the misfortune of having birthdays during finals week. Helen really wanted to surprise Guy, and was really excited about blindfolding him for some reason. So we hatched a plan for after finals: we'd abduct Guy, put him in the car, and start driving. Instead of pulling up at a restaurant, he'd emerge at a beach near Santa Cruz. And that's what we did. Well, almost. Since Dave's convertible didn't have enough room for us all I wound up in Stewart's car. We were supposed to go ahead and set things up for when Guy got there. And Dave was supposed to get the food ahead of time so I could put it in Stewart's SUV. Turns out on the big day Dave found out he had to work and help Kate move out, so he couldn't get to Safeway early. So Stewart's car makes a rendezvous with him at Safeway to pick up the food and we set off, thinking Dave was going to head back home to abduct Guy, and they'd give us a 15 minute head start but still arrive by sundown. But an hour later when we got to Santa Cruz we found out they hadn't left yet. Turns out he got suckered into more moving, while Helen was desperately trying to distract Guy from thinking about dinner by making him help her with her paper.

Dave returned home and they're all set to blindfold Guy when Helen slammed Ben's finger in a door. So they took time out trying to ice his finger and keep the swelling down. Eventually they did blindfold Guy and put him in the car and take off--going the wrong way on 280. They almost got to Half Moon Bay before they realized what was going on and turned around. Helen was talking about bringing her notebook to work on her paper when someone blurted out, "How are you going to write your paper on the beach?", giving Guy a big hint. Then Dave's car started making strange noises so they pulled over to investigate. Then they needed to stop for gas and Guy needed to use the restroom. But Helen insisted on leaving the blindfold on, so she and Ben had to guide Guy to the bathroom. Of course, Ben had a Safeway bag of ice on his right hand, which looked somewhat suspicious placed against the small of a blindfolded man's back. So they were drawing weird looks and when the attendant started making a phone call they decided to get out quickly. Dave called and told me they were in Scotts Valley, giving Guy another clue. By the time they arrived, the sun had gone down and we had made camp. But we still grilled some burgers on our campfire and a good time was had by all.

By the way, this is why you don't want to be the last one up when it's time to take down the tents. Ben awoke to find his tent collapsed on him.