Peoria

Congrats to Andrew on his mission call. I was poking around the internet and foud this website Check it out.

asian babies

no catherine and james, this is not "the catherine and james blog"

even though it sure seems like it. I just never have anything to blog about.

-dianabates

[sorry i didnt sign outta your name catherine, im on your compy and feeling lazy]

My Public Apology to James and Karen

Dear James and Karen,

I am sorry for freaking out at you guys tonight when we were talking about the whole "chris" thing. I just get really frustrated because i feel like i can't attract/ aren't attracted to guys that are mormon. My reaction was also due to a culmination of things that include matt not talking to me for a couple of weeks and Emily Omer telling me she has been on three times as many dates in the two months she has been single than me in the two years that i have been single. (that sentence is poorly constructed but i don't care).

I just keep thinking about all the guys that went after and go after my roommates/whitney and i can't help thinking what do they have that i don't... Sorry didn't mean to be bearing my soul here mostly i just wanted to say that i am really sorry for yelling and i know that you are just trying to help and i appreciate that. I love you both and i am excited for baklava and disturbia WOOHOO!

Love always, your little sister,
Catherine

ok so i misread your comment and now i feel stupid

you said what are we to do i thought it said what are we doing here.




i am going camping and i am going canoeing i feel like i haven't seen you in 3.7 years can we hang out?

are you coming to dinner on sunday?

maybe i will call you

have fun at work weirdy

I Will tell you what we are doing...

We are liberating the minds of Bates a crossed the state encouraging them to use those famous Bates English skills to enlighten the poor inhabitants of the blogging world who have not yet had the horrifyingly illuminating experience of Bates-esque prose lilting on their tongues, that my friend is what we are doing here.


also because frankly i like to blog and i think you do too.

Cold

Hope you get feeling better. I am sad you can't come to the baseball game, but it is more important for you to get feeling better.

Haircut

I got a haircut today. It made me ichy. In other news, it is uber hot and the swamp cooler is struggling to cool our house. Pretty much all it ends up doing is make our house a little cooler and a whole lot more moist. I guess I should get used to moistness if I am living in DC huh?

Dia and I are watching the cosby show

so i decided to post so that james isn't sad about our lack of blogging.

so i am going to rexburg on friday, going to talk to my counselor and go to a reception and hang out with one Matthew Johnson WOOHOO!!

and with the roomies and all sorts of fun stuff.



i love you all bye!

Test

This is a test of the emergency blogcast system. If this were a real emergency important details would follow this message.

Actually this is a test to see if anybody still looks at this thing. I would imagine people do what I do which is look at it, see that no one has posted anything interesting, and move on. I suppose it will get a lot more exciting once everyone moves to the four corners of the country.

Bates Book Club III

OK for the new selection, here are some things to consider. Here is a link to the Modern Library best books of the twentieth century. Here is a link to all of the Pulitzer Prize winners of past years. Here is a link to all the Booker prize winners of past years.

Look those over and post suggestions of what you want to read. I have not read most of the ones on any of those lists, and am pretty open to read any of those.

Bates Book Club II

OK kids, the time for hesitation has passed. The official first selection of the Bates Book Club is Rabbit Run by John Updike. Get it from your local library (or buy it if you are rich like Catherine) and we will read and discuss. Do you want to meet together to discuss, do you want to discuss via e-mail or blog (that would involve people actually posting on this blog I guess I should talk huh?) anyhow give me your input and start reading!!!!

Bates Book Club

OK kids here is the deal, the rabbit books is a series of five novels by John Updike. He won the Pulitzer prize for numbers three and four in the series Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest. I am wondering if we start reading Rabbit is Rich are we going to be able to understand it since it is the third book in the series? Here are our options as I see them.

1. We read Rabbit is Rich and just deal with jumping in in the middle of the story.

2. We start at the beginning with Rabbit Run

3. We read something else entirely

My only comment on option three is I would like to read something I have not read before and we need to pick a book everyone can agree on.

Let me know what you think.

BLog Revival please

Dear Siblings,

can we revive the blog? i think it is necessary, especially since we will be busting apart here in a little bit. So in short the blog is integral to our familial health.

ok maybe not but regardless START POSTING!

manly stuff

I am pretty sure i went bowling AND ate steak last week.

how about them apples?

dearest family of mine

where have you been? guess what? I only have 7 days of class left bwhahahhahahahha! how about them apples.

i can't wait to come and play with you guys it will be great fun!

i love you all!

this is what dia and i were talking about at dinner hope you enjoy it and i love you all

Funeral Home

We have our own funeral home just FYI

RICK POPE 2007!

I don't know if any of you remember our attempt to elect Rick for pope last year, but it did not work. So this year we are giving it another shot. His party headquarters feel there is a good shot and I have to agree. First the U of U, THEN THE VATICAN!

stupid blogger won't let me see it help me AAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH