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Houston Rally

12:35am CST Sunday 19 January 2003

Right now talent show. Amy is playing harp. I wonder, yeah there's Fred; he wanted to hear her.

Just now Erica Nagel was playing piano and Joel was plinking the highest note at various intervals, making for some simple and annoying accompanyment. Good job, Joel!

Then he played an ad lib composition, which sounded like it could actually maybe be a song.. maybe a KTRU song, but yeah. Funny. Tyler beat Joel off the piano bench with pillows.

I've really enjoyed watching Amy's harp skillz improve over the years.

- - - -

So, when I arrived, I parked, got my shiznit and walked toward where I assumed the advisor sleeping area was (it's been there all the past years rallies have been in this church)... got lots of hugs and I'm glad the names just came to my brain right on target. hugs and hugs to all the kittens who came up to me, "ROB!!!" in surprised happy voices.. such a fantastic greeting.

Joel is sitting by me now while Steve prepares to play guitar. "Rocky Raccoon?" Nope, not yet.

Slowly made my way inside, and more hugs and chit-chat with anyone who queried about Japan or how long I'll get to stay tonight or whatever. Fred started pushing me in toward the main room, where I was all "eeeeek" in my mind, having no idea what these wonderful crazy youth may have planned.

Mostly chaos in the room, reminding me somewhat of Houston 1999 Fricke Fiesta Con Queso, and more hugs, and slowly I was moved to one side of the room where there was a big cake iced "YRUU Loves Rob!" So fantastic. Colleen got everyone's attention and was all "This is Rob and it's his last rally cause he's going to Japan" and all this stuff and I don't totally remember it cause I was just so swallowed up with happy/wistful emotions completely filled with love from and for all these beautiful youth and for six previous years of youth, equally awesome and completely unique and all the same.

Colleen went on, "so we're going to play a game, called Pin Rob on Japan, where you'll get a chance to pin little faces of Rob on this big map!" I was all "HAHAA!!!!" and Colleen knew at that point she had succeeded in making my going away thing great. Awesome!

M&Ms were the prize, because I love Eminem. So awesome.

Then the best thing was I got to cut the cake!! Wow!! I've never gotten such free artistic license in cake cutting before. I cut a big oval around the words and inside the flowered corners, then some radial lines and a big figure 8 thing, well a sinewave that came back on itself with opposite amplitude, then crazy lines all over the place... man it was awesome! Big pieces, little pieces crazy shapes... everyone got the perfectly sized piece designed just for them. Beautiful.

Then more chatting and yammering and hugs and then the dance contest, which had categories: Salsa, Techno, ROB, Hip Hop, Ethnic, Mosh Pit, Disco, and others. I signed up for the ROB style dancing and though it was number 8 on the list, they did it first! For that one they played Eminem's "Lose Yourself," which gave me a good challenge for doing Rob's Crazy Dance since it's a relatively slow song. But I apparently did well (or the contest was rigged) cause I won. Whooo!!

After Erica's mom Laura won the Disco competition, I got the idea that it must be rigged. ;-) I commented to Sally and Josephine "haha adults have won both contests so far."

The Mosh Pit contest pulled in far more contestants than had actually signed up. The pit got pretty crazy, so I slipped daintily out to the side, and Ben was all "haha good job, Rob" on that. Just yoink and I slipped out of the melee.

During the hip hop competition, Steve Feinstein did his russian dance thing, the trotsky I think he called it. According to Erica, the winners tied, but Steve was the overall winner for his "Russian Dance thingie!"

After the dance, the activities dispersed to more dancing, groovy juice making, Love Feast preparation, worship preparation. Ed gave me some groovy juice, which was warm! He (and Richard and/or Casey I assume) came up with the brilliant idea of boiling the groovy juice, which helps the sugar dissolve and boils off some of that pesky water that would otherwise dillute it.

This time it included jello and chocolate and marshmallows. Yummmm eeee.

After giving Laura Caddell some groovy juice, I met her friend Chris, or wait, Jaime's friend Chris from Austin, though Jamie is from Bay Area, er, Northwest Community in Houston.

Then we moved over to the Schweitzer Room for the love feast where Asha explained everything andtried to keep everyone quiet during the process.. Did pretty well, considering how unquiet people were being overall. I stood with eyes closed and enjoyed having various people feed me grapes, sliced oranges and grapefruit, whipped cream, and cubed cheese. Totally awesome sensations.

Then worship, which started with Kenny introducing his dad who gave some details on equal rights movements, including reading MLKJr's "I have a dream" speech. Awesome.

Then we lit candles while Amy played harp. Names of peace activists in history were read, and people called out names of places/organizations where we want peace.

Then outside near what I assume is the tree we planted at Houston Rally a few years ago (amazing how no one remembers) (I wasn't actually at the tree planting ceremony so I won't assume that is in fact the tree) everyone froze, but stood and sang and lit candles again. When candles were all extinguished, Joel kept his lit. Then he held his way up in the air and goes, "haha suckers!" like we had all fallen victim to the biggest candle extinguishing hoax in history. Joel is so funny!

At talent show, Katy B-H sang a song for Stevie, and then sang the "I'm a cow" song for her as well. Quite cute and funny.

Stevie is now dressed in (what's it called when a woman dressed up as a man? man-drag?) and lip synching Right Said Fred's "I'm Too Sexy" to much oohs and ahhs from the audience, especially in her briefs!!!! oh my god.

I'm not watching.

Ah, she says, "I'm a drag king"

This is Stevie's last last rally. "Last rally was supposedly my last rally, but I'll give my shpeel again, cause half the people are new here and haven't heard it."

1:07am

Now Amelia is singing and guitaring a new song.

(Interesting how completely awake I am, and how different this makes my experience by attending only the last half of a rally. I'm not tired at Talent Show at all, whereas I usually doze during talent shows... That's one good thing about attending only the last half of a rally!)

Talent show now features some cat playing "Dead Puppies." Oh, these are the Jahnny Deppers. Tim is the advisor, and Brian is the youth.

1:37am

Now Erin Dweezel that Me is playing guitar. So fantastic to see her out of her shell after that time I first met her at Fort Worth Rally some year ago. She's really a leader in the community now and it's just fantastic.

Now Ben and Erin are reading skit play thing. About Big Brother Media and such.

HAHAHAHAAAHAHAH!!! Oh my god Ben was reading the thing and kinda got stumbled on the words and then was all, "I'm tired of this" and threw the paper down. HAHAHAHAAHHAAHAHA!!! "Erin Dunn everyone!"

Erica: "A for Affort"

Tanner: "F for Failure"

Calder: "B for Ben"

Ben is reading his ever-growing poem. Awesome stuff. Great tradition.

Now Daveed is playing violin. Some famous dead cat's composition in A minor. This is memorized; he forgot to bring his music.

Mmmmmmm. Daveed gave me props in his pre speech before playing. Kelly Denham and then me. So thankful that I can be a positive influence on so many lives.

Glen just played Danny Boy on harmonica. I think his name is Glen.

1:57am

Hunter is lip synching "Fly me to the Moon"

Scottie says, "he's so dreamy!"

2:00am

Now Hanna is monologuing something that she hasn't practiced since Thursday.

Laura says:

hi rob : )

Fred is reading a poem now. (*)

Awwwwwwwwww it featured me. I love you all!!!

2:08am

Now Hillary and Erica are playing a duet on piano.

2:11am

Richard goes, "Rob, do you wanna play silent football on your last day?"

"Meh. I don't really like that game anymore."

(*) This is the poem Fred wrote and read to us at talent show at my last rally, Houston 2003.

[Written during the talent show at Plano Rally 2002.] 


What would YRUU be without all the hugs?
What if we had to say goodbye with just a handshake and a warm smile?
What would YRUU be without the late nights?
                   without the Talent Show?
                   without Silent Football?
                   without Ultimate frisbee?
                   without music?
                   without the Big 4?
                   without playing cards?
                           mugbooks?
                           Spoons?
                           Mafia?
What would YRUU be without "Bish"?
                   without "Yogi Bear"?
                   without the Three-Headed Question Monster? 
                           evening worship?
                   without familiar faces?
                           friendly faces?
                   without forgetting people's names?
What would YRUU be without the Sunday Morning wake-up call?
                           movies?
                           smelly bodies?
                           the blissful sleep on the ride back?
                           the advisors to see us home safely?
                   without SWUUSI?

What will YRUU be without ROB?

Who will be Mr. Dictator?
Who will bring Wonderboy?
Who will play Ultimate without shoes?
Who will go to YAC meetings and keep the hell quiet 
         (give or take an occasional snore)?
Who will we go to first with a sticky situation?

Enjoy the world, ROB.  
Tell us what it's like out there.  
Come back regularly and often.

We love you.

Silent Football1

2:18am CST Sunday 19 January 2003

2:19am

Katy B-H taking notes:

theres some trouble getting the large group into a functional circle
"It's an amoeba!" - Mike Holcomb

Two sleeping bodies are within this amoeba.

Joel: "I should play cause I can't fall off?"

the rule thang:
"Its not silent, its not football"
35 people playing, the first time ever in SWD. fucking insanity.
"rule of three"
(laura cadell is dipping a potato in a bowl of melted cheese. puke)
"my preference is the right hand shrodem"- rob

the name game:
mike holcomb - padre donut in mis pantalones
calder - happy shrugs a lot
richard h.- the entity four spaces to my right
hanna - ms. dopple ganger
beth cortez neavel- miss elephunky
toad- toad
jenny- ambassador wombat
seth - mr. superduper
mackenzie - spuuds
kenny - fro daddy
becky - mr.bob
jaime margolis - miss jaime
chris-call me joseph
jennifer remenchik- the mad russian
daniel - dan the pimp
kristen - the crazy swede
Peter - Ickabod
Casey Jones - Master shake
glenn - the lord almighty god
lonnie - i dont know
tim - mr square wheel
colin ryan - uncle phil
gwen - i am cat woman
erin dunn- is-may eezle-dway
najla - darling
fred nooj - elizabeth anderson
ben batschelet - bartlebee
amy leyenberger- miss baby
brian the jahnny dep - the heartland wonder
tasha - tossie-wossie
scott - hero of dorks
cheryl - tiki master
adriennne - your mom
laura cadell - sexxy shorts
katy b-h - mistress scratch n sniff
i have to whisper the names to rob as we review(hehe)

hunter, hilary, jo, scotty and tanner have formed their own circle within the silent universe, playing outburst

2:57am

and we're still going over names!!!!!

katie lerner just joined the circle in the middle of the universe.

playing, finally!
"holy jehod mary sue?"
calder has one half penance point, for speaking out of turn
and a full one now

casey just fwapped a fwap fwap. he gets a half penance point, and
dances in the middle of the circle.
"you'll have to dance around us" - katie lerner
"or on you" - rob
white casey cant dance.

the center circle has just busted out with a twister board.

"holy jehod is now in effect"

and the pfuufing of tanner in the center commences, now the center kids are playing dominoes.

customary "yehaw"
richard gets a half penance point for random talkingness

tanner is now sitting directly in front of rob, and they're
zooming, fwapping and beating up each other, goons

colin got a half a penance point
lonnie got one half a penance point for not addressing the dictator
the inner universe recieves their second penance point
"we get four and a half and we run" - scotty

rob gets one half penance point for not remembering a name
"bartlebee is a prententious bitch" - mike
mike and ben both recieve penance points

rob has been counting how many pronouns richard used on his hands.

the inner uiniverse recieves a negative half penance point for
spelling "hi rob" in dominoes

"uh, we're not in your universe buddy" - jo bibby

(this game is never going to work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

[Jenny was a black hole but she got up and walked away. When this was brought up to the dictator he said,] "hence the problem with the dark matter in the universe"

richard gets a half penance point for waving his hands in the air
customary "hidy ho"
a shrug was shrodemed, and ignored.
inner universe recieves another half poenance point, for being a
distraction
hanna gets a half penance point for saying "it"
richard gets a full penance point for a cold rush of air "countless
times" and for intercepting the football "world record of cold rushes
of air in one move" recieves negative one seventh penance points for
said accomplishment

lonnie gets a half penance point for some shit i didnt catch
richard gets a half penance point for saying "it"
"mr dictator noticed that, and was actually very entertained;
entertainment is more important that precision, in most situations"

3:28am

laura recieve one half penance point for having an amazing memory
colin gets a half penance point for saying "itself" who knows how long ago.
richard is beating bongos very noisily

skylerr joins the inner universe.

the note taker is fading fast

"elizabeth anderson believes the entitiy four spaces to my rights knees changed to drums"
"cold acts of wind" fred's name is now cold acts of wind

scotty and tanner are sitting in front of rob stony faced,
praticing the bathroom hand movement
and are now zooming rob "fire" "captain planet" ( rob tanner and scotty are joined by zooming fists)
the middle universe has to do the zoom zoom dance

"mr dictator, padre donut in mis pantalones has witnessed a miracle, the silent football has split in two!" - mike h.

skylerr is jumping up and down, and hilary katie and jo are chanting "i'm a bagelhead" in the inner universe

the inner universe recieves another penance point, putting them at 5
holy jehod(Jihad) is declared.
"game over" - bartlebee (ben batschelet)

the game is over since the inner universe lost, and they have to do something at closing circle.

f*cking inner Universe.

Silent Football2

4:04am CST Sunday 19 January 2003

new game

neat-o keen, i can make new paragraphs

names! Happy Shrugs a lot, mr. Super duper, love parade, fro-daddy, the crazy swede, master shake, the lord almighty god, she, mr. square wheele, ismay eezeldway, i am cat woman, najla, Super Jesus, tiki master, your mom, mr. bobolina mr. bob dabolina, Mr. Dictator.

Conversation Probation!! haha

Mr. dictator did not revoke free speech but tipping the hat revokes it, so... yeah, he formally revoked it.

issmay eezeldway said sayanara. she's gone.

happy shrugs a lot asked for free speech,. mr. dictator gave her 15 words, she said "fuck, nevermind!" [Mr Dictator replied something like, "excellent!" referring to the low word usage.] quite funny.

i am cat woman shrugged a shrodem and mr dabolina mr bob dabolina looked at the computer twice and still got her name wrong. super Jesus tried to correct him, but didn't know mr. dabolina mr bob dabolina's name and he got i am cat woman's name incorrectly as well. When mr. dictator cleared up I am cat woman's name, mr dabolina mr bob dabolina goes "that's what i said!" she called mr dictator sir tallywhacker tator tot. "quote dot dot dot end quote."

"mr dab dabba fuckin'..." -najla
najla said him and then realized it and said it again, and then said "fuck you. ...FUCK!" all after getting mr dabolina mr bob dabolina's name wrong immediately after being told what it was. bob here is singing the mario brother's song...

"Most people have number, i have word. I dont' have a phone number, i have a phone word!" -Pat

fro daddy shrugs the crazy swede's football and she looks at him for a while and goes "oh!" Happy shrugs a lot gets 15 words to explain what happened and the crazy swede gets 1/2 a penance point for not noticing the first shrug.

master masturbation tool master!!!!! hahahahaa

mr dabolina mr bob dabolina gets 1/2 a penance point for talking out of turn, being a nuisance out of turn, talking to the president out of turn, etc!

Najla forgot her own name!!

Somebody said it and your mom pointed it out without quotes. Mr. dictator said "ironically, so did Your Mom."

Super Jesus can't get himself out of pronoun troubles.

lord trojan-wearing tator tot.

najla forgot her name... damn it, DAMN IT! - Master Shake

fro daddy requested a penance point check and mr. dictator said that fro daddy had one penance point.

penis points "I'd just like the universe to know that i have 100 of those..." -love parade

that's about quote it.

can you imagine if Jay and Silent Bob played silent football? "What the fuck is a pronoun?" much laughter.

There's now a wormhole between mr dabolina mr bob dabolina and master shake. whee. Master shake will apparently also be recieving mr dabolina mr bob dabolina's (who will now be referred to as 'bob' due to frequent refernces to him) phone calls.

Master asshole i mean master shake... najla's cell phone is permenantly on. no power button. discussion of cell phones.

najla got 50% of a penance point for signing "fuck you" (middle finger) where you is a pronoun.

When one end of the wormhole walks away, the worm hole does not exist anymore.

bob refferred to mr super duper as "that kid over there" when tattling.

my knee itches. a lot. a whole lot. exactly one shitload.

mr super duper asked for permission to speak in latin. permission denied. he was told to just do it.

little bunny foo foo hoppin through the forest and then he had a aheart attack and thats the end of the song.

love parade's hair is now a seperate entity. there is a one way wormhole between love parade and his hair. So stuff goes to his hair first

5:28am

This game is getting pretty fucked up. People are falling asleep and talking out of turn and being general nuisances.

5:33am CST Sunday 19 January 2003

Okay, Calder is dictator now.

"Can I have a wormhole?"

Adrianne: "Can I have a worm?"

Skyler's name is "I sell sea shells by the sea shore."

"Mr Super Duper is awarded 1/16th of one penis point and 1/2 of one penance point."

5:39am

I'm getting pretty tired. Everyone is. Fwaps are going crazy.

zzzzzz

after

9:34am CST Sunday 19 January 2003

I slept during the last remnants of silent football and during cleanup. Russ woke me up around 8am to get my shiznit cleared out and then hit closing circle. The youth invited me to do Aristasha one last time. I did so gleefully.

Now it looks like basically everyone is cleared out and many have headed to Denny's. I'll join them now.

dennys

11:49am CST Sunday 19 January 2003

Great horde of people at Denny's as per usual. I sat with Katie Lerner, Sally West, Andy Andrews. We were one of the last tables to be seated and served, so we got to watch/hear about all the funnness going on, like when Ed Lerner licked up the precious groovy juice from the concrete when it spilled outside. Woah. Calder and Marta claimed to have made Fred cry about something, which I seriously doubt, but they thought it was pretty entertaining.

Afterward, countless precious hugs hugs hugs. Steve Feinstein got me the most: "no matter what anyone says, know that you made a difference."

Wow. wow wow wow so great to hear. Beyond great.

Funny to say bye to OKC 15 passenger van by climbing in over all the seats to hug everyone one by one, starting and ending with Tim near the front. Then laughing with Debu as the freshmen were all, "I don't want to sit here; I want to sit there, blah blah blah" and we were laughing like, "do they want to go home or what?" and then suddenly Tyler climbed out of the van with blood streaming out of his nose and his teeth coated red with blood. HAHAHahahaah!!! Oh my god what happened?? He was laughing at the hilarity of the situation. So he climbed out and it was later decided to put all the freshmen in the back with the TV (a TV!!!!?????) and all the seniors move forward to chat with Debbie and Anne. During that shuffling, I climbed into the back seat of the van and chilled out there, intending to be all, "oh hey, I gotta get out!" when they started driving. Anne saw me before they rolled out though. Good plan anyway.

Hand hugs through windows as they left, ran after the van for several feet to slap 5 on the hands out the back window.

Hugs to Phat Pat, who had been doing a terrorist ninja roll thing across the parking lot with a black ski mask on; listened to his story of doing that in a movie theater where he works.

Meg Cusack ran up and gave me a big hug too. Bright blue hair with pink underside hair. She doesn't often give me big hugs; it was nice. She kinda tweaked my chin like it's been great, maybe see ya maybe not.

Found anonymous notes and a cool hand made fanfold book on my car, expressing love for me and thanks.

One more quick trip to pee and I found Tyler's blood on the sink and floor.

It's been a great six years. Thank you all so much. Maybe see ya, maybe not, but I will always hold you dearly in my heart.

druglords game

6:46pm CST Sunday 19 January 2003

This game seems clearly a ridiculous thing, but funny in its own fucked up way.

I did not have to give my email address to play, so it seems safe.

http://www.druglordsgame.com/index.php?ref=63970

later

1:34pm CST Sunday 19 January 2003

At Maggie's now. She's at work. Time to sleeeeeeeeeeeep.

5:31pm

(dream)

On a city bus thing in San Francisco, I was riding with LSN Hammons on a city bus/trolley thing. The hills were like really steep (like in San Francisco) but we didn't have to hold on to the railings to go up and down the hills. We only needed to go a short distance, but the driver wouldn't let us off until the next stop.

At the next stop, other YRUUers were there, though I couldn't tell who they were, but all of them were just like hi or meh and not HI!!!!!! when they saw me.