so last night we had our Latino grad student caucus meeting which was pretty fun. Granted there are sitll a lot of people drinking the haterade, which i was not feeling. alot of judgement like "can i see your boots. those are cute." and then proceeding to give you bad looks the rest of the night. What the fuck! why the hateration! can't we all unite people! hello. Anyways once the haters left and it was nothing but the cool california peeps the night started to get progressively better. One thing i noticed, while mexicans are loud, we are not loud in the same way that dominicans, cubans, and puerto ricans are loud. They all like yell an dinterrupt each other and htere is a lot of screaming and dropping of letters in spanish and it's crazy. fucking islanders. But anyways Hugo, who turns out is not thai but rather taiwanese, invited us allout to go karaoking. I guess there is a place in ann arbor owned by a kolean family where htey rent the rooms out to you by the hour and you karakoke to your hearts desire. saddly i was so tired by midnight after night of latino sabor that i couldn' tmake it to the karaoke bar but i heard it was good times. but anyways this all segues into tonights big event. so we are all going (and by all i mean, my friends) to this thing called the "cider and sweater party." And i was thinking...yay cute sweater and a bonfire! no, turns out the theme is actuallly more nuanced that than. it's themed after the great bill cosby an dhis tacky but expensive sweater collection. So today the goal is to find a fugly sweater. So are kind of some ideas i was thinking of....

i could always just go for the big white fur coat i have, but that's kind of boring

then i had this epiphay, that i could somehow incorporate teh cappie hat and try to do liek a captian/sailor motif sweater. Do you think i could find such a sweater?? one can only dream. i'm gonna hit up the local second hand stores in an hour here. But i actually went to one ealrier this mornign and i realized something. What's cool about going to second hand stores in like sf and LA is that people in those cities have cool wierd shit to give away. Vs. michigan where no one dreses well so you get like a lot of plaid and orthopedic shoes. And i guess if my theme was lumberjack the second hand stores here would be awesome but they leave a lot to be desired in a very le sigh kind of way. Anyways i'm out...peeeeeeaaaaaaacccccccceeeeeeeee