monday, june 6 2005 - minutes

all members were in attendence for this meeting. we also welcomed special guest "jacob" and celebrated his birthday in true NHWC style. and oh, what style we have...

on the menu....homemade black bean dip (siri), newman's own garlic salsa plus leftover pineapple from last week, blue nacho chips, oranges, hummus, ciabatta bread, hummus, fat bastard shiraz, beefeater gin, tonic, lime juice

moments of note....
- no one wrote anything. not even steveross.
- beth is really enjoying taking on the role of professor. (i think we all appreciate this)
- "if you had fun, you won" (jacob's 1st grade gym teacher) - this was quoted to siri because she was angsting out about her perfectionism and not even wanting to enter the 20by20 thing because she knows she won't win and blah blah blah
- the moral of anne fadiman's course - tackle something very small. in the microcosm you can cover the macrocosm.
- essay topics: education, love, angst, childhood, family, loss, home, travel, adventure, altered states, trivia, identity
- siri gifted us each with our very own back to the future II movie card
- essays by jonathan franzen and david sedaris (so damn funny i think we all peed ourselves a little)