Ahhh Bulgaria

Last night, Jared and I were out with our friend Alex, who is from Bulgaria. We always talk about how he got out of the draft... He failed his senior year of high school because he went to audition at a guitar conservatory and missed too many days of school. So he had to repeat his senior year, in the same year that the Leader's grandson was a senior. The Leader passed a law that you could defer for a year, and if you got into college, you could defer for 4 years. By that time, Alex had come here.

So this got us started talking about everybody's favorite club, the communists. We asked if he was ever part of a Communist Youth Brigade, like boy scouts or something. He said no, but that they did have to go work in the fields for a month in the summer. They loved it! The boys and the girls were all together in one camp and they paid local kids to bring them stuff.....like an unrinsed gasoline can filled with beer, which they drank anyway. At one point, they decided that they were hungry. They paid a local kid 2 dollars (or units or whatever) to get them a goose. He caught the goose and tied its neck in a knot and brought it too them. (At this point, Jared and I are incredulous and a little grossed out. It gets worse). All they have to cook the goose in is an electric water boiler. So the put the goose in, feathers and all, and cook it all night long. Then, they devoured it! By the end of this story, Alex is 2 long islands gone, and getting precise and logical explanations is difficult. There is a lot of shrugging.

Maria! If you're reading this, you have to post some communist summer camp stories if you have any.

The comp countdown is T minus 4 days. I've stopped dreading it; now I just want it to be over.

Oh! So, for those of you who live in someplace with a CVS, they sell disposable dvd cameras. But jared found a hack online that lets you get the video off yourself and reuse the camera. It involved lots of wire cutting a soldering, but it works! Prepare for lots of kitty videos.