KELSEY HOLLENBACK -Jillian: person who most of you don't know. Physics major most of the year, took Russian w/her Got Jillian involved in SWIL. Enthusiastic & Asian. Now in California b/c her parents made her go home. SWILCoup. Jillian & Kelsey brought Mai into SWIL. Kelsey & Mai proved sentience together. JC & Mark knew they were going to be out of town, so JC set up a coup on his own presidency. Told Kelsey to coup against Nick. They were the Three Fates. Used pink plastic garden flamingos & a complicated strategy that didn't actually work. They duct-taped Nick to the table (who ate his cereal while taped). Then there was a counter-coup by Blake, Arthur, Greg, & Anna involving PVC. This was foiled because Blake did not wake up. Kelsey & Mai proved sentient b/c they were BDan's hive-mind lackeys. Kelsey dragged her to the chocolate seder. Sugar high involved rolling around on Jawaad's floor. She was the first person Rachel got into contact juggling. -Mai: To Mai, Kelsey will always be a flamingo. Got to know Jillian by finding her talking to Kelsey. -Arthur: Successfully wrestled pink plastic flamingo away & used it against her. She was in Rotoract club with him, and was the secretary and sent out emails. -Jonathan: Remembers bringing Kelsey into SWIL b/c he brings enthusiastic freshmen to SWIL to see how they react. Popped up in various parts of his life unexpectedly. Not Jewish. Pointed out that Jewish a cappella group not Jewish a cappella group in style. Only member of Chaverim that didn't look Jewish. Looks less Asian than Arthur. -BDan: He & Jillian dragging Kelsey to a roundsing (making her put on clothes). Living in Dana. Awesome singing voice. -Jackie: Met Kelsey as a spec & realized they knew each other from Broadway message board. Never saw her again. JEAN SCHNEIDER -Eliza: Jean proving sentience. -BDan: Regaining consciousness to find Jean bending over him w/other people in snazzy blue uniforms. This was when he broke his foot Thursday. -Joanna: Strange Spanish conversation class & Jean was one of the few people she recognized. Joanna was terrified & Jean's presence calmed her. -Arthur: Tells The Jean Story SCF event - "Would you like to walk home with a moral relativist?" They encountered drunk senior girls - "We're going to sleep. Eventually." She didn't recognize double entendre... Jean = chill - nice about him being annoying third wheel "Hey guys - hey Greg - hey Jean - nice bra -" Jean = really cool "It's amazing how fast he falls asleep, isn't it?" Jean felt like Greg was cheating on Arthur w/ her. jschnei theory: arranged in decreasing order of masculinity. Jean is really chill (more so than greg). -Greg knew Jean b/c of Set in quad at 4 AM. Met her weekend after orientation--Worth courtyard party. Blake & Jean were the people he knew there. Blake dragged them to the Sun Lab. Freshman year. Ditching her and Cynthia to make out with Jillian (and feeling embarrassed about it later that year). Jillian didn't get the job at the arboretum office, possibly b/c she was making out in front of it. There was giggling under umbrellas by Jean and Cynthia. Winter break, packing up to go home: Jean was helping and his mom thought she was nice. Greg said she wasn't really his type. Losing her flip-flop while trying to cross the Crum, and Greg diving in after it. Jean was the first one who wanted to join the fire department. After going to Africa she looked totally different (headscarves, cell phone, cast). -Jerome: Jean 1st person he really met here besides his roommate. Both involved in Collins' Physics 6 seminar. Did presentation together. Jean e-mailed him & Jerome wondered what she was going to be like. End of the year, seminar hike--Jerome still has picture of whole class. Got ice cream sandwiches on the way home & they all ate about 3. She got Jerome to wear a flowery bonnet. They went to North Carolina over fall break junior year, and he remembers driving down 95 in a station wagon. Fire company stuff. Rehabbing Jerome after porch fire. May have checked his vitals. -Jonathan: usurped the top jschnei position (Jonathan is 3, she is 4). They were doing tango, she was directing a one-act play for night of scenes and asked him about Philip Glass. She still calls him number 3 (but he is a free man). -Mai: Whenever I see Jean, it doesn't matter what kind of day I'm having, her presence makes me happier (consensus says it's the smile). Thank you, Jean! -Kate: Jean makes her less nervous about her EMT job and people. "Yay, it's Jean!" -Jillian: Jean and she duct taped Greg and dragged him to folk dance (it was Blake's fault). Hijacking the Movie Shuttle to drive her & Greg to the Firefighter's Banquet ANNA LEE -Mai spent all freshman year trying to remember her name. Anna used to say that she was going home after graduation, living w/ her boyfriend, & never doing anything academic again. -Jillian: Pants w/ colorful triangles on them. Everyone knew her from that description. Anna and JC dressed as each other for Sager & it was disturbing. -Arthur: Jillian, Kelsey, Mai would've been power-hungry trio, Arthur, Greg, Anna sarcastic trio. Anna betrayed everyone during the SWILcoup. Originator of hitting on Greg's sister. Kept in touch via LJ. Talking w/ Anna & developing parallels between the two of them--bitching about high school relationships, Swarthmore, Greg when he wasn't in the room. They always said the same thing at the same time. Went to SPAC events w/Anna--only person he didn't get pissed off at. He used to go to Paces parties because of Anna & Benitez. Anna dancing in a corner by herself made Arthur fell fine doing the same thing. Used to go to Paces parties every single week. Anna doesn't know why. -Greg: Didn't get around to replying to many letters & e-mails Anna sent him. Greg would walk to Wharton as Anna was leaving Hallowell b/c of classes. Saw each other every day. Finally, Anna asked who he was. Went to Why War meetings. Ranting about respective crushes w/ her. Once Greg started being happy, they couldn't think of anything to say to each other. So she started talking w/ unhappy Arthur. Anna's parents' house is the coolest place ever. Hiking w/ everybody's pets following them. -Anna: Remembers being a lesbian. Greg remembers someone calling her homophobic. -Jean remembers finding a tent in a lounge in Hallowell w/Anna. There was a crazy dog where Anna was living. Walking around in the rain--Central Park in the rain. -Jerome scarred forever visiting Anna in NC by Ginger: half-pit bull, half something. Teething & very cute, but bit and jumped on people. Ate Anna's underwear & Birkenstocks. Trying to coach Jerome into friendly relationships w/dogs. This didn't work. Dog woke them in mornings. -Sentience proof: Greg and Anna never came to meeting on the same weeks. Greg eventually proved and Anna arrived just afterward. Arthur had decided that they were the same person. Since they were the same person, it was decided that she was sentient already. NELSON PAVLOSKY -Finlay: Nelson went to visit Finlay & helped her prank her HS as a senior. Went to a goth club. 1st in tradition of Swat students crashing on Finlay's couch. -Arthur: Nelson is the reason he knows Finlay: at a FC meeting they were discussing hardcore objectivists. He was there when Nelson and Arthur were starting the SCDC, then they became kind of famous and were in the NYT. At a Chinese dinner, Arthur was freaked out to learn that they might be distantly related. Nelson is the least threatening human being ever, and cannot read Fight Club dialogue threateningly. He was in the orientation play talking about his insecurities. It needs to be on the internet somewhere that Nelson Pavlosky has kissed Mrs. Warner. His mom does his laundry, and he forgets to eat. Taru wrote a letter criticizing nelson and Arthur criticized Taru. Felt bad about blocking with nelson b/c it was last-minute. Nelson can make him feel responsible and competent and useful. Gives him advice. -Jerome: he would get home really late and nelson would be slumped over in his chair after working on FC stuff. Met through physics 6 (incredible properties of bringing people together). Had intro Philosophy with Schuldenfrei and Nelson would always walk in late with his orange juice. -Noda: Dropped by dinner meeting that SCDC was having right when Diebold sent in its DMCA takedown notice after the first effort to keep the memos online. Watching Nelson et Alia as they realized how big the deal was getting. -Greg: Props to Nelson and Luke for going the distance and challenging diebold legally. -Jim: Meeting with Nelson and Bob Gross in Parlours about what the college's legal position was. -BDan: Nelson lived on first north and would be in the lounge playing his bright green guitar. -Jillian: Met Nelson at the open mic in the WRC during orientation when nelson was playing some song. -Mai: THE ORANGE HOODIE. The bike that got stolen and was pictured in the NYTimes. Took a class about technology and society and Nelson is responsible for her having coherent political views (but not his views). He IMs her a lot for no reason. -Anna Melton: Saved her from sketchy boys and invited her to a LAN party at Swat. Gave her a pen and notebook so she could be an anthropologist (when she took him to the Vagina Monologues, he said she knew exactly how she felt). ETHAN JUCOVY -Finlay: Ethan has very cold hands. -Blake: He used to have very warm hands, ran off icy hill and fell into rosebush. Then he had cold hands. -Mai: Duct-taped Ethan to coffee table in ML Lounge. Hung from table to watch the Simpsons. -Lisa: Remembers Ethan being tied up to post in ML. Julia selling kisses--had to put lipstick on & kiss him everywhere. Photographs? -BDan: Ethan's sentience proof during SWILReunion. Gave Rachel Sapiro a raisin bagel, she took a bite, she was his raisin debtor. Break for collective groan. Rachel would threaten to give him a bagel back, disproving his sentience. -Mai: Julia's man-cage for Ethan. -Eliza: Specced with Kate. Kate asked Eliza if she wanted to see the man-cage. They went into the Fishbowl & opened the closet, & there was the man-cage! -Kate: Ethan's lack of survival skills. Diagram in ML lounge of ways he'd been injured. Broke his toes in the Topiary Club. Would eat massive amounts of food & then have a stomachache. Incapable of resisting popcorn. Didn't pick up on cause and effect--would eat hot cookies, burn his mouth, finish cookie, want to take another one. -Arthur: Ethan called Arthur a mensch. Long & convoluted explanation of what it meant. Arthur was confused. -Sarah: Cluing "sin" to Ethan in name game. "If you do something the church doesn't like, its­" "Anathema?" Ethan bad at Name Game in amusing ways. Noda: Read Ethan's LJ--half the entries & all current moods have to do w/ whatever food he's craving at the time. Went on a hunger strike for a bison burger. Noda says one of the better possible uses for LJ. ABBY FRIEDMAN -Mai: Before Megan Nelson, Abby 1st person Mai could talk about slash with. -Greg: Arm-wrestled Abby & won. -Arthur: Argued w/ Abby over whether or not N*Sync valuable contribution to society. Performance in parlor games. Vibrant interpretations of Chain-Link Murder, violent & exuberant Name Gaming. "She has a cat." Abby: "Millicent Bulstrode!" Abby's canonical Chain Link Murder: Death by Eating a Balrog. -Jim: He & Abby did SWIL Easter egg hunt for 2 or 3 years. "The start of a big busy year" a clue: Abby where it was hidden -Noda: Abby de facto leader of SWIL Yankees fans. Rabid fanaticism! Would start SWIL Meetings with "Only ___ days until pitchers & catchers report to spring training!". Clear Cardinals going to lose World Series. Breaking the curse to get Kerry elected? Not worth it. Ever playing Settlers w/ Abby & make the mistake of chaining 5 roads before she does, prepare to die! Gives her something to do: wail on you @ every possible opportunity for the rest of the game. -Finlay: Really awesome ring tone (Law & Order theme song). -Jim: Amazing summer house in upstate New York. Going to make it available for SWIL Vacation. -Susan: Before reading her LJ, she enjoyed nice, innocent Harry Potter books. After, Susan's HP reading forever corrupted. -Mai: Abby's HP repertoire frightens even her. -Chelsea: Living in Dartmouth house. Abby's why she knows about signs held up at N*Sync concerts: FKA (fine Kirkpatrick ass). Both the Anti-Christ. -Chaos: E/S Ball, 2002. Runs into Catherine O., Kyla, Abby, Will. Go to Nifty Fifties. "He showed me his ass!" Abby had held up an FKA poster at a concert, someone pointed it out to Chris Kirkpatrick, Chris showed her his ass. Everyone was impressed. Chaos was confused. Abby started FKA. Everyone at meeting is very impressed (really). Congratulate for officially overtaking Peter Wong for SWILlie who took longest to graduate & actually did it. -Robot telecoffeed her a limb. ALEX LEADER-SMITH -Susan: Arthur's sentience proof for Alex; Arthur described Susan as "Champion of Lust" but didn't explain from RPG. Susan asked for more budgeting money for the Hunt, Alex recommended full funding. -Mai: Remembers Alex being inducted into SWIL; talked to him a lot at that meeting. At Massacre, he was a reported interviewing victrons. Next to him when they were shot to death. -Greg: Alex wrote running column about participating in different clubs each week. Alex/Andrew feud started when Alex reported he was the only male in Knitwits when Andrew was there. Article about Feminist Majority, really offended letter the next week. Alex had complimented their brownies, calling them "domestic goddesses". Greg wrote incredibly sarcastic response to the letter. -Arthur: Jillian put Arthur in charge of making Alex's SWIL experience an interesting one. Jillian accepts full responsibility. Arthur & Alex developed a rapport--Arthur would try to get him into things, Alex would resist. "I bet he beats his girlfriend and ties her to the stove!" Emily (Alex's g/f) said Arthur creepy College Bowl guy with a crush (on Alex). Arthur started SALSA (Alex Leader-Smith fan club) that Alex couldn't join in April Fools' Day article. Tradition to kill Alex in Massacre, even though he wasn't participating. Slit his throat with a knife. Emily was pissed. Remembers Alex going to Magic tournament while Emily went to College Bowl & them arguing over who was going to the geekier event. -Andrew: No longer most expendable SWILlie, because he gave us lots of money. KATE GODDARD -Jackie: Kidnapped Kate during a folksing w/ Eliza, Julia, Laila. Dressed as pirates, tied Kate's hands behind her back & blindfolded her & dragged her on the shuttle to Ruby Tuesday's at the mall. Told story of Rasputin and random guy walked up; said "That's very interesting" in deep voice when she was done and freaked her out. Met goth teens, one named Apocalypse, chained together & turned Kate around so they could shake her bound hands. Kate & Mai's cool basement room. Watching Empire Records & reading Grendel's Workshop stories. -Mai: They live together (Jonathan: is that legal in Pennsylvania?) Mai managed to walk into the roof. Wondered it she had a concussion, went to Kate, who went through neurological tests. It was very comforting. Mai did not have a concussion. It's very nice to live with an EMT (in a brothel). OMG HOUSE - "Hey Kate! House & Wilson are living together!" "I KNOW!" Always struck up rapport with people @ registers. -Rebecca: Kate got her started on Firefly. -Greg: The first time he met Kate, he made her cry. He was talking about the Milligram experiment. He freaked out and felt terrible. Ran into someone who went to EMT school with Kate - "She was really weird!". Russel Crowe's house + fire = OTP! -Arthur: Kate's sentience proof (reenacted - "Ouch! You hit me in the temple!"). Kate read a good story at Walpurgisnacht (Grendel's Workshop). -Jean: "Someone familiar to squeegee floors with". Pumping iron together in gym class. -Blake: "Kate always smiles and waves when she sees me." -Chelsea: Small world--friends with Sarah from Ohio. Van to Bryn Mawr together--talking about Muppets, & van driver remarked on how much they had in common. -Jim: Remembers Kate re-enacting her sentience proof on Arthur. She won't hit him again (for now). Noda smacked him. -Eliza: She and Kate are "cousins"--parents friends before they were born (Eliza & Kate, not the parents). Earliest memories playing w/ Kate. Making anime fan films & freezing their asses off in winter in Ohio. Barbecues in the spring. Looking at colleges--parents suggested Swat b/c Kate went there. Eliza wasn't sure. Mai remembers how different Kate & Eliza seemed. Eliza specced w/ Kate--man-cage, Trigun; found it really cool, & Eliza decided to go to Swat. -Lisa: Kate really caring: EMT, animals (rescuing kittens, birds, tried to get Lisa to drive her to bird rescue place (Lisa wanted to help)). Went to Geunardi's at 11 to get cat food to feed a bird. -Jerome: Freshman chemistry. Revolutionary Girl Utena. Affinity for brass polish--antique fire engines. (Kate likes to make the things shiny.) Making things out of pipe cleaners. -Finlay: Ran into Jackie & Kate outside Parrish & sang a song. Swarthmore, the Musical. We were happy. LISA SPITALEWITZ -BDan: Lisa specced w/ Sam Crane. Knew each other from CTY. Went to the Kegger. Bright purple hair. Unusual to see her w/naturalish hair color. Rocky Horror in Philly. Listening to recorded version w/ callbacks in the car. Made illegal left-hand turn, got pulled over, & got large ticket. Got into the theater free. Lisa bought a drink & got a cigarette. -Jean: This past summer, lived in ML--guys next door sharing her bathroom that mysteriously disappeared. Then Lisa came in their place (the guys had stolen Lisa's room). Nice to have an air-conditioned haven & watch FMA. -Finlay: crashing Peter Wong's wedding party. Walking through the rain w/ j7 & having awkward conversations & getting tea. Alumni weekend last summer. Bunch of people in Lisa's room with stuff & fruit & a "wheely spoke-thing on a stick". Possibly epilepsy testing. Jamison comes in and plays with it. Really fun to watch. Call Lisa if you need food in the middle of the night. (Lisa: Don't advertise that!) Endlessly generous with her supply of Diet Coke. Meeting Lisa through Kit at Spec weekend -- staying up until 4am in her room in Roberts, watching Labyrinth with a billion people on her bed. The PicNYC that summer when she rolled Lisa around on the grass - Lisa had blue hair and fishnets on her arms. So many angstful conversations that always ended with whichever of us was upset feeling much better. -Jim: Lisa drove Finlay & Jim to SWIL Vacation. "Peanuts! Fireworks! Fresh corn!!! Local peas!!!! ENTRANCE!!!!"--roadside signs. -Kate: freshman, Lisa's room coolest place on the hall (not literally, yet). Little world: elevated bed, cool TV--rented Mario Party 64. Lisa, Laila & Kate decided to dye hair: wanted food, ended up at Dunkin' Donuts. Got hot chocolate made of crack. Went back & dyed hair--took until 6 AM. -Noda: Lisa's freshman year. Tentative visits to ML from Dana. Noda realized there was, indeed, a CTY mafia. Remembers her natural hair color. Moved into the quint w/Ross and made it the sextet (then septet). Raoul Challenge. Her Long Island accent. Expanding on late-night food runs: 2 AM to Wawa. 2 AM, 15 hungry people, we're going to New Jersey. -Arthur: Talking to Lisa at SWILloween--at Truth or Dare, asked Lisa why she was going out with Blake. (Blake: Everything Arthur does is okay by me.) Lisa explained what happened, Arthur asked her to explain why. Lisa explained how, Arthur asked her to explain why. Lisa: "Well, when a boy and a girl...". Arthur typed up her thesis notes, and it was cool. She drove Arthur to the airport, they got lost (which was mostly Arthur's fault). Lisa's thesis is publically available from the Ling department. Applesauce. Frightening the speed at which Lisa became a believable mom & developed a relationship w/ Eric Mulligan. -Greg: Briefly kind of roomed with Lisa--helped her move to the apartment. Remembers moving her backpack, putting it down, noticing it was buzzing. It was her Playstation controller (or so she says). Greg: "Why is your backpack--oh." -Chaos: Props for solving the Alumni Weekend Saturday Dinner problem--everyone hanging out & wants to have dinner with each other. Lisa organized a barbecue & it was excellent. -Mai: Appreciated how helpful she was--helped w/ driving at such, possibly at the expense of her homework. -Kate: Baby bird food-getting. Kate had absentee ballot, which she realized had to be received by next day. Needed to do overnight mailing at place by airport. Lisa took her on crazy adventure--wanted to go to Canada & become Quebeqois separatists. Made it about 5 minutes before closing, went to Ruby Tuesday's. Skipped entree--had appetizers & dessert. -Jonathan: Lisa really strongly contributed to collective social character of Chaverim. -Comma: Lisa's performance in "Hatriarchy"--Kate Duffy short film. She got milk splashed in her face & called the Feminist Mafia to kill her boyfriend. (Lisa: So many goddamn takes of the milk!) -Susan: Lisa gave Susan an LJ code. -Chelsea: Roommates identified Lisa as "The one with the frequent piercings card". Generally spiffy that Lisa bounces about the Muppets and Rocky Horror. -Jackie: Mercilessly mocking the terrible Grendel's Workshop stories & watching Cinderfella. Lisa gives excellent hugs. -Alex: Lisa drove Alex, Eliza, Jackie, & Sam to Philcon & they listened to How to Learn Klingon in the car. Really snowy. (Lisa: It kept us in a state of meditative anger.) JEROME FUNG -Jean: Seminar hike. Jessica had neither hat nor sunscreen. Went to shop @ end of trail. Rural NJ memorabilia. Straw hats & bonnets. Jessica wanted bonnet, Jean asked who would wear it. Jessica said Jerome would wear it. And so he did. There are pictures. Lived across the hall from Jerome--serenades & help with Physics. -Arthur: Jerome made a big impression on Rachel Sapiro. -Sarah: Jerome very interested in traditions at Bryn Mawn--weird hearing songs sung by a bass. -Jonathan: Often compared Jerome to Benitez in his mind: both humans very clearly verbally aware of how overworked they are, express fear about this; Jonathan never worried about them because he has confidence in them. Asks Jerome about alternate universe where Jerome was Blake's roommate: Jerome thought it would've worked out well. Jonathan impressed Jerome is going to Harvard. Not timid about expressing non-majority political opinion. -Greg & Jean: Freshman year stories. Jerome lived in Willets freshman year, roommate of Andrew Robinson, best friends with Christy. Very dedicated to fire company. Andrew went to sleep late, Jerome woke up early. Jerome would turn on bright light by his bed; Andrew & Christy took out the lightbulb. Jerome put in another lightbulb, & went through 3 before they gave up. Jerome stole Christy's cigarettes & brought the wrath of God upon him. People having sex in room below him, large group gawking at them: "Gentlemen! Have some decorum!". -Eliza: Jerome offering to help her with Physics. -Jackie: After the Beethoven's 9th concert, singing it again from memory! -Greg: Jerome developed reputation for casual singing around fire company. Fire company tradition of giving nicknames to people. HS member nicknamed "Buttercup" after wearing a helmet with that on. For a bet, Jerome had to serenade him with "Build Me Up, Buttercup"--guy bolted, Jerome chased him down, tackled him, & continued serenading. Kid is now forever know as "Buttercup". Would have gotten completely & irrevocably lost going to North Carolina w/out Jerome planning the trip. Really good that by the end of summer, he could park a van, say "That's good enough" and get out. (Jerome: Want to tell some parking stories? Jonathan: Parking stories? Remembrances is getting exciting.) -Jillian: Long time to get to know Jerome. Freshman year contra, Jerome assumed she was a senior & a folkdancer b/c she was wearing a skirt. Concerned about living next to Jerome b/c he was so concerned with his work; became friends & it was really great. Jerome asked her to fire company banquet. Talking about Greg & Jean being sad about each other when Greg & Jean run in, giggling madly after hijacking the movie shuttle to drive them to the banquet. Qian explaining everything sexual to Jerome. Settlers with Comma & Alex that took 2.5 hours. Awesome. Birthday parties--pulling off very civilized things in college setting. Sager costumes--bra-ket costume. -Anna: Took Haverford class @ same time Anna was; waited for respective vans. Got selflessly involved w/ drama w/ Anna's Bryn Mawr friends & drove Anna to NJ to see if they were all right. IMing Emily: Emily, what is a BDSM relationship? -Kate: Shakespeare class. Kate, Jerome, Jackie. Romeo and Juliet, decided to reenact Tybalt & Mercutio scene. Swordfighting each other w/ sticks, switching roles & dramatically falling over dead. Arguing over whether or not you could make fun of Hamlet. Fighting w/ DVD player for Midsummer Night's Dream. -Noda: Making foam swords in Jillian's room. Jerome getting upset over Naval Academy; Noda honored that Jerome felt okay opening up to him. Still not afraid to give voice to (much fewer) insecurities, but doesn't have regrets. -Joanna: So cool that a guy from another college very interested in participating in Bryn Mawr's traditions even w/pressure not to. "Little tiny music conversations". Hearing him compose was great. Seeing his devotion to the fire department and seeing him take off @ Star Wars premiere--sense of duty. Doesn't do the right thing because he wants attention, but just because it's the right thing. Sorry for ignoring late-night IMs because she was about to keel over. -Chelsea: Neat that Jerome is into Bryn Mawr stepsings. Really nice person. -Michael: Jerome is indecisive for some of the same reasons he is. Grandmother: "If someone indecisive like you got into Harvard, that's a good thing." -Blake: Late night Physics studying together meant a lot to him. BLAKE SETLOW -Jonathan: We remember Blake Setlow. Boy, do we remember Blake Setlow. Being Blake's friend has been one of the most fascinating and imcomprehensible experiences. Like a movie in another language, where you come out feeling uplifted and having no idea who you are. Met as a spec and knew it would be an interesting few years. Blake's freshman year, Jonathan was having computer troubles and didn't know what he was getting into when he asked Blake for help. Months later, Blake had fixed the account but certain macros weren't working any more and the prof had to call in backup to puzzle it out. They were thinking about living in a lodge and Blake wanted to check out the basement, and "Blake's eyes said this is a fixer-upper" and he was going to block out mind-rays. Blake is like a CIA operative dad mixed with the way George Costanza sees Kramer. -Mai: Lab partners in Chemistry freshman year. Anger & passive-aggressiveness, but they wrote chemistry-related haiku with wax crayons on chemistry hoods. Never experienced such a mixture of admiration & complete hatred for another person until they lived across the hall from each other. "By the end of the year, we weren't on speaking terms, but Blake, I don't think you noticed." Blake's cryptic notes on her door, turning into haiku. His sister came looking for "Cortland" while he was in Maryland. -Alex: Finishing taking apart DuPont. Blake took Alex, Jerome, & others foraging. Drove a little cart around to move whiteboards. "Blake really made me appreciate the art of stealing things no one else wants." They were lab partners and Blake didn't know his password, and would reboot the computer, root it, and use that account instead of his own. -Greg: Giant monitor Blake left in his room for the summer; Greg couldn't get it out of his room. Great that he trusted him w/ monitor & X-Box. Blake led him to appreciate good beer. Greg is very grateful. Liquid nitrogen Super Soakers. Blake IMing him at 3 or 4 in the morning asking him to get food when he's about to sleep, not being there at 3 or 4 in the morning when Greg is hungry. -Jean: Blake lab partner of Emily Aldman after Mai--strange relationship. Partners with Jean this semester; came to an understanding. Excellent sublimer. Very nice to partner w/someone patient who really appreciates chemistry. Appreciates aesthetics of many things. Creates very nice environment around himself. Asked "Do you want to go to Boston?" Blake 1st visited friend he met on Internet discussing modifying X-Boxes to run Linux. Took him, picked up Jean & someone else. Drove around Rochester in three feet of snow. Went to Boston & participated in MIT Mystery Hunt. 1st met Blake freshman weekend, Worth party, small cups of beer from the Kegger (Blake was not fond of it). Wandered to Sun Lab. -Sarah: Looks very happy while folk dancing. Before he moved into the quad, they pranked his room by turning everything upside-down and he was very Zen. -Arthur: Seen all the iterations of Blake, classified by hair color. Started first wave of hair-dying. Met Blake in Peaslee--assigned as debate partner. Debating about emissions--Blake said use motorcycles: "That way, more people would die, and the population would go down!" Actually used this in debate, & Arthur stuck making rebuttal against "We clearly value human life and the other team doesn't!". Blake PC in an adventure game--picks up everything that isn't nailed down, trying to solve puzzles. Asked Arthur to help him get clock down from the wall, Arthur said Blake needed to give him a spoon first. Spent Thanksgiving in Hicks futzing with hybrid electric vehicle instead of going home for Thanksgiving dinner. Big ball factory. Driving Arthur at last minute to get Halloween costume even though he didn't have an idea. Always stood up for Arthur, never judgmental. Volunteered to drive Will Tricker from Swat to St. Louis because Will couldn't fly; he'd only do it if Arthur was in the car. Arthur told this two days before. Video game music playing at full blast on the highway, top down, 80mph, 1AM. Bucket of day-old fried chicken. "Well, at least we got out of the mountains before we fell asleep!" Talked about him with a non-swillie, because everyone recognized his name. Blake's intonation renders English idiom unrecognizeable. -Jillian: Physics seminars she didn't get enough out of b/c they were passing fountain-pen notes. Blake actually does stuff--will sit down for 5 hours and fix computer if needed. Blake heading countercoup: Greg & Blake got PVC & insulation & duct tape & built weapons--stealing back and forth. Blake has a Livejournal to which he did not have the password into which things from his .plan were copied. -Jerome: Organic chem in LPac balcony. Puckers after Physics lab. Blowing down 476 w/ top down to DoubleStar. Played Halo for the 1st time b/c of Blake. Getting the keg. Lord of the Morning and He Who Comes With the Dawn. Blake walks into the physics lounge with a flashy gizmo or sculpted piece of wood. -Kate: Driven crazy by Blake's reacting to things by a completely different set of guidelines that he would never explain. Stopped annoying her. Very accepting of people doing strange things. -BDan: people asked if he was related to Jen Setlow and he was confused by what was so interesting about them being related. Last year, Blake had an Ethernet cord trailing along the hall, down the dumbwaiter shaft, a couple of hundred feet down to his XBox in the basement. His freshman year, dragging BDan out of the Sun Lab to build an igloo on Parrish beach. -Chaos: met him playing Set when he was a frosh and Blake asked Jim what the deal was with his cousin (Jen). -Chelsea: during reunion 05: "Are you Amy Swift or Amy Prime?" -Jackie: Bought a cane sword at Renfaire. Blake decided to fix it and it's still in two pieces. -Noda: Blake can skate at Puckers wearing a trenchcoat. It is comforting to know that no matter what's going on you can rely on the fact that whatever Blake is doing fits into some sort of logical order, even if the entire mid-Atlantic will be taken out as collateral damage. Thanks for fixing the dactyl wings! -Micheal: When he was rooming with Jonathan they walked to home depot (which is far). Blake bought an outdoor light with in-wall wiring. "Why would you put Linux on a Power PC?" "It's better!" "But-- " "Better!!" -Eliza: Blake started the tradition of walking into her room and stealing whatever food she had. He brought her a bag of goldfish to keep in her room and eat whenever he visited. MAI PUCIK -Sarah: When they moved in, Mai really liked Blake's bookshelves ("goddamn sexy bookshelves!"). -Jackie: She fondly remembers dating Mai for years, and the love cuffs. They started dating when they were playing video games and Jackie asked if they could date until 9:45, for the "dating a president" purity point, and Mai said they'd have to date at least until 10. Met her sitting in the hall, talking about slash, and being jealous that she got to date British guys. -Arthur: He had a dream that Mai and Jillian were working on the Halcyon and they had a fight, and Mai replaced all the senior photos with minor comic book characters - this was the start of the Chuniverse. Bonds with people by virtue of shared fandom and likes having conversations with Mai that scare and confuse other people. Greg tried to screw him with Mai (it was a bad idea). -Sarah: Mai makes jewelry and redecorating My Little Ponies and cutting off their heads to mess with their hair. -Jerome: She and Julia did a cat duet at the ML talent show. -Noda: Right after pranking Blake's room, he, Jillian, Sarah, and Mark decided to prank her room as well. They decided to put two phones in her bed with the receivers switched. DJed root beer kegger, or rocking out to the Utena theme. She had a lot of influence on "what swil is today" even if it's unappreciated. -Jason: Mai is creative and inviting. -Eliza: Praying mantises that hatched in the night, and the openings were larger than the mantis babies. She helped her catch them for an hour. Mai is really nice. -Sarah: Pitch and volume that Mai's voice is capable of reaching. -Kate: Met her during orientation in the auditorium. They are not suited to being roommates, but being in the same house is fine. Introduced her to fandom and Hornblower and convinced her to dress up for the Harry Potter movie. They had to run for the shuttle and it was crazy fun. -Chaos: She is led to believe that there is a science fiction club and that sometimes people are presidents. Mai got to be tall instead of sodomy. Mai was the first president who Chaos hadn't met before she became president. -BDan: Will run into Mai at Bryn Mawr and she is usually taking a side trip to the comic shop. -Jillian: Mai convinced Andrew to leave the activities fair and go to the comic shop for her. She worked really long and hard to get Neil Gaiman to come to Swat (even though it didn't work out). She was approached separately by Blake and Mai about blocking for the quad, which is why it turned out so weird. -Joanna: Met her because of the comic store, because she needed acid free backing and Joanna thought that was cool. Mai is going to be a librarian who likes graphic novels and that's awesome. -Blake: Building a fort in ML lounge and adventures with his frosh hall friends. -Jonathan: Her Cygnet photo is forever frozen staring into the headlights. SARAH HARTMAN -Mai: It was fun to have her spinning alpaca wool next door & thanks for pranking her room. -We remembered squeaky noises. -Jerome: Proved sentience by being an Ent wearing a bright green linguistics shirt. She looked like master splinter in a bathrobe with a staff (from TMNT). met her at post-hogmanay gaming. -BDan: Met at DoubleStar masquerade her freshman year. She had an accent and might have been from Ireland or something. Spring sophomore year, all classes at Swat. Color-coded schedule; huge chunks Swarthmore color. Moved to Swat the next year, admissions office thought she was a Swat freshman. Many Mawrtyrs thought she had transferred. Spent a month in total on the Trico van (wow). Currently has a spinning wheel in a castle tower. Spins alpaca, lama, brightly-colored silk, human hair--SWIL yarn out of the hair of various SWILlies. BDan has some which he'll use to make a hat. Finlay hair yarn w/some of Noda's hair. Makes stained glass. BDan worried about her lead content. Tends to come back from trips home w/cuts on hands from handling glass. Last summer, Sarah in Alaska--very happy with near-constant daylight. Not so much an Ent as a tree. Many hours talking on the phone--time difference meant their schedules worked out. Sarah & Kim dyed hair bright blue for May Day. BDan was surprised. Nifty when Sarah gets excited--delighted expression and noises, "Ooo shiny!" She gave him a ticket for lantern night and he put off and put off going home and they started dating. -Finlay: Fondness for sound symbolism and words like "bunny". -Jillian: Jillian & Sarah walking to ML: BDan/Noda = HOT. (Robot dead.) Jillian/Sarah/Qian also hot? Part of the contingent of hiding in their rooms in the quad. Really awesome Grecian draped nightgown thing. Going to Bryn Mawr w/ Mai & crashing in her suite--Jillian talked to Sarah, Mai enthusiastically talked w/ her roommate about comic books for hours. Jillian offered her hair. Junior year, morning person: convos w/ Sarah about lack of social life before 12 AM. -Noda: Lime. Lots and lots of lime green. Sarah w/ *green* hair. Sudden interest in the musical works of Ben Newman & sudden heartfelt AIM conversation asking Noda for advice (Noda IMed her--only time he talked with her on IM). Confusing seeing Sarah eating small quantities of meat--she's a vegetarian. "I'm going to Alaska! They're going to be offering me pieces of antelope and porcupine!" Building up her meat tolerance. ("Never eat porcupine. If you eat porcupine, season it. And don't eat the feet." -Sarah) All the quad except Mai dyed their hair black. -Chelsea: Sarah's her frosh. She's had conversations w/ the woman in dining services who knows who she is b/c she keeps on getting cards for Swat. Adorable LJ posts w/Ben. Plaid Sarah--plaid & fuzzy 2.0 -Joanna: Thank you for her frosh year, Hell Week: let Joanna set her up with Mark Handler to throw pudding at each other in Sharples. "Shiny!" Impersonating Catherine Hepburn in the Cloisters experience. Obsessed with making dirt pudding. Singing up the seniors her freshman year. Walking around Bryn Mawr wearing "There ain't no bitch like a Bryn Mawr bitch" shirts. Some guy tried to stop them, turned out to be father of Mawrtyr. Breccon prom w/ BDan dressed entirely in Saran Wrap ("*Colored* saran wrap!" -Sarah). Left bright yellow Swat Nalgene bottle on the steps after stepsinging. Carried Sarah's Swat bottle, people thought she was a Swattie. -Comma: Sarah was an excellent heller. Dressed him as Attention Whore of Babylon. -Arthur: Spent many a pleasant hours playing D&D. Sarah's b-day party last semester. Very helpful w/ Bryn Mawr-related things w/ Arthur's theater project. -Greg: Played D&D w/ Sarah 3 times. Self-referential characters: bard who learned as many languages as possible, Athena, not sure where the creepy murderer comes in. -Anna: DoubleStar spec, met each other w/out knowing Sarah was the Swat Mawrtyr. Going to her room & smelling of perfume, watching Muppets. Sarah spinning her thesis at Philcon, singing to the room. -Jackie: Vampires class w/ Erik Butler. Doing final project together & watching Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter. -Finlay: Great SWILtable convos about religion & sex. -Chaos: Knew Sarah 1st w/ short, bright blue hair. GREG ROBINSON -Mai: The letter to SASS was awesome. -Joanna: "On behalf of Sayaka, SMACK!" -Jackie: Many Final Fantasy memories: playing FFVII in her room, playing FFX in her room, playing FFVIII in her room. Dressing up as Turks for Halloween & Greg agreeing to go to SWILoween if he could get drunk first. Watching FFVII: Advent Children bootleg on Greg's computer & both squeeing like little girls whenever Aeris came on screen. During sophomore year, they had nice angsty conversations and he played FF in her room, so she saw him while she was hiding from the world. -Jillian: 1st met at spec weekend, talking about how their mothers sucked. Exchanged e-mail addresses, but did not actually start dating yet! AIMed over the summer. Started dating over orientation, broke up shortly after that (or not so shortly after--before October break). Both spent most of the rest of that year avoiding SWIL b/c afraid the other would be there. Eventually started talking again. And then she hated him, and then she didn't. And then he hated her, and then he didn't. Let Blake kidnap them to Rehoboth. Talked, although they hadn't for a long time. she's learned a lot from him, mostly because they disagree about most things. When there's SWILAngst, he sends emails to say what's wrong. -Jerome: Thanks for putting up for him for a summer trying to drive to fire school. Jerome driving, going to be late, Jerome yelling at Greg, tea knocked over over the radio, nearly plowed the van into the fire station. Arguments over merits of cheese, how well one needs to wash dishes. -Arthur: "Hey, roomie!" "What?" "Roomie! You're my roommate!" "Roommate?" "Yeah, you're Arthur Chu! We're going to be living together next year! It's going to be great!" Met at Tri-Co. Used to be really exuberant & happy, would compliment people. Greg agreed with almost everything Arthur had to say at a speech. Had same "Hey, roomie!" conversation about rooming in NuDorm senior year, w/ Arthur convincing Greg. Fluctuating dynamic in room freshman year. Two-axis grid: upset to happy, mainstream to geeky, every quad member in one corner. Went everywhere & did everything together for a while. Arthur SWILlie b/c he followed Greg & Greg dated Jillian. Greg had a tough freshman year, & they were maybe a little bit insensitive. Inside jokes--names for themselves on their whiteboard. Lot of conferences. Conference when Greg officially started dating Jean. "When Greg's happy, we're happy. Greg is happy because of Jean. If we make fun of Greg, Jean will break up with him, and he'll be unhappy. And when Greg is unhappy, we're unhappy. So even though making fun of Greg makes you happy in the short term, think of the consequences." Arthur walking into their room when Greg doesn't want him there--"Hey, Greg. Hey, Jean. Nice bra." Arthur in his doorway, telling story about being third wheel in HS, Greg would drag him out & give him "amused & infuriated" look. Took class together that reignited their bond after not living together for a while. Greg would always help out when Arthur needed it. Arthur makes fun of him mercilessly in public, & Greg's okay with it. Sitting on computers: "Did you see what Jillian--" "Yeah." "You know what you have to do now, right?" "No, Greg!" "You have to do it." "I guess I do." Egg each other on. They have a mind connection, they work together on letters to the Phoenix and arguments with Jillian. Greg is very perceptive and has a strong sense of right and wrong, and is the force behind a lot of things Arthur gets credit for. The Greg-Arthur-Jonathan ticket, which no one would be stupid enough to vote for, after subtext almost won. -Blake: Knew who lived directly under Greg freshman year. Next year, Greg roomed with Quincy. Rooming together started rockily & went downhill from there. Led to housing troubles & Blake installing Linux on Greg's computer. -Jean: Sophomore year, majority of Jean's conversations centered around HIV. Roped into going to Kerry speech in Philly; interrupted speech by blowing whistles and chanting. Learned that shouting things at policy makers not necessarily the best policy. Sitting in the lobby after being thrown out, Greg notices Kerry's talking about AIDS, watch the monitor. Good that Greg was there, continuing being hopeful, & thinking about more positive ways to have a social agenda. -Alex: D&D! Greg's character was a halfling assassin. Mary & Jamison's characters would rip on his character for being savage, wanting to kill people, & not wearing pants. Greg made up bullshit about his culture forbidding him to wear pants, got magic hat that made him look like he was wearing pants. Alex just realized this character was patterned off Arthur. -Sarah: Greg always wanted things for his character, Alex wouldn't let him have them. -Noda: 1st met Greg as a screenname in an IRC channel playing oracle. Interesting to let mental image build up--fairly accurate. -Finlay: Met him at spec weekend and he was really happy and smiley. Since then he's mostly been that smiley when making fun of her, but if he comes back to alumni events, she promises to have a better sense of humor. -Eliza: Greg is a great player. HEY GREG...HEY...HEY GREG...TAINT! ARTHUR CHU -Mai: Impressed that he can recount the entire 12 issue limited series of something in one breath. When he stayed up all night to write joke candidate platforms. -Greg: Addenda to Fundome story: Arthur's father called Greg to say his wallet was in Maryland. While Arthur was away, he had screwed Greg and Qian. Arthur never wears pants because when he got here he put his pants in a box and wasn't able to find them. When winter came, he got used to it. Arthur did stand up comedy, reporting for Phoenix, editor, columnist, cartoonist, directed and adapted a play, acted, had radio show, rugby, SCF, poster on net forums including Jolt, debate, College Bowl, SWIL. He embodies Swarthmore with sheer breadth of things he does. Met during Tri-Co and Arthur was the one talking. He's like Encyclopedia Brown. Willing to put his opinions out there, speaks the truth. Arguments are not about defending himself but dealing with other people. Because of Arthur, he can claim that he performed in the Vagina Monologues. it was fun telling Arthur that he looked messy (as the boyfriend). Arthur's sleep schedule was always weird. It wasn't California's fault. There was some guy who used Arthur's computer all spring semester (he played rugby). Greg came home one day and there was this guy playing Quake. 2.5 months of arranging the Mario Bros. theme song. -Jillian: Arthur also set up the screw with Jillian and Jonathan. -Jackie: Arthur was Malvolio in 12th Night. During "exaggerated" rehearsal he grabs a wine bottle and starts waving it around and flings it (accidentally) through the air. When they're done cleaning it up, he replaces it with a non-empty Snapple bottle which he proceeds to turn upside-down. Also, he knows everything. Driven her absolutely insane, but going to miss him anyway -Jerome: Arthur and Blake made a fake poster about cold fusion, kittens, and Mandrillbrot sets. He's unafraid to take unpopular positions and takes lots of flak for it. -Pupkin: One of first people he met, at FC thing, talked until 2:30 and it was great. It's fun to play with Arthur as DM. He stood in for Eric's character. *Arthur recites "I'm a Little Teapot" in a scary voice* -Jonathan: During fallout of Lodge plan, he was going to miss the insanity of living with Blake, so he decided to live with Arthur. Relationship is surreal - tapped his brain and seen the tip of the brain-iceberg. Rooming with him is like saying "I dated Julia Roberts" and like living with a funny encyclopedia. Jillian, does Arthur know everything? No, it only seems like it. What does he not know? He doesn't know science as well as he thinks he does. Of course, Arthur later knowed the hell out him. "We developed the Chu/Schneider sleep schedule, which is: there is none." They kept their door wide open and Arthur often kept the lights on. Jonathan once came home and found himself already asleep in his bed and assumed he must already have gone to bed. Then he thought he must be Arthur. On closer inspection, he discovered he looked more like JC. So Jonathan went to sleep in Arthur who was up late working on the Phoenix's bed. Arthur was about to get into bed when he realized he was already in bed­. He started talking about economics to get JC out of his room, loudly as though people were listening. As treasurer for Rotoract, left all the money in cash outside their door. -Chaos: He notices a lot of things about people which he brings into stories (like at Remembrances), which is cool even if he uses it for evil. -Alex: obsession with Fight Club. One of the SFDT stories was about Fight Club/had Fight Club in it. Fiction about D&D character is analogy for Fight Club ("No it's not!" "Yes it is!"). -Noda: Defining characteristic isn't all the things that he knows, even though it's a whole heck of a lot, but the things he knows that just ain't so. He's more like Uncyclopedia, where truth is sacrificed for an interesting narrative. -Stifler: Left his insoles in borrowed shoes. -Jean: One of the perks of dating Greg is being downstairs from Arthur. He is good at constructing arguments. He is also reasonable and good at The Ring discussions. Expresses point of view that lots of people aren't willing to express. Respected around campus and has made a real impression on campus. -Eric: Funny and enjoyable to work with in Applesauce. -Eliza: Always looked up to his gift of gab. Enjoyed IM convos about whether humanity is worth saving, etc. Learned a lot. Tried to learn how to say what has to be said, never back down from positions, be opinionated. Senior she most looks up to. -Mike: Appreciated insight. -Arthur got splatted with a brain. JILLIAN WALDMAN -Handsplosion! -Mai: The last semester of TGV they got so high on stress that instead of writing SWILNews, they spent two hours talking about sex in Mark's room. They switched rooms in the quad so Mai could not die of claustrophobia, and it was really nice. -Joanna: Jillian & Noda had to go to King of Prussia mall to deal with Mac; Joanna drove them. Joanna convinced them to drag file boxes for her internship. Boss asked for names & she blanked. Good to know her, good person. -Chelsea: Met at the Kegger and was there to see Mark tell Jillian to join the Fun list. -Anna: Met Jillian at SWILloween--"This is the Mawrtyr I've been stalking on LJ!" -Sarah: Remembers meeting Jillian: at Swat for a class, Jillian made her & others go to George & make swords, then gave Hunt speech to DoubleStar. Rooming w/Jillian as the quad. Staying up late talking with her & Qian, ranting to Jillian in the morning. Thought she was a senior when she 1st met, b/c she obviously knew everything. Driving up to Hogmanay, singing rounds in the van. Jillian crashed at Sarah's house after eggplant party & met her family's tarantulas. -Jerome: Jillian tall & looked wise @ contra--thought a senior. Physics 7 lab together. Got magnets stuck together. Summer, jackhammering in hall outside Jerome's office/lab. Went to visit Jillian. McNary child had rammed Jillian's contact juggling ball into a beer stein. They couldn't get it out--calculating coefficients of expansion. If lucky, dry ice would work; if unlucky, liquid nitrogen. Thing of dry ice sitting out in the hall, leave mug in it, discover ball still stuck. Ask around about liquid nitrogen, find prof willing to lend it, ball falls out while walking down the hall. Singing rounds on the train. Four feet of shining steel on her bed. Cursing at IDL in Physics 50. Contras, Hogmanay, making pancakes together. Always willing to listen to him rant about crushes, work, stress, naval academy, grad school. He'll miss her terribly. Jillian responsible for getting him on SCCS & LJ. Cajoling him to go get some sleep. Wake him up when he slept during seminar break. Bouncing step, long wild hair, smile when happy. Jillian trying to sell SWILShirts to everyone freshman year--got John Boccio to buy purple "Where do SWILlies Come From?" shirt. -Noda: Summer 2003--summer of the oracle. Confluence 2003--Ben Newman conned them into going. Crash space w/Cynthia--Jillian remembered when they got to Pittsburgh. Inseperable from contact juggling ball. Half of Noda's soul was contained in it. Jillian as random frosh at SWILMeeting who volunteered for everything. Both sad at graduation, getting over former significant others. Fast forward to May Day last week. 3rd time they'd been up for that tradition. They'd been awkward for the last several months, but it's May & spring & new beginnings, & he's borrowing her skirt, and everything's going to be fine. Pieces of paper which will never see the light of day, some of which have circles with lines connecting them. -BDan: Met late fall her freshman year. 3rd floor ML conversation, BDan said come to SWILMeeting more. Thought nifty person, soft of cute. Infamous Kegger. Awkward conversation. Giant double bed, 13 people on it, Greg lurking underneath. Mark in a bra! Greg not allowed to date Noda. Diagram in SWAPA of SWILPresidencies & dating & quad rooms & where the sewing machine was. Purity point: "Have you been SWIL Mom?" Clear that Jillian gets that point b/c of the way she cares about people. Awkwardness between them for a while, but they became better friends again & it's great to know Jillian's someone he can talk to. Jillian & Noda dressing as each other for Sager. Noda as Jillian ran meeting (Mai wasn't there), while Andrew filmed it. -Greg: Combination of the sister he never had and the sister he already has. Gets really agitated when Greg talks about politics & religion. Almost like a sister to him. Freshman & sophomore year, stalking everyone in the world on SCCS. Got Greg to read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (and Greg wrecked her copy). Got to Book 4 just as Jillian broke up with him. PVC story again! PVC weaponry for counter-coup. Jillian stole the prototype & hid it in her closet. Greg rifled through her stuff & couldn't find it. He looked in her closet, but was scared of looking too far because of the bras. ("You stole Blake's bra?" --Jonathan) This led to PVC, whipped cream, & Playstation controller Oracle meme. Jillian hung a bra over her door to ward off Greg. Assassins--Greg lured her into the hallway with promise of Physics t-shirts; great opportunity to not quite lie & get her out to kill her. Writing on her whiteboard junior year: "Are we even friends???". Really like siblings: argued & fought, but still friends somehow (or at least obligated to stick together a couple months until they move out). Jillian annoyed at Ninjagrams, Andrew wanted to send Ninjagram after the Massacre. Talking to Greg about it--"You and me are probably the only people that could get away with this." "Remember that time when, sophomore year..." Jillian got her LJ code from Greg. Impressed (& creeped out) that Jillian was excited about SWIL during Spec Weekend. Sent long, complaining presidential e-mails to Jillian instead of Presidents b/c he knew he could talk to her. Competitive in strange ways: webmaster thing, SWIL purity test (Greg's score still lower). -Michael: Really nice conversations, wish he had a chance to get to know her better. Admire how much she cares about other people and how nice of a person she is. Weird dynamic because of LiveJournal. -Jean: Initially knew b/c best friend's roommate. Appreciated care & concern for her & friends. Convo where Jean spilled her guts to Jillian & Jillian gave her feedback. Enjoyed meeting across contra set (wonderful eye contact). Appreciate care for SWIL & friends. Handled heavy academic workload for physics gracefully. -Arthur: 1st knew of Jillian when Greg mentioned her--dating someone he met at spec weekend, what the hell kind of roommate could he possibly be? Arthur watching Princess Bride for the 1st time, only person who couldn't see Greg & Jillian. After Greg & Jillian broke up, fun to needle Greg about. After Kegger, Jillian became that girl who makes out with people in inappropriate places. 1st got to know her in the Summer of the Oracle--Jillian basically was the oracle, encouraging people to play. Jillian, Greg, & Arthur exist in space where they've all made fun of each other enough that it's just what happens. Very strong sense of empathy for other people. Jillian says Arthur's been fighting with her about SWIL for the last four years. Editorial about Swat & SWIL--lot of Swat's culture different from SWIL culture. SWIL hasn't been part of mainstream Swat culture--togetherness, community, silly things. Arthur doesn't understand a lot of the way Jillian is & sometimes wishes he did. Jillian worries about huge, diverse range of people; believes in getting people around her to get along. Jillian's a better Christian than he is. Still friends b/c that's the way Jillian is--they see each other as opponents, but care about each other. Love/hate thing going on. If Arthur is the face of Swat, Jillian's the face of SWIL. For all they've had problems, he really appreciates what she's done. Jillian has the encyclopediac knowledge about SWIL (& personal lives of people who graduated 5 or 6 years ago). Arthur's done a lot of things to challenge her--why he wrote half the SWILWiki. Glad people will think of them as oracles. -Jackie: specced in Jillian's room (w/ Cynthia), Jillian brought her to SWILTable & started her involvement w/ SWIL. Gossip sessions & conversations about the future of SWIL on various people's beds. Admires everything she's put into SWIL and how much she cares about people. -Finlay: Told she met Jillian at Spec Weekend b/c Jillian recognized her hat, but she doesn't remember. 1st clear memory of Jillian running into her at breakfast when no one else was there. Asked: "What is a Loremaster, and what do they do?" Mixture of frustration & weird awesome: every time she comes up with something, turns out Jillian's already done it. Even teaching in Finlay's city! It feels like a lot to live up to. Wouldn't have become an active SWIL member w/out Jillian (or interested in history, or anything like that). Sense of belonging freshman year due to SWIL involvement. -Anna: Anna at Philcon: not my people, not my culture, why am I so at home here? Sentiment made a lot of sense. Roundsing singing rounds @ Bryn Mawr. -Chaos: Very statistical (?) in a very nerdy way. Hasn't been encouraging her to run t-shirt reprints--she has an innate dedication to SWIL and things that are extremely geeky. -Eliza: Jillian, you're awesome, I look up to you! We're done!