KELSEY Physics major, recruited Jillian, Mai (recruited by Mark & Rachel) The Coup: Kelsey, Mai, Jillian The Three Fates: Atropos (mai) Clotho (Jillian) ... JC planned it Nick duct-taped to table (valiantly) Counter-coup - Blake didn't wake up in time Arthur stole Kelsey's flamingo Kelsey & Mai = BDan's hivemind lackeys "Kelsey to me will always be a flamingo." -Mai Was in Chaverim (didn't look Jewish) Went home to California during freshman year Secretary of Rotaract Knew Jackie when Jackie specced - knew each other from a Broadway message board BDan & Jillian dragged Kelsey to a Roundsing Has awesome singing voice Rachel got her into contact juggling JEAN BDan remembers regaining consciousness to see her Joanna remembers being with Jean in Spanish class & being encouraged Arthur tells The Jean Story SCF event - "Would you like to walk home with a moral relativist?" Drunk senior girls - "We're going to sleep. Eventually." 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 Wander into Greg's quad & play Set until 4 in the morning Weekend after orientation - Blake dragged them to the Sun Lab to poke computers Jerome: Jean = first frosh he met - presented together in Physics 6 w/ Peter pictures of Jerome in flowery bonnet singing along to John McCutcheon on the way to North Carolina checking his vitals after the porch fire Greg: Ditching her & Cynthia to go make out w/ Jillian Winter break, packing up, his mom thought she was nice - "Oh, she's not really my type" Losing her flipflop in the stream Greg plows into the water to get it AWWWWWWWWW (And the flipflop was restored) Jonathan: Jean usurped position of top jschnei Argentine Tango class - she was producing a one-act play for Night of Scenes Randomly asks him about Philip Glass She still calls him #3 sometimes Mai: Jean's mere presence makes her happier no matter how she felt before Jillian:Dragging Greg to folkdance w/ duct tape Hijacking the Movie Shuttle to drive her & Greg to the Firefighter's Banquet ANNA Mai couldn't remember her name Going to go home after graduation and never do anything academic again Jillian: Anna's clothes - pants w/ colorful triangles Anna & JC dressed up as each other for Sager (Arthur: OH GOD! I'd forgotten about that!) Anna the conniver? Betrayed everyone during counter-coup Arthur: Anna being the originator of hitting on Greg's sister Bitching about high-school relationships - ranting about Swat, exes, Greg... Kept in touch w/ her via LJ Whenever went to a Paces party, always found her in a corner dancing by herself (set precedent for Arthur) kind of upset when she left, but also inspired - has shared a lot of her feelings so many things in life besides Swat Greg: Met her every day after class, him leaving class, her going to class Accidentally offended some people & got called a homophobe (irony!) Was pretty upset w/ her for leaving Sentience proof: Anna was Tyler Durden Jean: Talking late into the night in a tent in the lounge of Hallowell Walking around NY in the rain Went hiking @ her house w/ everybody's pets following Ginger the teething dog - half pitbull - ate Greg's dirty underwear Anna = the viewpoint character The 14-year-old boy coming-of-age stories NELSON Finlay: First Swattie she met - externship on Wall Street Helped her prank her high school Was horribly confused at goth club Crashed on her couch Arthur: Was there when Nelson & Luke were just starting SCDC Really surreal to watch the club get famous - New York Times Was freaked out to discover that they may be distantly related Least threatening human being ever - "doesn't count as a senior" Tried out for Arthur's "Fight Club" stage adaptation Kissed Mrs. Warner @ The Art of Kissing (we don't want to write this, but we can't restrict this information) DIEBOLD Mom does his laundry, forgets to eat Arthur defended Nelson from Taru in Phoenix letters Felt bad about blocking w/ him - but he adopted Arthur into his group Made him feel responsible, competent, helpful Wrote speeches for Free Culture Projects "I need your advice" Counseled him through his breakup Jerome: Finding him asleep, wake him up, get him to eat, put him to bed Life after Diebold - met him in Physics 6 Intro Philosophy frosh spring - would come in late w/ orange juice Noda: Diebold - dropped by the dinner meeting they had when Diebold sent the DMCA takedown notice Greg: Commend them for going the legal route & getting results Jimmosk:Nelson & Bob Gross meeting in Parlours about Diebold suit BDan: Remember him playing his greeg guitar Jillian: Open mic @ WRC during orientation Mai: Orange hoodies! XD The bike w/ its picture in the NYTimes that got stolen "He also IMs me a lot for no reason" AnnaM: Nelson "saved" her from Mtint Invited her to LAN Party to be an anthropologist Took him to Vagina Monologues - "Anna, I think I know how you felt @ the LAN Party" KATE Jackie: We kidnapped & blindfolded Kate for her birthday - story of Rasputin Mai: They live together (Jonathan: is that legal in Pennsylvania?) 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 I met Kate, I made her cry. I was talking about the Milligram experiment. Ran into someone who went to EMT school with Kate - "She was really weird!" Russel Crowe's house + fire = OTP! : Muppets? Arthur: Kate's sentience proof (reenacted - "Ouch! You hit me in the temple!" Jean: "Someone familiar to squeegee floors with" - pumping iron together in gym class Eliza: Kate & I are cousins - barbecues - got me to come to Swat Lisa: rescuing animals - birds, kittens - sweet, kind heart Jerome: Freshman year - Chem 10, Revolutionary Girl Utena, affinity for brass polish Blake: "Kate always smiles and waves when she sees me." ETHAN Finlay: Ethan Jucovy has very cold hands. Blake: Ethan fell onto a rosebush while running up an icy hill Mai: Duct-taped him to a table & tipped it over & he watched the Simpsons suspended by duct tape LisaS: Lisa tied him to a lamppost & sold kisses BDan: Gave Rachel a raisin bagel & had her bite into it - she was his raisin debtor Kate: "The first thing that comes to mind is his lack of survival skills" Pin the injury on Ethan Didn't pick up on the cause & effect of things - burned himself on cookies Eliza: The man-cage Arthur: "You know what, Arthur? You're a mensch." (Upstanding, honest) Mark: "Ethan gets a very hard smack for his pun-based sentience proof" Jimmosk: "He was very bad at Name Game in very funny ways." Noda: LJ - entries & moods relating to what kind of food he's craving ABBY Greg: Arm-wrestled Abby & won Arthur: Argued about NSYNC Performance in parlor games "She has a cat -" "-Millicent Bolstrode!" Chainlink Murder - Death by Eating a Balrog Mai: Before Megan Nelson, the only person she could talk w/ about slash I have been to and made multiple presentations at Harry Potter fandom conventions, and I am terrified of her HP repertoire. Jimmosk:Easter Egg Hunt - "The Start of A Big Busy Year" (A: Abby) Noda: Abby = de facto leader of SWIL Yankees fans due to rabid fanaticism Don't ever make the mistake of chaining 5 roads together before she does Finlay: Law & Order theme song ringtone on her cell Jimmosk:Most amazing summer home in upstate NY - might make it available for SWIL Vacation? Susan: Harry Potter fandom on LJ FKA = "Fine Kirk/Kurt? Patrick Ass" Two antichrists? Chaos: ESBall - He showed me his ass! She started the FKA meme! OMG! (everyone is impressed) Overtook Peter Wong as SWILlie who took the longest to graduate & actually did it Mark: She started the Bridge pandemic two years ago ALS Susan: Remembers Arthur's ALS sentience proof in which he called Susan a "self-described champion of lust" ALS championed us getting full funding for the Pterodactyl Hunt Mai: He was a reporter at the Massacre - got shot Said he was the only male in the Knitwits ybook photo - the beginning of the Andrew-ALS feud Greg: Visited various clubs in the guise of a reporter - wrote columns about them Arthur: Was in College Bowl w/ Emily Ullman who was dating ALS Jillian put Arthur in charge of ALS's sentience proof "The fallout from that was that ALS and I developed a kind of rapport in which I would try to involve him in things and he would resist." "I bet he beats his girlfriend and ties her to the stove!" it's a tradition to kill him even though he hasn't been at Massacre - last time Arthur slit his throat And Emily got really mad. LISA BDan: Lisa was Sam Crane's spec Up until a few months ago, had never seen her natural hair color Finlay: Crashing Peter Wong's wedding party w/ Lisa Walking through rain Lisa: "Imagine how awkward it was for me to be present for someone else's awkward conversation!" Jamison played with wheely thing in Lisa's room over alumni weekend Jimmosk:LOCAL PEAS! FIREWORKS! ENTRANCE! Kate: Mario Party 64 - She's so cool OMG - Dunkin Donuts hot chocolate = CRACK Noda: CTY Mafia running Swarthmore! RAOUL CHALLENGE! Late night food runs! Long Island accent Arthur: SWILoween - typed up her thesis notes from the Lemony Snicket project - drove him to the airport & they got lost Applesauce - It was frightening the speed with which she became a believable mom & with which she developed a relationship w/ Eric Mulligan Greg: Helped Lisa move - buzzing backpack - O.O Chaos: solved Alumni Weekend Saturday Dinner Mai: Driving us everywhere - SOOO nice! Kate: Mailing the absentee ballot - talked about driving away & becoming radical Quebecois separatists - late dinner @ Ruby Tuesday's Jonathan:Contributed to collective personality of a cappella group BDan: Rocky Horror in Philly - got ticketed Comma: Patriarchy - A Kate Duffy production - "So many goddamn takes with the milk -" Alex: Philcon, freshman year! Snowing! Learn Klingon! "It kept us calm. Well, it kept us in a state of meditative anger." JEROME Arthur: Very invested in his academic work - most physicsy male physics major I've met Think of him in context of people like Viva, Rachel, etc. Honor, duty, firefighting - always running out of Physics lounge Renaming him after "Frog"? in Chrono Trigger = best character Made a huge impression on Rachel Mai: Jerome = really fast! Greg: EMT/firefighter triad w/ Greg & Jean Worried that he might prioritize everything else over sleep Done a great job at doing everything - more dedicated in fire school than Greg Reputation for casual singing Jean: Jerome's freshman year stories Lived in Willets - avoided burnout very well Roommate took light bulb out of desk lamp - "I finally figured out it was Christy taking my light bulbs so I took her cigarettes" Noisy people under his window - "Gentlemen! Have some decorum!" Buttercup - serenading a high-school firefighter on a bet Sarah: Still weird hearing Sofia sung by a bass Jonathan:Compared him to Benitez - in that he is always overworked but always able to handle it Jackie: After Beethoven's 9th concert - singing through it again from memory! Jillian:Took a while to get to know him - but they're really great friends Qian's attempts to explain sex-related things to Jerome That Settlers game we played w/ Comma & Alex The amount of time he spends preparing for things The Bra-Ket costume! AnnaM: Helping w/ stuff @ Bryn Mawr - "What's a BDSM relationship?" Kate: Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet "Experience" sword-fighting Noda: Not afraid to give voice to insecurities, and no regrets Joanna: Learning about Bryn Mawr traditions, music conversations, shared love of tea, utter devotion to fire dept. Chelsea:Stepsings @ Bryn Mawr Michael:Shared indecisiveness! Blake: Late nights doing physics & traveling - meant a lot to Blake BLAKE Mai: "Freshman year, we were lab partners in Chemistry." *snerk* I have never since experienced that mixture of adoration and hatred for another human being until the year we lived across from each other. By the end of the year we were no longer on speaking terms, but I don't think you ever noticed that. Cryptic notes on whiteboards Alex: Taking apart DuPont - spend three hours foraging the wreckage for whiteboards & chem countertop Blake made me really appreciate the art of stealing things nobody wants. Greg: The giant monitor Robert Pasternack! Blake's XBox, which worked sometimes. Blake led me to appreciate good beer. Liquid nitrogen Super Soakers! IMing @ 3 or 4 in the morning to get food Jean: After being lab partner to Mai, he was partner to Emily Ullman, then Jonathan...then Jean (Arthur: OMG! Is this like a rite of passage?) He's a great sublimer! Makes the most beautiful crystals you could ever imagine. Visited friend who he met on chat room to mod XBoxes to run Linux - drove friend & Jean to MIT Mystery Hunt Sarah: Looks so happy when he's folkdancing! Pranked Blake's room Arthur: Knew Blake almost as long as Greg - identified by hair color - CornBlake, Frosted Blake, etc. Before he was in SWIL, met Blake in Debate club Defining Blake: The player character in an adventure video game - spoon in exchange for a clock Spent Thanksgiving evening in Hicks futzing around w/ hybrid electric vehicle & Blake missed Thanksgiving w/ family Trying to fix people's computers >.> Drove him at the last minute to get a Halloween costume Never judgemental, always stood up for Arthur Drove to St. Louis for Debate - playing video game music @ full blast, top down, 80 mph, 1 in the morning, bucket of day-old fried chicken One of the only SWILlies he's had conversations with a non-SWILlie about Blake's voice - sounds like a mech "What are you going to do?" meaning "Whattaya gonna do?" Jillian:He does things - spends five hours on computer, then sneaks in later to improve it Blake's LJ - started for him, got him to actually use it Jerome: Other section of Physics 6 - Jerome should learn LaTex! Halo Getting the keg for Kegger! Kate: React to things according to a completely different set of guidelines & would never explain it! "Well, it's Blake" - worked well Accepted strangest things w/o comment Jonathan:Being your friend has been the most fascinating and incomprehensible things... "Improving" his UNIX account s.t. two instructors had to puzzle it out later Remodeling Lodges basement - perfectly lit room from all directions? Perfectly silent...Blocking out mind-rays? Alex: Blake's disrespect of property - rooting computers because he forgot his password Noda: Blake can skate at Puckers wearing a trench coat - impressive! Michael:Walking to Home Depot - getting halogen light for Mom's room BDan: Building an igloo on Parrish Beach 200 ft of Ethernet cable Eliza: Stealing food from my room MAI Sarah: (Mai: Goddamn sexy bookshelves!) Jackie: Dated Mai for purity point! Arthur: Source of Chuniverse - Dream in which Jillian was Editor-in-Chief of Halcyon, Mai sabotaged it w/ superhero photos, he had to fix it! Bonded w/ Mai by virtue of shared fandom - ridiculous long storylines in DC/Marvel comics that make other people at the table upset and confused... ...which is great! Noda: Pranking Mai's room - phonesex! Jason: Mai is awesome!...A great friend. (see paper) Moxy Fruvous! Green Eggs & Ham...Doomed his & Rachel's relationship forever. ;P Eliza: Mantis hatchlings! Sarah: Sonic attack... Kate: Met her during orientation week...lived together - very interesting person to be around - introduced her to new aspects of fandom Convinced her to dress up to go to Harry Potter movie Jillian:Presidential session in which they decided not to be Rum, Sodomy & The Lash Tried so hard to get Neil Gaiman here...:( Blocking for the quad... BDan: Bryn Mawr side-trips to comics store Joanna: Met Mai b/c of comic books Blake: Building a fort in ML lounge - honorary member of his friends from across the hall freshman year Noda: Kegger DJ, having fun - 2 yrs ago, rocking out to Utena opening theme, President for two years! Has had a lot of influence over what SWIL is today.... SARAH Mai: Perfume hobby! Finlay: Small squeaky noises! (Jackie pokes her) Saying funny words - paper on sound symbolism Great conversations about religion and sex Jerome: Proved sentience as an Ent Pterodactyl hunt? Hogmanay Bryn Mawr BDan: Met her at DoubleStar Masquerade Ball - went as Gollum! Sophomore year - gave him a ticket to Lantern Night - let him crash afterward - they started dating "She currently has a spinning wheel in a castle tower." Spins things, makes stained glass - he worries about her lead content Sarah was in Alaska - liked it being light all the time Sarah & Kim dyed their hair bright blue for May Day Jillian:It would be extremely hot if BDan & Noda were together (Finlay: *breaks*) Noda: Lime green! Sudden interest in musical works of Ben Newman... Building up "meat tolerance" - (Sarah: When you're making porcupine, season it. And don't eat the feet.) First time he met her her hair was green Chelsea:Sarah is my frosh! The SWIL Mawrtyr! The completely adorable LJ posts you and Ben have been making... Useful survival skills we don't have. Joanna: Pudding! Screwed Sarah w/ Mark Handler to throw pudding @ each other... Impersonating Katherine Hepburn in the Cloisters... Brecken Prom dressed in colored Saran Wrap... Left yellow Swarthmore Nalgene bottle on Steps... Comma: Dressed him up as the Attention Whore of Babylon Arthur: D&D, cool having someone very much of two worlds Greg: D&D whee AnnaM: Met her when she specced - Plaid & Fuzzy - Oh, SWILMawrtyr, talk to Sarah Coming back from her room smelling like BPAL just exploded on me... Trying this "of two worlds" thing out too... Staying w/ her @ Philcon spinning her thesis Mark: D&D, yay, Mark - "I WILL SURVIVE..." (singing) Jonathan:She gave him lodgings after DoubleSWIL Jackie: Taking Vampires w/ her, final project = Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter GREG Mai: SASS letter Joanna: On behalf of Sayaka, SMACK! Jackie: Greg, Final Fantasy! I remember dressing up as the Turks w/ Greg - convincing him to go to SWILoween but only if he could get drunk first Both of them squeeing like little girls whenever Aeris showed up during Advent Children Jillian:Met each other at spec weekend, talked on IM for a summer, dated the first half of fall freshman year Have the most antagonistic relationship of any other Swattie Let Blake kidnap them & talked a lot Learned the most from Greg @ Swat b/c they disagree on 90% of everything (except for stuff about their moms) Has "Swarthmore conversations" where they learn things Jerome: Thanks for putting up w/ him for a summer of Fire School Arguments about the merits of cheese, or how much one should wash dishes MEAT - taste in food.... Arthur: Hey, roomie! Roomie - you're my roommate! This is gonna be awesome! With those words, the legend began. Greg was one of the first people I met at Swarthmore College. He was so happy. Whenever he met someone he would, like, compliment them. Tumultuous relationship...(Jillian: Greg is good at those) Convinced him to live in a loft in New Dorm - the legend continued! You could plot out on a two-axis grid: Upset-Happy, Mainstream-Geeky, and each Quad member was one corner...Greg was Unhappy-Geeky. He followed Greg to the Rugby team, and to SWIL... (Jonathan: It's called Destiny, people!) Greg had a tough freshman year - the whiteboard in which they wrote their names and tried to represent themselves They had a lot of hall conferences - the conference when Greg & Jean started dating "Don't make fun of Greg - I'm looking at you, Arthur!" I would hang out and talk about hanging out with friends who had girlfriends and draw this out and he would give me this *look*... And that's what I prize from Greg. He would ask Greg to do everything - make fun of each other mercilessly in public, and they're okay with it "Greg is responsible for 90% of the shit I do." They egg each other on. He wasn't completely right about agreeing about anything - they disagree, but they never disagree about thought processes... Missing talking to him about everything - "Brothers of the Mind" - connected by the way they think Argue w/ Jillian about same things Got Greg to write letters about columns while Arthur was an editor @ the Phoenix Greg has the stronger moral sense, has had more hardship in his life, deserves a lot of credit for the alcohol policy thing Can't imagine the last 4 years w/o him around - closest to Greg - no subtext jokes! Someone nominated the Greg-Arthur-Jonathan ticket b/c nobody would vote for it but it almost won The Greta Helmholtz conversation Blake: Greg's roommate Quincey...started out pretty rocky and went downhill from there. He wanted to ensure that people felt the same way about religion that he did...The fallout hit Greg. Jean: Sophomore year - majority of her conversations centered around HIV - went to a speech by John Kerry in Philly Interrupted the speech blowing whistles & chanting - shouting things at policymakers is not necessarily the best policy... In particular...thrown out - Kerry spoke about AIDS - Greg was there with her, helped her think about social agendas Alex: Greg's lizardman assassin...Mary & Jamison ripping on them for not wearing pants - faking pants w/ disguise self Noda: Met Greg via IRC channel Oracle... Greg: 2 nicknames from High School - named "George" by football players, called "G-man" by football coach Finlay: promises to let him make fun of her more Eliza: TAINT! Also, the Device for Warding Off Greg ARTHUR Mai: Stayed up all night to write "all candidates" thing Comma: Arthur says the things that need to be said when everyone else has the common decency not to say them. ChrisW: I remember when Arthur wore pants once. (Cue Maryland story) Greg: Arthur left me a gift when he went to Maryland. He set me up with Qian. Arthur had pants when he got to Swarthmore, but he put them in a box and couldn't find them. Stand-up comedy Reporter/editor/columnist, cartoon-writer for Phoenix Adapted & directed a play, acted in another Radio show for four years Debate, college bowl PA Oracle Hunt Wizard! For five minutes! Wrote SWILNews! Organized stuff for SWIL Active poster on Jolt, etc. He embodies Swarthmore! (True, true.) Never met anyone who did as many things @ Swat Met Arthur during TriCo - he was the person talking to people Courage to speak the truth - putting himself out there Because of you that I can claim that I performed in the Vagina Monologues Arthur's sleep schedule is odd - wreaked havoc on Greg's own sleep schedule "That guy" who used Arthur's computer for a whole semester Arthur was the only one who went to the tower housing? Mario Brothers theme on continuous loop for 3 months Jackie: Malvolio! Exaggerated rehearsal - Malvolio breaks up drunken carousing & makes a huge mess Arthur knows everything! Jerome: Joke poster for Sigma Xi - kittens, fusion, Mandrillbrot sets Unafraid to take unpopular positions, has taken a lot of flak from various people - he respects him Pupkin: Arthur was one of the first people I met @ Ride the Tide - Free Culture meeting - talking w/ Stokes late into the night DMed w/ Arthur playing once...BESM stand-in Jonathan:Agreed to room w/ him nonchalantly - "My God, what have I done?" Surreal knowing that I've roomed w/ you, tapped your brain - Having roomed with you is like saying "I dated Julia Roberts" Like rooming with a very funny encyclopedia I know more about Power Rangers than I ever cared to I once asked Jillian, "Does Arthur know everything?" - conversation about science - "Arthur knowed the hell out of me" Chu-Schneider sleep schedule - which was, there is none - door stayed open onto hallway next to stairwell I see myself asleep in my bed - Oh, jeez, I must have gone to bed a while ago - existential crisis! JC unconscious in Jonathan's bed ...So he went to sleep in Arthur's bed... Chaos: Not one of the people on, say, Debate list who doesn't keep names straight Even if he uses it for evil, it's still very cool Alex: Obsession w/ Fight Club D&D fiction! XDDD "Every session you reference Fight Club! Okay, Arthur, this is an intervention. You like Fight Club too much." SFDT - story we read was about cultural impact of Fight Club Noda: Arthur's defining characteristic isn't everything he knows - Uncyclopedia incarnate! XD Stifler:I left my insoles in the shoes I borrowed from you, can I get them back? Jean: Legacy & impact...very much respect for much of campus, much maligned in some corners, etc. JILLIAN Mai: While presidents...So high on stress that they had to talk for two hours about sex in Mark Handler's room Couldn't take another year in a tiny room, Jillian switched with her Chelsea:Feels ridiculously old b/c met Jillian Jillian's frosh year - remembers Mark telling Jillian to join the [FUN] list...Wanted to say thank you... She's always there, always knows everyone's secrets Bonding over packing up Ben's bookshelves Anna: Many things start on Stokes's LJ - started talking about the Pterodactyl Hunt - "This is the Mawrtyr I've been stalking on LJ!" Coming back after PhilCon - "If these are not my people, if this is not my culture, why am I still at home here?" Sarah: First time she remembers actually meeting Jillian - made them go up to George & make swords for a couple hours Rooming w/ Jillian as ML Quad of Doom - staying up late talking to her & Qian Met her & thought she was a senior! - Obviously knew everything Driving up to Boston after Hogmanay - singing rounds in van Crashed at her house - met family tarantulas Jillian had a marvelous dress for Mayday Jerome: Thought you were a senior! You towered over me! You looked so wise! Getting stuck together...? Freshman summer - working for Amy Bug, Jerome was working for Spheromak lab - noise & dust got so bad took day off - visited Jillian over in Pearson - had gotten contact juggling ball rammed into a glass beer stein - started looking up coefficients of expansion & stuff - tried ice, Greylock freezer, thinking about liquid nitrogen? Left mug in dry ice for a while...it worked! XD Going to see opera in Princeton Lab partners Contras, Hogmanays Person responsible for getting him onto SCCS & LJ Always telling him to sleep Jillian is awesome <3 Hard to say goodbye... Got Boccio to buy an eggplant SWILShirt Noda: Oh, the tales...Summer '03 - Summer of the Oracle...Confluence 2003 - driving to Pittsburgh Aforementioned contact juggling ball - half of Noda's soul in it... Seemed to be volunteering for everything! - People started preventing her from volunteering for things... Summer of the Oracle again...Jillian = The Oracle Mayday last week - it's May! We've been awkward but there are new beginnings and I'm borrowing your skirt and things are going to be fine. BDan: Met late fall of her freshman year The Infamous Kegger... Jillian's giant double bed - Greg lurking underneath it Got Mark into a dress/bra at some point? "No! BDan's the only ex-boyfriend allowed to cuddle with Noda!" Jillian = SWILMom Things were awkward for a while, but now they're good friends Greg: Jillian = combo of sister I never had/sister I already have - been like a sister to me - siblings! Hate each other & still friends somehow! Stalking everyone on SCCS You made me read Hitchhiker's Guide. I got to Book 4 just when you broke up with me! PVC! Jillian stole the counter-coup prototype! The PVC, whipped cream and playstation controllers being used for *something*... Assassins game where he went into Cornell & lured her out into the hall w/ the promise of physics t-shirts Junior year - "Are we even friends???" Massacre - annoyance over Ninjagrams - Andrew sent her a Ninjagram "remember that time when...sophomore year..." I had no idea what SWIL was until I met you... When I had emails to send to the Presidents, I sent them to you because I knew I could talk to you. Really competitive with her...webmaster, SWIL purity test Mike: Wished he'd had a chance to get to know her better - she's so nice! <3 Weird dynamic w/ LJ? Got to know her better through LJ... Jean: Knew Jillian b/c she was best friend's roommate - someone to confide in Conversations Made time for things on top of academics Arthur: First became aware of Jillian - watched Princess Bride - people talking about Greg & Jillian making out at PB Only knew Jillian as That Girl Who Went Out w/ Greg - then they broke up and she was A Fun Person to Needle Greg About Then the Kegger - That Girl Who Makes Out w/ People in Inappropriate Places Summer of the Oracle - she made other people play Telephone Oracle Jillian, Greg & I exist in this kind of space in which we've made fun of each other so much that it's just something that happens She complains a lot - has a very strong sense of empathy "I feel like I've been fighting with Arthur about SWIL for four years" Swarthmore's culture is different from SWIL's culture Being a Swattie at heart means being arrogant & individualistic & being competitive - SWIL has not been part of that culture - accepting, togetherness Jillian is face of SWIL - worries about a diverse range of people - SWIL is a gestalt - trying to get everyone to get along Sometimes he's annoyed at her, sometimes annoyed on her behalf b/c she takes a lot of shit that he wouldn't b/c she cares Sees Arthur as an opponent, but cares about him anyway He sees her as an opponent, but can't help but care back (Like, whoa...) She more than anyone else has made it work for the past four years One of the best people he knows - going to miss her a lot SWILMom! XD / Bitchy sibling! XD SWILWiki - Jillian has all the encyclopedic knowledge about SWIL - he admires it He's done a lot of things b/c it's fun to challenge her about it. NPOV tone... The one thing I'm most honored to say that Jillian and I were both Oracles, both in Hunt and elsewhere Finlay: Met her at ML breakfast - "What is the loremaster? What do they do?" Mixture of frustration and weird awesome SWILluminati! (Jillian: We should make that! And burn it!) Gift of gab - I can't talk very well - IM conversations about life, the universe, and everything, whether humanity is worth saving, etc. Saying what has to be said - taking positions and never backing down - wading into conversations and owning the room - being opinionated I've learned so much from him - didn't get to know him until this year - turned into senior I most look up to "The cripple in the back..." - Finlay (falsetto) "God bless us, every one!" - Arthur "Parking stories? Wow, Remembrances is getting exciting!" - Jonathan "Cumulatively, I've spent a month on the SwatVan." - Sarah "So it's like me and Greg except for me it's saying mean things and for Jillian it's...work." - Arthur