"You REALLY like me..."

Please find below a short guide to dating during the evening on different days of the week and what each day means.

Monday: Let's make our OWN family home evening.
Appropriate Activities: "Watching" a movie,

Tuesday: I'm proactive about dating! aka Umm... I didn't know he had my number.
Appropriate Activities: Fro-yo, gelato, ice cream, a walk
Description: It's usually nice.

Wednesday: Eh, it's the middle of week.  
Appropriate Activities: Something short, please

Thursday: Little risk, potential for great benefit.  Didn't quite make the cut for the weekend.
Appropriate Activities: Anything from as simple as hot chocolate to as involved as dinner, maybe a movie

Friday: The pressure is on.
Appropriate Activities: Planned for, paired off, and paid for. The big dates happen on Friday

Saturday: I like this person.
Appropriate Activities: Dinner, fro-yo

Sunday "Dating is a spiritual activity."
Appropriate Activities:

A quote from our dating expert: "Honey sweetheart, check yourself before you wreck yourself."

Roommate Chicken

Here at "Those Girls 133" apartment, Jenn and I play a little game called "Roommate Chicken". This game was unintentionally invented and played by us through the natural course of living together until we both realized about a month ago what we were actually doing.

How "Roommate Chicken" is played. The game commences at any time, anywhere, when one roommate proposes an idea/suggestion for something that both roommates should do. This suggestion can be serious or joking in nature. The next move in the game is when the other roommate agrees and builds off of that idea to make an additional suggestion. This continues until each roommate isn't sure whether or not the other one is still serious or not. The game ends when one roommate owns up to their secret desire to NOT actually do all the things they were suggesting.....OR both roommates end up following through on the suggested idea whether they actually wanted to do it or not.

This game has gotten us into trouble at times because....let's face it...both Jenn and I are wonderful roommates and would go out of our way to do something random for the other person if it was important to the other person. Which basically means....doing ridiculous things that both of us may or may not have actually wanted to do in the first place, but we thought it was a funny idea.

Here are some recaps of recent games of "Roommate Chicken" that have been played:

• Let's switch rooms half way through the year
• Let's paint the random circuit container on our wall that looks like an "Umbro" logo
• Let's throw a party....
• Let's have a candle vigil for the canoe that used to park in the downstairs garage 
• Let's go Christmas caroling around the apartment complex
• Let's put up a poster of David Beckham on our wall
• Let's make a slideshow of funny pictures of Lauren for her birthday party and project them on the wall
• We should reinstate "Fictional Man Club" and call it "Fake Man Event"
• Please print out 100 of my updated resumes to give out to every man I see on the street
• Let's start a square-foot garden on our patio
• Let's invite [insert male name] to [insert some event]!
• Let's call our friends past their bedtime (the lovely med school Miller sisters)
• Let's order a life-size cardboard cutout of Bill Clinton
• Let's start a blog!

You too, could play with your roommates.

Laquisha's Resume (Day 115) TRY 2

Laquisha Spatulena Sparkles Schoemaker

Apt 133, Mountain View, CA 94040

(801) UCA-LLME, http://thosegirls133.blogspot.com/

EDUCATION

STANFORD University- STANFORD, CA (September 2009 – June 2012)

College of Humanities and Sciences

Major: Human Biology - Bachelor of Arts, Focus: National Health Policy

HEALTH RELATED EXPERIENCES

STANFORD University School of Medicine- STANFORD, CA (June 2012 – Present)

Research Assistant in HEALTH ECONOMICS
     I basically have already done everything on the job description, so I really know what to do
     I know statistics.

Friend to MEDICAL Students – Stanford, CA (September 1995 – Present)

     Debate medical and health policy topics weekly during Monday lectures

     Discuss men's health during bimonthly phone calls awkwardly 

Nightly Statistical Analysis of Marriagability - Mountain View, CA (November 2012 - Present)
     Analyze roommate's possibility of getting married
     I know statistics.

Project Alone - Stanford, CA (September 2011 - June 2012)

Volunteer Policy Analyst-
    lived alone

My hospitals and healthcare experience is too vast and varied for this one page. I have especially focused and enjoyed my experiences on spines and brains. Will disclose after given interview.

OTHER EXPERIENCES - I'M COOL

Stanford LDS Student Association El Presidente (June 2011 - June 2012) - And, yes, I'm a Mormon.

Beechwood School Academic Tutor (January 2012 - Present) - I know how to wrangle children.

Taught Student Initiated Course- “Sport and Disability” at Stanford University

(Fall & Spring Quarter 2011) - I know how to wrangle college students.

Alternative Spring Break: A Veteran’s Affair- Issues and Policies Affecting US

Veterans (March 2011) - not a marriage related affair, health related

Stanford University Women’s Basketball Volunteer Manager (October 2009 - May 2010)

University of Utah TRAILS Handcycling Team (2008 - Present)

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Phlebotomy Technician (aka I can take your blood legally)

Certified Green Smoothie Master, Level Bright Green II

SKILLZ

STATA, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Word, html, python, French (la langue française)

Why Excel Spreadsheets are very useful

We calculated the probability that Jenn's new cubicle neighbor will be her future spouse...based on the upper and lower bound probabilities of whether this new coworker will be male, single, and straight. Also accounting for the FACT that 15% of people our age (18-27) meet their spouse at work (http://voices.yahoo.com/top-5-ways-people-meet-their-spouses-significant-7031616.html?cat=41) we have concluded that the probability that Jenn's new coworker will be her future spouse is at best 3.2%. Thank you excel. No confidence intervals needed here because this is 100% accurate. Here's to 3.2%!

Lena buys a VitaMix from Costco

 For Christmas I asked Santa for a Vitamix. Since he doesn't have connections with his elves to make a Vitamix himself (it's under patent...and that'd be embarrassing if Santa were sued because he didn't know the law), I got a bunch of money. SO! Jenn and I went out to Costco in Sunnyvale to get a Vitamix for me. Since we were there, I thought that I might as well get some groceries for all the green smoothies that I would soon be making so I got a pineapple, spinach, and frozen strawberries. I had no clue how to choose a ripe pineapple. I NOW know how to choose a ripe pineapple thanks to the internet. When I was at Costco...I did NOT pick a ripe pineapple. It was a bit green, but it did the trick. I also know how to cut a pineapple. Thank you internet and Jenn's giant machete knife.
The other thing about Costco is that everything in there looks relatively close in size and scale. So I got some spinach and strawberries. It was when I got back home that I realized....that the bag of spinach was the size of half of our fridge; And the strawberries, half of our freezer. This was good motivation to make more green smoothies if only for the fact that we needed to decrease the size of the spinach bag in our fridge so that we could find the other food we bought. (sidenote....i forgot I bought some yogurt a few months back and I recently found them. Oh happy day!)
After we packed everything in my car, we naturally had to eat lunch at Costco because that's what you do. I got a slice of pizza and a churro. While Jenn tried one of their Chicken Bakes along with a milkshake. Jenn then had to go back to work and left me to attend to the Costco picnic tables outside by myself. I met a nice man who sat next to me after Jenn left who was wearing a very flamboyant light pink and flowery shirt and who had one of the biggest ring pendants i'd ever seen in my life. Close to brass knuckles. I asked him about it and there is a jeweler in Santa Cruz that he always goes to. When he was about to lose his job he made sure he went to this jeweler to buy up as much of her stuff as he could before he would be unemployed. He now works as Cisco (i think).

Jenn enjoying her first....and her last "chicken bake" at Costco

Beautiful Box. Powerful Blender.

My creation!

Green Smoothie Shot
(Brings you back to the Xanadu days, eh Jenn?)

She's trying not to throw up right now

Trying to be nice to me and say it's good

No Jenns were killed in the making of this green smoothie
(ALSO DOESN'T HER HAIR LOOK GREAT HERE?!?) #hottttt

 Jenn is good enough to always at least try my green smoothies. Even if she doesn't particularly like them. That's okay. I've started a new game with one of my co-workers where I bring in a green smoothie concoction and have him guess what I've put in it. We are then going to create a dataset and plot his progress. #datanerds

The time Lena did the dishes, forcing Jenn to cut bread crusts off with a machete (AKA: Katie's Party--Lena's version)

One thing I've learned about Jenn since living with her for 4 months is that she likes to throw parties........

The week of Anne Katherine Miller's birthday was a wonderful week, indeed. JENN and I decided to throw Dr. Miller a proper party by making food that represented each of Katie's top 5 countries in the world; 1) England 2) France 3)Turkey 4) India 5) Denmark. So...naturally Jenn and I went about our respective roles as party planners/throwers. I, Lena, am on PR duty which means I try and get people to come to the party via clever e-mails. Jenn does all the actual party preparations, aka: making food. Afterwards, everyone thanks ME for throwing such a wonderful party, when really it was Jenn all along. Good ol' PR.

So the night before Katie's party, Jenn was in preparation mode which meant that Lena got to chop thin slices of cucumbers for the cucumber sandwiches that Jenn was making to represent England. Jenn had to leave for something...probably a hott date....and so I decided to be a good roommate and do the dishes/run the dish washer. When Jenn got back she was delighted about how thin the cucumber slices that her wonderful roommate had just cut and turned to prepare the bread for the sandwiches when she realized there were no small knives to cut the crusts off with because they were all in the dishwasher and it was still running. BUT! Luckily she had bought a set of knives from IKEA a few months ago....and the only ones left were huge machete-sized ones. So Jenn, not to be defeated by small knives in a dishwasher....began to slice the bread crusts off PowerRangers-style!

Machete in action

When Jenn asked what shape she should make the cucumber sandwiches, I suggested "star-shaped". She was not amused. (you mean a shape besides a square?!?)

Cucumber Sandwiches
(**Notice not in a star-shape**)

Success!
(Lovely garnish, Jenn)

The actual party was a great success! Other foods from various countries included Crepes-France, Rice & Spinach Paneer-India, Fries & Fry Sauce- Utah, Shishkabobs-Turkey, a yummy dessert that Tori made-Denmark. We also handed out silver-beaded-necklaces to symbolize the pearls that Katie wore ever since she could breathe. But of course to also symbolize and remind us all that ours are of inferior quality because...well...we're not Dr. Miller, nor will be ever. So here's to YOU, Dr. MILLER! Another year of successfully avoiding death! 

Before the actual party execution....or execution of the party...(hmmm still sounds morbid).... there of course is always a planning stage. This includes Jenn's excel spreadsheets and buying of decorations...as well as discussing the highlight of the party....Which was trying to figure out how we could get a cardboard cutout of Bill Clinton as our guest of honor. First off...Katie LOVE the Clintons and so we thought it would be fun to actually bring Bill to her party. Jenn and I literally spent a good 45 mins discussing how we would do this. Options: 

1) Buy an actual cardboard cutout of Bill Clinton

• Pros-- THE REAL DEAL, no hassle
• Cons-- expensive

2) Get a large piece of cardboard and print out Bill Clinton and then glue him on the cardboard

• Pros-- cheaper
• Cons-- pixelated Bill, finding cardboard and a printer, more craftsmenship than we want

3) Buy a cheaper cardboard cutout of James Dean or John Wayne and glue Bill's face to it

• Pros-- cheaper than a Bill cutout, Bill with a cowboy hat or a leather jacket
• Cons-- still expensive

Jenn was good enough to call around all the party places in the bay area to find a Bill Clinton cutout but it was to no avail. We decided to forgo the cutout...... for NOW.

(Brainstorming) Viva La France et L'Angleterre!