happy nondenominational holiday season

My dear taspers! I'm back at Interlochen after going home to sunny (mostly) Tucson for winter break. I saw Rachel, Rima, and Rafie as planned, and they were all doing well. Rachel and Rima and I walked around Tucson and went to lunch. It was great to see them again, but as Rachel said, odd not to be able to say "Let's go to the gorges!" or pick up a few extra taspers on the way.

I've been talking with Keegan and a few other people, and we both agree that our tasp memories have started to fade. Inevitable? God, no, I don't think so. Part of what I love about communicating with taspers (as sketchy as I am about it) is seeing tasp memories from other people's perspectives. So I have a twofold proposition for anybody who wants to help me try to give our tasp a little shot in the arm, a little whatever-you-call-that-thing-where-people-in-the-emergency-room-stick-you-with-electric-paddles.
1. tasp memories. anybody? just sketch out a tasp moment with as much detail as possible. maybe together we can remember things we've individually forgotten.
2. getting in touch with people who haven't been doing it themselves. I'm not the best keep-in-toucher, but I have made an effort to stay in touch with many of you. has anybody heard lately from ashley? blaen? seyram? greg? janice? I know there are more people. probably there are little pockets of intertasper communication going on still - I know I have some - and I want to break them open, get us all talking to each other again. because that was what made tasp so amazing -- that I felt comfortable talking to anyone and everyone in that House. what with modern technology being what it is, I don't see why we should lose that.
3. okay, so I know I said this was twofold, but for those of you livejournal holdouts, c'mon, just get a livejournal? please? you don't need codes anymore, as Elise said, and even if you rarely write in it, there's a certain openness to livejournal that I don't feel anywhere else. and I know there are taspers with livejournals who rarely write things on the blog (*cough*me*cough*). maybe I'm just being selfish because lj is my preferred mode of mass communication, but it won't hurt you to try it. some of you - I'm thinking of Chris specifically right now - would probably really like it. just go to livejournal.com and check it out. Please?

I love you all and I don't want to lose you. It's been a whole semester now, and all of us who have been meaning to keep in touch but not getting around to it need to start doing it now. I want to hear from all 32 of you (34 actually - anybody heard from Xian and Dara?) and I promise I'll write back, although it may take me awhile.

It's 10 degrees Fahrenheit here, but I love you all still.

Linda