Paging Michael Babcock....

No, not really, since I know how to get in touch with you by phone, but I did want to say that it warms the very cockles of my heart that you posted on the blog a few weeks ago. I thought this blog was dead. Even I, the most obsessive blog-checker in the world (I'm frequently bored at work), had stopped checking this blog because I figured no one cared anymore. But then one delightful morning, when I was so bored that I had resorted to looking at my high school's massively boring and snooty Web site, I took a chance on the City Year blog, and voila: a hilarious story from Michael. So Michael: a hearty thank you. Just like a good little doctor-in-training, you breathed one last breath of life into this limping disaster.

Meanwhile, last night I had a dream that you and I (and Joey) decided to go to CYZYGY in New York to support Christine and Katie. And I was very unfortunately dressed in a combination of City Year uniform and normal clothes (a la boots with a skirt and the CY polo), and somebody asked me, "Hey, I thought you were the girl who hated City Year." And I was like, "I am! So why the hell am I having this dream!?!" And then I woke up.

Speaking of CYZYGY, Christine, how's the Chi-town routine coming? Is it going to have classical music in it too? I can only hope so.

slap happies in every direction

so i was just sitting in my computer cluster in the library doing some research. and all of a sudden a friend of mine in med school yelled to me, 'hey michael, are you ready to do city year slap happies in every direction?'... of course my response was 'hunh?'.... i wear my city year backpack to school, and someone who had done it in like 98 or 96 who is a 4th year in med school saw it and told me friend to say that. anyway, me and her talked for 5 minutes or so and talked about how crazy city year was.... apparently they had alot of drama in 98 or 96 as well. anyway, for those of yall that dont know, ripples of hope is tonite, and i got a pretty professional thing in the mail about it. i was kinda suprised, but it looks like it will be pretty well done.... so katie and patty, good luck with that tonite.... for everyone else, hope your 2006 is goin well so far... peace out.