Pappleberry pie for a hot summer's day

I hope everyone is enjoying their summer despite the lack of lectures.

I sure am. To celebrate such a lovely summer day, I made a pappleberry pie.

Yes! pappleberry pie! If you are a lame person who does not appreciate the art of portmanteau-ed fruit products, you may call it pineapple and strawberry pie. Do not be lame.

dear quynh,

we finally bought helmets!

hope you're proud :)

Paradise Found

Attention shoppers & pluot lovers, Seward Co-op has made my day delicious. Go get your pluots now!!! Can't wait for more varieties to pop up all around town!

breaking up is hard to do

It's been weeks since Commencement - the U and I are clearly through. The University of Minnesota has clearly moved on; she's already found another 15,000 students and has likely forgotten my student ID number altogether. Now she just sends me letters demanding her stuff back. Well, University, I'll go ahead and say it: I still love you! You and your dreamboats are breaking my heart.

I loved college. All the way from registration to textbooks to the feeling after sliding a possibly disastrous final paper under my professor's door. I loved it all. Through college I have learned more than I ever could have learned on my own. And I've come out of it only more excited to keep learning. I am endlessly thankful for the opportunities to work with such amazing professors and I know that my life is better for it. College is the best decision I have made for myself. It's been painful and wonderful and I'm so glad for every day of my college experience. I will miss it so much!

Even more than college, I am going to miss my co-CEO. In the last two years, we have suffered and giggled and been embarrassed together almost everyday (embarrassed together, damnit!). We remedied painful classroom experiences with cupcakes, and discussed our love for school over wonderful lunches. Needless to say, I likely wouldn't have survived college life without her. Quynh has left Minneapolis to hook up with a much hairier and smellier Seattle. I'm very happy for her and sure she will find friends and fruits everywhere.

Quynh, I love you.

we blame BP

MISSING

"Pluots"

IT IS WELL INTO PLUOT SEASON -- WHERE ARE ALL THE PLUOTS? THE INTELLECTUAL DREAMBOAT FAN GIRLZ HAVE BEEN SEARCHING ACROSS THE COUNTRY FOR OUR PLUOTS AND THEY ARE NO WHERE TO BE FOUND. WE NEED PLUOTS. WE NEED THEM RIGHT NOW. YOU NEED THEM TOO! PLEASE HELP US LOOK.

REWARD: you get to eat Pluots! why isn't there more hysteria?

Congrats Co-CEO!

CEOS definitely have something to smile about-being graduates!!!

Kelly-

the last three years of college have been awesome. I'm so happy we took the following classes together: 1950s, global societies, central american revolutions, art lectures, legal feminist theory, african diaspora, how to do history, and latin american history.

here's a top ten list of things i'd like to say to you:

1. blog life. this blog has been awesome. although we will not officially be enrolled in school, it shall continue. and let's get the phrase "blog life" tattooed on our knuckles at age 40.

2. bananas. bananas. bananas.

3. the duel. the fact that somebody calls us that means something.

4. fruit cup. that was a really embarrassing moment for you.

5. cupcakes. they made a great substitute for vicodin.

6. intellectual dreamboatz.

7. cheese curds and frostop root beer on tap. i'd eat this with you anytime. just meet me in seattle. seriously kelly. move to seattle

8. pluot. what an elitist fruit.

9. graduates- remember all the times we wanted to quit school and eat donuts all day?

10. you are embarrassing/embarrassed

let's be school buddies again in 10 years, but for now we will just friends & co-CEOS.

I'm so proud of you!!!

Love, your Co-CEO

Drooling Pearrot

Drooling Pearrot (carrot + parrot+drooling Kelly)

It has been a while since the Intellectual Dreamboat Fruit Company has come out with a new physically altered fruit. We are truly sorry for the delay and the sadness that has caused you. Please keep supporting our business. CEOs/scientists have homework too. We can not always be creative and happy. Sometimes we have to take off our genius-fruitmaking-CEO fedoras and replace those with read-write snow caps. Worry not, Kelly and I will be done with spring semester soon! More fruits to come!!!

Fruit Underwear

As a co-CEO of the Intellectual Dreamboat Fruit Company, I am saddened to hear that a company called AussieBum has beaten us in the fruit underwear race. There has not been a loss like this since the US was defeated by the Soviets in the race to space. That's okay, we have intellectual dreamboat fanz.

The banana underwear is only for men and made of 27 percent banana fiber,64 percent cotton, and nine percent Lycra.

you can check out the underwear on the company's website.

What I'm working on

the picture above is of the 7/11 slurpees I will be working on during my spring break trip to Seattle, but I am now really currently working on a mountain of schoolwork.

Spring is in the air and I'm trapped in my house. We CEOS dont jut make fruits and sit around looking pretty all the time. We have schoolwork to do. Here are a couple of things I am currently working on.

1. Senior paper

"let's talk about sex, ruby: an interracial relationship that rocked 1950s America."(the title to my paper)

I am writing my senior paper this semester. I have selected Florida v. McCollum, a 1952 murder case that took place in Live Oak, Florida. My main focus is the interracial relationship between the defendant, a black woman called Ruby McCollum, and murder victim,a white man called Dr. C. Leroy Adams. Through my research I am exploring the relationship between race and sex in 1950s America. I will hit on how white males are treating different in the US legal system with regards to rape and murder, and the social treatment of interracial relationships in the 1950s. I am thoroughly enjoying the research, but also scared of the writing process.

2.Feminist Legal Theory project

I am working on a class presentation on the topic of marital rape: specifically the evolution of marital rape in the American legal system. My argument pertains to the idea that the consent is the issue that greatly slowed down the criminalization of marital rape. The readings are amazing but at the same time causing serious emotional damage.

IDFCO Breakfast Retreat

Over the weekend Quynh and I had a breakfast date because we love breakfast! This special occasion was also to celebrate Breakfast of the Americas! Meaning... we used ingredients from the Americas... and talked about the Americas while eating them!

Our breakfast featured:

Ma Coffee: Direct trade from Guatemala. From the wonderful Intelligentsia. Definitely strong enough for you to pause and use the silence to contemplate history.

Guerrilla Bananas: Fair trade from Ecuador (we purchased from The Wedge).

New World Sweet Potato Hashbrowns: AMAZING!

Enlightened Cheesy Hashbrowns: Regular (locally farmed) potato hashbrowns with (locally farmed) onions, red peppers, and chipotle cheddar cheese!

& here is Quynh enjoying our breakfast while thinking about the history behind such a meal.

Textbooks I wouldn't Mind Spending My Money On

College Students reading children's books. best idea everz!!! I am currently taking Lee Gala's Children's Literature course on Wednesday mornings. I don't think I enjoyed children's books this much as a child. I get to read books and then share them with my classmates. In turn I get to listen to my classmates talk about their books. My favorite part of the class is when my professor reads the books to us. STORYTIME!!! In addition I am picking up a lot of helpful tips on how to select books for the classroom.

Here are some of the amazing books I've read in class. Both children and adults will absolutely love these books. I suppose the teenagers will love them too, but wont admit that to their friends.

the red book by Barbara Lehman

"We're so gosh darn excited about school" cupcakes

The first week of spring semester 2010 went very well for both Kelly and I. We got to see familiar dreamboats and met new ones. On Thursday,the last day of class for the both of us, we rewarded ourselves with cupcakes. Just because we can. And as CEOs we can do whatever we please. These are the "we're so gosh darn excited about school" cupcakes not the usual "new vicodin" cupcakes.

damn good cupcakes. Thanks Hards Times Cafe for selling such delicious chocolate raspberry cupcakes!!!

local news is good for something, for once!

In the new light of Haitian tragedy (just the tragedy this month, not the tragedy of its entire history), interest has definitely sparked around this country and the aftermath of the earthquake. Haiti is more than an earthquake, however. University of Minnesota professor April Knutson has focused her research and done work in Haiti extensively. She shares her passion for this suffering nation with all of her students, and since the earthquake, has been a notable source on the well-hidden history of Haiti.

She was interviewed by WCCO and the University this week. April explains, as well as she could through the ambiguous narration of the interviewer, the way that this nation has been tortured for centuries. You should DEFINITELY watch this video here.

Unfortunately April's Marxisms class, where she exposes students to global sufferings of capitalism and colonialism (such as that in Haiti), has been canceled this semester
(thanks U of M!).

She is also now featured on the UofM CLA website, which includes this audio interview on Haiti:

It's unfortunate that such a catastrophe was the only way that people might learn a bit about this country, but hopefully people do so now. We, particularly as students, tend to live in a bubble. Amazing people, exceptional professors that actually engage the world and articulate change, such as April, exist in our University; it is an utter waste of an education not to learn from them!

Spring 2010, when all your dreams will come true.

We are both very excited for the semester ahead, although fall semester was... treacherous, at best. Since we're nearing the end of undergrad studies, every dreamcourse is important!

SPRING 2010

HIST 3402W Latin American History 1825 - Present, with Pat McNamara :: Necessary (survey course) and DEFINITELY A DREAMBOAT COURSE. I really like Latin American history, but this will only be my third class on it. The booklist consists of a bunch of novels with difference themes/perspectives. Really, everything about this class is magical.

AMIN 3301 American Indian Philosophies :: Somehow I managed to have never taken a class that satisfies Cultural Diversity, which makes no sense at all (Multiracial Feminism what?), but it led me to this course! The booklist is ridiculous, and the description has made me pretty confident that this class will be worthwhile.

HIST 4961W Major Paper, with Saje Mathieu :: SO TERRIFIED AND EXCITED. Though the different workshops and prep things have made the senior thesis process seem a little less daunting, I'm still petrified. Also, I'm taking this course with Saje Mathieu, which means even more pressure to write a wonderful paper, but also probably a better experience!

ARTS 3420 Visiting Artists Program :: A few lectures throughout semester from, as stated, visiting artists. A one-credit course that will also bring me back into arts and things.

GWSS 3503 Women and the Law, with Rebecca Moskow:: I just added this class 5 minutes ago, against my better interest as far as sanity/time goes. I really don't want to have a semester without a GWSS course, and Rebecca Moskow is super duper fantastic. While generally the law is my least plausible interest as far as feminisms (or most things) go, analyzing the ways that the law affect the lived experiences of women in particular? This class will be amazing.

In summary -- VERY EXCITED INDEED.

And as far as fruits go, right now I am eating an english muffin with Cloudberry jam on it. And no, dear readers, this is not an manual fruit concoction; it's a real fruit, straight from Jesus!

Wikipedia tells me not to confuse it with Salmonberry

(seriously, even as an IDFCo CEO, I have a lot to learn 

about fruit) and that it is grown, among other 

places, in northern Minnesota!

P.S. I just noticed that the University now implements a fee if you register for a class on/after the first day of class? What the fuck is that? Has that always been the case? I guess they need more of your monies.