friday night we had dinner with my supercool friend thanh from backintheday. thanh lived across the street from the infamous DOG-JOYS house i lived in for a time during college. DOG-JOYS was thusly named because that is what our phone number spelled. i've been meaning/wanting to tell you about life at DOG-JOYS for some time now, but ... it's really a daunting task. there is so much to tell. and where do i begin? i'll just jump in there.

DOG-JOYS was a two-story semi-dump, very close to campus, and even closer to domino's pizza. at one point, someone found a coupon for a $5 medium ... and photocopied it. about a billion times. i'm not sure why that was really necessary since our elaborate SOP was carefully constructed to ensure that the coupon was never actually handed over to the pizza guy. SOP was call in the pizza, claiming the $5 coupon. then walk the seventy feet to the domino's where the existence of a coupon was never to be mentioned. we could usually get outta there before they realized they forgot to ask for the coupon. us = 1, domino's = 0. the plan was, if they ever did remember to ask for the coupon, we'd all kind of look at one another with this 'i thought you had the coupon' look. then someone would say, "oh no. we forgot it. (deep sigh) well, i'll just walk back home and get it ... (pathetic face) could you try and keep it warm for us?" the whole time, clearly acting like it was an enormous burden cause we lived sooooo far away. the hope was that domino's guy would feel guilty about picking on some poor ratty college students who didn't even have a car to drive to the pizza place, but didn't get delivery cause they probably couldn't afford to tip the delivery guy. but you know, i don't think it ever came to that. i don't remember ever running into a domino's guy who gave a single shit about the coupon.

anyways, more DOG-JOYS stories to come, but i had started out talking about thanh, or tank, as wake calls her. i'm not sure anyone knows why. including wake. i'm terrible at remembering all the details of stories, but i do remember that one time wake got a job with some temp agency. instead of being farmed out to other companies, he was actually working in the temp agency office. at one point, he had the opportunity to come across some personnel documents. one of these just happened to be for the aforementioned supercool tank! now tank is about as much fun as you can fit in 5 feet 4 or so. she is just hilarious. and no one can match her energy. don't even try. wake found that in her file they had described her as "Vivacious!!" now that's not just plain old "vivacious" that's "Vivacious!!" no one ever deserved the moniker more! if you'd like to put a face with the description, check out see here.