| Renee: Oh, my little Eener, what would I do without you? I adore that you're the least crazy in your family, but still nuts enough to be one of my friends. The Adventures of Cheap and Easy are just the latest in a long line of Danielle and Renee antics that entertain us on endless nights in Borelando and Gainesville. Who could forget the fuzzy slippers of Barefoot crew and making up choreography to Nobody's Side or 3 am at Cranes Roost park after drinking way too much coffee at perkins, endless ngihts passed out on the couches in my living room, rescuing me from hanging out alone with Kristen and Aurora at Perkins, birthdays and new years and 4th of July oh my! You're the little sister I never had and I know we really will be friends forever. |
| Rob K.: although I know we haven't always agreed on a lot of things debate related you're always someone I have respected as a member of the forensics community. I remember at BCC, my second college tournament, all of us sitting around as you told us the story of Scott Ogden, still fresh in your memory and clearly a painful loss. You and Andy were largely responsible for my remaining a member of the team and for me wanting to be a member of the UF Speech and Debate Family. I'll never forget your countless birthday dinners (you and Kellie must be close to retirement by now), introducing me to the Purity Test and Porn Interp Theatre in the van on the way back from Districts and learning entirely too much about your sex life during games of Questions...you know, for two people who didn't get along all that well, we certainly spent a lot of time talking about sex. :) |
| Kimmie: Wow, I can't believe you actually put up with my crap and lived with me for 2 years. How did we make it through not only living together, but seemingly endless van rides, competing over boys, tournament shinanigans, 2 am Walmart runs, hair dye and borrowing each other clothes and dressing up like hookers---oh my! One thing's for certain. We certainly know how to make a good mess, don't we? I don't think the cleaning gene is gonna kick in for a few more years. :) We're such different people that I think it's sometimes hard for others to understand why you and I are such good friends. But I think it's our differences that allow us to understand each other so well. Thanks for putting up with all of my crap, for loving me despite my quirks and my melodrama and for being the most fun roommate I've ever had. |
| Lauren: I know that you've grown and changed and blossomed into quite the little forensics guru this year, but you're always going to be my little novice that I took under my wing and tried to free from the clutches of Nate and the parli clan. In this see of ultra liberal and substance-induced craziness, I was so happy to find someone else who loved cows and catholicism as much as me! |
| Mandy T.: I remember when you first joined the team our second semester of college, everyone thought we were sisters. Throughout the next three years I felt that we did grow to be somewhat sisterlike. I both admire and respect that you were able to maintain a separate, normal life outside of debate when the rest of us were getting sucked into the nonsense. Congrats again on being Miss Florida Gator 2000 and best wishes for a wonderful future. As with debate, I know you will succeed in everything you do. |
| Mark U.: Well, Batman, what can I say? I'm not sure we were ever really friends. We kind of went from being acquaintances to being, well, more than friends rather quickly. I look back on everything that occurred between us surprisingly fondly. I'm glad that a spontaneous, outlandish, unique Lithuanian man walked into my life when you did and encouraged me to look at myself in a different way. IBut guess in a way that's what real friendship is really about to some extent. |
| Matt B: When I think of the strangest friendship I've ever had, it has without question been ours. I think that we're entirely too much alike to ever get along for an extended period of time, but I'm always happy to see you and I wish you the best in everything that you do. Thanks for phone calls until 2 am, Orlando craziness, senior prom, Epcot weirdness and IM bitchiness when we both have PMS. I still smile when I see you online, and I hope that some day I can tear you away from Jenny long enough for the two of us to hang out and catch up. Lots of love, Matty. |
| Mike H.: I just have one thing to say...DSR-TKA Nationals 1999. I may not have come home with any trohpies, but the memories are still nice. |
| Mike K: I almost listed yours under K because I've always known you as Kiser thanks to the pomp and circumstance of Student Congress. I'm glad I met someone who loved Stud Con even more than I did. It was great having you here in Gainesville last summer although I wish I were in Boston instead! |
| Mike M.: Well Mr. Moorehouse, I'm glad we've gotten to know each other in the wacky world of rehab counseling. You're probably one of the coolest people I've met in grad school because you're sincere and honest and Italian, too! :) It's nice to have someone in class that enjoys sarcasm and mocking dumbness as much as I do. |
| Melissa D: Well, we've nearly made it through Thesis Hell and the Quittner lab and we're both still alive. Thanks for being someone I can bitch about class with and bond about doggies and Rehab craziness. When we graduate, I say we burn all things thesis and Shaw related in a huge bonfire! :) |
| Nadine: Liebe Nadine, Ich wünschte welches Ich konnte dir sich in Koln aufhalten. Du bist nicht nur meine Deutsche Schwester, aber auch eine wahrer Freunde. Sie tut mir leid, mein gebrochenes Deutsch. Ich bin sehr froh das wir in Verbindung bleiben. Ich liebe dich, meine Freunde! |
| Rebecca: You know, you can dye your hair red and neo-hippie yourself out and leave debate and get some play and get a boy or two or three and stop talking to all of us but you're still going to be the Jewish Mother who always had her black interp book in tow and tea bags and honey and 1001 drugs in her purse every weekend in every city and nearly every day in between. I'm glad that you've branched out and found some happiness that you were clearly lacking your last year with the debate team and I keep you in my thoughts and prayers more than your probably think. I just hope that as much as you have changed yourself, you remember to keep the wonderful parts of you that we loved so much. |
| Rick: I wish that we kept in touch better than we do. I love that you and I share a feeling of having been born about 60 or 70 years too late. And even though you make fun of me or hit on me just to freak Jacob out, I still consider you to be one of my favorite people. Have a wonderful year in Germany and know that I will be extremely jealous the whole time you are there. Since you won't be traveling with Trinity for a while, you had best keep in touch in other ways. |
| Ryan: It's funny sometimes how life circumstances can throw two people together who would otherwise never meet and those two people can become the best of friends. You have such a big heart, Ryan, and you care so much about the people you call your friends. Thank you for understanding the importance of the New Years tradition better than most people, for always wanting to cheer me up when I'm down, for hours spent at Denny's or eating sushi and in cities all over the country being goofy and talking about nothing. Thank you for always being my friend. |