so, as i waltzed into my dorm room, listening to fatboy slim and shaking my head like the very whitest girl ever, i noticed right off that someone had IMed me, and then i noticed that it was in fact the most fabulous rachel laribee.

and i actually bellowed. remember when you read Farmer Boy, and it said that almanzo bellowed a lot? well, i never really understood what that meant until today. kids, it was like the jaws of life opening.

what made the story so much more perfect is the fact that i now have documented proof of rachel laribee making a mistake. this will not go unnoticed by the FBI by any means. in fact, just for reassurance and the inability to let anything of this nature slide, i will now post, in its entirety, except for carefully edited parts, the one-sided correspondence between my sister and... my computer.

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Rice is Good 4: yeah..so umm...i miss you a a whole lot! and china is awesome, but i wish my old house was here too. liz...i love the aussie boys over here. holy cow they are sooooooooo hot!!!! anyway i miss you guys. tell meri i say hi and i miss her sooooooooo much! love rach

Auto response from lizepiphany: clase. leave it, son.

Rice is Good 4: so. you know what is really really really funny. when your sister thinks her sister is her house mate from st. mary.s ....personally, i think that is an awesome rachel story. :-) anyway i just realized that i am talking to my favorite sister, and not my student house mate from last year. well, i have so much more to tell you then that. first of all lizzy...i miss you sooooooooo much more then liz (my old housemate) or meri, beucase well...we have more history and you get me more. plus you have stories and were there when i got a grape stuck up my nose. so in that regard, you know me the best. anyway i wanted to say that i NOW have interent in my room and i willl be on line all the time now. LIZ.. i love it here. to be honest though, i wanted to come home so badly at first. i hated it so much because i missed mom and dad so much

Rice is Good 4: but now little by little, is is getting easier, and now i love it sooo much. i can't believe what a few weeks has done. now i have met the most wonderful people! mostly i have been hanging out with a big group of aussies that are my closest friends. liz! you would be in LOVE with this one boy, my closest friend here named Rhett. (but he is gay, so don't worry :-) ) anyway my lizzy, i just wanted to say that since i havn't heard from you, nor talked to you in such

Rice is Good 4: a long time, that i should write you. i love you and can't wait to hear about your many adventures. :-) love rach

Rice is Good 4: by the way...i am really really sorry i thought you were my house mate..but by now you are so used to me acting like an idiot and forgetting peoples names, that i'm sure its not a big surprise that i didn't know whose screen name was whose. ok, well now its about 4 in the morining here, and my brain is so tierd and so not working anymore. hence the mix up in the begining, but i was just so happy to finally have interent, that i wanted to write

Rice is Good 4: so now i am really really going to leave. i love you and miss you

Rice is Good 4: rach

Rice is Good 4: oh and liz...i love the food here! and i already got you the coolest present! but you have got to wait until i come home. well let me know how things are.

Rice is Good 4: i miss you so much

Rice is Good 4: love rach

(at this point, i started to cry. i miss her guts out.)