This Meeting Involved Thin Mints

In attendance: Patrick, Elizabeth, Carolyn, Jordan (kinda), Jared, Ali G, Remi, Laura, Katie

Let your life speak Parker Palmer – with a wonderful poem.
“ask me whether what I have done is my life”
Think about what you wanted as a kid and look for clues as to what you want to do with your life.

Involvement fair is next Wednesday the 1^st if you can stop by, you prolly should. (Manning the Table)

Events:::
Last semester we wanted to do another music event: Find a date and GET PLANNING!
TWLOHA Day <3
(this would take a lot of work) (Like, a lot of work) (Like I don’t even know how much work it would take) (Do you know how much it would take? Because I don’t) The Red FlagEvent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 22 Thursday

Boom. Event.

Out of the darkness type event.
PEAC Event::: BRAINSTORM

Red Flag Event: Talk to facilities and SAO to ask what we have to do
Research statistics
As a side-note::: This is supposed to be a mysterious event
(Purpose: Raise awareness for mental health and suicide rates: put flags out however often for the day on the 22^nd.)
Many questions about this event, just keep your questions  for the next meeting think out ideas to solve your questions and we will discuss ALL THE THINGS.

TWLOHA DAY!
April 11^th? We shall be out on the mall (that’s a Wednesday) We will discuss manning the table.

Highs and Lows it out

Of Smoke Signals and Cocaine-1/19/12

Brian Seck came to talk to us from College Possible.

- This has programs from high school and college to help students succeed in school

AmeriCorps (a domestic Peace Corps.) looking for seniors to work for them:

- “coach”: coaching students for college prep (working with juniors and seniors in high school)

Seniors: scholarships enrollment and financial aid, ACT Prep; 

College coaches: students in colleges getting through school finding resources. Staying in school

- “Vista”: part of AmeriCorps: in offices instead of at schools every day.

Positions available also in Minnesota and Milwaukee since you might just get soooo sick of Homaha

Great benefits involved, salary, and they find you a place to live.

For seniors: Feb. 8 (priority deadline) Mar. 7 (regular)

Application and further info on www.college-possible.org

(in a nutbowl this is all that you will need.) (Also, you should send Brian Seck a smoke signal because he knows his stuff.)

We all talked about ACTs.

We discussed our favorite parts of break.

And concluded with Highs and Lows

(Translator’s Note::: These conversations were much more interesting and comical as they were occurring) 

{Love you all}

 

Peace,

 

Katie Watson

((Historian's Note: I took creative license with the title of the minutes. Remi can explain the coke bit if you ask her))

Happy December!

Minutes: December 1, 2011 

Pat, Andrew, Ali, Laura, Remi, Elizabeth, Katie, and Angela were holding down the fort tonight.

Remi brought delicious Butter Finger cookies. Nom.

For our “icebreaker” we watched Lady Gaga’s new video for “Marry The Night”

If you want to watch it, click the link! Warning: it’s 14 minutes long so if you have a paper due tomorrow, you probably shouldn’t watch. Actually, you should probably take this opportunity for a study break. Also, it’s Gaga, so this video is not for the faint-hearted. http://perezhilton.com/tv/Lady_GaGa_Marry_the_Night_Official_Music_Video/?id=1c446dcfbbb97&autoplay=false

For our Christmas CD Exchange with Pittsburg State University (It’s actually in Kansas) we are going to include one favorite song from each of us. Go to the Google Doc and fill in your song of choice.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjckG0Q3hzR0dDJlVjRCVE5CdnkwcUEwRmxDMWdadWc

We will have a table on the mall next week for TWLOHA Day. (Perhaps inside because there’s currently snow everywhere.) It will include Fears vs. Dreams. If you aren’t familiar with this campaign, watch this video: http://www.twloha.com/blog/new-video-fears-vs-dreams-1

Please sign up for the table using the Google Doc. Yay for Google Docs making life easier!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjckG0Q3hzR0dHl2REx5R0lvWV9GdlRvVndSWHRoT0E

Don’t forget about the Christmas party and Secret Santa CD exchange next week, December 6^th. Let’s make some awesome CDs for our fraaands!

We sporcled…a lot. Subject matter: Celebrity smiles, word ladders, Harry Potter. Sorry, you had to be there. Sporcle for even more procrastination! Do your homework too though, kids.

We completely forgot to do Highs and Lows…preposterous, I know.

Of course, one of the Harper workers yelled at us to leave. We just like each other, okay?! Gosh.

Sorry if those were annoying minutes, guys. I’m sleep deprived and hopped up on drugs from being incredibly ill. 

An Actual Meeting: We Got Stuff Done On Time

 

In attendance: Karissa, Laura, Elizabeth, Andrew, Liz, Jordan, Katie, and Remi

 

Discussed face shapes

-then puppy chow

 

When should we have TWLOHA Day? (we make our own National Awareness Days)

-We can mix it with Fear vs. Dreams

Fear vs. Dreams

What's your biggest fear? What's your greatest dream?

• Like Roe v. Wade, it's going down in history.
• With headless photos
  • To be displayed at the spring event.

• White board with colored markers

Dead Week: Tuesday Wednesday Thursday

December 6th-8th 11am-3pm

 

Christmas party and CD secret Santa on the 6th of December

 - New people were put on the list, This is going to be exciting guys!

 

We are doing the Mixed CDs with the rest of the U Chapters, also.. This is happening.

• We will choose our favorite songs from the cds made for each other and will be putting them on one CD for the other school.

 

Then Highs and Lows

We got finished up before we got yelled at to leave. The desk workers should be proud.

 

We missed Patrick because we LOVE HIM!!!

 

A member of TWLOHA is trying out for Glee:::

Thegleeprojectcasting.com/auditions/view/3290361

GO LIKE HER AUDITION TAPE! It's a touching story and a good song, and we all listened very intently.

 

Peace,

 

Katie Watson

Panda Guts are Irrelevant

Minutes: November 3, 2011

Pat, Katie, Angela, Liz, Laura, Ali, and Claire were present.

We googled fun things like “google gravity” (I’m feeling lucky), “do a barrel roll,” and “tilt.” Try it!

We watched a couple videos of the slam poet Anis Mogjani, who we will be going to see next week instead of having a meeting! So meet at the Skutt fireplace next week a little before 9:00

Check out the videos we watched:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATC5OGh3adg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u--_-tyuejc

We discussed the articles Pat emailed us. Here they are again if you lost the links.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/jun/23/epidemic-mental-illness-why/?pagination=false

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/aug/18/illusions-psychiatry-exchange/

We picked names out of a panda, yes that’s right, for the Secret Santa Music Exchange. Each of us will make a CD for who we picked with whatever music you’d like. If you weren’t at the meeting, don’t worry you can still do it!

We ended the meeting with highs and lows.

Event Planning-The TWLOHA Way

Minutes for 27-10-11

In attendance: Patrick, Karissa, Ali, Laura, Jordan, Elizabeth, and Katie

We started off with everyone’s favorite dog breed, Corgis were popular.
As a side-note, Sour Punch straws were a great choice.

We signed thank you cards that actually didn’t say “thank you” on them.

We are doing the Out of the Darkness Walk in the spring- This is happening.
Patrick brought up planning more events.
                -Acoustic Night (Spoken, word, open mic.) (Mime.)?
(The freshmen amaze us; furthermore, we talked about tricks that we would like to see the jogglers do.)
When? Tomorrow Night, Jordan says… or not.
-Night attendance in McGloin in winter was a consensus.

As for other events: Red flag events (placing a red flag in the ground for every suicide through a 24hour pd.
                : Thanksgiving events: What are you thankful for? With a Poster campaign?
                : Fears vs. Dreams in Skutt with pictures.

Discussing the picture made to make Patrick feel loved last year. This made Elizabeth laugh squeakily.

For the Event::: Fears vs. dreams AND TWLOHA Day—Boom. EVENT! November 13th in Skutt, we have a table for this already!

The “Flock of Birds” came out after Ali finished her Mountain Dew, which got another squeaky laugh from Elizabeth.

Then: High and Low… highS and lowS.

Patrick said this was a VERY important thing:::
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/

Minutes 10/6/11

Minutes: October 6, 2011

Andrew, Angela, Katie, Liz, Remi, Juliana, Nicole, Claire, Jordan, and Pat were present.

For the icebreaker we answered the question, “If you could have dinner with one person, dead or alive, who would it be?”

We finished making our t-shirts for the Telling Your Story event…yaayyy!

Here’s the information for the event one more time. Get excited for tomorrow!

Telling Your Story: A Night of Music and Conversation

What: A night of music and conversation

When: Friday October 7^th from 7-11 p.m.

Where: Skutt Ballroom