**Alchris**

epphd

Your siggy pic is SO CUTE!!!  So, not only did D go to Duke, but so did his older brother ('94) and older sister ('91). His family's blood runs Blue Devil blue, I think! Since I went to a small liberal arts college (Middlebury) I've adopted Duke as my college sports team

qtpa2t

Did someone say Duke?  I went there!  Good choice adopting Duke as your college sports team.  Sounds like I was there at the same time as your DH's older brother and sister.

alchris

Woo hoo!  Thanks!!!

We could probably drop a few Middlebury names too -- no immediate close friends, but I do know a handful!  In fact, given our west coast connection, we probably each know a lot of Stanford, Claremont colleges, etc. grads too; Pomona was actually my 2nd choice.  We'd have to run some weird FB algorithm to find out if we know friends of friends of each other though.

D's siblings timed the b-ball years better than D and I did -- that's a lot of Final Fours between '88-'94.   Whoever said Duke "always wins" forgets our lean years!  We loved those teams too though, and we created our current assistant coaches (and other coaches) too, LOL.  

I shared a freshman dorm with football players and they were the nicest guys.  DH was a manager for the football team in fall '91 and '92.

I can't believe I'm admitting this, but if you go to my FB page and click on "photos of" me, you'll see some camping out photos.  In another album I have some pics of Kira in Cameron in Dec. '08.

My siggy pic is actually from February -- this is from Durham on Sunday:

She was really cheering throughout -- high fives, "Wa Dutte!" with arm action, etc.!  Saturday's game will be too late for us to make it to Durham...no complaints though!

GO DUKE!!!

alchris

qtpa2t:

Did someone say Duke?  I went there!  Good choice adopting Duke as your college sports team.  Sounds like I was there at the same time as your DH's older brother and sister.

You did!  No way!  Small world!!!

What year exactly?  DH was '95 and I was '97.  I wonder if we have a reunion in common.

GO DUKE!!!

epphd

A - I actually saw some of the pics from your album!  The pic from Cameron is so great!

It looks like you are friends with a girl who has the same last name as the president of the Duke student body from '97.  D is good friends with Takcus N... How many people were in each class at Duke?  You guys MUST have had friends in common. What a funny small world.

And qtpa2t - are you on FB? 

qtpa2t

I am on FB!  I was at Duke during those aforementioned "peak years" - four final fours and two championships ('92).  I was there for a lot of fires on the quad, including the year someone pulled one of those custom-made Gothic-style doors off the dorms and threw it in a fire.  Good times...  

alchris

epphd:

A - I actually saw some of the pics from your album!  The pic from Cameron is so great!

It looks like you are friends with a girl who has the same last name as the president of the Duke student body from '97.  D is good friends with Takcus N... How many people were in each class at Duke?  You guys MUST have had friends in common. What a funny small world.

And qtpa2t - are you on FB? 

She had a blast in Cameron last year -- I have a whole album of them, LOL.  We weren't able to make it this year, so Sunday had to suffice!

I know of Takcus, being pres and all.  And yes, my friend married a fellow Duke '96 alum with the same N last name, but no relation as far as I know (and they're now divorced).  There were about 1600 people in each class, but it felt much smaller.

alchris

qtpa2t:

I am on FB!  I was at Duke during those aforementioned "peak years" - four final fours and two championships ('92).  I was there for a lot of fires on the quad, including the year someone pulled one of those custom-made Gothic-style doors off the dorms and threw it in a fire.  Good times...  

We do have the same reunion year!  DH's in in 2 weeks.

Good choice of years to be there.   I had a Final Four in '94, and it was all downhill after that, at least tourney-wise.  Class of '92 alums like to remind people of when they graduated, but in a god way!

DH and I drove to campus after the game on Sunday and we were SO disappointed that there was no bonfire.  We compared stories -- I've heard a lot about '91, and he was there in '92.

Off to FB!  ETA: Request sent!

epphd

qtp2t - sending you a PM

CMM05

I'm butting in.....BUT....I'm going to have to post my SPARTAN boys very soon!

 GO STATE  

alchris

LOL, CMM!   May we meet you on Monday!

qtpa2t

alchris:

We do have the same reunion year!  DH's in in 2 weeks.

Good choice of years to be there.   I had a Final Four in '94, and it was all downhill after that, at least tourney-wise.  Class of '92 alums like to remind people of when they graduated, but in a god way!

DH and I drove to campus after the game on Sunday and we were SO disappointed that there was no bonfire.  We compared stories -- I've heard a lot about '91, and he was there in '92.

Off to FB!  ETA: Request sent!

You know, shockingly, I haven't been back for a reunion yet.  I must some time!  92 was a great year for b-ball, but as my former roommate says, they're smart there now.  We'd never get in...  lol.

No bonfires!  The blasphemy!  I think my favorite story of the time I was there, though, was the SAE bench abduction.  Hysterical! 

alchris

qtpa2t, I already posted on your FB page.  We not only went to the same university for grad school, but to the same school (within the university) too!

And epphd, sure enough, I didn't even make it through the A first names on D's FB friends list without seeing someone familiar, so I added him as a friend.  I hope that's not too creepy, LOL!

ETA: After typing the posts below, curiosity got to me, and sure enough I know or at least know of about 4 of D's FB friends from Duke.  What's funny is that we probably know some of the same people in Seattle too, esp. if you know anyone who went to Lakeside around our high school years.

qtpa2t

epphd:

qtp2t - sending you a PM

PMed you right back! 

qtpa2t

alchris:

qtpa2t, I already posted on your FB page.  We not only went to the same university for grad school, but to the same school (within the university) too!

And epphd, sure enough, I didn't even make it through the A first names on D's FB friends list without seeing someone familiar, so I added him as a friend.  I hope that's not too creepy, LOL!

Small world.  I once met someone at Duke that had grown up in the Philippines.  I asked him if he knew one of my former classmates from when I lived in Egypt, and lo and behold, he did!  Small, small world... 

alchris

qtpa2t:

alchris:

We do have the same reunion year!  DH's in in 2 weeks.

Good choice of years to be there.   I had a Final Four in '94, and it was all downhill after that, at least tourney-wise.  Class of '92 alums like to remind people of when they graduated, but in a god way!

DH and I drove to campus after the game on Sunday and we were SO disappointed that there was no bonfire.  We compared stories -- I've heard a lot about '91, and he was there in '92.

Off to FB!  ETA: Request sent!

You know, shockingly, I haven't been back for a reunion yet.  I must some time!  92 was a great year for b-ball, but as my former roommate says, they're smart there now.  We'd never get in...  lol.

No bonfires!  The blasphemy!  I think my favorite story of the time I was there, though, was the SAE bench abduction.  Hysterical! 

Typing at the same time.

Reunions are wonderful.  I've actually been to 5 -- 2 of DH's, 2 of mine, and 1 other!  They're really, really well done.  You'll have to go in 2 years, esp. since it'll be your 20th!

And I feel your pain about admissions.  I agree!

And blasphemy indeed.  We were stunned.  It's the first Final Four in 6 years and no FIRE???  We wanted Kira to see it, hee hee.  LOL about the SAE bench!  We *finally* beat UNC my senior year and we burned the House H bench and they never rebuilt it; it was actually DH's former dorm and it was a really nice bench which they all loved, but I didn't care...we finally beat Carolina.  I think that quad still looks odd without the House H bench even 13 years later and I still grin...to myself.

BTW, look under Heather P. on my friends...also Duke '92.

ETA: Heather ___ P. was Duke '92, not Heather P. ___ who was Duke '98.

qtpa2t

alchris:

Typing at the same time.

Reunions are wonderful.  I've actually been to 5 -- 2 of DH's, 2 of mine, and 1 other!  They're really, really well done.  You'll have to go in 2 years, esp. since it'll be your 20th!

And I feel your pain about admissions.  I agree!

And blasphemy indeed.  We were stunned.  It's the first Final Four in 6 years and no FIRE???  We wanted Kira to see it, hee hee.  LOL about the SAE bench!  We *finally* beat UNC my senior year and we burned the House H bench and they never rebuilt it; it was actually DH's former dorm and it was a really nice bench which they all loved, but I didn't care...we finally beat Carolina.  I think that quad still looks odd without the House H bench even 13 years later and I still grin.

BTW, look under Heather P. on my friends...also Duke '92.

ETA: Heather ___ P. was Duke '92, not Heather P. ___ who was Duke '98.

20th... (shudder)  Has it been that long?!?!!  Where did the time go?  I lived in Broughton.  Was the Chiquita banana yellow bench still in front of House YW while you were there?  I painted it one evening with a magic marker...

I actually have found that I have a strange impact on sports.  Before I went to Duke, when ever I watched a game on TV, they won.  While I was at Duke, if I watched or attended the game, they won.  I even saw a Duke v. UNC game AT UNC - and they won.  In fact, I've never actually seen Duke lose a game, though rumor says it happens...  In recent memory, when I was IMing with a friend during a Patriots game, and they were losing, I told him to tell me to turn on the game and root for the Patriots.  Confused though he was, he did it, and guess what?  The Patriots pulled from behind and won. My husband, an avid Yankee fan, calls me "the curse" because until this past year, they haven't won the world series since we've been together, and the one game he took me to at Yankee Stadium, they lost to the Mariners, who I was conveniently rooting for.  Hmmm...  may have to watch these upcoming NCAA games.

alchris

Not 20 yet...no worries!  But we were talking about the Kentucky game on Sunday and I COULD NOT believe that had been 18 years.  Yikes.  I can't even believe it's been 9 since the 2001 championship...that was right before I graduated from UVa.  I've never been in NC for a championship despite having lived here for most of the last 17 years.

This whole connection keeps getting creepier.  DH is from NY and I'm from Seattle, so the only sport in which we root for different teams is baseball when the Yankees and M's are playing each other.  We finally saw them play against each other in person in Sept. '07, toward the end of my pg.  It was one of only a game or two that the Mariners won all that month, but we won when we saw them in person.  (That gets a sarcastic "woo hoo." )

DH is clearly used to his teams winning too -- Duke and the Yankees have similar reputations along those lines.  OTOH, I appreciate a good victory.

I don't remember the YW bench -- I can picture where it was though!

My four best friends lived in Broughton for just one year ('94-'95) -- two were in the tower.  I was in Wannamaker that year -- I missed out on the unique rooms, but at least it was big, LOL.

And as far as Duke not losing when you see them, well, I don't have much to say about that.  No pity.

qtpa2t

Apologies in advance for hijacking epphd's post!!

I mostly root for the Red Sox (who won the world series the year we were married.  tee hee.  I did put that provision in our vows...)  But I heart Ichiro as a baseball player (he makes the game fun to watch), so the Mariners are my second.

I saw some familiar names in your friends list.  Not people I knew personally, but when I clicked on them, they had friends in common with me.  I lucked out dorm-wise.  After a year in Hanes Annex (I think the year before they closed it permanently. And what a year it was!  28 women and 113 men.  Woo hoo!!  FUN year.), I lived the next three in Broughton, two years in the same room. 

alchris

Cool!  So epphd likes my school through marriage, and you like my baseball team (and that of epphd's current city) through Ichiro!  Speaking of 2001, I can't believe it's been that long since he joined the team and we won 116 games.  Yikes again.

That's quite amazing.  My class was actually the last to live in Hanes Annex; they were basically allowed to punch holes in the walls by then.  That ratio you gave sounds like a lot of fun for 28 freshman women!  I happened to live on West my freshman year, but DH (2 years earlier) lived in Trent G.   I lived in what we still called "new dorms" on West both freshman year and again spring of my junior year, having been abroad in the fall.  I was in Wannamaker sophomore year, and an RA on East my senior year.  I *totally* regret never living on "true" West and not having the continuity for 3 years.  Still, all of my best friends to this day are from my freshman dorm; they're the four who lived in Broughton one year, and they were always late to get together for dinner so I spent a lot of time making that trek from Wannamaker to Broughton to get them.  That tower room was a hike but very cool.   DH was in House H for 3 years so very nearby, but still (miserably ) in Trent G your senior year.

You'll have to PM me regarding the friends of friends!  DH had a lot of '93 friends so maybe there's some overlap there too.

qtpa2t

It was a great male-female ratio.  The guys were probably my best friends the next three years, more so than even women.  A raunchy bunch - most of them ended up in BOG.  They actually wanted me to "interview" for BOG.  They figured I might be able to slide in with a name like Gerry...

alchris

qtpa2t:

It was a great male-female ratio.  The guys were probably my best friends the next three years, more so than even women.  A raunchy bunch - most of them ended up in BOG.  They actually wanted me to "interview" for BOG.  They figured I might be able to slide in with a name like Gerry...

Brah ha ha!!!