ryan
fritzsche
met: He was a TM intern the year before me, and visited during my internship. Plus I've seen him around ORU and various places.
specialties: video, production, hollywood type stuff
misc: graciously allowing me to sleep on his couch.
web:
www.tandemarts.net
gwyn
dahler
met: She was a TM intern the year after me, and I'm pretty sure we met at the Chicago ATF. Stan Wolford introduced us. We chatted on and off since then, and I visited a couple times when she went to Bethel.
specialties: quesadillas, juggling, crafty things
misc: hates the term "blog", loves fif and death cab for cutie
web:
xanga.com/gwyneth
patrick
reid
met: TM intern (notice a trend here?) the year after me. Stayed in his room when I visited that summer.
specialties: acting, ladies man, being badass (just look at the picture!)
misc: not really a badass
web:
xanga.com/trinisity
elizabeth
anderson
met: Not yet. Just know her through xanga, other friends, and chatting a couple times.
specialities: sarcasm and getting down with the dc talk, d-d-down with the dc talk
misc: really is a badass
web: RIP
karla
kriz
met: On El Salvador '95 trip. Didn't really get to know her until (you guessed it) the TM internship in '97. We were in the same class: the cool-weird class.
specialties: writing odd stories, snarling, working with youth
misc: she gave me the nickname "gigglemunch".
web:
xanga.com/wookienugget
brian
parker
met: TM alumni reunion a couple years back, when he was dating Rachel. As you can see, they have since been married. Unfortunately I don't know him well enough to know his specialities or any miscellania.
web: no blog that I know of; tsk tsk.
rachel
parker
met: She was also in the '97 TM internship cool-weird class. As you can see, she's married to Brian.
specialities: Playing Mao and telling jokes/stories on long road trips.
misc: She always told me how much I reminded her of her younger brother, and even looked almost like him.
web: no blog that I know of; tsk tsk.
heidi
miller
met: Not yet. Just know her through xanga and chatting. She's one of the first strangers I started reading on xanga and we've become friends since then.
specialties: sarcasm, piercings, eating an entire pack of raw hot dogs
misc: isn't she pretty? she doesn't even know it. no, we're not hooking up.
web:
xanga.com/heidi_theory
shain
kirby
met: Not yet. Just know him through the awesome community that is the Eisley forum. He was one of the originals on there, plus we've chatted a few times. It's a big maybe about meeting up, but hopefully we can work something out.
specialties: being a pirate, wooing women, misspelling "the"
misc: I don't think he's nearly as scary or tough as this picture makes him seem.
web:
xanga.com/mach0Nach0