The First Blog I've Ever Made

Hello dear members of the Fruit on a Pancake Collective (or as Brent would call it, "Fruit on a Pancake: a Collective") - I have made you all a present! Instead of emailing and facebook messaging back and forth and back and forth, we can post our writing on this blog! (Though unfortunately for Christine, she probably won't have the opportunity to write about sparkly silver spandex leggings unless Ms. Alpha decides to put them on as a tease for what's his face who sells the weed in Eerie...)

I say we begin with Brent's really neat writing exercise that he sent to me on facebook! If ya'll didn't read it, here it is again:

Try writing from perspective of a surgeon during an operation. It doesn't need to be a normal operation; the surgeon can be dissecting a show on ESPN, or War and Peace, the corpse of Roger Ebert, or a beachball. But do this and have a laugh and plumb the depths of whatever/whoever the surgeon is operating on. Run and gun with it, letting loose your corniest if you have to.

Let's all try and get a little somethin somethin posted by next weekend!

As I write this I'm getting more and more excited, and also really nostalgic and miss you all already, except for Christine, who I pre-miss, since she is leaving in, what, three weeks? Gah! Brent, come up to pgh for a reunion soon? Or we could all meet somewhere one weekend? But until then, we have this blog! Feel free to post whatever, whenever! I will send all of you the password, since I don't know if you can post without it.

Love you all,

Rachel