COSMOS Day 18 - COSMOS-gram

One of the night RAs, Jennifer, was selling candygrams for $0.75 each in the quad. She started selling them on Monday, 2009-07-13, or COSMOS Day 16, stopped selling for one day and finished selling on Wednesday. These cards will be shipped with a regular sized candy bar. If my memory serves me correctly, the cards will be distributed next Wednesday, 2009-07-22, or COSMOS Day 26.

One of the people I bought a card for was my friend Nathan, who got hurt while playing capture the flag (as I mentioned in an earlier post). Here is what I wrote:

2009-07-13 20:48

Dear Nathan,

Hmm, it feels like I am writing a letter to my brother...you know his name. Uh, I saw Jennifer and John setting up a table with these colorful pieces of paper on the desk. Raymond was helping to move the table, and I stood around to watch. Therefore, I decided to go buy some of these candy grams with some of the money available on my name tag.

You must be one of the coolest guys here at COSMOS for being able to look so "ridiculous" while playing capture the flag and letting me take pictures and videos of you while you were probably in much pain.

On another not[e], you wanted some chocolate while lying on the grass. Maybe the RAs delivering this will give some chocolate.

Also, sorry for the sloppy handwriting. I was blurting out everything on my mind. I hope you bounce back up and get well soon. - MZ

And here's the one I wrote for my Night RA, Adiel:

Dear Adiel,

I saw that Jennifer and John were setting up this table to sell candygrams. Since you bought cake for our suite, I think I will start "paying" you back by sending you a candy gram.

Let me state the obvious, you are a great RA. Thanks for taking care of the 10 of us downstairs and making my stay at UCI so much better than regular school.

- [MZ]

I was thinking about buying one for Jennifer, until she said, "No, don't waste your money on me, it's too expensive. I'd rather see you buying them for your friends."