Apollo: Blast from the past, important Annoucement

[Jennifer Mills]

Dear Apollo,
Today I was cleaning out some things, and I found our pink piggie bank. It has $9.00 and change in it. As the treasurer, I would like to propose an essay contest to former memebers of Apollo with a cash prize of $9.00. If you'd like to be entered in the contest, please reply to this email with a 200 word essay about why you think you deserve the money, how you will use it, and what it will mean to you. For an impartial judge, I will forward the essays to my mother who will choose the winner. Please also include your mailing address. If you win, you will receive a check for $9.00 in the mail. I will use the change for the stamp.

Please send your essays by Friday at noon.
200 word max.
Include your address.
Respond to this email.

Good luck everyone.
Jennifer Mills. The Treasurer.

[Robin]

Hahaha great idea Jen.

Could I propose another option? Maybe the $9 could go towards a pizza? For an Apollo pizza party reunion?

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[Jennifer Mills]

Ok everyone, take a vote.

[Jacob Simmons]

Due to proximity issues, I want to win that money and don't give a DAMN about a pizza party.  

A southern BBQ party, however, I'd be up for and willing to host.

[Lindsey Smith]

Jacob can we come to your house?

I vote essay and if your momma says they all either win or are all terrible, we spend the money on pizza instead. 

[Robert Bacon]

Love the pizza idea, but I have no idea when all of us will be together. My vote is on essay. 

Bacon

Sent from my iPhone so please forgive any spelling and/or grammar mistakes.

[Jaime Landolfi]

OBVIOUSLY a get together is the preferred choice!?!?!?!  Right, dudes?  Come on!

Folks could at least try to carve a smidge of time out of their schedule for a little Apollo love ...

Miss you guys!

Jennifer (Jaime) Landolfi, DVM, PhD, Diplomate ACVP
University of Illinois, Zoological Pathology Program
jaim...@gmail.com

[Jonny]

Me wanty hangy outy. I'll pay $9 to do that. Boom. 

Sent from my iPhone

[Jacob Simmons]

$9.00- An Essay

 

Do you know how much it costs to buy a house?  Do you know how much it costs to hire movers to pack up all your possessions and put them in a box made of cardboard, move them to a large truck, and store them in a warehouse in Skokie?  Do you know how much it costs set up an account with the Gas company, the Water company, the Internet Company, and the Electric Company?  Do you know how much it costs to eat out every day because you’re in temporary housing and don’t have a functional kitchen?  Do you know how much it costs to not get a paycheck for two weeks because you had to take a week off work to switch jobs?  Do you know how much new furniture costs because it doesn’t “look right” in a new house?  Do you know how much it costs to find the “right vibe”?  Do you know how much these things cost?  I do.  I do, because I’m living them ALL, right now.  And they cost $9.00.  Together.  $9.00 is the price of transition, and I could really use $9.00 right now.  Thank you for your consideration.  Long live Minnesota!

1305 Wayne Drive

Birmingham, AL 35226

(Please send after next Friday once I officially close on the house.  Don't want the Pierce family to get that Apollo money.)

[Lindsey Smith]

Hahahahahahahahaha

[Lindsey Smith]

"Do you know how much it costs to find the “right vibe”?"

[Molly Jones]

Jacob - snooze city, usa. I did this all a month ago. 

write a new essay, but this time focusing on what the "right vibe" is. IM V CURIOUS. 

On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Jacob Simmons <jacobk...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Bacon]

I don't even know why I'm trying after Jacob's. My only hope is he loses by default because his essay is 203 words. I wouldn't have pointed it out if he didn't use those extra three words to say "Long live Minnesota!". ANYWAY!

$9.00 - An Essay

When I was a child growing up in Los Angeles I didn't have a lot of toys, I didn't have a lot of TV channels, and I didn't have a lot of friends. What I did have is one tree in my small backyard. That tree represented hope to me. It represented something that I've always wanted and that was a tree house. With a tree house maybe I could invite people over. Maybe they would want to climb the rope ladder and look over other people's yards. Maybe I would have friends. Determined to build this treehouse I walked down to the Home Depot. I grabbed a large push cart and I went up and down every aisle picking out the best of the best in supplies. Treated oak, reinforced nails, and rope made from the finest Brazilian nylon. I went through the checkout line and guess how much they wanted? $3009 - Just $9 more than the $3000 I had stolen from a bank. I wasn't interested in compromising the integrity of my tree house. So I told them to put it all back. I still have that stollen $3000 and am just waiting on that magical $9.

On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Jacob Simmons <jacobk...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Lindsey Smith]

hahahaha oh no Bacon, Inflation!!!

[Jacob Simmons]

HAHAHA!!! That sounds like an incredible tree house of hope.  

(BTW... I was at EXACTLY 200 words.  You probably counted the title, which shouldn't have been counted.  This is why no one came to your invisible tree house, Bacon!)

[Bacon]

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[Bacon]

Maybe it counts $9.00 as two because it sees the decimal point as a period?

ANYWAY, doesn't matter because it's Friday and the deadline and no way anyone else posts a story in time. Looks like it's just between Jacob and Bacon. Yep! No other submissions! None what so ever.

[Daniel Armstrong]

That would be dope