I was hoping to make friends with some of the incoming students and I found someone really cool. His name was Jeremy Gross and he was... intense... for lack of a better word. He styled himself as some sort of mystic prankster, (2/24)

but unlike most of people at a school like Bard who would do that, he actually pulled it off. He introduced me to the I Ching and Robert Anton Wilson (and through there the Principia Discordia). While I was a year away from knowing Phish, (3/24)