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Rainwalking!
Oct. 8th, 2004 11:51 pmI've discovered a new hobby! :D You wait for it to get dark, and rain a lot, and you take off your shoes and socks and just go for a walk. In the rain.
It wasn't originally my idea-- I got talked into it by this girl named Stephanie who stood out on the porch with her arms spread out to the sky, going on about "This is LIFE! It makes you feel so ALIVE!" ...She'd make a great Theatre major. So after the random Enthusiastic Running Troop of Shirtless Guys came by, cheered a bit about how cool the rain was, and left, she and I and 3 other people decided it really WAS a good idea, so out we went... We splashed around in the poorly-drained streets, pretended there were fish in them, got our pictures taken, and sang all the rain-related songs we could think of (("If all of the raindrops...", "Raindrops keep falling on my head...", and "Singin' in the Rain." Yes, that was all.))
Pretty soon it stopped raining, so we were bummed 'cause we didn't feel very adventurous and cool anymore, but we decided we'd go see the Science Building with its combination of Fountain and Currently Enlarged River. This building and where we were are almost as far away from each other on campus as it is possible to be. And of course it started raining again on the way. At this point we had to resort to singing "Les Poissons" from The Little Mermaid because we didn't know any more songs with rain in them. And we were very, very cold.
When we got there, the fountain wasn't even on, and we had NO interest in walking all the way back... luckily, we found these random people in a yellow SUV who kindly took our wet selves back to the dorm. Keep in mind that this is at about 1 in the morning, and this girl is just giving her boyfriend from Colorado a driving tour of the campus. Coincidence? :O
Topic #2: Had a thing last night that, when I think about it, is really properly called a date, but I'm just not used to applying that term to anything I do. We went to see Napoleon Dynamite, just so we could say we had, and... wow. It was way more random than I'd heard. o_o A good 2/3 or more of the scenes were the type where some character starts doing something, the purpose of which is not immediately clear, but you expect they'll explain what it's about-- and then they just don't, and the scene is over. It didn't get old per se, but sheesh. They used that a lot.
We also used his car to pick up some of my art supplies, which made us late! :D So we ended up going to a showing that was an hour and a half later. I felt bad, but apparently I wasn't supposed to, so.
Topic #3: This isn't newly published or anything, I just never thought to post it: The Tournament of Things! :D The guy's layout is sort of unusual-- the plain arrows go chronologically through all his stuff, and the red icon-d arrows stay within a particular series. ((So use those.)) GO AND READ.
And finally, since my last post centered on a Bushism from the first debate, here is a Kerryism from the second debate!
"Senator Hagel of Nebraska said that the handling of Iraq is... in the zone of dangerous."
I'm waiting for something titled In the Zone of Dangerous-- a game, a song, a novel, anything-- to appear on Homestar Runner. It must happen.
It wasn't originally my idea-- I got talked into it by this girl named Stephanie who stood out on the porch with her arms spread out to the sky, going on about "This is LIFE! It makes you feel so ALIVE!" ...She'd make a great Theatre major. So after the random Enthusiastic Running Troop of Shirtless Guys came by, cheered a bit about how cool the rain was, and left, she and I and 3 other people decided it really WAS a good idea, so out we went... We splashed around in the poorly-drained streets, pretended there were fish in them, got our pictures taken, and sang all the rain-related songs we could think of (("If all of the raindrops...", "Raindrops keep falling on my head...", and "Singin' in the Rain." Yes, that was all.))
Pretty soon it stopped raining, so we were bummed 'cause we didn't feel very adventurous and cool anymore, but we decided we'd go see the Science Building with its combination of Fountain and Currently Enlarged River. This building and where we were are almost as far away from each other on campus as it is possible to be. And of course it started raining again on the way. At this point we had to resort to singing "Les Poissons" from The Little Mermaid because we didn't know any more songs with rain in them. And we were very, very cold.
When we got there, the fountain wasn't even on, and we had NO interest in walking all the way back... luckily, we found these random people in a yellow SUV who kindly took our wet selves back to the dorm. Keep in mind that this is at about 1 in the morning, and this girl is just giving her boyfriend from Colorado a driving tour of the campus. Coincidence? :O
Topic #2: Had a thing last night that, when I think about it, is really properly called a date, but I'm just not used to applying that term to anything I do. We went to see Napoleon Dynamite, just so we could say we had, and... wow. It was way more random than I'd heard. o_o A good 2/3 or more of the scenes were the type where some character starts doing something, the purpose of which is not immediately clear, but you expect they'll explain what it's about-- and then they just don't, and the scene is over. It didn't get old per se, but sheesh. They used that a lot.
We also used his car to pick up some of my art supplies, which made us late! :D So we ended up going to a showing that was an hour and a half later. I felt bad, but apparently I wasn't supposed to, so.
Topic #3: This isn't newly published or anything, I just never thought to post it: The Tournament of Things! :D The guy's layout is sort of unusual-- the plain arrows go chronologically through all his stuff, and the red icon-d arrows stay within a particular series. ((So use those.)) GO AND READ.
And finally, since my last post centered on a Bushism from the first debate, here is a Kerryism from the second debate!
I'm waiting for something titled In the Zone of Dangerous-- a game, a song, a novel, anything-- to appear on Homestar Runner. It must happen.
