9.15.2004
look out for Ivan.
so all N.O. schools are out, LSU is out, Nicholls is out...mais Lafayette? BLAH. of course not. LSU is like, 35 minutes away! ... tiger lives are in jeopardy, but not cajun. maybe it's because we're ragin'. they're like, "if anyone should die, it should be those damned roiding cajuns. all hyped up on creatine in a pathetic attempt to appear larger. shorties. screw them and their dead bulldog."
or maybe it's because the ignorant local weatherman believes the "projected path" of the hurricane stops 10 miles before ULL, turns right and hits Florida instead.
damn you, fate.
and damn you too, thursday morning math test which i will now be forced to take.
***
so mexican - who will now be referred to as Carillo - flips around in his desk this morning and makes some partially witty comment regarding last night's dinner when i ignored him. i'm pretty sure he somehow slipped in the word "scared" ...which leads me to believe that he's only seeing the visible tip of the iceberg here. Now i've always been told that even when i'm doing nothing, i appear to be up to something. I can honestly say that 90% of the things i do are intentional. Granted, there are times when my actions trudge on sans a rational thought process, but typically the wheels upstairs are methodically turning. Anyways, after class he told me that he "couldn't understand why i had ignored him". And actually, it took me a few moments to decide why i had. Ultimately, i told him that i was tired...i had just woken up...how i'm not sociable until at least an hour after sleep...my friends had already eaten...i had a lot of studying to do...i needed t....yadda blah yadda. hmm. i wonder if i actually used all of those excuses and sounded like a total fraud...
...i know they were floating around in my head.
"oops. did i say that out loud?"
***
so the other morning i made some comment in polysci about the lack of coffee in my system. SWanson was quick to shoot down my obvious vice, and he then casually lectured me about "allowing
life to be my only stimulant". The conversation (roughly) wenta likea dis:
[factoid that will make this story funnier: to aid the blind kids on campus, all of the crosswalks make chirping sounds when it's safe to walk. i've heard various chirps, though i haven't quite figured out why one particular chirp is played over another. nevertheless, these sounds can be heard all over campus...and seem to entertain small children and animals.]
SW: "you should let life stimulate you. if you don't wake up in the morning and do whatever it is you have to do with a bounce in your step, then you should re-evaluate things. dig deep within yourself and find out why you're not happier."
LJ: "i'm not like, manic depressive...! i just don't skip to class."
(laughs)
SW: "well, yeah...but i mean, you should try to find something good in everything you do. like, mowing the yard...[insert goofy analogy-explanation here]...just find a way to be stimulated by life."
LJ: "hehh...sorry, i just don't find anything truly stimulating or exciting about walking to this class in the morning."
(oh good one, lj! why don't you just shut up while you're behind?? ahahah blahblah)
SW: "OH..."
LJ: "no...lol...i'm actually talking about the walk here. it's a pretty boring walk."
SW: "but you have so much stimulation! Like...the sun shining..."
LJ: "it's overcast"
SW: "...the flowers blooming...the green grass..."
LJ: "the dudes with weedwackers"
SW: "the trees..."
LJ: "the concrete"
SW: "the birds chirping..."
RC: "lol...you mean the crosswalks, man?"
(ahahhh ahahhh hhahaha)
SW: "i have a long list of books for you to read."
LJ: "agh."
anyways. the whole thing was pretty damned funny. swanson is a cool cat - even if he won't tell us whether he'd vote for Hillary Clinton or Colin Powell until the last day of class.
***
so...um...yeah.
i have an 8:00 am class. it's 1:30 am now.
time for that bed, yo.
much love my little rock lobsters
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~iM OuT~
lj [1:40 AM]
: 9/23/2004 12:30:00 AM
