19 jun 2005
Operation: Not Sit Around Cook Campus All Summer: Success
This has been the weekend of meeting random internet friends. Friday Bekah's WoW Guild member Alex took me around College Ave. campus, which is quite a bit like the St. Paul campus except not made of ice or gopher-shaped. It was awesome, and i now know of a cute local college-y cafe at which to annoy people. After bonding over the perils and stereotypes of academic life, i helped him pick up his dry cleaning.
Saturday i ventured to Manhattan all by my lonesome, Southern Boy Adam needing a rest-up day (so many genome sequences, so little time!). My plan was to visit the Met, then Batman with Kevin. Instead i walked quite the wrong direction for many hours away from the Met, ended up in Soho, and bought some earrings (which are really nothing to write home about, especially considering RGE's & my extensive dangly-silver-earrings collection). i braved the subway, found Kevin & food & went to Batman Begins. Which is excellent. In the vein of Superhero stories that i somehow missed all of my childhood, i now really want to see more. All i remember of previous Batman movies is the repetitive surprise of Uma Thurman's face.
An hour and a stuttering/muttering taxi driver later, i was all safe at 'home.' Fed the guinea pigs. It's a really good thing i finally got around to venturing away from campus; all the NJ people left this weekend including the one usually without a car and my roommate Rachel went to Gettysburg with her family. Only two remained, and they were positively bursting with boredom by this morning. Adam & i sat around and talked about hydrothermal vents, copper deposits, The North vs. The South (again), chemosynthetic food chains and the like. Very exciting.
Commence: Operation Listen to The Beekeeper While Finishing Friday's Work ¶ 11:21
This has been the weekend of meeting random internet friends. Friday Bekah's WoW Guild member Alex took me around College Ave. campus, which is quite a bit like the St. Paul campus except not made of ice or gopher-shaped. It was awesome, and i now know of a cute local college-y cafe at which to annoy people. After bonding over the perils and stereotypes of academic life, i helped him pick up his dry cleaning.
Saturday i ventured to Manhattan all by my lonesome, Southern Boy Adam needing a rest-up day (so many genome sequences, so little time!). My plan was to visit the Met, then Batman with Kevin. Instead i walked quite the wrong direction for many hours away from the Met, ended up in Soho, and bought some earrings (which are really nothing to write home about, especially considering RGE's & my extensive dangly-silver-earrings collection). i braved the subway, found Kevin & food & went to Batman Begins. Which is excellent. In the vein of Superhero stories that i somehow missed all of my childhood, i now really want to see more. All i remember of previous Batman movies is the repetitive surprise of Uma Thurman's face.
An hour and a stuttering/muttering taxi driver later, i was all safe at 'home.' Fed the guinea pigs. It's a really good thing i finally got around to venturing away from campus; all the NJ people left this weekend including the one usually without a car and my roommate Rachel went to Gettysburg with her family. Only two remained, and they were positively bursting with boredom by this morning. Adam & i sat around and talked about hydrothermal vents, copper deposits, The North vs. The South (again), chemosynthetic food chains and the like. Very exciting.
Commence: Operation Listen to The Beekeeper While Finishing Friday's Work ¶ 11:21
