As if Running Isn't Hard Enough Already

Sunday found me going back to the computer lab for more fun and studying. My hopes were high for new material...and I was not disappointed. In fact, this might be one of my finest observational moments to date.

I was walking up the incline to the library and noticed that there was someone jogging on the path parallel to the sidewalk I was on, but up the incline and above me. Being self-conscious of my own running, I didn't stare at the guy or try to make eye contact. But then my eye registered the neon pink and I darted my eyes to see what it was all about.

Ok. I admit that I'm often behind the times and don't understand current trends. i.e. planking. So maybe this is a new "thing" and I just don't know about it. So if YOU know about it, please enlighten me.

This guy was jogging with a stick between his legs.

The stick was white and a third of it--the front third--was neon pink. Other than this stick he was holding between his legs he looked perfectly normal. After I saw the stick it's not like I could look away, right? So now I'm freely and openly staring at the guy and he's jogging forward but looking at me now, the entire time. I stared back, willing myself not to react (was this an experiment? Was I being watched?) and let him run on ahead of me.

I got out my phone to text George about the sighting when ANOTHER dude ran by with a stick between his legs. This guy seemed to be lost, though, looking for his other stick-running buddy. I was half-tempted to help him out and point him in the direction that Stick Man #1 ran, but sometimes the best lessons about losing your stick-running buddies are the hardest to learn. I hope Stick Man #2 found his friend.

Yay HOOO!!!!!

Maybe it's because I get most of my news from http://www.theonion.com/ but whenever I hear Joe Biden speak, I always half-expect his speeches to end with a Howard Dean Yell of Awesomesauce.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDwODbl3muE

The Computer Lab is Where It's At

I will no longer wonder where I'll get "material" for the blog. If I ever don't know what to write about I will just visit the computer lab at the college I attend, not the college who gives me a paycheck every two weeks.

I walked into the computer lab to hear two girls having a very lively conversation about who had the most pimped out apartment. It must have been a "private" conversation because it stopped abruptly when I walked in. About 30 minutes later 1 guy in the front row of the lab decided to have a lengthy conversation with another guy 7 rows back, about fantasy football. Not only was I learning accounting software, I was learning about men's soap operas.

About an hour after that 1 guy behind me educated another guy about the beauty and joy of lithography.

At the same time Doogie Howser was sitting in front of me, playing some kind of warrior-like online game. He was doing well. I know this because he hissed "YESSSSSSSSSS!!!!" and did a fist pump every few minutes. 

Finally, a group of people--probably in an entrepreneurship class--discussed in depth the benefits of hot yoga.

I have a tough choice: continue to collect this great blog material but put my class grade in jeopardy, or bring my headphones.

What Have I Learned Today?

1. Taxation of Corporations, Partnerships, Estates, and Trusts is not quite as compelling as one would imagine.
2. Cutting down grapevines is not fun. The neighbors planted (that's up for debate, are there such things as rogue grapevines???) grapes in their back yard and wonderfully, the vines grew over my their fence. George wanted to make wine. Wine made from alley grapes. He's a real Earnest and Gallo.
3. I can't believe I'm saying this...but I think I've overdosed on wedding cake tasting. I hope this is like a 24 hour cold or something.
4. I'm easily distracted by the hoarding show.
5. I would like to eat bison everyday