strange days
it's been a weird few weeks. i have been overwhelmed with the usual parade of events and also some uncommon ones. i was planning a trip to go to new york city, there was an arts conference and it seemed like a good excuse to go. i had a ride and a place to stay, so i thought i would see if there was any art or alcohol hidden away in the city as had been foretold. then i received some sad news, the friend i was planning to stay with had someone very close to him die. i somewhat knew the person who had passed away, just through friends and many years ago, but i had always liked this person very much. my friend would be out of town for the funeral. i could have found another place to stay, but i was quite saddened by the news and decided to stay home. nature confirmed this by snowing me in for a few days with many feet of snow. i spent my days trying to shovel my car out while the plows spent their days blocking my car in. it was a fun game, i guess you'd have to be there. i was stuck in my house as walking was pretty ridiculous as well, snow up to the hips and shoulders and whatnot, dangerous roads and unshoveled sidewalks, all good. i had many critiques in a row to prepare for that week, so it was really superb timing. the first day i was able to get my car out, i managed to lock my keys in my car while out running an errand. i found a guy with one of those bars to break into cars, but he couldn't get in (a good thing i guess for my car's security?) i walked home thinking i could break into my house for a spare key. of course i had left my gloves, scarf, and hat in the car along with my laptop. my hands were so cold trying to pry my house windows open, i couldn't feel them. i started sort of freaking out in my head and weighing my options. i was able to get my hands warmed again with some survival guide fanfare. i decided to ask a stranger shoveling nearby for a screwdriver when i ran into someone i knew who helped me break in. i cannot remember the last time i felt that sort of relief to just be inside. being locked out in the frigid cold was causing some definite monkey terror in my head. i walked back to my car in the dark with my spare set of keys, only to find that my battery was now dead. $50 jumpstart later, my fifteen minute errand ran me around four hours and more realistically cost me the day, as i spent the remainder of my night warming up on my couch, appreciating heat and electricity and food. as far as the critiques i was preparing for, they were polar opposites and left me feeling extremely excited and extremely angry, respectively. we held a dance at the gallery this weekend, more specifically, a prom. the main points being that proms at this age are fun and we also needed to have a fundraiser. it was a lot of work getting ready for it, but it went really well and will help us make rent, and aside from that it was fabulous. i was able to borrow a mirrored disco ball for the event, and punch bowls for spiked punch, there were lots of streamers, balloons, etc. i love an excuse to get dressed up and pull out the old elbow-length gloves. i also love an excuse to dance. it was nice to let off some steam from the last few weeks. i am planning a trip to N.O. for spring break to see the young buck invincible and i am so ready. i'll leave this week and it is hard to get my work done here, i can't keep my mind on the tasks at hand. then he is coming right up to see me in this winter paradise! we really had our act together this year in the spring break trip planning department. oh, i also have been working out pretty regularly lately and wanted to comment on women in the locker room that put on as much of their clothes as they possibly can before putting on underwear. what is that? have you noticed this? this one woman practically had her snowboots and parka on but was still bare-assed. what? i talked to the professor and he says it is not limited to the ladies locker room. perplexing.
posted by casual ninja at 4:15 PM
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