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April 04, 2005

Good Reason for the Time Change

It’s so amazing to me how sometimes there is absolutely nothing to write about and sometimes I’m bursting with things to blog.

Unfortunately, I’m in a bit of a slump. I’m overwhelmed with projects and papers and simply don’t have time to look for the humorous or odd things in my life.

And I missed Anti-Circumcision Day, so there’s a holiday I didn’t blog about. Durn.

But here is something I've thought about lately:
I hate time changes, particularly the one in the spring where it feels like you lose an hour. I did find a highlight, though: it's light longer so you see a lot more.

But in the last 5 hours since I left for class and have since returned, I saw several interesting things that I can share that otherwise would've been shadowed by the darkness. Nothing of consequence or with any real substance, but just some things:

1. I saw a police foot pursuit. A guy was running down the sidewalk near the housing projects and being chased by police. The guy was tossing all sorts of baggies (drugs, presumably) from his pockets as he ran. I was tempted to pull over and show the cops chasing him where the baggies landed so a little kid in the projects wouldn’t find them, but it looked as though the police were doing a fine job on their own.

2. I saw a little African-American boy walking around campus with his parents. So cute. His hair was braided into dreadlocks, and my first thought was Buckwheat from Little Rascals. I couldn’t help but smile.

3. I saw a homeless man thrust his hand into a car’s window outside the stoplight by the rescue mission. Teaches the driver to keep their windows up around that area, I guess.

4. I saw 2 lesbians deep-kissing in their car next to me at another stoplight. Even though the kissing was clearly 2 women, I’m not sure it would’ve repulsed me any less if it was a hetero couple. Kissing like that in public is just gross, no matter your sexual preference.

5. I saw a male professor adjust his crotch when he didn’t think anyone was watching (OK, that one would've happened whether or not we had a time change). The building where I have class has an indoor atrium thing on the ground level filled with tables and chairs. From the ground floor, you can look up and see all the hallways leading to faculty offices for 3 floors above you. I was at a table, completing the crossword puzzle in the campus newspaper and glanced up when I heard some keys jingling. There was a professor engaged in, um, making himself more comfortable.

6. I saw a car parked at the side of the road, still smoldering from an engine fire. The whole front end was burned. I hope it didn’t belong to a family that depended on that car for their survival.

7. I saw an obscenity on a carwash sign. Apparently a worker was having a little fun with his assignment to update the sign. It was supposed to say “Wash it here? Yes!” The sign, though, read “Wa? Sh** here? Yes!”

And that’s it. I gotta get back to work. Big paper due tomorrow, big project due Wednesday. Not anywhere finished with either…

Posted by Anna at April 4, 2005 07:00 PM

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Posted by: ken grandlund at April 6, 2005 02:37 PM