Highly Atypical

So, I'm finally getting around to posting about that adventure exor674 and I had a couple weeks ago. I'm going to throw in a bonus adventure with newnebula just because.

Warning: 'Tis a long post, and I kind of abuse parenthetical phrases within.

Adventure the First:

So. To celebrate exor674's birthday, I took the bus over to her place. We live at separate ends of the same crosstown bus route. (OK, so strictly speaking, I'm not at the end, but it's still about an hour and a half to get from one house to the other.)

We took another bus from her place to a mall near her house. Played blacklight minigolf and didn't keep score. (Well, I started to, but then decided "screw it" and stopped at hole 8.) Absconded with the scoring pencil (by accident! I left it in my pocket!).

As soon as we started crossing West Colfax (not the part with the hookers, but the wide highway part farther west), the sky opened up. I mean, it was pouring on us. I was wearing my glasses and was therefore totally blind as we crossed. (Thankfully, Dre was able to grab me by the shirt and pull.) (Also thankfully, neither of us were wearing white.)

( Continued... )

Adventure the Second:

This was a week ago Wednesday, on the 20th, and newnebula and I had been meaning to get together for a while. But her car had died for a while, and then I got the sinus infection that ate Manhattan, so this was the first time we'd both been able to meet. I was kind of leery of meeting downtown at first (they were already ramping up security, and I've been talked to by various authority figures before for "walking funny," whatever that means, so I tend to be wary when DHS is around. If I get arrested, I want it to be for something I've actually done. I want it to mean something.) But, I really wanted to see her, so we met up on Sixteenth Street.

Let me tell you, that granite has never been cleaner. The city really cleaned up for the DNC. (The downside of the "cleanup?" I only saw one street musician.)

( Guess who we met while we were there? )

Oh. Also? There's a stand on 16th Street that sells Snowballs. (For those of you who've never been in the American South: They're like snow-cones, but actually good. They're made from shaved ice instead of crushed, and they're packed much tighter. And the flavoring is injected into the bottom and soaked up, and they're so good. Even if the flavor I had is evidently spelled "Goergia Peach.")

I should totally not be laughing at exor674 right now. But, I am. Her computer not only hates her, it has a brilliant sense of comic timing.

That is all.

The only relation the notes have is that they're both about the day.

Most importantly: I ♥ my exor674!


Also, there's this, which is just pure WTF. Satire, but still WTF.

I'M NOT ON CRACK.

They exist.

They really do exist.

Chocolate covered sunflower seeds.

I was at one of those candy stores that does the "anything you can stuff in this bag, $x.xx/pound" thing two summers ago, and I had some free space in my bag. I decided to add some of them out of curiosity. Loved them. But the next time I went there, they didn't have them, and the person I asked treated me like I was crazy. (well, I am, just not in that way.) They haven't had them since.

It's a shame they cost more than Godiva starfish, though.

*drools*

[edit] SQUEEEEEEEE! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU DRE!

In other news, I've gotten 8 pages of the paper done, and have the other 2 plotted out. This is a cause for tomato soup and Guild Wars, in that order.

Whee. Ascalon missions are so much less blah when played with Dre. :D

Yesterday: Hanging out with Dre *smooch* for 6 hours. :) And then movie night with Tianna. Gonna miss you both buckets!

Today: Packing, packing, packing. Spr0t people, don't expect me on IRC or GW until tonight.

I called the glasses place... they don't have my glasses in but they're on today's delivery list. So they'll be in at like 1.

And, I have to go to the bank.

*looks at userinfo*

Dammit. If I want to hit 500 Support points before I leave, I'm going to need to answer and have credited 12 requests. :(