Wednesday, 20 April 2005

Random Stuff Happens All at Once

Apparently the Angela is forming the beginnings of a fanclub, considering the complicated lament I read on the last post complaining that I'm not writing frequently enough.

I guess maybe I found my life isn't that interesting or huge events don't happen on a frequent enough basis for Angela, but that was remedied tonight by some of the strangest scenes I've ever witnessed.

How much whacky stuff can happen when you walk across a campus as small as Hope College's? Probably not much, but that was not the case tonight. In any case, I was trekking from Wyckoff all the way to the Brownstone Apartments overlooking 8th Street to interview Ben, Bible study leader and teacher-in-training extraordinaire, for a class. Whilst on my way, I watched a student riding a bicycle on the campus. Normal enough, it seems, but wait! To my surprise and amusement, I watched as he tried to ride up a grassy hump next to Van Vleck Hall (factoid: it is the second-oldest building in Holland) and, no pun intended, plant his face into the grass in one of the hugest beefs I've ever watched. Even better, I watched the biker get up, pick up his bicycle, pretend to dust himself off, and straight out of a movie, look around to see if anyone was watching while giving the impression, "I just smashed my face into the ground at risk of life and limb on purpose!"

While that was probably the most exciting, I also spotted President James Bultman walking from his on-campus lovely house and joyously offered my greetings. No less than 5 seconds later, I watched my friend Peter VanDutchyname cross 10th Street and explode in a purposefully-weird voice, "Hi Tyler!!" while walking with "Mystery Cute Girl X" and wearing a shirt almost as pink as my wonderful pink fiesta shirt.

Then to my own peril, I crossed 9th Street, which is comparable to Angela's videogame-like experience with the Erin in dodging sprinklers. To my further amusement upon reaching the apartment's outside door after dodging the evil Tyler-killing autos, I watched some random guy throw a tennis ball at the roof of the Haworth Inn/Cook Hall building. I then entered the Brownstone Apartment staircase and hallway, where I would spend entirely too much time once again searching through a plethora of doors trying to find the entrance to Ben's apartment. To my relief, Ben opened the door for me and ended my stressful search and also my excitement.

Comments(5)

Sounds like a good day. Actually I feel for this cyclist as I had my own silly moment today. I was in my GEO lab taking my final lab exam today and I was very exited to realize that even w/o any studying I knew most of the answers. I was eager to finish as quickly as possible and rush out of the room so I was right on the edge of my seat scanning the large topographic map of the Jenny Lake Quadrangle. That was the first mistake. The chairs in lab have the legs that curve around so that only one bar is used to make two legs and the open part of the U connecting with the chair seat. That is the second mistake. The third mistake is the fact that the tiles in the lab have been highly polished to a devilishly slick gloss. Combine these three terrible things and you get what happened to me today during the lab final.
I felt myself going down as the chair leaned just past the point of perilous but was too late and too commited to my chair to stop myself. Well needless to say I sat down rather hard on my butt on the floor in the lab. That would have been okay but the chair continued around and slammed hard on the floor causing the entire class to crane their heads around to see the comotion. Bravely I stay sitting for a moment while my neighbors and teacher inquired about my health, to which I replied, "I'm fine, I just wanted a different view of this map. Its actually quite confortable; I think I'll stay down here a while."
My prof laughed at that and then said "Oh good, nothing hurt but your pride huh?"
"Yep."

chickenlittle27

Huzzah-a comment of this magnitude deserves a gold pizza! I would have never guessed this post would merit such a gloriously long comment, but thanks to a silly cyclist, I get the largest comment yet on my Xanga! Hurray for me!!!!

Major_General_Music

Pizzas must be on backorder or something because I think you owe me like three now.

chickenlittle27

I said it DESERVES a gold pizza. That doesn't mean I'm giving you another one after how much you've barked at me regarding the others. You should be satisfied already with having a good story in your comment on my Xanga that inspired you to post on your own. :)

Major_General_Music

I never barked at you about pizza. That would be inconceivable, but yes it was a good story and it did prompt me to share yesterdays tale sooner.

chickenlittle27