Did the S.D. thing this weekend with other interns. Unfortunately we decided to leave (a 6 hr drive) at 1 am on Saturday morning, so we were all out of it during the day Saturday, everyone taking power naps whenever and wherever, restaurants, cars, the beach, etc. I woke up once on the beach so completely disoriented that I didn't know who the other interns were; I thought they must be my college friends or something.
But wow the beach was nice, started us all thinking about becoming beach bums. My back is now cooked lobster meat. Lotso unusual people on the boardwalk--strange people who just didn't care. Jen laughed on and on about this guy dressed up as Batman who had rollerskates, a g string, and a batman symbol painted on either cheek. ("Beach bum" taking on a whole new meaning...) Apparently he was known around there as "The Flash" and had a regular schedule. Then there was this guy on rollerskates who thought he was a ballet star and skated around doing arabesques and lip-synching to opera. We saw many retarded bikes. Rode a herky jerky little roller coaster that was actually fun. I stopped and played pickup ultimate with some dudes for a while.
Hmm no pictures unless I can beg some off the other people.
Posted by Alan at July 21, 2003 01:12 PMI met a guy who claimed to know the g-string guy, and he told me that it's his wife who actually paints him up like that...I don't know if that makes it better or worse. Did you ride the roller coaster at Belmont Park? I didn't expect it to be good, either, but it was.
Ah, San Diego...*sighs*...I never thought I would miss you, but I do.
Posted by: Kate at July 21, 2003 03:31 PMWow that is kind of weird that you know about The Flash too. The shared experience of seeing his painted bum has brought us closer, I feel... :)
I just remembered another funny thing bout the trip. Somebody found a plastic sword and I went out to fight the incoming waves as they were breaking, probably spent half an hour hacking and stabbing their underbellies. Then at the end we recycled the karma and gave it away to some random little kid.
Posted by: Alan at July 22, 2003 09:21 AMHow much XP did those waves give you, Alan? ;-)
Posted by: Matt at July 25, 2003 11:26 AMOh ha ha ha. Not enough I'm still a level 3 novice beach bum. But I recently leveled to amateur womanizer and grandmaster pimp is not too far off...
Actually the fact that I am talking about this in D&D terms means that I am very, very far off.
Posted by: alan at July 25, 2003 03:01 PM