It's been a long time since I've had a day like yesterday. Yesterday, I actually got things done--I was performing at capacity. Not bad for 4 hours of sleep.
Was up in the middle of night trying to figure out important life issues. Coincidentally Jamaimer was up too because of a disturbing experience she'd had that day at work. So, we figured things out together at 5 in the morning. Her female advice was...indispensable.
Another busy day at work, and then I went over to the rec center & got a membership to the rock climbing wall for the summer. You can't get a non-student membership there, I guess to protect sorority girls from creepy desperate old men (like I will be someday or maybe already am?). So I was psyched and went climbing for a while, the first time in like 4 months.
A beautiful day outside and for the first time in a month we actually had numbers for ultimate, played a good game until dark. Went home, showered, called Mark & Yun & decided we're gonna go to Chicago, the three of us, this weekend. Since it's a 3-day weekend and, well, because Chicago rocks my face off.
Then I got to see Jake. Now that he's working two jobs--construction by day, a job waiting tables by night--he's a scarce quantity. Met him over at the Catholic church. They were celebrating some event or another in the basement and there was a keg, which made for a really weird sight. He & I and his girlfriend (of about a month) Dawn went up to the choir loft where there's a new grand piano, and Jake played for us. The piano sounds great--every note you touch sets of small cathedral echoes so it really doesn't matter what you play almost. But no he's good, in the past he's even willed music somehow out of the worst piano ever.
We went out for drinks at Zen's bar, which is alone among Lincoln bars in that you can actually hold conversations and there is no fratmosphere. Along the way Jake kept picking flowers and putting them in Dawn's hair. Already, she puts up with a lot of crap and is a super cool girl all around. Not for putting up with crap but just for being fun & happy. She's a mascot for the Huskers and the Salt Dogs baseball team. Once, Jake & I were driving around downtown when we saw a giant dog and a crocodile out in front of Runza's, and he's like "Dude, I think that's my girlfriend wearing a giant dog suit on the corner..." We stopped and it was.
On the way back we came across a swarm of ants. Jake & I stooped to watch. Individually, they were moving in little random circles, bumping into another ant about every second. At which point they would pause and feel each other, communicating something. It was chaos but something was clearly being accomplished, and none of them probably had a clue. So we stomped on them all.
(A giant peers down at a green blue planet. He sees pink bipeds running around frantically, randomly bumping into each other and exchanging worthless bits of information. Clearly, something is going on here on the larger scale which these things are not aware of. Or perhaps they are just in a state of denial. So he stomps on them all.)
Posted by Alan at May 28, 2004 08:50 PM