January 25, 2004
"Only at LeTourneau (#7428)," or "The Shadow Council Holds a Regular Mass (Hysteria)"
Things I experienced/witnessed this evening:
-Four people staring at a computer screen and laughing at stupid people for an entire hour
-Dungeons and Dragons with Mickey Mouse
-The beating of a small flashlight with an umbrella until both were broken
-Different things IHOP could stand for (i.e. The Inexhaustible Harem of Persia)
-Six males escorting a single female to her place of residence . . . There was also chanting, but I have blocked it from my memory
-A friggin' shopping cart modified (by engineering students with way too much time and way too many resources) to be driven on the (currently) empty streets of the LeTourneau campus
And of course, mixed in with these few events and fragments of events that I have noted were innumerable jokes (good, bad, and incomprehensible), puns (good, bad, and incomprehensible), quotable quotes (good, bad, and incomprehensible), anecdotes (good, bad, and incomprehensible), poems, songs, arguments, discussions, rants, scuffles, murder attempts, beatings, stranglings, foods, drinks, frolickings, plus an all too heavy dose of sights, sounds, smells and tastes that utterly defy description or categorization (lucky for you).
And yet, it was a fairly ordinary, quiet, run-of-the-mill night with little or no departure from the norm. How can so much of all that is bizzare, strange, unusual, weird, crazy, wrong, and inhumane take place all around me in a ten-hour period? How can I not even register that this is the case except on a purely intellectual level? How have I already been doing this for a year and a half, and how will I continue to do it for another two and a half? How can I be looking forward to it?!
And how is it that I'm absolutely certain that I'll miss it forever once it's over . . . ?
Posted by Jared at January 25, 2004 03:23 AM | TrackBack