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gogmagogLast night as I was walking home from the library (having stayed till about 7 or so doing research), I encountered the strangest thing; one guy (wearing those tissue-paper-exercise pants) coming out of the Old Capitol Mall with a couple of friends, and then another guy (wearing shorts) and his group of friends coming out after him, with shorts guy accusing pants guy of stealing his pants. Pants guy insisted they were, in fact, his own pants. (I do imagine shorts guy had brought a pair of pants, whether those were his or not, because it was a bit cool last night for shorts.) A shouting match and threats of calling the police ensued as I walked out of earshot, and continued for some time based on my furtive looks back.
It's funnier because, while at first I assumed they'd somehow just come from a gym locker room or something, there is no gym in the Old Capitol Mall; therefore the only way I can see someone walking off with someone else's pants (or being logically accused of such) is if they'd just come from the tanning salon in the OCM, which somehow makes it way more hilarious.
Shorts guy might not have been so aggressive about it today, though, as it has been quite possibly the most gorgeous day in the history of EVER. Yesterday was pretty nice, compared to what had gone before - we got up into the 40s! - but TODAY we got up to about 60, with the sun shining and the birds twittering and the ice melting.
And it really is amazing how nicer weather can affect your mood; I'd gotten to the point where I hated leaving my apartment because of the deathtrap that was the icy sidewalks, but between the last couple of days' warmth most of the sidewalks are now clear (except for one patch, which is still markedly less treacherous). Really, I can't describe how amazing the feeling of nice weather again is, though I imagine many of you in the Midwest will know exactly how I felt today as you probably felt the same way; the closest I can compare it to is the first real day of summer near the end of my year in England, when the sun came out and I realized, "Oh yeah, this thing called the 'sun' exists! And it feels pretty good too!" It's that same "choirs-of-angels-singing-hallelujah" feeling, only this is even BETTER, because there I didn't really consciously notice the sun not being there; whereas in contrast I have been rather obsessed lately with the miserable lack of nice weather.
It did result in me being in a wonderful mood today, and a very productive one too; on my walk in to get half-price pizza slices at the Airliner, and subsequent trip to the Bread Garden Market to pick up some breadmaking supplies, I managed to not only tie the disparate strands of a paper topic I had floating around in my head into a mildly cohesive whole, but even related it back to my seminar paper from last semester to the point where these two papers combined could make two chapters of a possible unified dissertation (or at least a nice monograph). \m/
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baketothefuture posts tonight/tomorrow, as on Thursday my German class decided we'd do a German dinner during Monday's class and I volunteered to make bread. So current plans are to make Bauernbrot (wheat-and-rye bread), Brötchen (rolls), and (because my German teacher, who's an awesomely hilarious and adorably short German woman, said she liked it) Kurbiskernbrot (pumpkinseed bread). Not sure whether I'll do full Cooking Photojournalism - probably not, as I will also be busy working on typing up my paper topic for tomorrow - but at the very least there will be photos of the completed breads before I take them in to be consumed tomorrow evening. :D
Finally, have Mario Paint versions of classic '80s songs: A-Ha's "Take On Me" and Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up".
And yes, I use the term "classic" unreservedly with regards to Rick Astley; I know a lot of people think he's crap, and 4chan is currently using him as part of their "rickroller'd" meme I guess, but I associate his music with my childhood (my mom likes soft-rock, and so I heard a lot of it) and have it on my iPod and still love to listen to it. Also, COME ON THE SONG'S INFERNALLY CATCHY AND GENERALLY AWESOME
It's funnier because, while at first I assumed they'd somehow just come from a gym locker room or something, there is no gym in the Old Capitol Mall; therefore the only way I can see someone walking off with someone else's pants (or being logically accused of such) is if they'd just come from the tanning salon in the OCM, which somehow makes it way more hilarious.
Shorts guy might not have been so aggressive about it today, though, as it has been quite possibly the most gorgeous day in the history of EVER. Yesterday was pretty nice, compared to what had gone before - we got up into the 40s! - but TODAY we got up to about 60, with the sun shining and the birds twittering and the ice melting.
And it really is amazing how nicer weather can affect your mood; I'd gotten to the point where I hated leaving my apartment because of the deathtrap that was the icy sidewalks, but between the last couple of days' warmth most of the sidewalks are now clear (except for one patch, which is still markedly less treacherous). Really, I can't describe how amazing the feeling of nice weather again is, though I imagine many of you in the Midwest will know exactly how I felt today as you probably felt the same way; the closest I can compare it to is the first real day of summer near the end of my year in England, when the sun came out and I realized, "Oh yeah, this thing called the 'sun' exists! And it feels pretty good too!" It's that same "choirs-of-angels-singing-hallelujah" feeling, only this is even BETTER, because there I didn't really consciously notice the sun not being there; whereas in contrast I have been rather obsessed lately with the miserable lack of nice weather.
It did result in me being in a wonderful mood today, and a very productive one too; on my walk in to get half-price pizza slices at the Airliner, and subsequent trip to the Bread Garden Market to pick up some breadmaking supplies, I managed to not only tie the disparate strands of a paper topic I had floating around in my head into a mildly cohesive whole, but even related it back to my seminar paper from last semester to the point where these two papers combined could make two chapters of a possible unified dissertation (or at least a nice monograph). \m/
Also, expect more
baketothefuture posts tonight/tomorrow, as on Thursday my German class decided we'd do a German dinner during Monday's class and I volunteered to make bread. So current plans are to make Bauernbrot (wheat-and-rye bread), Brötchen (rolls), and (because my German teacher, who's an awesomely hilarious and adorably short German woman, said she liked it) Kurbiskernbrot (pumpkinseed bread). Not sure whether I'll do full Cooking Photojournalism - probably not, as I will also be busy working on typing up my paper topic for tomorrow - but at the very least there will be photos of the completed breads before I take them in to be consumed tomorrow evening. :DFinally, have Mario Paint versions of classic '80s songs: A-Ha's "Take On Me" and Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up".
And yes, I use the term "classic" unreservedly with regards to Rick Astley; I know a lot of people think he's crap, and 4chan is currently using him as part of their "rickroller'd" meme I guess, but I associate his music with my childhood (my mom likes soft-rock, and so I heard a lot of it) and have it on my iPod and still love to listen to it. Also, COME ON THE SONG'S INFERNALLY CATCHY AND GENERALLY AWESOME
