Donating plasma is always an experience. The people you find yourself with there usually provide good wholesome fun for the whole family. In fact, every so often you get a wholesome family in there, kids screaming while the mom or dad goes and trades their blood for money. I wasn’t lucky enough to witness a family of blood-letters this time, but, and perhaps even better, a totally crazy guy nearly got kicked out. As I was sitting in the lobby waiting my turn to be interrogated and tested for AIDS, one of the nurses was trying to find out if this really short and inarticulate man with some of those orange tinted racing sunglasses on his head had or hadn’t gotten a blood sample taken. She kept asking him if he had gotten the needle put in his arm to have blood taken, and he kept saying, “Uh… yeah. Well, no. Not really I think. This lady pricked my finger. That’s the same thing right? I’m pretty sure it is.” He said that same thing probably four times and every time the nurse told him no and got more and more frustrated. She finally went and found whoever had done the finger pricking and testing and found out for sure what was going on. Even after she left the dude kept babbling about how he didn’t need to have a sample taken and that they’d already taken one.
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I’ve been trying to think of a way that my expository writing class could somehow be more of an hour of busy work, but so far no luck. Anyway, I had to summarize a chapter out of a book for my research paper, and I just thought I’d post what I wrote on here because I think the subject is sort of interesting. None of these ideas are original to me, they’re just expressed in my “voice” and to the best of my understanding. This all comes from the first chapter of Introduction to a Philosophy of Music by Peter Kivy.
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There are some real great shows coming up here in the next few months, most of which just go to further prove that Little Brothers is one of the better venues in Ohio. I plan on being home for most if not all of these, and if anyone is interested in going, make sure to mark these on your calendar.
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I should really be a movie star. Seriously. I mean, today at about three thirty I was walking out of our math/science building, the sun was shining, it was warm and beautiful, and Wonderwall by Oasis had just started playing on my iPod. It really just doesn’t get any more “movie” than that. As I walked down the sidewalk I could picture myself from the viewpoint of a camera, doing a sort of slow spiral orbit around me and up into the air as the song played and I walked along, looking super cool. Even just that scene would be a hit. The rest of the movie could be total crap, but as long as that was in there people would love it. The girls would swoon and the guys would all whisper, “I wish I could be that awesome.”
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In the spirit of love and misery that is so oppressively imposed upon each and every heart during this greeting card holiday, I decided to celebrate by spending my evening taking a calculus test. It was oddly satisfying though. I’m pretty sure I aced it, plus tests in the evening with no time restrictions are always a lot less stressful, so I’m feeling pretty good about it. Anyway, I’m sure you don’t care about my grades, but I just like to mention the small victories that occur for me from time to time.
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