Today was just funny. I haven't had a funny day that I wanted to write about for a while (obviously).
So on the way home from bio office hours (AKA life resuscitation hours) I saw a kid on the bus, who is obviously in high school. I saw him yesterday, and he drew my attention then too. You see, this kid is the epitome of Seattle. He could probably-- actually definitely go anywhere in the world and provide and accurate depiction of what a 'Satellite' looks like. This kid looked so Seattle, I could probably make an accurate guess as to what his political views are, how much organic food he consumes, and that he can, indeed, read (considering we are the most literate city in the country). You may be wondering what he was wearing that was so telling of his seattleness. The first thing that struck me was his Timbuk2 messenger bag- not that this is extraordinarily defining of Seattle, but riding the bus 2-4 times a day definitely has an impact on how much I see them- not to mention that they are all at least 3 different colors so they naturally stand out more than normal backpacks.** I was also keyed in by the really nice rainjacket he was wearing- you know the ones with the water-proof zippers.** I mean really- it wasn't even raining today. Give him another point for wearing a rain jacket as a normal part of his wardrobe. Finally, he was carrying a big 3-ring binder. The significance of this? Well, he had a pretty big bag, so he was most likely making room something else. My guess: his Nalgene bottle, recycling bag (for the papers he didn't want to throw away), lunch sack filled with decomposable remnants of his lunch, ipod, trailmix, and traveler coffee mug (note that there wasn't an or at the end of that sentece). That sounds about right. Now all this kid needs to do is officially get into UW- that shouldn't be a problem though, considering his high school is probably a direct filter in. mmm. stereotyping is fun... especially when half of what I've said pertains to me too.
**Note: Any Northface items will also suffice for these categorizations as well
Preceding these fun thoughts, came a defining moment for me. After class I went to go eat at 'The Rotunda' (the caffeteria in the Health Sciences building) basically because it is right next to Hitchcock (the Biology building) and I needed to eat before Bio office hours. Coincidentally, my friend Kelsea was doing just about the same thing. To cut to the point, her friend Ben (who works in the health sciences library) came up to us while we were eating, and told us about the 'free books' shelf in the library which had recently been filled. When we got to it, we did nothing but dig through a good-sized collection of anatomy, histology, and neurobiology textbooks from approximately 1986 (with a few from the 90's) and giggle about excited we were about landing on this gold mine... and then giggling some more about how big of dorks we were for being so excited about something like this in the first place... time elapsed: 10 min, 36 sec... so clearly these textbooks are far too awesome to not get distracted by, so I'm going to end this post in disss... oh-- sorry. disstrac......
