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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Lost and Found Sorta Day

I woke up this morning knowing that I wanted to do a post about the types of things that jump out at me during the day. And then when I got back to my dorm from the shower I realized I left my keys in the room, and had to call my roommate to wake up and open the door...

Little did I know that's just how today was gonna go...

So this post will go thus, I'll list the things I've lost today, and then list the awesome sights that I found throughout my day--just so I don't end on a negative--so bear with my grumbling (and excessive use of ellipses).

Lost/Forgot:
*Keys, as already grumbled...
*Halfway through my day I realized I left my jump drives in a classroom that I won't have class in until next Wednesday...
*Jacket in math class...which I fortunately rescued before the next class began.
*To load extra $$$ on my washer/dryer card...I was able to do it later in the day, though.
*The detergent when I went to wash my clothes...all I had to do was go back up seven flights of stairs to get it.
*Used my washer/dryer card to try and get in to the dining hall...I had my real card on me, at least.

Found:
*Sea of fog-banks pooling over the Bay, while a pillar of white steam wafts into the air. The cold, morning air sometimes spawns a huge amount of fog coverage in and around the Bay, and I'm loving it every morning. We keep our blinds open at night because of it. Or at least I keep them open, and my roommate doesn't say anything.

*Two guys walking up a hill, continuously looking around, wearing bright orange armbands. Today was the first day of WWU Humans Versus Zombies. If you're interested, check the link, it's really fun to watch. I didn't know it would be this soon in the year, so I don't have any Nerf guns, but I'll definitely sign up next round. (PS - When I checked the count this morning, there were 30 zombies. Now it's up to 92).

*Spider-silk line from the top of a light pole to a tree limb. Showing us once again, nature--in big or small ways--will always prevail, and keep going where we left off.

*Soft sunlight on the grass coming back from class. The grass looked electric, and like a rug of emeralds between the bricks. Just a really relaxing sight that helped me just relax and enjoy and focus what was around me--rather than dwell on the things I kept losing all day.

*The unique and "tagged" bricks throughout campus. There are bricks everywhere on campus, and a few of them have special tags people/students/staff have marked in some way. I think they're just bricks that were created, and then placed in the big walkways when no one was looking. Some of dates, some have quotes, and I even saw one that looked like a street-tag graffiti, relief style.

*This wasn't a sight, just a find: Two quarters from someone else's load of clothes. Gonna keep looking throughout the year.
*Orange glow and lights of Bellingham at night. As you can see in another post, the city at night is just awesome. I'm going to take more in the future to show it off some more.

2 comments:

  1. I really love the way that you descibe all of the beatiful things in B-Ham. These are also some of the wonderful things that I love about this city.
    Oh, and I think we need to keep track of how much money we find in the washers...lets see how rich we get.

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  2. Wow you sure did have a day Alex. I am glad that I was able to share in the better parts of your day. Hope tomorrow has more good moments and less of the losing and forgeting moments.

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