April 25: Friday

[kinetic_elaboration]

Not feeling much of anything on this Friday evening. I was chomping at the bit to spend some time outside all day but I somehow don’t have any pens left in my bag so when I did sit down for notebook time I had the notebook but no writing utensil and it was all rather a bust. Then I took a nap where I had strange, vivid dreams and didn’t move a muscle, so I woke up with all my limbs all tense and aching. I’m not sure what I’m doing or want to do with this weekend, other than a few vague ideas of what I should do.

I went to the 3L toast at work. I wasn’t going to but some other people were and a student I know was getting the award named after my friend so that seemed like a good reason. The acoustics in this area they just built less than 10 years ago were so bad, so I and all the other library trolls from the back were like cringing and dying inside because of all the noise just reverberating in on itself. A lot of girls in pretty sundresses though.

It was better when everyone shut up and the speeches started. Luckily most of them were pretty short. I don’t have tolerance anymore, or somehow even less, for ‘look how much money we raised’ stuff, to be quite honest. Then a professor who is leaving us for another job gave a very weird, funny, but maybe slightly too long speech, the conceit of which was 'they asked me to give this speech and I didn’t know what to say so here are some things I considered saying,’ followed by a list of people who’d taken two separate classes with him, with occasional commentary on those people. I really only know this person through his scholarship, which is prolific, so that was… interesting. At one point he said he doesn’t like graduation-style 'I will give you life advice’ speeches because the life advice isn’t very specific, an he really wants someone to just point at him and say 'Name, I think you should try meditation.’ After hearing this speech, I think perhaps yes, sir, you should try meditation. But I appreciate your self-deprecating humor and honesty. Sort of refreshing in a way.