I took great joy in giving Zach a tour of my former college yesterday and today. All the buildings - all my old stomping grounds. All the embarrassing spots where I did dumb things:
--The seat in the "big lecture hall" in New Science that I broke by sitting in it freshman year during a vertebrate zoology lecture.
--The chemistry lab where Ruth spilled acid on my hand.
--The spot near the bottom of the stairs in the Olin Center where I used the highly toxic spray-on glue to make a poster with L'erin and Katie for human physiology... I'm sure the fumes screwed with my personal physiology more than anything.
--The Olin stairs... how many times did I fall down those?
--The elevator in Old Main that I got stuck in.
--The Dunkleosteus fossil in the Fryxell Museum... when I was 9 or 10, I'd always go in there and turn the eyes around. Yeah, I'm cool.
--Wallenberg Hall... where I almost knocked down the huge horse head sculpture when I was 11.
--The wall in the College Center I'd always run into, thinking it was a door.
--The practice room in Bergendoff Hall that I locked myself into... on several occasions.
--The old band room (now the Black Box Theater) where I almost fell down with my bass during a Youth Symphony rehearsal.
I was a smart child.
I'm still going back to campus tomorrow. Though I got to see two of my favorite geology professors (Strasser and Hammer... oh yeah!), and a few other notables, I'm still trying to seek out the bio and biochem profs! They keep disappearing... damn meetings and such. Tomorrow's my last chance... wish me luck!
Last night I joined Sarah, PJ, Zach, and co. at the Blue Cat, where Zach, being an awesome boyfriend, sensed my family woes and bought me a double strong gin and tonic. Good boy. Then, a few of us ventured to Fusion - my first QC gay bar experience in 10 months. Lemme tell you... now I really miss the bars in Seattle and Portland. And I appreciate them all the more now.
Vacation is nice and all... but I'm starting to miss seeing those mountains when I look out of my window.
Posted by James at March 18, 2004 12:47 PM