How Capri-Sun Saved My Life

Hey God, Wilmington has a bit of a draft...could you close the door?

With this post I think this page will officially be 50% posts about the weather but darn it! The weather has been a topic of conversation that pathetic socially challenged people have used as icebreakers in conversations for generations. I figure if I'm going to be reduced to being a loser that has to use such strategy its in my best interest to refine it to an art. Actually, the real reason I choose such a topic is because the weather today was actually quite remarkable.

Because I know its the question on all of your minds let's go ahead and have the definitive answer off the get-go. YES, the sky did indeed relieve itself on me today during passage from Trask to my dorm at 8:30. HA HA HAAA HAA HAAA LAUGH LAUGH NATHAN GOT WET ON HIS LITTLE BICYCLE ....AGAIN. Well that's half the reason people come to UNCW. Oh, you didn't know that? It's in all the little pamphlets you get in high school. "Come to UNCW and find the future that's been waiting for you!...while our clouds piss all over you on a biweekly basis!"

Early morning soakings are usually a good indicator of what the day has in store for you and, in writing this post I just realized that its been a couple of weeks since I picked on my roommate. Fortunately he hasn't stopped giving me good material. Today he had the idea of a "tradeoff" for keeping us dry. It was about an hour before my class and 25 minutes before I was supposed to meet someone at the dining hall when he made the suggestion. Here is how it works. I leave 25 minutes early to walk with him (in the rain) to the parking lot where I get in my car and take him to his class across campus. In return he picks me up from my last class. I don't know exactly how he got to go first....and I knew it was a poorly conceived trick to get me to spend upwards of 40 minutes of my day just to get him to class dry. I did it anyway. Turns out I missed my meeting with the girl I was supposed to meet at Wag and ate alone. When I stepped outside of Wag about 20 minutes after dropping him off there was little to no rain. Knowing my sad fate I just returned my car to the lot and went back to my room, (where, in the rush to leave I had left my homework on my desk.) I then went back outside to find it sprinkling again....so I rode in it on my bike to Dobo. Yeah...after Dobo there was absolutely no rain....so I just rode myself back from class today.

It's all good though. He can just consider it a favor...and he owes me one of equal proportion.

Surprisingly enough I rather enjoyed the weather the rest of the day. It went from horrible and depressing to absolutely beautiful in the 50 minutes I napped during chemistry. The sky was one of the most captivating things I've seen recently, spotted with wispy white clouds being pushed around by the gusty wind. Today was the first day I felt more than just the first breaths of fall. Fall is now upon is here by the sea and there is no denying it. It's at this time of the year that I usually start to have a slight feeling of anxiety. The winter represents a cold, dark time for me usually and fall, when you get down to it, is just beginning of winter. At least I'll get to wear all my neat cold weather clothing soon.
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wait...
...forget I said that, I've been hanging out with the girls in my dorm far too much as of late...

Staples...yeah, I got that.