Yesterday was beautiful. It was that first day of warm weather that has some kind of strange, magical effect on all of campus, causing everyone to behave like an eight-year-old at recess. I love it! Alumni Lawn was packed with frisbee players and sunbathers, and one group of people had even constructed a makeshift hammock in some nearby trees! I don’t think anything can go wrong on a day like that. Casey and I commented on how it kind of felt like we were living on a hippie commune or something.
Speaking of hippies, yesterday I made friends with a woman named Sheila who works at Nectar, the organic food store on campus. She has dreadlocks and always wears really cool bandanas over her hair. I’d seen her before, but yesterday, after she politely warned me that the almond butter that I was about to purchase would set me back a ridiculous $20, we ended up having a really nice talk and I introduced myself. She told me that when she was young, she used to have an imaginary friend named Angie! Weird. We also talked about how she has a theory that we are overpopulating the earth, and that the horrible diseases that plague humankind are the result of nature fighting back. Anyway, it was the kind of random conversations in life that I really enjoy. It makes me happy to know that you just might meet a really cool person anywhere you go, and when you least suspect it.
hahah i love hippies! I think im turning more and more into a hippie-like person.. haha!
and istill so want dreads. on most days my hair LOOKS like dreads its so messy.. haha!