Fun day today. First went to the public library's Creative Writing Club. I didn't know that today would be the last library CWC meeting for the rest of summer, I feel bad for not being able to make it to the past few meetings because things popped up. But at least I made it to the last one, right? Oh, and I think our CWC teacher, Lisa, got emotional over the fact that this was our last meeting for a few months since I think I saw a few tears come out of her eyes.
Samantha also tagged along for CWC's last meeting, even though this was also her first meeting. She said she was sorry that she didn't know about the club earlier, but I knew she was just in it for the last-meeting glowsticks that we all got for free, courtesy of Lisa.
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| Were these worth playing with someone's emotions, Samantha? (via islamicsunrays.com) |
Afterwards, Samantha and I went to Yogurtland. Interestingly, we both liked the weird popping pearls as toppings for our yogurt even though they look like roe. That's those weird unreleased fish eggs, by the way.
She came straight from taking her senior pictures, so she didn't have time to change to normal clothes when she got here. So when we decided that we'd be meeting today, we thought "What the hell, let's make eating at Yogurtland a formal event." I brought along dress pants, a vest, a white dress shirt, and a bowtie, which I call my "waiter" outfit.
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| Artist's rendition of what I looked like today. |
I think she said I looked like a penguin. I think that was a compliment, except penguins are also fat, so I don't know... And sure, we got funny looks from the other Yogurtland diners, that was inevitable. But they were just jealous of how spiffy I looked. And I looked damn spiffy. I think.
Afterwards, we walked around the mall. She made me say the words "It's so big" in my best Lumpy Space Princess impression and recorded the results, so now I can't make her mad at all because she has that to blackmail me. She also wanted a recording of me in my "nerdy voice" saying some line about getting crabs that I said at the beach during the CWC banquet, so I gave her that too. The recording, I mean. Not crabs.
I also found out that she's a very strong believer in superstition. I kept saying stuff like "What if one of us gets Alzheimer's?" and "What if a car swerves right and hits us right now?" and RIGHT AFTER those words left my mouth, she looked around desperately for wooden things that she could punch in order to avoid jinxing the situation. She got pretty desperate at one point and knocked on a full-grown tree, which I thought was pretty funny.
All in all, it was a great day, which ended with a few strange looks from drivers while we waited at an intersection for the crosswalk light to change.
RFotD: It's unclear whether the bowtie rose as a variation of the necktie or if it's the other way around. However, both find their origins from Croatian merchants who used scarves wrapped around their necks to hold down the opening of their shirts.
SGAT: None really. But I got to hang out with Samantha for a few hours.
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