Wednesday, August 11, 2004

The hamster of doom rains down coconuts on your pitiful city.

Things are starting to get kind of frazzled here. We're probably leaving for Tallahassee on Saturday or Sunday, but I'm not really sure which. I'm not sure if anybody actually knows when we're leaving. However, because of Tropical Storm Bonnie and Hurricane Charley, it's undoubtedly going to be horrible and wet out right up until then, and probably after. I take that back. It's going to be wet, but not horrible. Probably not horrible. Okay, so I'm a little jaded. I live in central Florida, we get hurricanes. Or, more appropriately, we somehow don't get them. For the last few years, the season has been pretty damn mild. Who's to say these two pretentious little hurricanes don't wimp out and go back to being the dinky little thunderstorms we all know they are? When you've lived in florida for awhile, you get used to storms. You get used to rain, period. I do remember one hurricane that we actually boarded up our windows for. I think it was Hurricane Erin, but I'm not entirely sure. It was still pretty mild, as far as hurricanes go, but we had to sink all our patio funiture (in the pool, cause that's what you do), bring in everything else, stock up on water and batteries for flashlights, clean my parents closet (since it's fairly big and it's the safest 'room' in the house) and then wait the thing out. All things considered, it wasn't that bad. It was windy as hell, and there was a lot of water and thunder and lightning, but when the eye passed over we went outside, surveyed the damage (little to none) and then played in the water before going back in to wait out the last half. That's pretty much how it works. Or at least, how it has been here in Orlando. If I lived on the coast, it would be completely different, I'm sure. But I've never had to evacuate because of a storm. We've had days off from school before (which I'd just like to say is unfair because kids up north get way more snow days then we get hurricane days), but that's about it. I don't know where I'm actually going with this. I guess I'm just saying that it doesn't seem like a big deal right now. There's going to be a lot of rain over the next couple days, though. Good thing it doesn't flood here. Back to the college stuff. I don't know exactly how much I'll be on in the following week or so. It's going to be kind of weird - it could go either way, actually, but we'll just have to wait and see. By this time next week, though, I should be back to normal. Better than normal, because then I'll be sitting around for four more days doing nothing until school starts. But there you go. As it turns out, Tori and I did not get to meet up. I don't have a car, and it's times like these that I really can't stand that. It's only when I'm completely without one when I really realize how beneficial they can be. To me of course, not the environment. Of course, that isn't to say that we won't ever meet up. Eventually, I will have a car, and then you'll be hard-pressed to get me out of it. I'm fond of roadtrips. Things I've bought recently: Kill Bill Vol. 2, Collateral Soundtrack, Franz Ferdinand, oreo smoothie. Books I've read recently: Sailing To Sarantium and Lord of Emperors, which together make up The Sarantine Mosaic, by Guy Gavriel Kay, who is now officially my favorite author alive and soon to be victim of my obssessive stalking habits. Seriously, this guy is so unbelievably clever, his dialogues are so witty and his characters are so dynamic and wonderful. I'm going to hunt down every other thing he's ever written because of it. I like him so much that I would, in fact, marry him. So there.

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