IWUvian adventures

there's a new trend in my life -- saturday is IWU day.

i woke up and got ready and then christy met me at my apt and we bothered the cat for a bit and chatted. we decided to go get lunch at the carmel panera and then head across the parking lot to world market to paruse the merch. panera was good despite the fact that their moroccan lentil soup doesnt taste moroccan (lack of cilantro)...and yes, we would know.

world market was a hypnotising experience per usual. i looked around trying to get good ideas for the upcoming Cromer-VeenKant Hookup Extravaganza of 2005. we found some interesting things. i made some purchases, both personal and not...(i love the sonoma soap co. milk & honey bar soap...i want to lick it because it smells so good).

around 3, dignal called to reprimand me for not having called her yet. we left and then i gathered my "going to iwu" supplies and headed nort'.

i found dignal in becca johns' townhouse and we chatted for awhile and amused her and her little sister with our crazy college stories. we went through shatford and paid kristen tropf a visit as well.

for dinner we wanted something exotic and unheard of, and being in marion fate brought us to steak n shake. hardly exotic. definately heard of. owell. we discussed serious topics. then we went to walmart to do some naughty bridal shower shopping. it was naughty.

as we drove back on campus jon called to have us come gape at what tony's done with his lodge apartment...imagine a dorm living room turned steakhouse. from actual aged barn wood rafters and columns to the liscense plates, old metal signs, animal skulls, iron light fixtures, and a noose...all hanging from the barn wood....gosh. it was amazing. i never dreamed anything like that could happen in an IWU living space.

now with jon in tow we headed towards the campus-y part of campus and ran smack into an anchor close/away with vega concert. of COURSE aaron baker was there, and he wanted to show off his unit decor. his theme is "electricity; it's electric." i asked if there was a semi-colon in there. anyways, we raved over his unit, and then popped in his room for a bit. i ended up taking pictures of eric farb's seafoam green and aqua blue polo shirts and his 18 pairs of jeans. yeah, i counted. and that's just what is in the closet. speaking of which, jon, i want those pictures (they're on his camera).

back to the concert where both aaron and dignal ditched us...so jon and i went to mcconn and managed to leave sarah 13 voicemails between the two of us. some of them were obscene, and towards the end her ring and voicemail greeting were high-pitched sounding and we were afraid we melted her phone with our incessant calling.

after about a half hour dignal reappeared and joined us. we ended up sitting there until kick-out time (was that one? yeah it was.) talking about everything from what is the best body-hair removal procedure (nair, waxing, or shaving?) to why men choose to wear certain types of underwear and what jon's preference is. it was an illuminating night and we laughed a lot. it ended with us in the parking lot stumbling around, jon hiccuping violently, and i believe bad words were yelled. i KNOW they were said. i'm just not certain of the volume.

the end.