So. Wow! So.

Yesterday was awesome. Why?

Well I went out for coffee with my friend Jeff whom I mentioned before (we met in Bremen). I drank cocoa since I don't really drink coffee. He just moved to Providence, his first day as a grad student was Monday.

Then later in the afternoon my advisor, Jimothy, decided to launch a model rocket out in the little grassy area in front of our building. He appointed the undergraduate, Shoe, as Launch Coordinator. Shoe was also the Purchasing Officer. I was the captain of the Recovery Team, which was composed of Shoe, Zebo and Samwise. Sethifus was the safety officer.

We cleared the field of frisbee players and Sethifus advised us to launch the rocket slightly into the wind, as safety officer, but we ignored him. We had a countdown, and the rocket went off like a rocket, way way up into the sky. It bucked several times and Jimothy shouted, "That was the parachute! Was that the parachute?"

But there was no parachute, and the rocket came crashing towards the Earth. I and the junior officers of the recovery team set off running as fast as possible towards the street. We had to take our eyes off the rocket for one second but that was enough to lose it in the clouds. People looked at us a bit funny as we ran through the streets, eyes glued to the sky darting around oblivious to people or traffic.

We never found the rocket. It went very, very far off course. And the parachute never deployed. My recovery team was a failure! Even Caleb up in the crow's nest (top of the 14-floor sciences library) lost the rocket in the afternoon sun. It could be up on the top of the geochem building. Shoe and I have an appointment to test this theory.

Late, Zebo and I zipped off to our cake decorating class, where, for lack of an occasion, I made a bon voyage cake for the Welshman and Crater Boy. The Welshman is off to Egypt to go snorkeling in the Red Sea for a couple of weeks. Crater Boy is going to a conference in Baltimore for a week. Which do you envy more? I also had to pay back the Welshman for the ten days he fed Tethys, the most aggressive fish alive:



After class, our cake decorating instructor told us a tale about this guy. This kind of tale deserves italics:

They were friends in high school (circa ~1987). She really liked him but she didn't know how he felt. Finally after she graduated she decided that she was going to change her life by joining the Navy. They went out to a friend's bonfire party and he said, "I have something to tell you." and she said, "I have something to tell you, too!" and he asked if she wanted to go up a little ways away from the crowd. They went to the top of this hill.

"What did you want to tell me?" She asked
"No, you go first," he said.
"Ok.... I'm joining the Navy!! I leave in two weeks!!"
He paused. He was happy for her, he said. "What was your news?" she wanted to know.
"Oh, my news doesn't even compare to yours. I'm so happy for you. Let's go back down to the bonfire."

So they went back down to the bonfire. In two weeks, she left for the Navy and moved out to California. Two failed engagements, a failed marriage, and ten years later, she moved back to Southern New England. She had left the Navy following one of her boyfriends who was a Marine, but it hadn't worked out and now she was at loose ends. She went to a restaurant with a guy that she had been seeing off and on. There was a guy at a nearby table who kept looking at her a lot. She thought it was weird, but she shrugged it off.

Later, whilst surfing on Match.com, she got an email that said, "Remember me?" She thought maybe it was a fake, but when she opened the email there were all these details about her when she was younger. The writer gave some clues and said, "If you remember me, give me a call." She wasn't quite sure, she had liked several guys in high school, but she was secretly hoping that it was The One Guy. He sent her his picture and it loaded slowly on her screen. Could it be? It was him! Him, only now even handsomer and stronger than he had been in high school!

Naturally, they're married now.

"Do you remember that night at the bonfire when you told me that you were going into the Navy?" he said.
"Of course," she said.
"Do you remember how I had something to tell you also?"
"Yes..." She said, "what was it?"
"I was going to tell you that I loved you." he said.

She asked him why he didn't tell her, and he said,
"If I would have told you, would you have followed your dreams and gone?"
and she said, "No."
and he said, "That's why I couldn't tell you."

AWwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
Now she bakes cakes and he tries to steal the icing.

/italics.

ANYWAY, after the class we went down to the pub to celebrate the imminent departure of our friends. At the pub we met up with the new grad students, Miss Cheek and Mark #3. They were very nice and I had a nice long chat with Mark #3. We call him that because Zebo's last two boyfriends (and serious, long-term boyfriends, too!) have been named "Mark", so we're just predicting the future. The Welshman and Crater-boy showed up 1:45 late for their own party, and finally Mr. Isaacson came too. They had a raffle and Mr. Isaacson won a sticker, a button, a t-shirt, a set of guinness pint glasses and a beta fish. Then we went to another place and played darts for a long time and explained to a guy how one inserts a spacecraft into orbit around Mercury.

Naturally I was DD; I drove everyone home except for Crater Boy who had to stay up all night making a poster for work. The Welshman was last, we parked in his driveway and discussed our plans for Zebo and Mark #3. Eventually we said adieu, and I went home and added roses to my cake until early in the morning.

I woke up late for work, and late for my weekly 9 o'clock meeting with Jimothy. But as it turns out he was late for going out of town and didn't want to talk to me anyway. At 10:30 we invited all the grad students to eat my cake. At noon we realized that every single faculty member in the building was out of town, so we went down by the riverfront and ate a three course meal at a fancy restaurant (it's restaurant week in Providence where every restaurant gives a three-course meal for cheap). Thai dumplings, calamari and scallop thai salad, chocolate mousse with strawberries and raspberries and raspberry syrup. At 4:30pm we ate Zebo's cake. And I think I may have fixed my computer model which has been broken since February, but I can't be sure until tomorrow! Huzzah! So I guess today was awesome as well!

That was a long one, good for you for making it through. ;D

That is some love story. Sounds like something you'd find all over people's blogs. :P
» randomjunk on 2008-07-12 08:35:49

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