10-22-2014, 04:10 PM
Stage 4, Day 31,
Today was rather.. strange. Not just for me, but from the people in my city. Please allow me to explain.
I had a midterm at 10am, and I finished at around 10:40, on my way out, these two people from my class were talking about how there was a shooting downtown. I decided to go to my next class and see if it was still going on. It was canceled and before I could leave, I find out that our entire university was on lockdown.
Turns out that there were 3 different shootings with 5 shooters, all of them within a relatively close distance from the university; perhaps a 1/3 of a mile from where I was, so classes were locking up, my entire uni on lockdown, downtown was on lockdown, buses were on lockdown. So far, only one was caught.
Since my class was canceled and I couldn't leave, I wound up waiting on that floor. I saw this pretty cute girl with a cello case, I start chatting with her a bit. We get taken into an intermediate Spanish class with a very exuberant teacher.
Partway through, I go sit with her, as we were split up. I noticed that she's drawing this character from a Dreamworks movie; of course, I get the name blatantly wrong, and she laughs. This got us talking about the movie. I mention I loved the score, and she lit up. She's big on scores, so we got to talking about the scores of various movies, and we started showing one another some tracks.
We wound up in that class for roughly 3 hours, until about 2:15. Then we were told that we "could" leave, "but at our own risk". I gave her my contact info. At a certain point, we chose to walk down to the lobby and got stuck there.
The girl was stuck there, since she relied on buses to leave, and couldn't get into another building after the fact, so I did make the offer that she could simply wait at my apartment which has food and isn't cramped (an offer made with no sort of sexual intent, believe it or now). She politely declined. We chatted with other students (new friends), and really hit it off. We were able to make light of what happened.
I wound up getting home at 3:30, made a bunch of pancakes, and I did my BrainEv meditation, and chose to stay in bed afterwards. I napped for a couple hours; this day has drained me. I'll eat a meal and go to bed early.
Today was rather.. strange. Not just for me, but from the people in my city. Please allow me to explain.
I had a midterm at 10am, and I finished at around 10:40, on my way out, these two people from my class were talking about how there was a shooting downtown. I decided to go to my next class and see if it was still going on. It was canceled and before I could leave, I find out that our entire university was on lockdown.
Turns out that there were 3 different shootings with 5 shooters, all of them within a relatively close distance from the university; perhaps a 1/3 of a mile from where I was, so classes were locking up, my entire uni on lockdown, downtown was on lockdown, buses were on lockdown. So far, only one was caught.
Since my class was canceled and I couldn't leave, I wound up waiting on that floor. I saw this pretty cute girl with a cello case, I start chatting with her a bit. We get taken into an intermediate Spanish class with a very exuberant teacher.
Partway through, I go sit with her, as we were split up. I noticed that she's drawing this character from a Dreamworks movie; of course, I get the name blatantly wrong, and she laughs. This got us talking about the movie. I mention I loved the score, and she lit up. She's big on scores, so we got to talking about the scores of various movies, and we started showing one another some tracks.
We wound up in that class for roughly 3 hours, until about 2:15. Then we were told that we "could" leave, "but at our own risk". I gave her my contact info. At a certain point, we chose to walk down to the lobby and got stuck there.
The girl was stuck there, since she relied on buses to leave, and couldn't get into another building after the fact, so I did make the offer that she could simply wait at my apartment which has food and isn't cramped (an offer made with no sort of sexual intent, believe it or now). She politely declined. We chatted with other students (new friends), and really hit it off. We were able to make light of what happened.
I wound up getting home at 3:30, made a bunch of pancakes, and I did my BrainEv meditation, and chose to stay in bed afterwards. I napped for a couple hours; this day has drained me. I'll eat a meal and go to bed early.
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