{"id":605,"date":"2007-03-22T23:03:40","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T04:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/?p=605"},"modified":"2012-12-09T00:43:12","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T06:43:12","slug":"ask-not-for-whom-the-bell-tolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/2007\/03\/22\/ask-not-for-whom-the-bell-tolls\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask not for whom the bell tolls &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today Andrea moved out in the morning, but not before I prepared a batch of buttermilk pancakes, which he enjoyed. He walked to town and hasn&#8217;t yet taken the bus.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The weather today, though, was amazing and perfect for walking. After writing a little I headed to town this afternoon. I was too late to eat at the Mediterranean Cafe &#8212; they close at 4:30 now and both Lynn and I were wondering what&#8217;s up with that, for they have the business &#8212; so I went to the Union, where I got a rib-eye steak sandwich with some tasty grilled onions. The chocolate milk tap was empty, so after eating my sandwich in the Lakefront Cafe (instead of the Rathskeller) I picked up a pint &#8220;chocolate milk chug,&#8221; downed it, briefly encountered one of the old &#8220;Steves&#8221; from Stammtisch, and got some Babcock Hall ice cream.<\/p>\n<p>The chocolate peanut butter ice cream has a label on it saying &#8220;contains nuts.&#8221; This is annoyingly both redundant yet at the same time incorrect.<\/p>\n<p>The weather was so great that I sat outside for a while, and then went to the library, where I downloaded and read. My internet connection was mediocre. The modem connection now, too, is of mediocre quality, even for a modem &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, after 7p.m. I headed back to Memorial Union where, at 7:30, I met up with Andrea and we went to the wine cellar for drinks. Lynn eventually joined us with Liz, a conference presenter from the University of Georgia, and who has lived across the south and in Australia, but who is from Mississippi. I have little connection to Mississippi except that my grandfather lived there for a while and the family used to have property there. The four of us enjoyed beers (except Lynn, who decided to be our &#8216;designated academic&#8217; or &#8216;virtual designated driver&#8217; or something) and conversation, and shortly after 10 we packed things up; Andrea and Liz are both at the Lowell Center and walked that way together, while Lynn and I caught the 10:20 #4.<\/p>\n<p>At the square a pregnant woman &#8212; so she claimed, but she just looked fat, and my comment to Lynn was that she was pregnant from behind (I know, that&#8217;s not funny), whereas Lynn just thought perhaps a few months &#8212; bitched at the driver for making her run to the bus stop, and then waiting as it was, since he had time there. Well, if she&#8217;d been on time in the first place &#8230; plus, he had no reason to suspect she was anything more than just fat and slow.<\/p>\n<p>I digress.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight I&#8217;m finishing up Nine Inch Nails and will move on to Nirvana. I might make an apple pie for my colleagues and grade some papers.<\/p>\n<p>Much fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Andrea moved out in the morning, but not before I prepared a batch of buttermilk pancakes, which he enjoyed. 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