Yet another 3 day weekend in the life of the Loop, oh my brothers, and I’m happy to say that it has been a pleasant one. Friday Milca had to work. Normally this would mean that I would chill at home and do nothing, but her Jeep has been on the fritz, so we have been sharing a car. This meant driving her to work. I didn’t mind so much, as the gardeners had already been for their weekly “Piss Chris off as much as humanly possible” soiree.
After I got back from dropping her off I finished Star Fox Adventures for the GameCube. Entertaining, but a little too linear for my taste. It was reminiscent of Zelda, almost as though the people at Nintendo that couldn’t make the grade for Zelda were brought down to Star Fox to prove their worth. After fox, changed the sheets, took out the trash, picked Milca up from work, and took her to get her Jeep.
Saturday my brother Corey had his Eagle project at my old Alma Mater. He chose to fix some science classroom’s tables so that the legs didn’t wobble anymore, and the tops were no longer covered with scratches and graffiti. Awesome project, and as my friend Dave projected, his Eagle project involved painting something. Going to my old elementary school is something I do fairly often, as I am still involved with the Scouting program there. I had no reason to go to my old high school, however, in about 5 years or so. Let’s break this down real quick:
1) The lockers that were once hidden behind plywood are now visible and being used. This isn’t news to me, as my brother once used one of these. I find it especally ironic that not having these were one of my major gripes, and they became available after I left. C’est la vie.
2) Bungalows in the teacher’s parking lot. This was really odd to see, as I couldn’t imagine that they would hire that many more teachers, nor that they would have that many more students to justify the increase in classrooms/teachers. I later found out that almost an entire building’s classrooms are having construction done on them, which I believe includes A/C. Kudos to the administration for adding another of my gripes to the irony list.
3) A new bridge with an elevator. For those that know what I’m talking about, the span between where the H & I building meet, and the E building now has a bridge spanning the two. For those that don’t know, this new structure now makes it possible for Freshman A to get from his English class to his History class without having to go downstairs, to another building, upstairs, and to his class. There is now a bridge that makes this trip much shorter. There is also an elevator, which I have been assured is strictly for handicapped use.
4) Sophomoreville/Junior Junction/Senior Station is no more. What was once a hangout for most of the people I spent my high school tenure with has been completely reconstructed so that most of it is a fenced area with bike racks. There are a couple benches next to that area, but let’s be real here. All through high school the locales that I would hang out were taken away, made off limits, or completely fenced off. Now they went and destroyed another. I believe that makes 3 on the irony count. Thanks, administrators.
The project went well. We got more accomplished than we thought we would.
Afterwards, I met up with Milca at her mom’s, and we then went to Ikea and dinner. While at Ikea I saw a guy with an old school t-shirt that looked like Charlie Brown’s, yellow with a zig-zagged brown stripe, and on this guy’s arm was an attractive woman with, get this, dark curly red hair. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, as of now Charlie Brown has won the heart of the red head with curly hair. Everything in life seemed to be put into perspective at this point. No matter how bad things are, no matter how much you want to give up, there is always hope… even if all the words you can muster come out to “Good Grief.”