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19 April 2002 - 8:52 pm
What a wild night. I drove to Mt. Vernon, Il this afternoon, taking my grandma halfway to Evansville. My mom met us in Mt. Vernon, we all had dinner, and then my mom and grandma went on to EVV and I came back here. But that isn't the wild part.
On the drive back home, I was in the midst of the most intense elctrical storm I've ever seen. The sky would light up in front of me with a spiderweb of lightning, send bolts down to my left, to my right and in front of me. Each sustained session of lightning lasted for at least 30 seconds, followed by the deafening booms of thunder. Confronted with all this inclement weather I put my foot down a bit further on the gas (I hadn't hit the rain yet), turned my music way up, and just kept on driving. Eventually I ran into the rain.
How do you know a rainstorm is bad? When you constantly find yourself trying to increase the speed of your wipers, even though they're already going at top speed, you should probably start suspecting that things are getting bad.
Anyway, I made it safely back to WashU. I had planned on partaking of a bit of WILD, the bi-annual concert here at WashU (this year we had Jurassic 5 and Black-Eyed Peas -- blech!), but I discovered that the Dean of Students had cancelled the event. This marks the second semester in a row that WILD has failed to live up to expectations. Last semester our headliner was someone called Reese, who know one had heard of, which was a bit worse, as at least this semester the blame can't be put entirely on Team 31's shoulders.
Anyway, given the crappy bands Team 31 has been getting for WILD recently, I'm hoping this catastrophe serves to mark the beginning of the end for their organization. They get gobs of money (>$100,000), and do jack all with it. It's a bit frustrating, especially when groups that I'm in can't get more than $325 per semester.
Well, that's enough for now I guess. I'm going to head back to the apartment and try to figure out how to write Windows applications using Microsoft .NET.
Later.
Posted by on 19 April 2002 at 8:49 PM
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