Today's been such a glorious day that I simply cannot let it pass unremarked.
It didn't have that auspicious a start - falling asleep in my first class prompted me to rectify the situation with coffee. And, dear me, how everything just soared from that point on.
The weather was beautiful: buoyant sunshine, brilliantly blue skies, a late summer/ early autumn warmth with just the right amount of snap in the air (and enough caffeine-aided sensory enhancement to properly appreciate all of that). Lectures went by swimmingly - I made a rather nice tree sketch during Physics, and for once I didn't doze off at Immunology, but was inspired enough to stay behind to pepper the professor with questions about non-specific binding of secondary antibodies and the principles behind flow cytometry. After that I skipped off to the school dining hall and further fueled the endorphin rush with 8 Polynesian chicken wings and ice-cream.
After that shameless display of gluttony, I sat outside my residence hall and sketched tall grasses in the sun, enthused about the weather, the flowers and the general joys of living to a passing Korean friend, visited a friend's all-male suite and exchanged half-an-hour's worth of banter with 2 guys who weren't at all reserved about dropping none-too-suggestive hints re: electric toothbrushes (vibrating, cylindrical objects - you get the idea) and showing me their stash of Maxim and FHM. But we also did things like locating our hometowns on Google Earth and playing around with noise-cancelling headphones, and one of them asked for my advice on whether he should buy a gaming console. Naturally I had no clue, and happily told him so. Went back to my room, started singing 'Summertime', finished Japanese homework with lots of energy to spare for recreational cycling around Providence. I covered about 13km, inclusive of endless uphill climbs, Providence being a rather hilly place. At one point, at the end of an especially brutal climb, I saw a road named, appropriately enough, Overhill Street. It merited at least a mirthless chuckle.
But there was also plenty of downhill coasting to be had along the way - and those made me go wheeeeeeeeeeeomglifeisgreat!!
And then there were the ghetto neighbourhoods, where a couple of locals shouted inexplicable things at me as I whizzed past. I didn't linger in those places, and took care to make it back to campus before it got dark.
That about sums up a day in which I found my energy to be as boundless as the sea (the more I gave, the more I had, for it seemed infinite - which was a truly rare thing). Or, to ditch the mangled Shakespeare and rephrase that in normal parlance, I got high, stayed high (no pot required)... and found it great.
words were spilled on Wednesday, September 20, 2006
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