Fun with Threats and Harassment

So yesterday was the last WILD for me to officially skip. I spent the evening at ECM, where there were cookies, pizza, a funny website, and a movie, and I had a fine time. But I think the real highlight of the evening came at the very end. Now, I want you to keep in mind that this was the night of WILD. If a person wanted to go looking for drunken, rowdy college kids, such a crowd could be found. In fact, there was a whole frat house just across the street from us. We, however, were not such a crowd. We were six completely sober girls who had just finished watching a Batman movie at a campus ministry house, specifically trying to be quiet because someone was sleeping upstairs. At 1:00 (Note, not 1:30), as the rest of us were getting our things together to leave, two girls waited outside. Presumably, they were having a conversation of some sort, but it was not audible from inside the house they were standing right in front of, let alone from inside houses further down the street.

So, the other girls left, and Rory, Ryan, and I were getting into the car when all of a sudden a man was walking toward us, evidently with something to say. Now, I myself did not know this man, and I could think of very few reasons not involving a violent crime for a strange man to be approaching three girls in the middle of the night. Then he started to speak. He wanted to tell us how very noisy "our people" had been as they were leaving. He had a couple of other fictitious statements about "our people's" unacceptable behavior "at 1:30 in the morning in a residential area." He then began to ask "Do you understand me?" over and over. I believe Rory and Ryan, who had the benefit of immediately recognizing the man as merely their crazy asshole neighbor and not a crazy serial killer, said something like "Yes, sir." I mumbled something, but mostly I was still just staring in bewilderment, still not entirely sure if we were in any physical danger. So we shut the door and turned the car on. Meanwhile, he hovered behind the car for a few seconds, evidently looking at Rory's license plate number. Then, as we were pulling out of the parking lot, he came up to the car again, to tell Rory what could have been the nice, helpful, neighborly bit of information that one of her lights was out. Then he said "I guess you're just on top of everything." And then we left, and I assume he went back to wherever he had been hovering before, fully dressed and clearly not asleep or indoors, in order to find other people to accuse of disturbing their neighbors.
- posted by Darcey @ 1:28 PM

 
So, um, college... It was fun. Yep. Good times.

That's all.
- posted by Darcey @ 3:01 PM

 
I have no intention of explaining this to anyone who for any reason doesn't know what it means. For those of you who do:


Systems Ofcr. Darcey: You are deeply commited to
rules and order. You once let love blind you to
the need for punctuality, and you have been
paying for it ever since. You are forced to
live with people whose lifestyles you abhor,
and yet you know that you belong with them.
Good luck with that.


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Can anyone else see the picture? It doesn't seem to want to load for me here. But it's a great picture. Really, great pictures all around. Kudos to the captain and her robot.
- posted by Darcey @ 10:55 PM

 
I had a lovely blog post all typed up. It was about furniture. It had pictures and much brilliant witty commentary, if I do say so myself. But now that is lost to the world, because, as we all know, my computer hates me. Maybe I'll try again with the pictures tomorrow, but it just won't be the same. The brilliance and wit are gone. However, prior to Windows causing an error, I had a lovely day. Today was my last day of lectures - EVER. I have classes left, but never again will I sit in a room for an hour and a half and listen to a professor impart new knowledge. My formal education is at an end. I don't know how I feel about this. I've been thinking about it all day, but the reality of it just hasn't quite sunk in.

So, anyway, I also had a lovely time today skipping my German class and sitting in the quad. (Even when my German professor caught me.) I won't be able to do that for long, either. Also, I was actually happy at the b-school today when my group's performance went up in our marketing strategy simulation game. Our firm had more retail sales by unit than Firm O! And two other firms' stock prices went below 1000! You know you've been spending too much time playing a marketing strategy simulation game when these things begin to excite you.
- posted by Darcey @ 12:20 AM

 
And how is everyone doing this fine day? Me, I'm doing great. I definitely didn't light my thumb on fire. That would be stupid. Who would do such a thing? Don't say "You would, Darcey." Smartass. I know who you are. And I'll have you know that I'm proud of my ability to find way new idiotic, clumsy ways of injuring myself, and my possessions, and the possessions of others. And I'll have it noted that I did not not include "other people" in that list just now. I have standards. And I have a very carefully cultivated, well-rounded skill, and I think people should respect that. For instance, people who have lived with me in St. Louis are most familiar with my ability to break glasses, while those in Indianapolis probably know me more for my ability to spill glasses. You see the subtle distinction? It takes talent to be able to both, and not at the same time. And, as the incident with the thumb and the fire proves, my talents aren't limited to the kitchen, either. Sure, I know the rest of you have skills that are actually beneficial to yourself or others, but that doesn't give you the right to judge me! I work hard at what I do, and I do it well!
- posted by Darcey @ 1:52 PM

 
I now know all about money and the people that want to take it away from you as soon as you start making it. Just for fun and old times' sake, I went to listen to Professor Gordinier give a talk about how to manage finances after college. I was not disappointed. There were more than a few bitter, crazy rants about the evil government stealing your money and giving it to lazy people. In terms of actual advice, his main theme was that we begin saving 20% of our income immediately. He didn't quite get into how to do this, other than to imply that if we weren't saving this money, then we were obviously wasting it on beer instead. That's a lot of beer. I don't like beer.

Then this morning I got to get up and go to my federally mandated exit interview about my student loans. This meeting was expertly led by two speakers. The first seemed to be employed by the university but felt the need to continually insert the dreaded letter "r" into his pronunciation of Washington. The second couldn't seem to hold a train of thought for more than a few seconds, and her sentences generally trailed off unintelligibly until she began simply reading from the Power Point slides. Neither of these people seemed to have any practical information about how to actual make all the arrangements to start paying the loans. Their major purpose seemed to be to put the fear of God into us about what would happen if we missed a payment and also about the dangers of consolidating your loans with your spouse. With that said, what else could I possibly need to know?
- posted by Darcey @ 11:14 AM

 
I am the pope. You see, I've been taking quizzes online, specifically one about politics that shows where you fall as compared to a map of famous people. I landed smack dab on the pope. I understand it is customary to post the actual results from such quizzes on my blog, but I didn't want to waste time with that. I figure that, under the present circumstances, it's more imporant just to let people know that I am the pope as soon as possible. I wasn't aware until just now that the pope and I had all that much in common (according to another quiz, I'm also going to die at almost the exact same age as he did), but now that I am aware of my position, I'm suddenly quite busy, especially with making the travel arrangements for Rome and all. May the Lord be with you all.
- posted by Darcey @ 8:47 PM

 
I think every radio station in the St. Louis area is currently broadcasting from Busch stadium. Apparently, it is the opening day of Busch's last season, and apparently, this is a big deal. I just thought everyone should know, in case someone isn't in St. Louis or isn't trying to listen to the radio.

So yesterday was my birthday. Now I'm old. Who wants to be 22? What a boring number.

You know what I want for my birthday? A new television show. I enjoy having a few television shows that I have to watch every week, shows that I will arrange my schedule around. Some people will think there is something unhealthy about this. These people are wrong. For the past few years, the shows that I have been watching faithfully are Gilmore Girls and West Wing. But I fear that both are headed downhill. (Well, I actually I know that West Wing is headed downhill, and it is doing so at an impressively fast pace.)

The new show I'm in search of needs to meet certain criteria. It is not enough that the show be entertaining. For instance, most of the programming that my roommates watch on a regular basis, such as CSI and Adult Swim cartoons, are a perfectly enjoyable way to pass time when they happen to be on. The problem is I don't miss them when they are gone. The show I want needs to be the sort of thing that you have to watch every episode, or you'll feel like you missed something. To do this, I think the show needs to involve a certain amount of drama. However, drama by itself usually just turns out to be cheesy. So, to balance out the drama and make the show actually good, there also needs to be comedy, so that the show doesn't take itself too seriously. Preferably, the comedy should at least make an attempt at being semi-intelligent in some way.

The most promising show I've found recently is Arrested Development. Sometimes it's really funny, but sometimes it's just so-so. I'm hoping it will grow on me. For a while, I was also watching Desperate Housewives. This show certainly fills the need-to-watch-it-every-week-to- know-what's-happening requirement, but I think it lacks just a little in the trying to be intelligent area. Plus, I haven't been watching it every week, so I don't know what's going on. All right, now people who think my interest in television is unhealthy may be a little bit more right. I'm going to stop thinking about this now. But if anyone has any suggestions, let me know.
- posted by Darcey @ 2:39 PM

 
That was a pretty good April Fool's joke, Spyware! Please disregard the last post about the possibility of my receiving instant messages. (Number of messages I am able to receive before computer freezes: 1) Now, apparently, I can't even post messages to this blog.
- posted by Darcey @ 11:15 AM

 
Recently, the spyware on my computer has decided to take a short pause from their furious efforts to interfere with my every online activity. During this respite, I have been successfully engaging in several risky behaviors, such as clicking on web links directly from an email! I have now decided to make an even bolder move. I have signed on to instant messenger! A while back, I professed interest in the screenname "wraydar." For reasons that I shall endeavor to discover, this screenname has already been taken. So I have been forced to add tedious numbers to the end of my screenname, and it is now: "wraydar83". So everyone should send me a message, and then everyone will become my buddy, and we will have meaningful, thought-provoking conversations, or at least we will see how many messages I can receive before my computer freezes. Doesn't that sound fun?
- posted by Darcey @ 3:47 PM