Study Windows

last night i was studying in the union, in a hallway in front of a large window with a few friends.

and some guy in his pajamas rides by super slow, texting, on a bike a little too small for him. so naturally i start laughing, and in order to point out this great happening to my study friends i point at him through the window and keep laughing.

however, he decides to look back at this moment, as i am pointing directly at him and laughing hysterically.

we made eye contact and i stopped pointing, and he gave me a mean look and biked away really slowly.

but it took me a while to stop laughing.

Outlets In Floors

I have tripped over 2 cords plugged into floors in 2 libraries in 2 days.

good thing its always so quiet in libraries so that when i make "oh my goodness what did i just trip over" sounds and stumble, everyone can hear and see this very clearly.

Dining Hall Chairs

so my friend and i were sitting at a table in the dining hall, and behind us was a table of three people.

and at some point while we're eating, these three people leave, and 2 girls come and sit down there.

and we get up to go get some more food, and when we come back there is an extra chair at our table, and the table behind us has only 2 chairs.

so doing the difficult math of 3-1=2 and 2+1=3, i figure that these 2 girls just decided that they didnt want an extra chair and decided to just put it at our table. luckily, they were in earshot to hear our whole conversation about where the chair had come from, that it had very obviously come from their table, and they were probably really weird.

awesome..

Starbucks Door Holding

so a few of my friends and i were in starbucks and were on our way out. at the same time that the three of us were on one side of the glass door, a guy was trying to get into starbucks on the other side of the door.

so he opens it as we go to push it, and holds it for us. but none of us move to go through the door first for a few seconds, so he asks "going out?"

to which we all sort of nod noncommittally, and he stares at us weirdly. and then finally we figure out how we are leaving, and as im the last one out i say "thanks" and he was just like "yes."

and then we sat in our car and mapquested directions to where we were going and he left and walked by our car and we made even more awkward eye contact.

Dean Dome Directions

so i was walking down stadium drive the other day on my way back to my dorm, and i was kinda zoning out, but this car with a pre-teenage girl and her dad pulls into a parking spot in front of me.

and the girl gets my attention, so i stop. and she pulls out a piece of paper and asks me how to get to the "Jea-Dean Smith Basketball Arena"

and it takes me a moment to realize what shes talking about, so i just kinda stare at her and her dad for a moment.

and then i asked if she meant the Dean Dome, to which she said that she did, in fact mean the Dean Dome.

however, zoned out me forgets where this is in relation to where I am at the moment. so i stare at the two of them for just long enough for all three of us to feel uncomfortable.

finally i remember how to direct them to get there from stadium, and i tell them to just go down the road and turn right and such.

and the dad asks if they can walk there, so naturally, being on campus without a car, i think this is a silly question-of course you CAN walk anywhere, silly, so i say yes.

but then he asks me how long it would take them, and having no concept of time or how long things take  im like i dont know, maybe like 10 or 20 minutes, which to some people is kind of a big difference, apparently.

so with that, i seem to have finished answering their questions, and they thank me, although they now look a little overwhelmed.

and as i walk away i hear the dad say "we should ask someone else"

yep.. its cool, ive only lived here for 18 and a half years so yeah, you should ask someone normal who will give you better directions.

Geology Giggling

precursor: a few weeks ago, my friend and i got in trouble for laughing in class. and our teacher was super self-conscious it seemed, cause he was only concerned with making sure we weren't laughing at him rather than the fact that we weren't paying attention..

anyway...

the other day we had a little writing assignment at the end of class that was due. our classroom is designed where there are 3 rows of tables and the projector/teacher are in front of the first row.

so i get up to turn in my paper, from the right side of the second row. and since the teacher was standing on the left front side of the room, i start to walk around this long row of tables to left, and as im mostly there, he starts to walk back towards the right.

so i stop and sort of start to shuffle to the right, but then he turns back so i shuffle back left, and kinda flail my paper in his general direction so he'll stop moving and i can take the slowest path to him.

this image cracks me up a bit, so i start chuckling to myself, which catches his attention and he finally stops.

and as i hand him my paper hes like "why are you laughing? are you laughing at the paper topic? are you laughing at me? whats so funny?"

overwhelmed by the questions and the fact that i recently got in trouble i start to talk really fast and get all embarrassed and deny everything like "no, no no!! i was just trying to turn in my paper and you were going one way and i was going the other and then you turned and i turned but then you came back and i just wanted to walk this way but you were walking the other way and so then i just thought it was funny..."

and after i mumbled my way through this super speedily, he just stared at me for a little bit, and the 6 or 7 people still in the classroom stare at both of us.

so i just said "bye have a good day" and left very quickly.

Advising

so the other day i went to the advising office for the first time, and naturally, i didn't know where i was going. so i walk up to the front desk and stand in front of the receptionist and wait for her to ask me a question or something.

but she doesnt. so i just stare at her, and get as close to the counter as possible, while she types.

and she just keeps typing. and ignoring me.

so i turn around to look at the other desk, but no one is sitting there either. as i turn around someone says "can i help you?"

so turn to look back at the receptionist, and as i turn i see two people sitting in chairs, neither of whom look at me.. but when i look back at the receptionist, she still isnt looking my way.

so i go back to staring at the receptionist, who continues to type and pretend that im not staring very intently at her.

and again someone says "can i help you?" and seeing as i was staring at the receptionist, i decided it wasnt her. so i start looking around this very small area for more people, doing two 360s in the process and glancing around, even at the 2 people sitting down, neither of whom motions to me that theyve spoken.

and finally, after looking at the two people sitting down twice and spinning around like 3 times searching this room for more people, one of them waves at me in a "you're-an-idiot-i-just-watched-you-spin-a-bunch-and-was-talking-to-you" sort of way.

so i walk over to her and im like "i have an advising appointment" and she just says "upstairs" and that was it.

people are super helpful.

(know what im sayin D. Rog??)

Shoes and Such

so this morning i was running a little late for class and so i was got dressed really quickly and went to walk to class.

on my way out i waved and said bye to the cleaning guy, who waved back. and then i got halfway down the hallway and realized i wasnt wearing shoes.

so then i walked back to put on shoes, past the cleaning guy again, who gave me an odd look since i had just waved bye to him, but did not leave.

then was a bit late to class.

Spanish Seats

so every day in spanish class we sit in a semi circle so that we can all see the front of the classroom and each other.

this is fine when we are in class, but  when someone is a few minutes late, everyone can see them come in.

today i was a few minutes late, and i did a quick glance of the semicircle to see if there were open seats, which i didnt see. but there were a few extra desks in the middle of the semicircle.

so i went to go take one of those and move it near the door so i could sit somewhere.

but i was holding my sweatshirt and tried to pick up the desk at an awkward angle so i ended up dropping my sweatshirt and sort of fumbling with the desk and trying to readjust my grip and all these things that make me look really weak and uncoordinated in the middle of a giant semicircle of people who i have purposely avoided eye contact with to make this less awkward.

and when i look up for a moment, i realize that a desk is open, directly in the middle of the semicircle.

so i "put" (aka. gently drop since i failed at picking it up in the first place) the desk down, and pick up my sweatshirt that i dropped like 2 minutes ago and walk to the desk, with everyone still watching.

then, to make things even better, 35 minutes into class the person i was doing group work pointed out that some random girl was in our classroom filming, and had been since class started....

captain awk made a guest appearance in span 260 today, and its on camera. booom

I Did Not Go To Your Middle School

so, ive had kind of a slow week of awkward encounters... but the other day, i was walking through the quad with a few of my friends, and i see a girl from my geology class sitting next so some random guy.

so i wave to her, and the guy sitting next to her is like "hey, do i know you?"

and im like "uhhhh, maybe?" cause i dont want to be wrong with this question and be like NOPE, and then find out that i should know him from somewhere very obvious, or say YEAHHH and then we have never even seen each other before....

so anyway, hes like "did you go to my middle school?"

and i was like "smith?"

and he was like "oh, well you look just like this girl who went to my middle school, and every time i see you on campus i think its her" which is only sliightly odd, when i think about it now..

so i asked him where he was from, and he said mount airy, and seeing as i am from chapel hill, we deduced that we did not, in fact, know each other.

at this point i think most people would have walked away or stopped talking, but i didnt..

so as we are leaving im like "i hope the girl i look like wasnt like a total jerk and i dont remind you of horrible middle school events or anything"

and he said that she was not a jerk. and then we left.


it was probably more awkward for him, but whatever, i can relate. a little.

Brunch

so my family went out to brunch today since it was my mom's birthday (huzzzah) and my dad wanted to know if they punched parking tickets...

dad: excuse me, do you punch parking tickets?

waitress lady: *look of disdain and annoyance* um. no.

dad: ok.

waitress lady walks away.

(unbeknownst to me waitress lady walks back)

me: nope, but i can punch you in the face!

(waitress lady hears me and glances as she walks by)

me: oops...

It is Really Nice Outside

so today i was going to go throw outside with my brother and so i walk out the front door of my house and i say very loudly in a kind of strange accent (perhaps an attempted small russian childs accent, or something along those lines) "IT'S REALLY NICE OUTSIDE!"

and normally, this would have been fine, but there is a normal person walking his dog by the end of our driveway at this exact moment in time.

and he hears me and stares at both of us as he walks by the rest of our driveway.

but it was really nice out!

Doors

so my brother and i went out to dinner the other night. and we got to the restaurant and i went to open the glass doors, and i couldnt.

so i tried pulling harder a few times. and this did not work.

then, i decided staring at them would make them open.

which also did not work.

however, the lady standing directly on the other side of the glass doors, who saw me attempt to open these doors and stare at them when i didnt succeed, was kind enough to barely push the door to open it for me (while making me look very weak).

so we got to eat dinner.