Getting Home in Daylight

So one of today's notables consisted of actually getting home before the skies got dark (I think it gets dark around here by 9pm or so). I got to see my landlord and his wife (she thought I didn't exist since nobody except Scot had seen me yet lol).

I was starved and didn't have any food at home, so I left and drove towards Berkeley just wandering around until I found myself on Shattuck Avenue and passed a Hawaiian BBQ place that made me U-Turn to go back to. I had a sugar low or something so waiting for the food was really a drain on my patients lol. My eyes were definitely bigger than my stomach so ordered too much and only ate like 1/3 of my food before packing it up to go and heading out. I had not idea where I was going...I didn't really feel like doing anything, nor going home, nor...I dunno lol. One of those wandering states of mind. So I just drove toward the direction of Berkeley and found myself back on Telegraph and then on the edge of the UC Berkeley campus. I parked and got out and started to walk, grabbing my backpack out of the back seat so nobody would think of breaking into my car and so I could look more like a student lol. It was getting dark, but there were so many students out and about!...like Cal Poly campus between classes. Okay maybe not that busy, but you get the idea. I call up a few friends whose calls I had missed earlier that day to talk while I walked, but just ended up leaving messages.

As I wandered past the library and alumni center, I got a call from one of my good friends from last summer and I plopped down somewhere in UC Berkeley's University Union to talk, staring at the fountain and clock tower over the treeline. It was fun I love talking and catching up with old friends. He made a comment that is very true...how he's all busy and I'm always busy and it's always nice when busy people can find time to still sit down and chat. It is nice. He'll be heading back to New Jersey for good in a few weeks, which I'll be sad about. While talking I got up again to wander and stumbled towards some music floating across the air to where I could see people dancing through the glass doors of a building. After finishing up my philosophical conversation, I wandered in and sat down next to a random girl named Marie and asked what was going on. There were dozens of people just break dancing in the middle of the building hallways, practicing and showing off. She was just as clueless as I was and had just come with a friend. We chatted a while before she left and I continued to watch. I had a few looks my way...I probably looked out of place there...oh well. Eventually I got up intending to just walk and wander more down the empty building hallways but ended up stopping and talking to a girl named Pernilla who looked like a dancer to ask what was going on. It was basically just an informal place for break dancers in the East Bay to come together and learn and practice together with different crews. I told her I was impressed and intrigued and she said I should come out to a battle sometime. I said I would totally come watch a competition, so she gave me a website, her number and said to call her and she'd be happy to teach me a few moves sometime. How awesome is that?

I headed out. Headed home. Met my other roommate Scott for the first time (yup another Scott spelt differently lol), and we chatted for a while...even talked about camping and he invited me to one of his gigs next Thursday. Sounds fun. His room is sweet...tons of instruments and tech stuff. I got ready for bed, and ended up talking to two more really good friends a good 20 minutes each before hanging up barely able to stay awake. I'm smiling right now. I predict being fast asleep within a minute from ending this sentence.