Sunday, September 21, 2008

I survived the Blackout of '08 and all I got was inconvenienced

Jesus H. Christ. The power was out for 5 days. I snapped some pictures throughout the week on my cell phone. Let's have a look-see:


Samantha being dissapoitned in the dark, followed by pizza on the grill. Those are individual sized DiGiornio's pepperoni pizzas you're looking at. Primo stuff. You can see the lovely coals glowing beneath them, some lawn detritus all packed up and ready for Rumpke. Those were the most disgusting pizzas ever. Sure they look good and they cooked all the way through... Have you ever had pizza that tasted like shrimp/steak/chicken/hamburger and burnt? I should have cleaned the grill first.

There was a riot/protest/party on campus during the blackout. I'm using the slash because your point of view determines how you label it. Over two thousand students convened on President Hodges lawn to "protest" class while most off campus students still had no power. The police showed up in riot gear and one girl told me she left because she "thought they were going to start throwing tear gas." It wasn't that bad, but the idea is haunting. It's a good thing they didn't try to take the crowd by force because then we would've had a full fledged riot in the streets. Imagine thousands of bored twenty-somethings raiding the liquor stores all over Oxford, cops on their segways weaving through the crowd tazing bros. Not a good image. Although a squadron of officers was sent to the liquor store in town. They were turning away thirsty scholars despite the fact that the store still had power.

Oh and also the post office lost yet another one of my packages, which means I'm going to have to eat the cost of sending out a replacement. So, all in all, this week was awesome.

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