i went exploring today (well, yesterday by now). i was running an virus scan on my computer, and it was taking a while, so i decided to maybe go over to the bookstore, but nothing interested me there, and i needed to go to slug books to sign that check i wrote and didn't sign, so i did that, and then walked back to the bus stop, thinking i'd go to longs and do some shopping. but then on the bus there were these cool people sitting across from me. the chickie was telling some story and rambling on and she hits the guy who's with, "shut me up. say something" "uh... something" she wacks him. i lean over and say, "yeah that'd probably be way more funny at 2 in the morning" and i gave them my shpeel about wanting to be a stand up comedian at a club at 2 in the morning, just cause you'd have the easiest job (*sigh* the joys of 2 am conversations in bed), and they were amused. so we got off downtown, and i asked if they had any recommendations for shops to check out, and she invited me to come to bay photo with them. her name was stephanie, and his name was noel btw. she lives in the village, and he lives off in some house in the middle of no where. noel walked backwards most of the way to bay photo, it was funny. we'd direct him, so he didn't run into trees. anyway, they were really fun people, it was really happy. we went to pacific hat wear. i wanted to get a bowler hat. they don't fit the way i thought they did tho. for that matter, i had the same problem with ALL the hats i'd try on. my head is kinda average sized around horizontally, but i'm small around vertically. yeah, so the tops of hats would go up higher than where my head ended, but when i'd try a smaller hat, it was too tight around my forehead! rawr! but they had damn cool hats. i need to figure out how to adjust hats or get one made that fits snuggly all around my head. i look really cute in twenties and thirties style women's hats. they're fun, just doing the whole down-right to up-left look, and pretending you're judy garland. i needed a camera, keep the image, but not have to spend the money on the hat.
anyway, we then went back to ucsc and got pizza at the theatre arts social, which was actually really fun. cause it was this group of theatre people doign crazy shit and dancing to music. oh my god, most amazing phenomenon that just made me go YAY! "bohemian rapsody" by queen come on. people were kinda socializing in small groups, but with that song EVERYONE, well not everyone but maybe 5 out of 8 people were singing along. and then the music in the song changes and MORE people join in, and then the music changes to headbanger music, and everyone just starts head banging and dancing. it was so amazing to look at. there has to be a name for this phenomonon. mass similar reaction because they've all had similar independent expiriences. so what do you call it when a mass of people who don't know each other all react independantly but the same way to a song coming on. i think thats what amazed me the most, is you could tell it was independently happening. people weren't following each other, they just all had exactly the same impulses. it was really really interesing. it was like watching parallel play on a college level. maybe we really never grow up, we just convince ourselves we're older as our body grows and changes. cause thats all we are, these giant walking petri dishes that all have similar behaviors. but then somewhere in the experience, a chemical reaction caused the quivering masses to be "consious" so we thought we were individual and unique, but we're really all the type of slime blobs in the end, trying to mate and create more slim blobs so we can consume our resources and destroy the planet. huzzah
ok, no more 3 am philosophizing for tonight.
