yesterday we drove to midtown and met up with some friends... as we got out of the car, one of them said, so are you ready to go cure aids?. obviously that was an overstatement of sorts, but that's right, i participated in the aids walk atlanta 2002. you probably saw me on tv... along with the other thousands of people. i have never spent a sillier two hours of my life (well, sober that is)... have you ever wondered what it felt like to be herded like cattle? don't. it's no fun at all. they even had the cowboys (volunteers) stationed strategically along the route to whoop and holla at you so you wouldn't stray away from the herd.
and i've never heard such a load of crap in my life. i don't know about anyone else, but when i'm trudging along on a long, slow 6 mile walk through atlanta with thousands of other people who are either walking too slow or steppin on the back of my shoes, i'd like an honest answer whenever i ask how much further i have to go. for a solid three miles straight everyone was telling me i'm halfway. now someone had to be lying.
now my sister, young heathly girl that she is, decided to volunteer instead of walk. she apparently knew more about this whole thing then she let on. i walked past her after what seemed like forever and she was chilling on top of a wall waving like she was in a parade (or viewing one for that matter). at the time it sucked. i had to laugh later though when we finally crossed the finish line and a torrential downpour started and i just knew all those waving, whooping volunteers were finally gettin theirs. of course it wasn't until later that i found out that when the rain started they couldn't just run for cover, but had to walk about two miles of the route and pick up cones in pouring rain..... ah ha... i guess everyone did their part.
anyways, so i did my part, and even though i don't really feel like a better person for it, i do feel somewhat superior to all the lazy asses who sat at home on sunday pickin at their own toejam... i may bitch and complain, but hey, at least i did it.
p.s. remind me to never ever do this again... next time i'll just volunteer... if i want to walk a long way, i'll do it on my own time...
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posted by megs at 18:54
10.20.2002
well, i have taken my first road trip of the fall... not so bad for an aging old maid such as myself...
so i drove up to southbend indiana with my sister and two brothers to see the notre dame game... they have some great student traditions by the way. i know nothing about the school but just watching their student section at the game just got me all riled up for the fighting irish... they have a great campus and a real sense of unity it seems... of course, they don't have any frats or sororities, so maybe that is why...
so i'm beginning to hit the stressed holiday season... for most people it's like, okay, where am i going to spend my holidays? who in my family is important enough? well, i know i have to work, so whatever is local is my only option, so that isn't quite the problem. it's our annual christmas party. we always have it in our apartment. but ya know, even though our apartment is huge this year, it isn't really laid out for a party type atmosphere... so what do we do?
have it somewhere else?
that would be completely lame... totally against the tradition and the glory that is the peters christmas extravaganza... so it stands to reason that we need to figure out exactly who is coming so we can be sure to have enough room without getting any fire hazard warnings... so then it comes down to who to invite and who not to invite...
of course we are for inviting everyone we know we can get in touch with that has ever showed up... but that could just be too much... over the past year we've really missed a lot of friends that we haven't seen since last christmas party and then their are some people that we wish we could have forgotten a lot sooner.. but those types of things doesn't make it any easier to form the guest list... at what point can you decide that people are far enough out of your social radar to leave them off of something that has become quite a tradition... it's just a hard kind of question to answer...
at the risk of offending some people, we will have to be very careful about who we invite though... luckily though, our social radar is very forgiving and has a wide reaching radar of sorts... i hope to get everyone here... there are just so many people i really miss having around...
anyways, as the upcoming holidays finally arrive, i'm sure i'll become much more of a mess over trivial things such as who's house to eat thanksgiving at... my parents, my boyfriend's, or just at whoever's house sounds good... all hard questions, but not too life deciding :o)
