(date unknown)

I saw kanji today leaving his political science class today. He has the same class I do, only on TT instead of MWF. “I love Schaefer,” he says when he sees me. We talk a bit about Red Dragon. “What time do you get on each day?” he asks. I tell him about 4 or 5. “Cause I wanna kill somebody. Everytime I get on there, everyone’s dead. Except for Agamemnon.” Then he picks a piece of yew or juniper or whatever that bush around the Fine Arts Building is and hands it to me. “Have a tree,” he says. “It’s a hyper bonsai.”

“It looks pretty staid,” I say.

I walk into the building to go through it to get to my car. Two guys are
sitting in the hall engaged in earnest discussion. I go up to one of them
(never seen ’em before in my life) and say, “Here, have a tree,” handing him
the twig.

He accepts it and says, “Thank you,” without thinking…

Something funny happened to me today. I went by the bank to deposit the
remainder of my AL student grant and chose the drive through since it was
raining. A lot of other people had evidently chosen it for the same reason,
and there were at least two cars in front of each vacuum machine. Except the
last one. It had only one car. Cool, i thought, and I pulled into that lane,
suddenly, a van that had just been sitting over to the side dashed in RIGHT in
front of me to that place. I thought that was rather rude, but i wasn’t in a
hurry, I was in a relatively good mood having just completed my last final,
and I was enjoying listening to the radio. So I just pulled into another lane.
The front car in the lane beside me opened up then. I looked over to see a
whole line of cars waiting for the window right next to the bank to become
available. I thought one of them might want to pull over into this newly
shortened line, but none of them budged. i guess they all needed to use the
drop or something. After waiting a couple of seconds more to make sure that
what had happened to me earlier did not repeat itself, I pulled over into that
lane and put the car in park while I waited. After quite a while, the car
ahead of me pulled out, and I filled its spot quickly. I opened my door
(since my window doesn’t work), grabbed the vacuum tube when it emerged from
the machine, and was about to put my check, driver’s license, and deposit
slip in it when I remembered that I hadn’t signed the deposit slip for cash
removed. I rummaged around for a pen and hurriedly signed it before slipping
the tube back into the door of the machine. Then i waited. The machine did
nothing. The tube just sat there. Cars around me came and went as i waited
for the machine to react. Someone behind me honked their horn. I opened my
door again and hit the button marked SERVICE. I tried shutting the machine.
Nothing. So I waited some more. The tellers inside were swamped. Finally, a
lady in a truck got out and came up to my machine. She hit the SERVICE button
several times and tried to force the door shut. I just gazed out of my window
and smiled. She walked over to the window where the tellers were just as the
machine shut its door, swallowing the vacuum tube. I could hear her yelling
at the tellers through the window. The teller responded through my machine’s
speaker. After a while, i convinced the impatient lady that the machine was
indeed working and the teller that everything was okay. After a couple more
minutes the vacuum tube returned. After making sure that my driver’s
license, my money, and my receipt were all there, a pulled out quickly to let
the lady in the truck up to the machine. I didn’t even stop at the stop sign
leading out of there.