{"id":395,"date":"1996-02-22T20:09:26","date_gmt":"1996-02-23T02:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nachzen.net:8080\/?p=395"},"modified":"2005-04-10T21:58:52","modified_gmt":"2005-04-11T03:58:52","slug":"the-freak-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/?p=395","title":{"rendered":"The Freak Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sitting up here in the computer lab at school.. we recently got a<br \/>\nconnection though maf here.  Makes browsing  the web neato.  Especially when I<br \/>\nSTILL don&#8217;t have netscape at home&#8230;  I was up here chatting with Gandalf and<br \/>\nLorax and some other wizards earlier.  Rivendel is such a cool place&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I just came back from the library where I watched a video about<br \/>\nAfrican religions that i missed while I was out of town and couldn&#8217;t attend<br \/>\nworld religions class.  I also was trying to read John Locke&#8217;s first treatise<br \/>\non government because I asked Dr. Schaefer a question in class today and he<br \/>\ntold me to go find out.  But the people nearby in the library were making<br \/>\nweird noises, and I really didn&#8217;t feel like finding out what was going on, so<br \/>\nI left.  But I had to check out John Locke first.  That&#8217;s when I noticed who<br \/>\nwas manning the front desk.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of weeks ago, I was walking back from the dorms or the cafeteria for<br \/>\nsome reason, I&#8217;m not really sure why, when I saw him running toward me.  It<br \/>\nwas the freak.  I think his name is Larry.  He&#8217;s the guy who asked me for a<br \/>\ncigarette that time and then insisted I smoked later on.  That&#8217;s when I<br \/>\ndiscovered I had a double on campus.  Anyway, he was hauling butt for some<br \/>\nreason, so I smiled as he swept past me.  That&#8217;s when he said, &#8220;Hey,<br \/>\ngorgeous,&#8221; and ran right by.  I dunno.  That was one of the last things I was<br \/>\nexpecting him to say.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, he was there at the library counter.  I could see him from the table<br \/>\nwhere I was filling out a card to check my book out.  I dunno why we still do<br \/>\nthe card thing.  It would be much more efficient to have a scanner for the<br \/>\nbooks.  Instead we have to fill out a card for each book we check out, writing<br \/>\ndown the library of congress number, the ascension number, title, author, and<br \/>\nour name, social security number, and phone number.  I thought for a second<br \/>\nbefore I filled out the box entitled &#8220;name&#8221;.  Finally, making a decision, I<br \/>\npenciled in &#8220;Brenner, J.&#8221;  Then I walked up to the desk, planted the book and<br \/>\ncard on top of it, and waited for the freak to look up.  He did, his eyes<br \/>\nbetraying a glimmer of recognition.  &#8220;Hi,&#8221; he said quietly as if he hadn&#8217;t<br \/>\nseen a friend for a long time, &#8220;How are you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fine,&#8221; I possibly smiled slightly.<\/p>\n<p>He eventually grasped the meaning of my visit by looking down at my hand on<br \/>\nthe book.  I slid it toward him.  He picked it up and looked at the card.<br \/>\n&#8220;What&#8217;s the J for?&#8221; he asked slowly.  I stared at his multiple earrings and<br \/>\nlone eyebrow ring above his left eye offsetting his acne scarred face..<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll finish this later..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sitting up here in the computer lab at school.. we recently got a connection though maf here. Makes browsing the web neato. Especially when I STILL don&#8217;t have netscape at home&#8230; I was up here chatting with Gandalf and Lorax and some other wizards earlier. Rivendel is such a cool place&#8230; Anyway, I just&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonclassified-nonsense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}