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physics test was pretty good; there was a bit i had forgotten to study, but i think i did it right anyway.

melanie called around 6.55, asking if i would take brownies out of the oven cause she had to run to the theater. er, what oven? so i ran down to the other dorms, tried to figure out which one was platt, which part of platt was west, and where the first floor lounge was.
i should have just followed the smoke. the 5 minutes it took me to find it rendered the brownies (which were in tiny little cups) charcoal. so i ran back to templeton, found a bunch of phone numbers for the theater, found a phone, called the numbers until i found one that someone was answering.... ::rolls eyes:: i ended up making another batch, from the batter that was left over, and sprinting to akin to get my stuff and back to platt before the second batch burned. they turned out okay and i showed up at the theatre around 20 after 7. ::sigh:: 20 minutes after warmups started, 35 minutes after i normally showed up, 50 minutes after becky had asked me to be there so i could starch shirts.

the show, however, was great. best yet. the fact that the audience was responsive and actually laughed had a lot to do with it, i think. i completely crashed around the last two scenes, though.. emilea woke me up when it was over. and i had to stay until the actors finished talkback so i could ask brad for a ride to the zoo tomorrow.

the zoo tomorrow being my last bio lab. i hope it doesn't rain. we have to spend an hour watching an animal and recording its behavior, if i recall correctly.

i'm getting the feeling that maybe my skin doesn't like my happy smelling new soap. boo.

cast party tomorrow night. everyone will be drunk and/or high. i wonder if i'll be in a mood to have fun at all, or if i'll wander around realizing how much it sucks.

yah. i crashed around 10, and managed to stagger home by 10.45. that's why i'm still awake at 1.45. at least i got a nice hot shower. my back isn't quite as upset with me anymore.

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the zoo was... interesting. brad has a blue z3. he described it as a 'jellybean'. we were going to get to the zoo early, but we couldn't find the entrance, and went just a little further... and ended up on the highway. we got there 10 minutes late, but lock showed up even later, so it was all good. looking around the zoo made me realize two things: how neat zoos are, and how bad they are. it was really fun being so close to and seeing so many interesting animals, like the bats and sea lions. but the best example of why i hate zoos: the polar bear exhibit. one bear was walking around a rock, stopping at a log, swinging his head from side to side and walking backwards a few steps, and then turning around and walking the rest of the way around the rock. he did this over and over. it was incredibly saddening... the bear was bored. he had nothing to do, so was just doing this repetitive motion. lock was with us (me and brad and crapiforgothernameagain) and we talked about how bad zoos are for evolution - if an animal goes extinct in the wild, even if there are plenty in zoos, it's gone. if an animal has lived in a zoo for several generations, it's likely that it loses skills needed to survive in the wild... and the bigger mammals, or other animals with learned rather than genetic aspects of their behavior, it doesn't take more than one generation before that trait is gone.
some of the exhibits were neat, but some, like the polar bears, were depressing. the alaska exhibit had some snowy owls.... but it was a *tiny* space. there's no way that was big enough for them - they didn't even have room to fly, from what i could see.
drove back home, and as we got near the terwilliger/barbur light, brad asks if i want to go for lunch. i say sure, he says, 'how about thai?' the only thai place around is thai orchid. expensive thai orchid. 'if you're paying,' i say, laughing. 'sure,' he says.
...right. he's driving his very own bmw convertible. money isn't an issue.

yum. :)

it was sunny all day, and rained briefly, but hard during/after lunch. we had to run to the car, but it was dry when we got back to campus. i thanked him for being the one person who made me felt like i was a part of the show, when we got into a discussion of how people always are more important to others than they realize.