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Usually I think barn meetings are really drawn-out with a lot of people repeating each other and lots of petty bickering, but this one was actually entertaining. Yes, we did get to hear a five-minute explanation of why it's important to tell people when you're leaving te barn with lots of examples of people being left in the dark, but it was pretty entertaining because unbeknownst to everybody except team members, several references to yesterday's show were made. Also there were minty chocolate chip cookies. At the show the power went out, which was apparently a big deal because no one could see anything despite the fact that it was the middle of the day and there were lots of windows/skylights and consequently lots of natural light. It was okay though, because the barn was equipped with special emergency flashlights that were kept in specific locations and, as the barn lady explained, had to be returned to these specific locations. Right. Also, no power meant no heat, except it hadn't been on anyway due to claims that the air coming out of the ducts spooked the horses. I swear horse people are the most neurotic people ever. Look, I understand horses are fragile and have lots of needs, but when practically every mistake made at the Earlham barn results in a lecture that ends with something along the lines of "because horses will die if you make this mistake again," I get a bit cynical.
Right before the barn meeting I went to the first Earlham Environmental Action Coalition meeting because other than neurotically (I am a horse person, remember) removing pop bottles from trash cans, I haven't done much for our little planet as of late. Tangent: I miss SEA, and Josie skipping meetings despite being our advisor, and playing with Maria's dog at board meetings, and scrounging bottles with Madeleine, and the whole 10 cent deposit thing in general. End tangent. At the meeting lots of people talked about some guy named John Walker and how he seemed to be connected to the solution to all our problems. Fast forward to the end of the barn meeting where I overheard barn staff talking about how they had to restrain one barn staffer from stabbing him with a fork because she hates him so much. I don't even know who this guy is, so that was weird.
In other news, Steve (most amazing prof EVER) explained some weird phrase in our Latin book ("All nature wept the death of the bard") by saying that that's how people in Michigan talk (the authors are from Detroit). When I objected he said I should write a letter to the governor, and I explained that I know (ahem, sometimes saw in the hallway at school) her daughter, but the class was Not Impressed. Alas.
Right before the barn meeting I went to the first Earlham Environmental Action Coalition meeting because other than neurotically (I am a horse person, remember) removing pop bottles from trash cans, I haven't done much for our little planet as of late. Tangent: I miss SEA, and Josie skipping meetings despite being our advisor, and playing with Maria's dog at board meetings, and scrounging bottles with Madeleine, and the whole 10 cent deposit thing in general. End tangent. At the meeting lots of people talked about some guy named John Walker and how he seemed to be connected to the solution to all our problems. Fast forward to the end of the barn meeting where I overheard barn staff talking about how they had to restrain one barn staffer from stabbing him with a fork because she hates him so much. I don't even know who this guy is, so that was weird.
In other news, Steve (most amazing prof EVER) explained some weird phrase in our Latin book ("All nature wept the death of the bard") by saying that that's how people in Michigan talk (the authors are from Detroit). When I objected he said I should write a letter to the governor, and I explained that I know (ahem, sometimes saw in the hallway at school) her daughter, but the class was Not Impressed. Alas.