FIREWORKS.
So all day (and Friday, come to think of it), I've been hearing drunken shouting outside of my apartment -- it's Homecoming Weekend, which means that practically every student in town is going to be smashed all weekend, especially tonight. About ten minutes ago though, I heard these booming noises that sounded suspiciously like fireworks -- not the cheap and dangerous 'you'll probably lose a hand or testicle that way' sort that make the whistling noise and then the cheap POP! sounds, but like REAL fireworks.
So I looked outside my bedroom window, and lo and behold, there were REAL fireworks! I couldn't get a good view from where I was, as my room faces west, so I went out to the main area of the apartment so I could watch from the balcony, which faces south towards the lake where the fireworks were taking place. Wasn't in the mood to walk all the way over, as it's probably a good twenty minute walk from here, not to mention that it's cold and drunken students are prowling all over the place right now.
Anyway, it was a GREAT view and there were plenty of fireworks all around. There were actually a lot of new sorts that I've never seen before in other firework displays -- one exploded kind of like a cone-shaped flower, another would initially explode as a faint sparkle of gold before there was a bunch of simultaneous small explosions, another was normal except for a bright red heart-shaped ring the middle, another exploded as layers of rings in a sphere shape, another would be a small explosion and then the red sparks would STAY IN FORMATION relative to each other as they fell (it was kind of creepy, actually), and there's another one I barely remember now, but the only descriptor that comes to mind right now is 'fireflies'. Yeah, that doesn't really help.
Anyway, I should go and do my midterm readings for CLST 330 (Classical Greek Culture and Society) and PSYC 342 (Psychology of Social Influence) now. Gah, stupid midterms. Why am I so lazy this year? Especially after I actually had a work ethic over at the Castle and stayed on top of my readings (oh gasp!).
So I looked outside my bedroom window, and lo and behold, there were REAL fireworks! I couldn't get a good view from where I was, as my room faces west, so I went out to the main area of the apartment so I could watch from the balcony, which faces south towards the lake where the fireworks were taking place. Wasn't in the mood to walk all the way over, as it's probably a good twenty minute walk from here, not to mention that it's cold and drunken students are prowling all over the place right now.
Anyway, it was a GREAT view and there were plenty of fireworks all around. There were actually a lot of new sorts that I've never seen before in other firework displays -- one exploded kind of like a cone-shaped flower, another would initially explode as a faint sparkle of gold before there was a bunch of simultaneous small explosions, another was normal except for a bright red heart-shaped ring the middle, another exploded as layers of rings in a sphere shape, another would be a small explosion and then the red sparks would STAY IN FORMATION relative to each other as they fell (it was kind of creepy, actually), and there's another one I barely remember now, but the only descriptor that comes to mind right now is 'fireflies'. Yeah, that doesn't really help.
Anyway, I should go and do my midterm readings for CLST 330 (Classical Greek Culture and Society) and PSYC 342 (Psychology of Social Influence) now. Gah, stupid midterms. Why am I so lazy this year? Especially after I actually had a work ethic over at the Castle and stayed on top of my readings (oh gasp!).