MUSICAL EL NINO

Interesting Occurrences Today:

1.My Geo professor busted out Abba (yes, as in the Swedish pop group) in lecture. We were learning all about El Niños(the weather phenomena, not the Christ Child)when he clicks to the next slide and Abba starts blaring and he starts singing. But he's not singing the right lyrics, below is a sample of the lyrics he sang:

Have you heard about El Niño?
Pacific Ocean waters warming up again this year.
Best be ready for El Niño
This winter will be hell because
the weather will be weird
And if you own a house upon the beach at Malibu
You should be scared.

It went on from there with three more verses and a chorus all about El Niños and El Ninas. Now in most 300 person lectures this would have been met with dead silence and bug eyed stares. But remember this is a geography class (meaning it's full of people like me) so the whole class busts out laughing and cheering. And my lecture essentially turned into a party until suddenly we were moving on to Atmospheric Stability.

2. On the walk home from the Abba filled Geo class, a man on a bike with a motor goes past. Yes, you read that right: not a motorbike, but a bicycle with a motor. The guy just pedaled along like nothing was out of the ordinary. The continuous sound of a car backfiring harmonized with a metallic whirring was perfectly normal. The fact that he only had to pedal about half as often and the giant gas tank balanced on the cross beam was totally ordinary. In fact, having to concentrate on balancing and carrying a bike that weighs about 125lbs is what all cyclists have to deal with.

3. Musical Ergs. Today I sat down on one erg (1), traded with Katie (2). Alison and Misty switched (3). Misty and Katie traded (4). I swapped with Alex (5). and then Alison traded with Alex (6). Did you follow all that? It's a little unclear why this went down. But it is HIGHLY unusual. Normally we all sit by certain people on certain ergs on certain workouts with a slight factor of when you show up playing into the equation, but today it was all chaos. In the end everyone was happy.

4. I know people! I went and visited one of my TA's in the Geo building during her office hours. My TA wasn't there but I came across five other people I know: My professor from last term, my TA from last term, my professor from this term (the Abba singing one), and this kid I know. This is exciting, people! What's it going to be like when I'm a senior in this building?

5. I've run out of interesting occurrences for the day.

6. I'm going to valet park tonight.