everyone has a bootleg of x&y
Forever, the intersection on the drillfield is known as the thoroughfare for propaganda traffic (in the link, the intersection is the only actual asphalt pathway intersection, fyi). There has been everything being passed out at this point from PETA literature to people carrying crosses and shouting at students to Greek tables seeking rushies. It’s an eclectic point every week; some clubs randomly pass out hot chocolate at the point during the bitter cold months for unlucky 8am class-goers.
During the past two weeks, there has been an effort to get students registered to vote. Naturally, the focus began at the Great Intersection. Several tables with fresh forms waiting were placed with students at them, while others with “VOTE” trucker hats walked the area asking the occasional person if they were registered. This week the effort intensified.
There were never any more tables at the intersection, but the students with hats began to ask every single passerby whether they were ready to vote or not. It required an impressive stamina to continually ask the same question over and over. Of the several times that I must pass through this area, I ultimately expedited their process by just holding my thumb up before the question was through. They got the signal and went to the next soul.
Then… they spread. Somehow they got permission to call upon students outside of dining halls. On the way to dinner Thursday, I was asked three times in 30 feet whether I had registered or not; somehow the others never noticed I was asked, or wanted to make sure my integrity was put to the test. Later, while entering a cheap ice cream place to get a shake for my, now famous, espresso shake I was asked if I had registered. That blasted trucker hat! What does it do to THEIR MINDS?!
Yesterday, while walking around town with some friends, we decided to stop by Bollo’s for a to-go jolt. You would NEVER guess who was lurking inside the door. It was frightening, the culmination of a week’s worth of harassment and tedious Q&A had infiltrated my most sacred abode.
But the odd thing, the piece I can’t understand just yet, is that as I was leaving I noticed the girl, the girl in the VOTE trucker hat, was not there anymore. She also was nowhere to be seen outside the shop or around the street. Oh gosh, now I’m hallucinating these minions for voter registration. ::shivers:: Horrifying, horrifying, people.
October 8th, 2005 at 10:03 pm
I have a bootleg of X&Y!! It’s a decent CD. Wait, is that what we’re talking about?
Seriously thought, I did vote last November. Wait, is that what we’re talking about?
What the hell is this post about?
October 8th, 2005 at 10:15 pm
Yes, that is what this post is about. Although, I’m speaking of bootleg in the terms that of all the shared music libraries I browse through in iTunes, I have not yet come across an album of full-quality. Everyone seems to have the same LimeWire 128mp3 copy of it, which is very lame.
Yes, that is what this post is about. Although, particularly, Virginia has its gubernatorial elections next month, thus the voter registration rush.
This post was about nothing. Which of course implies everything. Sounds like you didn’t get the memo … hmmmmmmm.
October 24th, 2005 at 9:12 pm
Wait. You have a “now famous espresso shake”?
And when, exactly, did this happen? Elucidate.
I want an e-mail and illustrative pictures—complete with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each is, to be used as evidence against us.
Oh, yes: VOTE PEOPLE.