July in Shampoo Banana and the Pains of Work
July 9th, 2008And so the fourth of July has returned once more. This year, having stayed on campus, I was able to experience local festivities. There was a local parade which started at the intersection of Lincoln and Nevada over in Urbana. Parades, in my opinion, aren’t too interesting to begin with. But this parade, while nothing special, wasn’t half bad. The Champaign-Urbana area managed to hold a pretty big lineup of floats, bands, and old people to march down town.
I bbq’d with some friends for dinner, which was muy yum. At night, I went to a fireworks display over at the park next to Parkland college. It was pleasing to the eyes. Afterwards, I ate some sweet corn. In the end, I can say that spending the fourth down in Champaign wasn’t bad at all.
As for work, some odd forces have been conspiring to get me injured. A few days back, I managed to get a long bleedy scrape on my left leg while I was moving equipment. An angry desk had attacked me with it’s sharp corners. Yesterday, some metal on a usb port was bent outwards and I sliced my palm on it as I was trying to pick the computer up. And just today, I was cutting open a box, and managed to run the sharp edge of a pair of scissors over the tip of my middle finger on my left hand. This one was real bleedy. The last part was prolly my fault though.
Blah!
July 9th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
I missed the fireworks @ chambana this year … we went to the Navy Pier Fireworks in Chicago instead. If you don’t count the reflections on the lake, the Chambana fireworks are as good as the Chicago one.
July 9th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
you should sue your employer (a.k.a. the school).
but upon reading the blog once more, i’ve decided you should sue yourself, as you are clumsy! and weak! *hand flip* feh…
July 10th, 2008 at 6:38 am
The fireworks were surprisingly quite impressive. I imagined the display would be quite small, but then again, this is quite a large area.
Ya. I needs to wear a thimble on all me fingers.