may 9, [Led zeppelin, “Ramble On”] well it’s wed, yep only two more days
here, only two. man i can’t believe it. i got up at 6 this morning and the
roomie was gone already, so i was like, hmm, and went back to bed. i got up
about 7:30 or so, went and did that whole morning thing, only two more days
that i’ll have to take a shower here. i’ll have to start taking shit out to
my car tomorrow. not really much going on here, it looks to be a nice morning,
i should go get some breakfast, but i’m not really in the mood to. i have
a final at 10, in 2 hours. it’s VB so it should be pretty easy. i hope it
is. i think my econm final is going to be the hardest by far. I’m going to
have to run this summer some time. i don’t like running. since most of you
don’t know what running means i guess i should explain it. every wed night
we have this ceremony called the tapping
out ceremony. basically what you do, is everyone in camp, about 600 people,
lines up shoulder to shoulder in dragon feild (that’s a looooong line and
a HUGE field). the runners stand at either end of the semi-circle, at the
center of the circle there’s three fires, call the call-out fires. in the
ceremony where it says light the call out fire, the runners run to the center
of the semi-circle following the curve and when they meet in the middle run
to the fires and light them with the tourch they are carrying. once they are
lit they follow the same path back to the ends of the line. now this is running
as fast as you can, wearing pretty much just underwear (that’s about the coverage
you get :)), carrying a flaming tourch that weighs about 15 pounds, and it’s
usually about 90 degrees and humid as hell cause we are right on the des moines
river. then they work throgh the ceremony. if you read the cermony which is
linked up there somewhere. it tells you all what happens, but you run the
line of about 600 people 4 times walk it 4 times and then the 5th time you
meet the other runner in the middle and then run to the call-out fire. it’s
alot of work.