Date: 11:23 pm Tue Jan 13, 1998 Number : 200 of 201 From: Thext Base : --tab- alt.cabbage.die.die To : All Refer #: None Subj: UVic Replies: None Stat: Sent Origin : 13 Jan 98 22:58:49 Friday. Afternoon. Travis calls. He asks when I was planning on leaving for UVic. I have no clue, so I tell him Saturday. He seemed disappointed, so I asked him when he was planning to leave. Things are arranged. 18:45 - Travis joins me on the skytrain. 19:30 - We arrive in Tsawwassen. Buy ferry tickets for the 9:00 ride. Laugh at various magazines, including a neat photoshopped picture on the cover of the National Enquirer, or something like that. Travis buys an issue of Scientific American. The Fool calls Travis on his cellfone to verify our directions 21:00 - We get on the ferry. 21:05 - Malfuntional coin changer steals my twonie. 21:15 - Expensive arcade machines steal the rest of my money. I do some brainstorming for my Game. Both of us read parts of SA. A female crew member gets looks from every male passing besides her booth, even if blinds are partially hiding her. Same female is browsing the web. 23:00 - We are getting near Vancouver Island. The Fool calls again. The Ferry is late, we will miss the bus. The Fool says he'll call back with a solution. After hearing this, a woman offers us a ride directly where we need to catch our second bus. Everything is in order. 23:?? - We arrive at UVic. Josh tells us about Victoria's formidable fornicating rabbit population. He also mentions that we are bound to run after a rabbit at sometime during our stay, that it is an unescapable fact. Josh wears his k-trenchcoat. Travis gives Josh some USDefense dept. docs that make Josh freak out. Vodka is drank. They both proceed to install Windows NT on Josh's computer. They talk about interesting stuff that I cannot really grasp. I am no hacker! More Vodka is drank. A warez puppie visits Josh's dorm. He is given the ridiculous Warez Puppie hat of The Fool's conception. Puppie brags about the ISP he worked at in Winnipeg. Begins to talk about how cool would one be to run Windows NT with 128m of ram. Josh points out that this is exactly what Travis does everyday. Puppie shuts up and goes away. More vodka is drank. J is discus sed. Dismiss paranoid revenge theory set up by the Fool. Travis wants to see if he can be somewhere without having to listen to our stuff, and does so. Me and Josh go outside, on the patio. A damn fine cigar is smoked. Some Ontarian and me have a discussion about resistance to cold, and conclude that most people living here are weenies. In my drunken state, I mention that I like Josh's k-coat and that I want one too. A discussion about the unattainable (this area is left cryptic on purpose) is started between me and Josh. Josh hints that the unattainable might not be that much. This is confusing me big time. I get back inside. I begin to edit a file that was supposed to become a message on this network later on. I drink the rest of the vodka while doing this. I wanted to go to UVic to change my mind a bit, and all I got was the same thought I had been pondering for the last year. FUCK YOU, JOSH! No, I didn't say this, but after that, I cannot recall what happened. It seems that I became violent (I don't know how true this is, though. Travis and Josh kept their mouths shut. Maybe I don't really want to know. Anyway...). It seems that I began to blame Josh for making me drunk. Then I remember negociating with Josh to get to sleep on the bed, and somehow succeeded. (Have I been that violent?) Wrong move, Josh. I threw up. This I don't remember. -- Saturday Morning. I woke up in the Fool's bed, with a blank white t-shirt. (I fear those t-shirts, for some reason.) I learn that I threw up. I find my black shirt and the blue thing I always wear over it for which I can't even remember the French name, let alone the English one, in a bath, but not my t-shirt. I look for it. People complain about my shirt taking space in the common bathroom, so I go back there to recover it. I finally discover that my t-shirt is part of a ball of cloth that also contains Josh's sheets. MY HEAD FUCKING HURTS! 12:30 - We go for breakfast. I manage to swallow what the cafeteria calls pancakes. We get back to Josh's dorm. We recover. Well, I don't, but anyway. Josh remembers that I wanted a k-coat and that he promised me to get me those 5$ nifty boots, so we head for the military surplus store. No k-coat. No 5$ boots. Anyway. We still have alot of fun. We try alot of funny clothes, tuques, breath masks, etc. I get to the cap rac k. No damn black cap will fit my head. "Those snipers must have very small heads..." -Fool. I finally find a blue cap that fits me. A black cap finds its way on Josh's head. Travis puts on a black tuque. Sunglasses are tried. Both Travis and Josh go for black round ones. Travis looks like the professional, Josh looks like... a sniper, or some sort of mercenary. My impaired vision forbids me from buying a pair. 2 pairs of glasses at once don't look cool! Travis buys a 200-cartridge metal box (not containing cartridges, you idiot) for good measure. 15:30 - We hit the street. Josh begins to throw some quotes like "You don't fuck up with the CIA" when crossing people. We manage to get our share of stares. We visit Off the Cuffs, that silly hemp and stuff boutique. We then go to Value Village. Old computers. Josh and Travis are like kids set free in a Toys'R'Us. I must admit that their enthusiasm contamined me when I saw a copy of an Adam Family Computer, the first computer I had. Travis fishes through the junk to find enough parts to make an Apple IIc, which he buys. 16:45 - Then we go to Benny's. What? It closes down at 5pm every day! That is not what Benny's is! Blasphemy! We stopped anyway, because I wanted a coffee, some sort of stimulatant to fight my still hungover self. 18:00 - After that, we get on a bus. The bus is crowded, so I am left alone on my seat while the other two were talking about you-know-what. We are back at the dorm. I go to the laundry room to wash Josh's sheets and my clothes. Talk. Go to put stuff in the dryer. Go to eat, and get once more ripped off by UVic's food system. We visit various people. We get back to the dorm. I merge the remaining humid clothes into one load. We head off for the arcade. Travis and Josh play pool while I kick ass at Virtua Fighter 2. I kick Travis' ass at pool. He kicks mine. Me and Travis leave the room to enquire about movie tickets, since Alien will be shown soon. We buy tickets. Josh comes back from the arcade, reproaching us to have left him alone while he was in a sleeping trance, or something like that. People enter the theater. I've lost my ticket! I get to enter anyway. 22:45 - ALIEN. I'm seeing it for the first time! We head back to the dorm. I begin to run after a rabbit, and soon all of us are chasing it. It manages to dodge every one of us. Travis wants to sleep. Josh and me can't sleep after such a movie. Ah, it's the 10th time Travis has seen this movie. We get back to the dorm. Travis installs himself so he can sleep. Josh talked about heading to the observatory (the sky is crystal clear). I'm ready to follow him, but he tells me not to, so I wander outside, around the dorms. The moon was probably full, although I didn't check. The temperature is well under zero, a condition I am more familiar with. I play soccer with some ice blocks. I wander. I find a long and thin metal stick, and decide to keep it for defence, should the need arise. I manage to run into Josh, coming back from what is probably the observatory. He tells me that it is bad to follow people. I begin to protest, but I realize that he's making fun of me, so I continue on my way. Josh tells me that I head towards a dangerous place. More bullshit. I am not feeling my hangover since dinner, but I am now in an eerie state. Alot of space, but I am still alone. No other human being is met. I wander around. I fiddle with a phone booth. Oh, a card reader! My chipcard isn't compatible with what the phones use in BC. I've reached the end of the campus, so I head back, but on a different route. A banner is stuck in a tree, so I take it off and make a cape out of it. The wind is strong, and finally the paper tears where the tape was holding the cape. I spend a great deal of time trying to figure out how to get the cape to stay in place. I continue to go back. I pass the dorm. Wow, two human beings. I pass my finger on my lip and discover that it is split and bleeding alot. I get rid of the cape. Wow, a white rabbit! 03:00 - I go back to the dorm. Travis still sleeps, but Josh is nowhere to be seen. I walk around the floor and discover where he is hiding. I go on. There's nothing to do. I go back to where Josh is. I enter the room and go play to Solitaire on the computer while the Fool is discussing with a guy that never doubted everything at once, stuck in his myths and reality. The Fool is always saying "I don't know" to questions like "Do you know if you are in this room at this moment?". Perception is discussed in the same way. Somehow, Josh realizes that there is nothing to do with that guy. 05:00 - We go to sleep. --- Sunday 11:00 - We wake up. We go to eat. My wallet is once again ripped off. We go browse the web while we have extra time before the ferry. We browse for too long, so we miss the bus we were supposed to take. We browse some more. Josh leaves us at the bus stop. I discover that some Victoria bus lines have BIKE RACKS. Man, I want to move there. Or blackmail my bus company into using bike racks. Whatever. We are going home. This was an interesting weekend. The Fool is really fun, if only in small doses. See ya in a year and a half.. :] -te