Art Exhibit Blocked by Secret Convention! Also, Meet Rodrigo

 

This morning the Wolverhampton rhinoceros that I had ordered for Travalon's birthday in December arrived. Since I had already opened my Christmas present of the Crystal Palace Jerry the Kraken, I told him go ahead and open the package. Isn't he cute?

Travalon named him Rodrigo, after one of the players.

Meanwhile, I had an eventful day. We were all standing around waiting for the shuttle this morning, and it was already late, but then it parked in another part of the vast Oscar Mayer plant parking lot and just sat there, as if it were early. We were all like, what?? I waved frantically at him, and then he came. Someone said maybe he got confused about where he was supposed to pick us up. Then midday we all got an email that the shuttle will be coming slightly less frequently, like every 20 minutes during peak time and every 30 minutes during non-peak time. This shouldn't affect me too much, since it will just come two minutes later in the morning and in theory four minutes later in the evening, when it already comes at whatever random time. 

The guitarist in our band creates artwork with return address labels (mostly chickens), and there was supposed to be a public exhibit of her art at the Pyle Center. Hardingfele, her coworker, and I walked as fast as I could go (so probably slightly slower than normal for them) about a mile to the Pyle Center, just to be told a big secret convention was taking up the whole third floor, so we couldn't see the art. Don't think I'm not dying of curiosity about the convention, and we were very disappointed, but we settled for looking at the art on the first floor, and we found two pieces by our guitarist.

Later on Night Prayer, when I was relating this story, one of the regulars said, "It was probably a meeting between the Big 10 and the SEC so they can become one REALLY BIG conference!" So we were joking that every college team would just be in one giant conference, but then they'd break into little regional subconferences.... you know, like the Pac 12 and SEC and the original Big 10. Ha! The thing is that it probably will go down just like that, because the current system is unsustainable. How are student athletes going to constantly go back and forth across the country? It's nucking futs.

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