Ready for an expedition to the South Pole
by Hanly on Dec.01, 2008, under The Wisconsin Experience
Ready for an expedition to the South Pole
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I’ve been feeling sick th last couple of days. I’ve had a runny nose, slight fever, body aches, and stomach aches every once in a while. Everything short of puking my guts out basically. I intended to go yesterday…I suppose by now it will technically be the day before yesterday (November 29th)…to the mall to return a few things I had purchased but ended up deciding that I really didn’t like, or just didn’t work, but it never happened. After staying sickly couped up all day Saturday I decided to give it another shot on Sunday. So on Saturday night I had planned to wake up at 10 AM the next day and make my way to the mall, but after waking up at 8 AM to turn off my room mate’s alarm, waking up at 10 AM to turn off my own alarm, I decided to just sleep in and forgo my expedition. So I thought until around 1 PM when I hear a knock on my door. I managed to toss myself out of bed and open the door, not being able to see anything due to blood rushing into or out of my head (I can’t remember which of the two it is that blacks out your vision for a few seconds). All I hear is “good morning,” and I instantly recognize the voice as Jen. I welcome her in, and we start talking and watching some TV. I started feeling better and soon ask her what she has planned for the day so that she can join me on my trip to the mall. She agrees to go with me so I go shower and start getting ready as she watches the packers game.
While I showered Tyler got back from his trip home, so we tried to convince him to come along with us, but he refused. He did provide some important facts, mainly that we were supposed to get a few inches of snow today. I was so excited, I would finally get to wear the boots and coat I had bought last weekend. I put on my thermally insulated boots, my thick parka, my scarf, and my funny hat and I was set to go into the deepest, coldest corners of the earth. We passed by Steenbock library to return the Mac I had checked out while I fixed my computer, which was 2 days overdue by now (ouch $40 fine), but the library wouldn’t open until 5PM for some reason, so I had to lug around the damn thing.
We made efficient use of our time, and managed to catch the bus headed in the proper direction. Once we got to the west transfer point however, we had some trouble. We boarded the wrong bus, but soon noticed and got off, then we had to walk all they way back to the transfer point. By now about 1 inch of snow had fallen, so Jen and I started to throw snowballs at each other as we walked/ran to the transfer point. We made it back and shortly the correct bus arrived. We boarded and withing 15 minutes we were at the mall. I returned the pea coat at American Eagle, then we headed to grab a bite to eat. Of all the places I chose Sobarro’s, which normally has good pizza…that was not the case today. We got reheated slices of stale pizza which must have been laying there for hours, and some baked ziti which wasn’t all that good either. After downing my $6 crap meal we made out way to Walmart, which was a few blocks away. Outside it was windy and snowing, by now there was much more snow on the ground than when we had gone in. Once again we started our snowball fight, which continued all they way to Walmart and back, and concluded with a snowball in my face, which got stuck on the nose ridge of my glasses.
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