Trash, Texts, and Vinyl Records

MORNING OF JUNE 8, 2009

I was in a classroom during a lecture. Eric and Brandon were sitting nearby, and possibly Melissa. The teacher/professor looked a little bit like current Supreme Court Justice nominee Sonia Sotomayor, but it wasn't supposed to be her. She was so much lost in her own lecture that she seemed to hardly notice the class.

The room was arranged with typical rows of desks in the center, but there were also a few bleachers against the walls on either side. I was seated in a desk on the last row next to the wall, with one friend in the desk behind me and the others on the bleachers next to us. On the floor around us were a few small piles of trash (mostly papers and the type of trash you'd expect to find in a classroom, in addition to fast food wrappers and that sort of thing).

At one point during the lecture, I received a text message on my phone, which happened to just be lying on the floor near the garbage. It was also flipped open so that the message, which was from our mutual friend, Courtney, could instantly be read the second it was received.

The message said somehting like, "Ha ha ha yeah!", and I think was supposed to be in response to something the lecturer had just said. I was showing it to Eric and Brandon when the teacher came over, perturbed. While she scolded us, i slipped away and began to load up all the trash from the floor into bags. It took two or three of them to take it all.

As the teacher walked back to the front of the room she pasued at one of the trash bags, looked really annoyed, and pulled out a large 32 oz. soft drink (it was in a cup with a Pepsi logo on it) and resumed drinking it. Apparently her drink had been accidentally thrown in with the garbage.

Next I remember leaving the class. It looked like a mall parking lot, and we were heading towards my car. Brandon told us he had just bought a copy the indie movie Happy Go Lucky (this is because I actually saw that in a store yesterday and was reminded I'd like to see it one of these days). The odd thing is, he said his copy of the movie was a vinyl LP!

We all exclaimed that we had no idea they could put a movie on vinyl records. He agreed that it was indeed an obscure practice, but that you could find them. And you needed a special player to actually view them. A regular record player would only play the movie's audio.