New friends! Hurrah!

New friend who likes Doctor Who, d20s, and free stuff as much as I do. Need I say more? Well, I suppose so, considering I promised a condom story.

Yesterday afternoon there was a "mandatory" picnic for all National Scholars. I had forgotten about it, but when I arrived half an hour late, I figured I would try to make the most of it. I saw a girl standing alone by a light pole, looking bored.
"Hi, I'm Sarah, and you look about as bored as I am," I said. She introduced herself as Kate, from CT, and we hung out and waited for the door prize winners to be drawn. I was drawn relatively early and won two weeks of free robotic exercises and two weeks of free tanning at Tan & Tone in OKC. So not only do I have no idea where it is, but also no idea what I won. Kate and I exchanged a few sarcastic remarks, and then she mentioned that she was thinking about leaving, because it didn't seem like the prizes were worth it anyway, and there was free stuff being handed out in the Walker/Adams Mall. Sure enough, she was the next name called, so she collected her gift certificate and we left to go collect free stuff.
Two laundry bags, a pound of free shampoo samples, 6 pens, a large navy t-shirt, and 2 plastic cups later, our bags were too full to continue carrying them around, so we split temporarily to go drop our crap off in our dorms. We met again and continued walking around the lawn.
Somewhere between the religious bookmarks and the local cable provider, we stopped at the table set up by Planned Parenthood of Central Oklahoma.
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After we picked up some free snow cones, we returned to my room to sort our loot (37 condoms, 3 things of flavored lube, and a latex dental dam, if you were wondering. And I'm pretty sure she had more than me). So we giggled, realizing that neither of us would probably ever use these things, other than to create a wall mural (oh, yes, it will happen).
Then she noticed my poster. My lovely poster that came with an issue of Doctor Who Magazine, a picture of David Tennant and Catherine Tate. And she stared at it with her mouth open and asked, "Where did you get that?" I explained and we bonded some more, because we were both thinking we were the only Doctor Who fans on campus.
I also found out that Kate is a geek, like me. She hasn't played WoW, but would given the opportunity. She hasn't played DnD, but also would, given the opportunity. I showed her my dice, she oohed and ahhed. And later we went to the free showing of Ironman at the Union.
Yay! Sarah has a buddy!