Farmers' Market

Today OU hosted a great little farmers' market in honor of Green Week. It was supposed to be out in the Walker-Adams Mall, but it was moved inside because of, you guessed it, the rain. Nonetheless, it was quite lovely. A whole lot of locally grown foods. Delicious whole wheat cookies, gourmet cheeses, fresh cucumbers and pumpkins, and gallon jugs of honey. In the end the event was rather pointless, and I can't imagine it was too profitable for the sellers who set up booths. We are college students. We have meal plans, not kitchens. We aren't even allowed toasters, so we the honey was nearly made useless. I bought some anyway. Not a gallon, but a little bottle, though, trust me, I would have gone for the gallon instantly if I had $30 to just throw away. It would all be crystalized before I could use a quarter of it. Oh, and the cheese! They didnt' have anything extremely sharp, but it was still very tasty. I wanted to get some but I really don't have a good excuse to spend $8 for "about a pound." Maybe I'll get some tasty cheese on my next Target run.

At RSA we had a nice, long discussion about dialect. A few actual Oklahomans were with us, and one realized for the first time the ridiculousness of the phrase "fixin' to," as in "We're fixin' to go get supper." I picked on my own accent. It was all good fun. Oh, and we had an oddball music contest by hooking our computers up to the surround sound system in the office. It started out with mostly sex-related songs, but moved on to 90's pop and "Life's Gonna Suck" fast enough. And then right back to sex songs. Ah, what a great group.

Yay, new friends, though. Alice, who hurt her hip and will be in a wheelchair for "a week or two" has dabbled in D&D, so it sounds like she and I are going to seek out a group so we have someone to play with. The new group of friends I was with also joined the crusade to get me on WoW. I just don't know if I have the free time for it to be worth $15/mo. We'll see.