Eugene
Well, Eugene has been somewhat fun. Lindsay’s ceremony was yesterday afternoon. The graduation ceremonies here are divided up by department, so we didn’t have to sit through the campus-wide graduation ceremony and speakers, we just got a small ceremony for about 150 anthropology and geography students, which made the whole affair much more pleasant.
I’ve spent a lot of time walking around downtown Eugene the last two days, so I have a pretty good idea of the layout of the campus area of the city. Eugene reminds me a lot of Santa Rosa, only less urbanized, and with a much healthier downtown. There aren’t vacant retail spaces every dotting the main roads like in Santa Rosa, and there are lots of eclectic little shops, like Stylus Grooves Records, a tiny little DJ-oriented records store built in a little house, followed te next block by House of Records, which is more of a general record/CD store built in a residence. I alos managed to find myself some black licorice ice cream in the local mall, which is something that most Californians have probably never even considered the existence of, by all appearances. I however, grew up on Tiger Tail ice cream (orange and black licorice swirled together), so that took me right back.
I managed to get a couple pairs of shoes while here, thanks to my mom’s disgust with my aging Dr. Martens. I also picked up a copy of the Love and Rockets comic that Clark’s apparently didn’t order for me.
Last night after graduation, Lindsay went to bed early, and I got tired of playing Zelda on her roommate’s Gamecube, so I decided to go out in search of a drink. Unfortunately, the two bars in the main downtown area were full to overflowing with recent graduates, lined up for half a block at each one, so I had to settle for people watching instead, which was still pretty interesting in it’s own right.
Both mornings that we’ve been here, we went to breakfast around the corner from my sister’s apartment, at the Glenwood. We visited the Glenwood last time I was here, with Emily, on our way up to Canada, and the thing that I like most about it (aside from the excellent Willamette burger) is the incredibly high ratio of cute waitresses. I swear I walk out of there heartbroken every morning.
Ah well. I’m not sure what I’ll be doing today. Heading down to Face the Music to music shop (again) after I’m done here in the U of O library, but other than that, it’s pretty up in the air. More Zelda is on the agenda, I would imagine.
More later….
