The UW Chronicles: The UW Chronicles: Volume V: Fremont is the Center of the Universe and an Upcoming Test on Other Less Important Parts of the Universe

I'm sitting at my desk drinking hot chocolate soy milk (I worked out for forty five minutes today, so I deserved it) and I'm listening to Ani DiFranco, a cool, indie, guitar strapping, dreadlocked rock chick, and the wind is howling outside. The clouds were moving so fast today, just sweeping across the sky. I described them to Grandy as those Halloween spider webs that you can buy, all stretched out over the sky, leaving a little blue stripe before the dome of the sky meets the earth (horizon-astronomy term, yes!)Except they've been pulled a little too tight and there are holes of a deeper shade of grey. It's beautiful. I thought I'd be depressed by the greyness, but it is not a homogenous grey, it is full of holes and shades and it has a tattered beauty. The Space Needle is bright tonight, and you can see a little sliver of all the cars going over University Bridge. Just the other day I witnessed the bridge opening up to allow boats to pass underneath it. My mouth was agape as I stood at the crosswalk with Laura, the co-president of the UW Earth Club. She let me have my moment, and then we went over to her apartment and had dinner and discussed Earth Club stuff.
I saw a bridge open up just yesterday too, in Fremont. Fremont is this funky little artsy Seattle neighborhood, and my friends Dani and Jessica went with me. We hopped on the 31 and passed the famous Fremont Troll which resides under a bridge and holds a VW bug in its cement hand. When we arrived in Fremont I immediatly gravitated towards the only Peet's Coffee and Tea that I know exists in Seattle. I practically ran to it, my friends just had to sprint to grab the door before it closed behind me. I ordered a Chai latte and wow, I was home.
We walked around the little thrift stores, went into a record shop and just as we stepped outside noticed something written in the concrete to our right.

It was a very Julia Butterfly moment. I felt like all my Circle of Life peeps were right there with me. It was awesome. See how far ripples can go?
Fremont is a fabulous place, a sign on the bridge that connects them to Queen Anne proclaims them to be "The Center of the Universe." There are statues of people waiting for a bus, with a man's face on the dog waiting with them. You see, the artist got mad at the guy who was funding the project because the funder said he didn't like his art. I guess you should never piss off an artist.

Jessica feeding a hungry man waiting for the bus a gingersnap.

Dani tries to blend in.

Well, from there we caroused around some thrift stores and found various items of interest. We also got to planning our Halloween costumes. I think I will be a gypsy, or perhaps a hippie. My friends keep saying that I don't need to wear a hippie costume, because I already am one.

A California native finds her hat.

So, to make a long story short we had just oodles of fun. And then today I had to study real hard for an Astronomy midterm (yes, the quarter system goes really fast,) and I've found that Fremont is just so much more interesting then our universe. So, I guess that is where I'll leave you, Fremont really is the center of the universe.