The Ditch

After minutes of debate I decided to no longer include the date. My reasoning stands on I up date this so infrequently that I do not want that reminder


This is a true story of what I did for a few hours today. I became feed up with the campus and needed to leave and quick so I just started walking. After several minutes of walking and trying to clear my mind in every way I could think of I happened to notice the clouds and really would have liked to sit down and watch them for a while.

It is at that time I saw The Ditch.

Now this was a nice ditch, it may not even have been a ditch. Perhaps it was a paved run off or something but the point was I saw it as a ditch and decided to lay down. I lay there staring at the clouds and the shapes and colors that were left by the setting sun.

There I stayed for an hour just thinking and taking this in.

Then I had this idea to turn on walkman and get a little music. After combing the channels I stayed on a classical channel that was playing an intresting symphonic piece. This was leaps and bounds over the other couple stations that occupied the dial. It was so relaxing I decided to write a letter.

Here is where everything goes bad.

It was a harmless act I swear. Just staying there writing a letter to a friend when suddenly a police car pulls into a near by parking lot and I start to panic. For no reason I start adding what I'm thinking to the letter. The panic that is racing through me that, for somereason, these officers of the law have a need to bother me. I am quite aware of the saying that innocent men have nothing to fear of the law. Well guess what it would appear that I am not an innocent like I would have you thought.

Eventually I decide to gather my stuff and leave very calmly.

So I start to gather my things and begin to leave. I walk very calmly past the parking lot and don't even look in. I start to walk down the road toward campus. I hear a car approach and slow and I swear I jump out of my skin as the vehicle slows and pauses.

My mind raced.

If I were to run would I make? Do they know I know? Is that even them?

With extra calm I start to walk away and the car keeps going. There is not the worse part that comes when I swear I hear whispers to faint to hear but too loud to ignore. These persist for several minutes. My mind is all over it's self and my nerves are shot. As I hit a light to runners go by and leave me there. I nearly faint from the outcome.

With whats left of my nerves I decide to sit and have something to drink but of course the cafeteria is closed it being around 8:30. That was truely left me feeling I was cheated. The fact I could not recover with a bit of a meal.