The long walk

I got a little bored on the evening of the 30th, so I decided to go for a walk. I asked myself where I wanted to go--see, I'm talking to myself again, it's not healthy--and I responded with "To the great white north" even though I was sure I'd collapse long before I got to Canada. Anyway, I got near the corner of Union & Welch, and standing under the streetlight was a man. I looked away for a couple seconds, and he was gone--no running footsteps, no cars came, and he didn't have a bike or anything--so I can only assume he was a ghost. I kept walking, and when I got near Freddy, a train was passing over the bridge, so I got to walk under a train. I continued north, and as I was passing UV, one of the guys from my connection group came out and asked me if I wanted a ride somewhere. Since I was just walking to walk, I declined.

I got near Schlitter, and the sidewalk started to lead me away from the street. I began to get a little scared as it led me further and further away from the street, even when I told it not to. I ran back to the street and walked along in the grass. I turned right at the next corner, so I was now walking just north of Schlitter. After a little while, I had no idea where I was, and movie quotes started popping into my head. "Aye, we're good and lost now." followed closely by "All I know is there's a beep on this thing, and I'm trying to get us there." I realized that those quotes come from Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End and Armageddon, and wondered about the omen.

A little while later, I knew where I was. I was right near the apartment of that nice, young couple that lives out by the mall. Their lights were off--I found out later they were in Colorado--so I decided to walk around the mall a little, then turned around to walk home.

When I got back to Schlitter, my legs were starting to get tired, but I was almost back home, so I kept walking. I took a different route back through campus, so I wouldn't risk seeing the ghost at Union & Welch again, and saw the Medieval Fighting Club on central campus.

When I got back to my place--two and a half hours after I left--I sang "Into the West" (the song that plays during the first part of the closing credits of Lord of the Rings: Return of the King), had some Pop-Tarts, read a little in my Bible, and went to bed.