Friends Make Up A Second Family
Normally, every day when I commute into downtown Portland and back to my lil' abode nestled just around NE 21st and Tillamook, I can feel rather isolated, sometimes breaching right through a sea of strangers (or as I like to put it friends I have yet to meet and know). I've felt rather lonesome many of these days as of late, and really desire to meet someone, whether it be the girl of my dreams who I could walk hand in hand down the buoyant, bubbly boardwalks and talk about everything with, or just some close lil' munchkin friend who I could talk meteor showers and lemon bars with and share i-Pod files up and down Sandy Boulevard. Forming some strong, deep relationships is what I dream and desire most of all, as a Scorpio's spiritual goal is to seek the meaning of selfless love, and the only unsinkable ship is friendship, yay! :)
But so far this week so many pleasant surprise personalities have crossed my path on my way to Portland State University and back, yay! :) First of all, yesterday morning right before 10:00 after crossing Broadway from Pioneer Courthouse Square, I saw Yamina, a pretty fellow KBOO volunteer who recently has been seeking training in the News & Public Affairs Department and also recently visited Kenya, where she stayed for about a month. There's just something about her smile that is especially contagious and endemic; she's such a sweet girl who was on her way to a class of her own at the bus stop, and so I said hello to her, said that me and everyone at KBOO always enjoys her company and we can't wait to see you again soon, yay! :) I certainly wish I had more time to chat (my American Fiction III class was less than fifteen minutes away) but seeing her certainly brought a smile to my heart, yay! :)
Then, as I made my matutinal promenade south on Broadway through downtown Portland's jugular, right outside the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.....you guessed it.....I came across a second KBOO volunteer in a row within a span of four minutes. It was actually someone I never actually got officially acquainted with, but I immediately recognized as a gentleman who was answering phones with me during our recent Spring 2006 Membership Drive (by the way, we met our goal of $16,000+, yay! :) ) So we spent about two minutes or so talking of the inactivity/quietude filling Pledge Central in the afternoons, and how we agreed between 10 A.M when the ratings begin dipping into the low tide as the work day reaches full throttle, and how they pick back up when the Evening News comes on and the rush hour commute is beginning that many of the shows were overreaching their goals (some programs pushed for as much as $1,000 within 90-120 minutes and, as I had predicted, made about half as much). Again, his friendly face upgraded Yamina's single shot of extra endorphins to a double shot!
:) And though I didn't make the hat trick yesterday, this morning on my way to my English 344: Victorian Literature class, voila.....I saw super-cool KBOO News & Public Affairs chihuahua Lisa Loving waltz toward me on the west sidewalk side of Broadway right around where the Taste of Bali is located. :) She said she was on her way to KBOO from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters conference, which the City of Roses is so honored to have the once-in-a-lifetime honor to host, and she had a lil' miscellany of bumper stickers from other community radio stations from sea to shining sea she collected at all sorts of tables at the convention (or maybe she's been hoarding them, starting some kind of stash........just kidding! :) ). Anyway, I did my signature happy dance for her, said if I had the time I wish I could go there and jump-start my wicked, viscid repository, and she said she'd be happy to go and pick up duplicates for me, yay! :) And so in my head I'm thinking of a super-cool way to return the favor, I said "Have an endorphiny day!", did a lil' happy dance, and continued on my way to Shattuck Hall, yay! :)
There is a Persian provern that reads, "It is better to be in chains with friends, than to be in a garden with strangers." I absolutely agree with this, and this week I've certainly felt these chains of friendships worn proudly upon me like some pearl necklace of sorts. A friend certainly is a single soul that's shared in all bodies!
What's next now, I wonder? Perhaps I may just come across Jim Hightower the High Falootin' progressive cowboy and tell me that he's been hearing and cracking up of my many impersonations of him. Maybe it'll be Drew Curtis of FARK, thanking me for airing the story of the wildly-controversial two-headed snake story on the KBOO Evening News! Whatever way God chooses to swing the pendulum, "It is a sweet thing, friendship, a dear balm, a happy and auspicious bird of calm..."
Speaking of balm, anybody get some ChapStick on them?
XOXO,
Noah Eaton
(Mistletoe Angel)
(Emmanuel Endorphin)
Normally, every day when I commute into downtown Portland and back to my lil' abode nestled just around NE 21st and Tillamook, I can feel rather isolated, sometimes breaching right through a sea of strangers (or as I like to put it friends I have yet to meet and know). I've felt rather lonesome many of these days as of late, and really desire to meet someone, whether it be the girl of my dreams who I could walk hand in hand down the buoyant, bubbly boardwalks and talk about everything with, or just some close lil' munchkin friend who I could talk meteor showers and lemon bars with and share i-Pod files up and down Sandy Boulevard. Forming some strong, deep relationships is what I dream and desire most of all, as a Scorpio's spiritual goal is to seek the meaning of selfless love, and the only unsinkable ship is friendship, yay! :)
But so far this week so many pleasant surprise personalities have crossed my path on my way to Portland State University and back, yay! :) First of all, yesterday morning right before 10:00 after crossing Broadway from Pioneer Courthouse Square, I saw Yamina, a pretty fellow KBOO volunteer who recently has been seeking training in the News & Public Affairs Department and also recently visited Kenya, where she stayed for about a month. There's just something about her smile that is especially contagious and endemic; she's such a sweet girl who was on her way to a class of her own at the bus stop, and so I said hello to her, said that me and everyone at KBOO always enjoys her company and we can't wait to see you again soon, yay! :) I certainly wish I had more time to chat (my American Fiction III class was less than fifteen minutes away) but seeing her certainly brought a smile to my heart, yay! :)
Then, as I made my matutinal promenade south on Broadway through downtown Portland's jugular, right outside the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.....you guessed it.....I came across a second KBOO volunteer in a row within a span of four minutes. It was actually someone I never actually got officially acquainted with, but I immediately recognized as a gentleman who was answering phones with me during our recent Spring 2006 Membership Drive (by the way, we met our goal of $16,000+, yay! :) ) So we spent about two minutes or so talking of the inactivity/quietude filling Pledge Central in the afternoons, and how we agreed between 10 A.M when the ratings begin dipping into the low tide as the work day reaches full throttle, and how they pick back up when the Evening News comes on and the rush hour commute is beginning that many of the shows were overreaching their goals (some programs pushed for as much as $1,000 within 90-120 minutes and, as I had predicted, made about half as much). Again, his friendly face upgraded Yamina's single shot of extra endorphins to a double shot!
:) And though I didn't make the hat trick yesterday, this morning on my way to my English 344: Victorian Literature class, voila.....I saw super-cool KBOO News & Public Affairs chihuahua Lisa Loving waltz toward me on the west sidewalk side of Broadway right around where the Taste of Bali is located. :) She said she was on her way to KBOO from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters conference, which the City of Roses is so honored to have the once-in-a-lifetime honor to host, and she had a lil' miscellany of bumper stickers from other community radio stations from sea to shining sea she collected at all sorts of tables at the convention (or maybe she's been hoarding them, starting some kind of stash........just kidding! :) ). Anyway, I did my signature happy dance for her, said if I had the time I wish I could go there and jump-start my wicked, viscid repository, and she said she'd be happy to go and pick up duplicates for me, yay! :) And so in my head I'm thinking of a super-cool way to return the favor, I said "Have an endorphiny day!", did a lil' happy dance, and continued on my way to Shattuck Hall, yay! :)
There is a Persian provern that reads, "It is better to be in chains with friends, than to be in a garden with strangers." I absolutely agree with this, and this week I've certainly felt these chains of friendships worn proudly upon me like some pearl necklace of sorts. A friend certainly is a single soul that's shared in all bodies!
What's next now, I wonder? Perhaps I may just come across Jim Hightower the High Falootin' progressive cowboy and tell me that he's been hearing and cracking up of my many impersonations of him. Maybe it'll be Drew Curtis of FARK, thanking me for airing the story of the wildly-controversial two-headed snake story on the KBOO Evening News! Whatever way God chooses to swing the pendulum, "It is a sweet thing, friendship, a dear balm, a happy and auspicious bird of calm..."
Speaking of balm, anybody get some ChapStick on them?
XOXO,
Noah Eaton
(Mistletoe Angel)
(Emmanuel Endorphin)
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