I am Ninja!

Allan_ecker · Post by **Allan_ecker** » Sat Mar 16, 2002 12:07 am

So, I'm walking to class, right?

I usually don't -walk- to class, so much as dance or frolic. Now, I'm not showing off, I'm just being me.

So, I'm just minding my own business, pretending to be a ninja, and the next thing you know this guy is running up to me and telling me he took my picture.

I'm a little embarrassed, what with him catching me being a ninja and all, but I give him my name and major like he asks and sort of assume I'm going to end up in the on-campus newspaper under the category LOCAL DORK INVASION! HIDE YOUR WOMEN!

Two days later, I've more or less forgotten the incident, although I've checked the Daily and found that I've been spared the humiliation of being this months poster boy for caffiene.

I'm going about my daily business, checking my email the next day, and it's the usual stuff. Spam telling me I'm famous, spam telling me I've already won, spam telling me I can increase my breast size by two cup sizes, and, wait a second, that spam saying, quote, "You're a Star!", was addressed from my advisor. I'd better look into this, I think, so I can notify my advisor that she's been hacked.

Long story short, <a href="http://umlauthouse.keenspace.com/leap.jpg">this</a> was on page B2 of the Seattle Times for March fourteenth.

TOS · Post by **TOS** » Sat Mar 16, 2002 1:36 pm

Hmm... I seem to remember a scene from "Backdraft" that mentions getting your picture in the paper. I believe this means drinks are on you, Mr. Ninja!

Hampster · Post by **Hampster** » Sat Mar 16, 2002 4:12 pm

Congratulations.

Nice *cough* glasses.

Alfador · Post by **Alfador** » Sat Mar 16, 2002 5:20 pm

Hua! Ha ha hya! Fuooooowa!

Hya! Ku! Go! Jyuu! Ichi!

And yes, I occasionally (okay, more than occasionally) walk on the edge of the concrete ledges, just because I can.

TwoDifferentSox · Post by **TwoDifferentSox** » Sun Mar 17, 2002 6:55 am

Dancing or frolicing to class?
So there are people with a positive attitude to school out there still.

Congratulations Mr Ecker!
You're famous!
And now even non-online-ish.

Andrick · Post by **Andrick** » Sun Mar 17, 2002 8:21 am

So instead of being the posterchild of 'geek' you're now the exemplification of eagerness to get to class...

Part of me wants to say "being the Geek-of-the-Month wouldn't have been as bad as that".

Allan_ecker · Post by **Allan_ecker** » Sun Mar 17, 2002 9:22 am

Oh, yeah! That's right! One of the strangest things about me is that, while I spend as much effort as humanly possible becoming an artist and a writer, I'm also enjoying my career as an electrical engineering student more than most people would consider at all healthy. You should've seen me going to digital systems class last year. My joy was... unsettling.