not falling down

My accumulation of keys continues. As an STA, I have keys not only to the ITS offices, but masters to all the buildings for which I am responsible, including a sorority house and a frosh women’s dorm. As of today I have one to the music theory lab in the basement of Grant, which contains several MIDI machines and a synthesizer so sweet I’m afraid to use it for fear of drool.

In years past, as a charter member of a campus prankery organization which will go unnamed, I would also have drooled at the possibilities for mayhem offered by this kind of access. We wouldn’t have done anything as mundane and male as, say, panty raids, but I imagine there would have been Dada window graffiti and things filled with balloons.

Thinking about it today, though, I found the desire to do such mischiefs absent. It’s not that I’ve gotten tired of it or “grown up” or anything–I’d still love to see our walk to graduation marked out with marshmallows on sticks. It’s a curious but common paradox: I only want to pull off pranks if they don’t seem possible.

I want to get into some kind of trouble tonight, though. Will once said that I have an unexpectedly destructive sense of humor, or words to that effect. The environment at dinner tonight aggravated me in more ways than one, and I think it’s brought out my Ray Dooley side in a way that nothing much has since early fall term.

y’all are gonna keep fuckin around wit me
and turn me back to the old me

At dinner tonight, frustrated by the lack of available edible food, I tried a sandwich experiment that actually turned out well. Alison suggested that I name it, which I did, for the person who suggested the key ingredient. The recipe:

Hot Top Lisa Brown

• 1 honey wheat bagel

• Sliced roast beef and provolone cheese in a 2:1 ratio
• 1 red onion ring
• 2 slices green pepper
• 2 tsp balsamic vinaigrette dressing

(Note that I was in the dining hall and thus have no idea what the actual quantities of ingredients or baking times were, so adjust to taste; I’ll update this if I get the chance to make it again.)

Open a honey wheat bagel and apply roast beef and provolone. Close bagel and bake, preferably in a toaster oven, for about 2 minutes at 350 degrees or until bagel begins to brown. Dice onion and green peppers, sprinkle inside bagel, and drizzle with vinaigrette. Toast again for about 1 minute at the same temperature. Enjoy hot.