hurrah for laid-back, and unanticipated, fun

so i thought that i didn't really have anything to do this weekend, other than dinner saturday and the fair sunday evening.

only it turns out i was mistaken.

see, anthony and i both had the best of intentions of working on our papers today. unfortunately, we decided to sit at the same table to do so. and unfortunately, two well-intentioned (yet only moderately motivated) people are just going to lead one another astray. we had lunch. we took a field trip to ivy to pick up some stuff. we went back to the library. we decided to go to the driving range. we went to birdwood. it sure was lovely tho.

but it also means that ave alerted me to other things i get to do this weekend! the fireworks and hanging out at spot's place tonight! yay! and the 1L softball tournament tomorrow. i mean, i know i'm not a 1L or anything, but there is beer and food and pretty weather and a number of my friends fulfilling their PA duties.

then there's oktoberfest at ludwig's, where we have the chance to win gaudy prizes. oh, who am i kidding. i will not win gaudy prizes. i went last year and we had 14 people at our table and i think that i was literally the only person who did not win a raffle prize. of course, that did not deter me from yelling out my raffle number excitedly every time they started to call a winner. nope, not at all. well, maybe this is my year.

but if it's not, there's always sunday to make up for it. because sunday we are all going the the Virginia State Fair!!!! anthony and lexi have been planning this for a year. by which i mean they decided about 11 months ago that we would go and have been talking about it ever since.

but other people do not plan for things like laura plans for things. which is to say that i spent 3 hours yesterday on the fair website, looking at all the food choices and the rides and the presentations and the livestock shows and oh what a lineup i have planned!!!!

the initial plan was to go in the evening. but that is just not going to work. after all, look at all the things i need to fit in:

• i have done extensive research on the foods. there are not fried twinkies or fried snickers, but there are fried oreos, fried corn on the cob, fried mac and cheese, turkey legs, fried doughs, corn dogs, and about 1,000 other things, many of which i have decided i want to eat.
• i have decided that we have to be there by 2:30 b/c that is the latest in the day that they’re doing the pigeon rolling and I’M SORRY, BUT I HAVE TO SEE/DO THE PIGEON ROLLING! (i’m not sure if this is a spectator or participator sport.)
• there is pig racing. 6 times a day.
• there is an aerial daredevil contest.
• cow milking!
• A TRIBUTE TO JOHN DENVER!
• and a civil war re-enactment and encampment demo! (oh no, at the same time as the john denver tribute! we’ll have to pick one! and i am so bad at making decisions.)
• oh, and a presentation called “agricadabra—the magic of agriculture.” fortunately, that plays many times in a day, so we can’t possibly miss it.
• and then, at 6pm, there is the rooster crowing contest, held in the chicken/ducks/geese tent. yes, that is what it’s called.
• oh, and there is a ferret fiesta!! how could you go wrong?

the bad news is that we will be too late for both the pretty cow contest (1pm) and cow pie bingo (1:30). dammit!

so i'm starting to think that i may have to leave cville this evening to fit everything in b/c i don't want to put my fried oreos too close to my riding that ride where you spin in circles and the bottom drops out. that ride caused me problems in the 7th grade.

anyways, the point is that i am very excited!

oh, except lexi and i are about to head to another one of those out-of-water classes that kick our asses and i may not be able to walk or move my arms for the next 3 days. so we'll have to see if i do all of this, or if i spend my weekend crying on my couch in pain from friday's workout.