Summer Camp

I was at Summer Camp. Fizz and Joh were coming, too, but I'd gotten there early to set up. I was looking around to make sure I knew where all the facilities were and that I could keep my water bottle filled before I actually set up our campsite. I was excited for the night ahead but also nervous. Nervous because I always am arriving at these things, but also because the crowd was oddly sparse, and that got me wondering if it was really going to be the party that I was expecting and hoping to share with my friends. Most of the camping area was empty, and even in the most popular spots there was space enough between tents to walk easily, and maybe even set up another tent! (Though I was considering setting up hammock(s) instead.) I texted Fizz and Joh to keep them updated about the camping situation and my concerns about the small crowd.

Notebook

So first there was this part about climbing around on railings at work (it was kind of like the stairwell at the Factorio office, up on the 4th floor and with a spiral staircase with a gap down the middle). The railing I was climbing on started buckling and I had to quick jump backwards back onto the stairs so I didn't fall down however many floors and get seriously injured or die. I did so successfully but was still shaken and now felt bad about having broken the railing.

I had found an old notebook of mine and was looking through it. Near the beginning I found recorded a couple of texts from Chase that I had never gotten around to replying to. I took these as evidence that she hadn't necessarily wanted to cut ties with me as I had remembered (the last communication being from me to her). I was reminded of the times I gone out out with her and Molly and Kyle together. That was sort of cool that we had overlapping friend groups. Or overlapping aquantance groups, I guess, since the only other times I hung out with Molly and Kyle was with Shaina. Anyway I was over the whole failed romance thing, but now I wanted to tell her to join SA.

There was also stuff written in the notebook about going to a wedding with Fizz. I guess Mary had gotten married, and it was in a place nearby enough that we could drive there. In particular I remembered driving over a certain bridge over a canyon in Rock County at night with lights all over it, and it was very romantical. It was a very straight, flat road to our destination, including the bridge part, which was sort of interesting.

There was some stuff written in Spanish. Was this notebook from Spanish class? No, it couldn't be, because this was the NYSBA notebook that YC had left me. I was long done with Spanish class by the time I met YC. Hmm.

The bridge I had passed over with Fizz had a river running under it, and now I was rafting down the river. This was Future Rock County, we had to pull over onto a sand bar for some reason. Being at the bottom of a canyon (but only maybe 20 feet deep at this point), it was only a small area of sand surrounded by the river on the east and south sides, and rock walls on the west and north. There may have been dinosaur fossils visible in the rocks. I wondered about the character of this future that we were in. How far in the future were we? Had civilization collapsed? Why were we rafting on this river? Were we running from something? The sand was warm and I liked the feel of it under my feet, but water kept sloshing up onto it and making it wet. Maybe I could pile it up to make a wall to keep an area dry.