Living in a College Town

Tomorrow all clinics at UNC hospital are closing at noon.  Why?  Because UNC is playing, um, whoever, for the very first time on a Thursday.  Football!  College Football!  They are expecting 60,000 people to pile into Chapel Hill starting early in the day for a game that starts at 8:00 in the evening.  I guess I just don't understand, not being a fan of any kind of sport.  No, they are not closing clinics so we can go to the game.  D'oh.  They are closing so that patients can, hopefully, beat the traffic jam.  Not us.  We have to stay and complete our infusions, which will likely put most of us right in the middle of everything.  They are even running more buses to accomodate the influx of people (and me to escape!).  If it is as bad as they say it will be tomorrow, my only desire is to get the heck out of Dodge.

I don't know about other college towns, but Chapel Hill has a way of going stark raving mad over things like sports and special occasions.  Halloween is coming soon.  There will be a crowd of strangely dressed ghosts, goblins, monsters, etc. that would scare the likes of me far, far away.  It is a huge street party, every year, and most of the time it comes off pretty well.  There are cops everywhere trying to keep drinking under control and other mischief that occurs.  I hear it's wall to wall bodies and goes on most of the night.  I now live close enuf that I can sometimes hear noisy celebrations happening on campus.  It will surely be a fun night for many.  I will be hiding in my cave.  I'm scared of ghosts, goblins and monsters!