First Rain

What do you do on the first real rainy day of the year?

Hm?

That's right, you take off your clothes and run naked all over campus.

I always felt that this was the right thing to do, but at UCSC this is a genuine tradition. There are a couple of rules: -it has to be on a school day, -it has to rain the entire day and rain really much from 6-9 pm. Then, at 10, everybody (hundreds and hundreds of people) gathers in front of Porter college, strips off their clothes, and starts running, all over campus, passing by all the colleges, going inside the cafés, libraries, screaming "Let's get naked", and it all ends in one big splish splash party in the pool.

Anyway. That's what I did. I happened to be on campus at 10 pm, a case of pure nerdy luck (that's what you get when you study till 10), saw all those naked people running on the streets, blocking all the traffic and making hella noise, I took off my clothes, followed all the bouncing boobs and shiny buttocks, and ran. It was absolutely wonderful. I lost my underpants somewhere on the way. And I ended up getting a hitch home in a car full of naked strangers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JLMJ9mLukE here's a video someone made of today's naked run.

Oh gosh. UCSC is amazing. :)