it's like where you are a female college freshman at some hippie-dippy liberal arts college and on a friday night you tag along with some people to see a bad student bad play Cream covers in the basement of the dorm building next to yours.

Someone has amassed large quantities of poor quality beer such as Schmidt's or Mickey's which you drink too much of and then end up going back to the dorm room of this guy you vaguely remember from your intro to spirituality class whose roommate is out of town for the weekend and with whom you've been sloppily making out to renditions from 'Disraeli Gears' all night. After stumbling back to the dorm room, poor sex is engaged in until sleep (or a blackout) mercifully ends the evening.

When the morning comes you put on your smokey, beer-spilled-on clothes and leave quietly (valedictions optional), and try and sneak out of the dorm room on the *boy's* floor before so-and-so sees you and tells so-and-so so she can corner you later at some inopportune time and ask, "So, what do you think of so-and-so from your Intro to Spiritualtiy class!??!?!?" and when you act indifferent or deny knowing him the trump card is pulled, "CUS SO-AND-SO SAW YOU LEAVING HIS ROOM AT 7:30 AM ON SUNDAY." And then you feel all embarrassed and ask if she wants to smoke a bowl with you or say you have to go to choir practice or your part-time telemarketing job or class.

At least that's what I've heard it entails.

Jo, just because you live in the Netherlands does not mean you're our resident Dutch person. I mean, I'm not the resident silly white guy with too much time on his hands at the moment... wait.

Walk of shame = the distance between the bed and the outer door of the dwelling you awoke in next to someone you don't remember. Usually traversed as quickly and as quietly as possible while grabbing your clothes so as not to wake up said resident.

Does that make sense? No? Okay, so I've never taken that walk. No, I'm not a monk, I'm a reverend... and I always seem to end up at my place. I will NOT speculate how many have taken the walk while I was asleep.

Love and light, dear ones.
Rev