Deer: More Deer

When I had uploaded that last video, detailing my shock and awe at seeing deer actually on campus - not in some state park, not a couple miles away, not close to here, *on* - I was overwhelmed with such excitement and a feeling of one-ness with my natural habitat that I failed to actually watch the video. I just kind of uploaded it and left it at that.

Oh my God, now I know what everyone was talking about. It's a shaky video shot during the night, where the only recognizable part of a deer you can truly see is the white spot upon their rears (Mother nature: What is the evolutionary advantage in making their rears bright white?) I was met in the cafeteria with comments like, "Hey Duffy I saw that video you uploaded....um, seriously, what the hell was that?" Whereas I could only shake my head for daring to ask me such a question, and ask this person, "Why do you hate art?

Anyways, here is a better video. The zoom function on the Flip video cameras isn't the greatest, so I pulled a personal Macgyver and employed the use of binoculars to get you the highly-detailed action-replay you deserve. I present to you (!!!!) : Better deer.

Deer: The Sequel from Matt Duffy on Vimeo.

Being honest though, this is not the first time I've seen mountain animals on campus. There are times where at least once every couple weeks I'll wake up to deer dashing across the field, or even better, munching on it. There was a night I walked out of the library and was literally - no, really, literalidad - three feet from a deer I had failed to see I was approaching as I was reading the back of a book I had just gotten. It was the horned kind, and behind it, a herd of three to four more, all simultaneously staring at me - all simultaneously wondering whether to run away from me, or express enough fear to give their male counterpart permission to knock my head in with it's antlers like tree branches, sharp edged and poised-ready-set-able-wanting to kill. And you think these are such gentle animals - I was scared sh**less, and promptly turned around and took the long way back to the dorms.  I thanked the deer for sparing my life, and then realized they probably read my blog and wanted to see me make more posts in the future, so I thanked them for that too.

Hope the video works this time.