January 23, 2007

• K.I.T.

  Remember when we used to write K.I.T. in everyone's yearbook?  What happened to college yearbooks?  I got one for UC Irvine, and I think maybe 5 or 8 friends at most were in it.  I guess it's lame to get senior pictures.  =(.  Anyway, how many people do we really expect to keep in touch with?  It seems quite feasible to keep in touch with the majority of your friends out there now-a-days.  But this form of keeping in touch has been too carelessly reduced to an IM every few months saying "sup?" and then a few lines of convo and then nothing, a phone call every couple weeks to "catch up", or just a comment on MySpace or Facebook or Xanga (for people who still use this thing).  I'm still not sure if I'm okay with all of this.  I still wish I had the time and energy and close proximity to keep in touch with everyone and know what's going on in their lives, to make it seem like I care.  Well, I do still care, but how can I possibly keep track of everyone?  I've had the privilege to become close with a good number of people at one point in time or another.  People have expressed to me how they treasure our companionship and how they can share things with me and how we have that tight bond.  But what am I supposed to do now?  Everyone has their own lives.  Should I still try to be clued in on their lives?  Or should I start narrowing it down to a very select few?  It seemed like over break I "caught up" with several people, but is that how it's going to be indefinitely?  It was tiring, trying to make sure I met up with everyone (although obviously I still didn't), and I was home for 3 freakin weeks!  I'm never going to be home for that length of time ever again.  Through this whole transition, though, I've realized there's only so much I can do and it is up to the other party to make an effort, as well.  Si?

  Fun news:
  -I went to the ghetto-est bowling alley ever (Skokie Lanes).  You had to get your own shoes, the scoreboard was still an overhead projector (you had to count your own pins!  remember those days?), the ball return was not covered and was only one row thick (meaning if you tried to rotate your ball while it was sitting on the rack it would fall off), beer was $7/pitcher, they didn't have balls under 10 pounds it seemed, and there were...10 lanes at most.
  -Mat Sci Hockey is awesome fun but too tiring.  I am in such bad shape and cannot sprint the whole time before the line change.  Thus, I have decided to kick it into gear and go to the gym everyday (or less). 
  -I decided to take break dancing with my good asian brothas Harold and Rich.  haha.  I had this weird dream about taking the break dancing class already with Harold and they were teaching us "toprock".  Ok, I have NO clue how to do it or what it really looks like, but in my dream I had a clear picture and instructions from the instructor.  I can even explain it now.  It's just a series of hops: back on your left, front on your right, to the left on left, to the right on right, to the left on left, and to the back on your right.  Haha.  I highly doubt this is anywhere remotely close to the real thing.
  -I went to Niagara Falls, the Canadian side!  Sean took me there in 15F snowy weather on a Tuesday afternoon.  Haha.  There was NO ONE there, except for the asian tourists of course.  It was absolutely beautiful.  Snow is so pretty!  =)
  -I'm trying to arrange a MatSci ski/snowboard trip.  Hopefully it's a go!
  -The MatSci dept. has quirky people.  It's so cool!  It's kinda weird thinking that we're all trying to get this PhD thing and that some of them will be professors, too, and some of them will make it big in the science/engineering world, and I can say that I knew them and went to school with them!  (I don't intend/expect to have a big name in any industry or academic realm, so don't think knowing me will be beneficial).
  -I watched "Man Hunt."  A Fritz Lang? film from 1941 about a British man who attempted to assassinate Hitler but caught right before carrying out the act.  The Germans then urged him to sign a statement stating that he was part of the British government trying to kill Hitler.  But he refused, saying he acted on his own behalf, and in fact he wasn't even going to actually pull the trigger, that it was just the chase he was after, the thrill of seeing if you could kill something, but not actually do it.  Fast forwarding the rest of the movie, British guy gets out of a cave and kills German guy with a chromium pin he had bought for his lover who the Germans seized, of which he made a bow and arrow and shot it right through the side of the German man's neck, thus liberating himself and leading him to his quest of being a man of unknown location with the gun and precision to kill Hitler.  Guess he didn't succeed...well, the movie was $4 and was playing at the Block Museum at NU so it was a good experience, especially when the whole crowd was old folks of Evanston.  =)

  

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