These past two weeks have been absolutely ridiculously amazing. Despite all the work, despite all the stress, despite the rest of the world, I have been floating around on my own personal cloud high up above everything and just enjoying the unbearable lightness of being happy. It has been such a long while since I last felt this way. It really has.
My friend Hong and I went riding this morning on our spiffy road bikes. We were trying to find a lake that I remembered seeing on the map, which I conveniently failed to print out, trusting that “of course I will remember the way”. After a while, we gave up trying to find the lake and decided to go check out Boston College’s football stadium instead.
BC football happened to be having a spring training opener game, complete with a small carnival with food, bouncy castles, obstacle courses, and a Ben & Jerry’s ice cream truck. Things weren’t getting started until 11am, but the Ben & Jerry’s guy still sold us ice cream even though it was only ~10:30. However, that was the last bit of hospitality we were shown.
In order to eat our ice cream, we leaned our bikes against a fence so that we could sit down, free our hands, eat our ice cream. Within 5 seconds, someone walks by and very aggressively says “you guys can’t leave your bikes here.” I gave him a look and said “dude, we just want to eat our ice cream, and it’s hard to eat ice cream when we’re holding our bikes upright with one/both hands.” He rolled his eyes, looked annoyed, but did leave us alone.
They had this blow-up obstacle course that is kind of like a bouncy castle, but kids are meant to traverse through it instead of just jumping around. Hong really wanted to check things out, so he asked the guy “what is this?” The guy told him that it’s an obstacle course, and that at 11 when it opens, Hong will be able to see little kids run through it. So Hong asked the guy “oh, so I would be able to run through it?” The guy, with a “are-you-kidding-me?” look on his face said to Hong, “noooo, you will be able to see little kids run through it.” Okay, kids aside, why did the guy have to be so nasty about it? Hong was just trying to be a big kid.
We went to check out the actual stadium, which true to my memory, is not real grass but some fancy astroturf. We walked our bikes onto the turf and stood on the field looking around an empty stadium. There were some other folks on the turf too, running around, jumping, but we were the only ones with bikes. A few minutes later, a guy walks up to us and says “You guys need to get those bikes off of the turf.” Well then, good day to you too.
We acquiesced, but we were tired of being yelled at. We concluded that the Ben & Jerry’s guy was our favorite person of the day. I guess the moral of the story is that bikers are discriminated against by all except the ice cream people.
Is anyone else touched by this article: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/04/18/MNGR0IAQL41.DTL?
This article made me proud to live in America :)
Some religious groups did get angry last week after LBGT groups urged gay & lesbian couples to bring their kids to this Easter egg hunt. They claimed that these couples would be taking advantage of an event meant for the kids in order to push their political agendas. So my question is … why is it appropriate for the White House to have an Easter Egg hunt in the first place? Hmm…
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Kindness is most important in a boyfriend/girlfriend. You want someone who will go through everything with you - the best moments and the worst, and all of those other moments in between. You love to be able to say anything to your partner, and have them say anything to you. You are able to be extremely close with your partner for that reason.
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A while ago, I started writing a post about wanting to be friends with a person whom I have never met, but whose facebook profile I randomly stumbled on through some friends of friends’ profiles. His profile/albums/wall comments really struck a chord with me, and I immediately said to myself, “wow, I really wish I could meet him, become friends with him, and have him in my social circle.” I ended up not finishing the post because even I thought it was too stalker-like. Besides, I knew that the chances of my actually meeting the person were slim to none.
Enter tonight. My friend Amy had an Easter potluck dinner thing at her place. At the potluck, I most unexpectedly met the guy behind the facebook profile. The whole encounter was like a scene straight out of the movies, very surreal. He was there already when I arrived, standing next to the windows on the far side of the room, looking out the window with his back to the room. As I walked in, he turned around (cue in slow motion), and I almost dropped the plate of lasagna in my hands out of shock. Here he was; the man behind the profile. I recognized him right away. It turned out that we have some common friends. The slim-to-none chances of our ever meeting just became 100%.
I played it cool, didn’t introduce myself right away, but eventually got to it ~10 minutes later: “hi, I don’t think we’ve met before. My name is Shan.”
It turns out that the things in his profile that struck a chord with me don’t really come through in person, which was disappointing. But at least now I know.
… are the moon and tide
trying real hard to get on my bad side?
I made a moonlight wish with the stars and the fish
just to be happy not to be selfish- Bad Side by Jump, Little Children
There was something I was dying to find out a few months ago. At one point I suspected a particular answer, but I put it out of my head in denial/self-defense/general disbelief. Soon, I stopped caring and forgot that I ever even wanted to know. An off-handed comment that someone made today brought those thoughts back into the limelight because the comment seemed to confirm whatever suspicions I had initially. After some digging around for dirt, I most definitely got a confirmation, and all of this now has me spiraling down into depression.
I really just don’t understand why things turned out the way that they did, and this extra tidbit of information only nags at me more. I want to “just be happy and not be selfish”, but I can’t help feeling pangs of resentment. I was happy with having unconfirmed suspicions; I was happy not knowing the truth; I was happy forgetting that I even cared. All of this gave me no reasons to dwell in the past.
I really do wish that this had never surfaced today, or ever. Drown information drown. Ignorance was bliss.
Long time no post. Making it up by catching up on all the pictures that I haven’t posted in ages, in chronological order from most recent.
I started my Kaplan job today, teaching a GMAT test prep class that meets twice a week for 4.5 weeks. I was supposed to administer a diagnostic exam tonight to my students, except I started 40 minutes late. Why? Because I was an idiot and thought that 75 minutes + 75 minutes was 1.5 hours, so of course I would have time to finish this diagnostic exam by 9pm, so let me just keep rambling on about nothing. All I need to do is to make sure I start the test by 7:30pm, and it’s okay if i start at 7:40 because what’s 10 minutes anyway? Oh, except 75 minutes from 7:40 is 8:55pm … ohhh wait … I’m supposed to finish administering this test by 9pm … oh crap … 75+75 is 2.5 hours not 1.5hr. Umm … what do I do now?
Ye-ah. First day on the job. I am a complete idiot. Reminds me of when I wore white shorts to school the first day I started at Burtsfield and managed to sit in a puddle of black paint before it was even lunchtime. True story.
My cousin just had a baby! Which makes me an aunt! Well, not a bona fide aunt, but in the one-child-policy generation in which we all grew up, first cousins become aunts and uncles since there are no brothers/sisters to speak of.
