The library reeks of frustration. Young men with stubbled jaws who engage me in conversation on lift rides to the fifth storey smell like freshly-ground coffee beans. These amicable fellows who misplace their razors and smell like a Starbucks—why do they gravitate towards me in lifts, where witty bantering is truncated by the electronic ding that lets you know you’ve arrived on your desired floor, and why so late in the semester?
The ambitions of sleep-deprived undergraduates saturate the air and anywhere, anytime, at any given nook and cranny of this building, thoughts and ideas are skipping across miles and miles of of myelinated neurons. Somebody needs to look into harvesting alternative energy from school-induced stress, if ever we run out of water or wind one day.
In one corner of the library, some mathematics student who should have his eyes fixated on the inherent wisdom of a statistics textbook is shunning his academic duties (he is stalking somebody on Facebook). We don’t know each other and probably never will, but he knows that for one week, there is a solid probability that he has something in common with the history student whose eyes should be fixated on the inherent wisdom of a Woodrow Wilson speech (she is updating a weblog).
But what we have in common are not riches or everlasting love or a desire to change the world; what we have in common is a little less heartwarming. What we have in common is.
One Morning, One Morning In May
Posted on May 14th, 2008
think not on the times that the present.. well, presents you with, but rather to the joyous times to come. all we must to do is convince belac to learn to fly with ansell clinging to his back. Then we can celebrate with whatever bottle I had hidden in the corner of my trunk.. or just with frustrating attempts at a barbeque and a pool nearby to help people fall into. either way my dear :) don’t fret, finals will be over soon enough.
Thanks dear =) I just want to know why I run into cute boys when I am at my physical and mental worst! I’ll be in WI until July, what are your plans for the summer?
So… July? I might be able to do July… (Also, D, last exam in 11-ish hours)
You are so lucky to run into stubble-jawed men. Being in Asia, I seem to run into more of the clean-shaven and pretty boys, which are not really my type. I want to see stubble, dammit!
But yeah.. perhaps we connect more when we’re not at our peak because it’s just when we need the connection of another human being.
Yeah, I like my strangers in lifts slightly brewokan too! Too bad there’s still a stigma in Asia that attributes facial hair to undesirable personal traits, rar.
It’s interesting how in times of crisis we open up to just about anybody to check if there is still some semblance of normalcy in our lives. Too bad in this day and age has made us too cautious and too cold too often.
I’ll be back by next weekend.. and should be there for most of the summer :) Belac should definitely come in July! and I can come whenever on weekends..
Perhaps these men are attracted to what you consider the ‘worst’ stages, and hence are found to flock the most towards you at these times? Or maybe you just have your guard up at all other times.. mmm i don’t know!!
in other news, i took a chemical engineering quiz the other day (i accompanied travis to class) and scored a 3/5.. i guess well hmm?