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Wednesday. 3.23.11 7:35 pm
�Have you been? It�s absolutely amazing in the Spring. I lived there, specifically Barcelona, for a few years during undergrad. Stayed in this converted cathedral � you know, they�re all over the�� Although her words continued, my paying attention to them did not. I�m out with a girl at my school, listening to her tell me about lands I�ve only visited in Assassin�s Creed. With staccato-styled orchestration, she enunciates her life story : a castle there, a that cathedral here; a fiesta in Barcelona, a siesta in Greece; a life on the lower east side of Manhattan, studies at various ivies, and finally the climax of her life: Harvard Law School.

�And that�s me. What about you? Where are you from?�

Rather than a crescendo like hers, the lifestory I chose to tell her al niente:

�I grew up next to a farm in a small town.�



She looked at me like I'd just slit a kitten�s neck.


We haven�t been out since.


To be fair, just about every encounter I've had up north has been pleasant. My classmates are all that one would expect of an HLS student: varied brilliance, grand ambition, and frightenly intelligent. They are nearly all pleasantly pleasant, steadfastly studious and exceptionally engaging.. even me to a surprising extent.(minus the brilliance, ambition and intelligent part. Varied, grand, and frightenly can all stay though.)

That said... I'd be lying if I said I did not feel a sort of disconnect between myself and the majority of the folks I've encountered up here. The school -- hey, perhaps even the town I reside in, -- has proven to be remarkably homogenous. Politically, racially, geographically, educationally, etc and with that homogeny comes certain customs that I was either not privy to throughout my upbringing or have simply rejected.
5 Comments.


Slitting kittens' necks...
... isn't that what farm-people from the Fly-Over states do?
» Zanzibar on 2011-03-23 07:48:10

Harsh reaction.
» randomjunk on 2011-03-23 08:34:20

If you have a bike, I will teach you to ride it. We can go riding and swimming and cookie-eating and all manner of summer activities. I can even give you your gloves back, so that you'll have something to wear when it gets hot. Of course, that would require me to have a bike, which I don't.

Thanks for reminding me.

Have I told you my Harvard joke? It's better in person, because you have to get the accent, but it goes like this:

A man walks onto the Harvard campus. He stops a student walking by and asks, "'Scuse me, ya know where the 'ministration building's at?"
The student replies, "At Hahhhhrvaahhhrd, we do not end our sintinces withapreposition."
"Ok, den, where's the 'ministration building at, asshole?"

Also: http://www.theonion.com/articles/yalie-strikes-harvard-lad-sharply-about-the-face-a,3208/

» Zanzibar on 2011-03-23 09:07:06

I'll forward my response. :P
"The camera isn't super fancy. It's robust and has a lot of features but overall it's still a point-and-shoot. To be honest, the middle image was manipulated in Photoshop. HDR is neat.

I can send it to you! I feel sort of bad; when I first got it there was a lot of epic music that I normally wouldn't listen to at all but still liked, but now it's becoming more and more like my other stations. Haha. "

"Crest" is from Utah, the other two are North Carolina.
» middaymoon on 2011-03-24 12:05:39

No. I wouldn't be "digusted" I'd wonder about the guy and his backround but that's about it. I try not to be judgemental.

Are you disgusted by 9 years age difference?
» dont-see on 2011-03-26 10:39:20

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