observations
it has occurred to me lately that some of my friends seem overly self-absorbed, or perhaps even selfish. this bothers me.
two snippets for today:
when i graduate from Northwestern and leave Evanston and college life behind, one thing i’ll miss is walking home at night. coming back from the Library, breathing the cold, crisp air — my mind works well then. i feel full and purposeful. sometimes, it even feels like this is the right place. i will miss that when i’m gone.
anna marie and i never gave each other gifts. in fact, our relationship was markedly non-materialistic, and i think this was in fact a good thing. one gift she did buy for me, though, was an umbrella she got in Taiwan. she bought it from a street vendor, picking a gray one because that’s my favorite color.
today, it was raining, and i took the umbrella as i left the apartment the back way toward D&D. i forgot about the heating pipe that stretches above the walkway, just above head-level, and the umbrella smashed against the pipe. the impact mangled the metal beyond repair, and i snapped the rod trying to bend it back into shape.