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Name: Mingi
Country: United States
State: New Jersey
Birthday: 1/6/1984
Gender: Female
Interests: Swimming
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Occupation: Student
Industry: Business
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Member Since:
1/19/2003
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| I should have put in a quarter...I got a parking ticket today. (sounds familiar to someone?..) It
was one of those scenes when you see the parking officer putting the
ticket on your windshield and in your head, your like
"NOOOOOooooWhoaaaoOOOOOOOOoooooOOOooooOOOooo!!!!" in that ugly warped
slow-mo voice. I was holding the flowers I had just picked up for
dinner. I was like two feet away... but I didn't feel like fighting
with the officer. It's not her fault this is her job. I wouldn't want
to have a job giving people tickets either... So even though I was
devastated inside, I just calmly took the ticket off the windshield,
folded it in half, and then half again and slided it my purse hoping it
will get accidentally lost. If it gets lost, I won't be able to pay it
off would I?
We had a goodbye dinner at Susan's and we had a real good time. I
consider learning Spanish to be one of the best things I've done here.
I got to learn a useful language and the people I met through the
classes were interesting minus one, but it still leaves me excited for
the adventures to come.
We had a three-way conference call with Alex and Eugenio the other day.
The more I speak with them, the more excited I am about going to Chile.
I'm getting to know my roommate-to-be a little more and I guess it
helps to also get to know the people that she hangs around with, too.
It just gives me a more complete picture of what she's like. So far, I
really like her around her bf a lot. They're real cute together.Like when she's with him, she shows a side of her that I didn't see before. A very complimentary pair.
I bumped into some of my Pre-College counselors today... and I wish I had more to say about it.
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| I'm such a girlI hate him...
for the way he hugs...
because it always means more to me than it does to him...
for the way he smiles...
because it reminds me of what we had...
for the way he cuts off conversation...
just when I'm about to ask him out...
for the way he's got me writing here...
because I want to be over him...
...so so badly.
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| A beautiful MondayCommon Monday things: Starbucks employee with eyes of a blood-thirsty
lion. (I wish he would take them damn things off.) Reminds me of the
movie Espinazo del Diablo.
I saw Equus with Carrie, Seth, and Jenny last Friday. It was very
interesting. Not only because some of the drama students got completely
naked, leaving nothing to the imagination. The two students were acting
out a sex scene... I was so surprised. The guy just ran around the
stage with it all hanging out. He also had to mount the naked back of
another guy but I guess I should be more surprised about his lying on
top of the naked girl. I don't know why I thought the "mount" was more
shocking... never mind.
But when I get over the nakedness, the play was really amazing. The acting is amazing.
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| Point of Diminishing ReturnSo I hate economics. Mainly because I suck at it. But here's me
applying some economic theory to my life. Anyone who has ever taken
econ may remember point of diminishing return. The concept of
diminishing return is that something can't sustain the same level of
whatever (utils, satisfaction, return, whathaveyou, etc.,) over time.
Well, why is it that it never gets old when I run into this guy?
It's been since this summer that I've been waiting for that point of
diminishing return when I am no longer susceptible to his charm... I
hope I hit that point quick... But this is probably why this term never
comes up in psychology...
So I hate economics.
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| NostalgicThe thought of leaving makes one nostalgic. I had my end of the year
swim team banquet this weekend. It left me all shaken up inside in an
unpleasant way. I loved the underclassmen skits. They were hilarious. I
still can't believe Xiao played me as a Dominatrix. Nothing could be
further from the truth! Braxton did get me good. I had to laugh. But
when it came to ours, I was so embarassed. 4 made me so mad
particularly... although I think he talks to me the most out of all the
boys, but I think it's his indifference and Evan's and Gerry's, that
truly made me feel that even after 3 years, we are still strangers, no
closer than we were, our freshmen year. 4 accused me of not hanging
out, which is true, but I never really felt like I fit in the
drunk-merry crowd. But I wonder if our last banquet might have been
different if I had. For swimming being such a big part of my life, it
saddens me that my closest friends aren't a part of it at all.
Going back to nostalgia, Todd im-ed me the other day out of the blue.
At first I thought it was my creepy group member, but it wasn't. It was
Todd. His mom and I go all the way back, even before I met him. She was
the secretary who enrolled me into 8th grade when I first moved to
Montville. I forgot about the picture of Todd and me at prom, it still
hangs by the light switch of my room. I went with Ken, of course, but I
could not find a picture of him and me. That is partly because we took
pictures with grampa's Nikon that had a full roll of film in it but
never took because I had loaded the film wrong. What we thought we had
taken, was never really taken at all. If Rowa knew I payed money to
develop blank film, I will never live it out. She is, by the way,
having an Art Gallery opening next week so if you are in NJ, check it
out.
Back to Todd. He asked me if I knew how Gary McGregor was doing and I
had absolutely no idea. Back freshmen year, when I didn't have a cell
phone, Gary wanted to hang out sometimes and I never wanted to because
we never hung out during high school. I didn't appreciate it then, but
I realize how appreciative I should have been. He came to one of my
swim meets one time. To this day, I don't think I have one close friend
who has ever come to my swim meet, and yet, he came. At the time, I was
embarassed to be seen in a suit. He had just had surgery on his leg so
he was limping but he had made it all the way from UPitt campus just to
see me... and I told him I was too busy to hang out because I had too
much stuff to do. Man, I feel horrible looking back on it now. Looking
back on it now, I realize how much of a big deal it was. Wow.
But there was that one time when I went to an Improv show with him in
the basement of the Cathedral of Learning. I met his two friends who
were nice, but high on grass, and one of them wore a shirt that seemed
to have hieroglyphics on them, but he was kind enough to fold over part
of his shirt so that it converted to recognizable English that spelled
out something vulgar. And where is this kid now? He disappeared out of
sight. I can't even find him in the Pitt directory. When Todd and I
used to catch up at the Y whenever I came back home. I used to tell
Todd how annoying I thought he was, and he would agree. But now that
he's not showing up randomly at Todd's doorstep nor randomly iming me,
we miss him. I wonder where he is and why he is not listed at his
school.
In the name of Nostalgia, I also recently took the time to email people
who have left an imprint on my life thus far. One of them was Carlos.
He was the most awesomest and good-looking lab assistant at Rutgers. I
loved waking up in the morning that summer. It was probably one of the
best summers of my entire life. I liked everything about it. The time
Shelly and I saved the sparrow that stunned itself when it flew into a
window pane from the cats that slinked around campus. We went on a
mission to find the Hippie lady to save the bird. Kick-ball. Frisbee.
Dr. Sofer's eyebrow. the beautiful, smart girl with diabetes. Marty,
who to this day I am not sure if he is straight. All the memories that
come rushing with Carlos are just priceless. Anyhow, I emailed him. He
emailed back without any mention of a gf. I honestly didn't look for it
but Shelly asked. I wasn't the least bit curious. Although now I am a
little. I'm currently trying to set him up with Shelly by giving them
each other's email addys. I'm convinced that they would be a good match
since they're both going to med school. haha.
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