Tuesday night in Philadelphia
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madmadammim) just gave me the best idea of what I could do with my summer... I should go see if I can volunteer at the Carnegie Science Center. It would be almost as cool as volunteering at the Franklin Institute.
Anyway, tonight so far I went to play DDR at Gameworks withsorjai. (Hmm, I wonder if he knows I know he has a livejournal. Maybe I will friend him and then he'll find out :P) I had a misunderstanding and he had the wrong cell number for me so we went half an hour later than we should have, but I hope he doesn't hate me too much for it. Both of us were freeloading off the Gameworks people and Rob (djayxero) for credits... so we were only there for like two and a half hours playing, since Rob left and then Jessica the GW girl (who btw KICKED MYASS at Paranoia Rebirth SSR... I swear the last time I saw her play DDR in February she could barely do 4-foot songs) also went away... leaving the machine with like no credits in it... and neither of us had a card. So we quit and left. It was ok because I was, quite frankly, zonked. See, I made the mistake of starting off with a really tough set again... Rob and this other guy were doing In the Navy SSR and they failed it... so there was this other person who was like "yeah! i'm gonna do in the navy!" and so I jumped on and so my first song was In the Navy SSR. I got an A, and even managed to pass a few other SSR songs in my first set, like Kakkai and Beautiful 21C, but then I went off to cough up a lung and nearly throw up. Must be something about Gameworks since I threw up last time I was there too. After I calmed down from that I had a pretty good time. I played most of the Korea ver 2 songs... I think I did all of them SSR except for one of the Fin.K.L songs, I forget which. It was cool. I was able to read the Hangul to know which song was which! (Dang... I am such a wannabe Asian it's not even funny) I even got to play some 2nd mix, freestyle a little, and watch Sorjai full-combo every single SSR song on the machine. (he is SCARY to watch... I mean, he does things like Dynamite Rave Double Maniac and full-comboes it with like 15 Greats or something) I also got to see Rob freestyle Beautiful 21C Double Maniac... that was really really cool. Anyway, I had a great time, and then on the drive home I found out that Sorjai went to Central, which means he must know a bunch of people I know, but we couldn't remember any people in common except Shell Kruvczuk, which I guess I'll tell her next time I see her or something.
I got home and took a shower and continued to have a sore throat and be coughy. Around 10:30 I finally got in touch with Aiton, and a bit after that Ben picked me up, with his Kat (the one who went to school with Ralph), and Aiton, and Josh Marcus (who is someone I've known since sometime in 1988 or so, but who I have vastly lost touch with in the past several years, as he went to Penn and our interests/personalities sort of diverged quite a bit). We went to The White Dog Cafe to eat dinner and hang out, which is in the middle of Penn campus, and I felt sort of weird, like someone would feel if they were walking down Atwood street towards India Garden or Mad Mex, but didn't actually really know the neighborhood. I figured that my University of Catan t-shirt was my first fashion faux pas, and my Kiltie Band jacket was the second... oh well. All in all it was an interesting dinner, and they made me glad I skipped out on seeing Akiba HS's performance of Titanic the musical, although a little sad since I missed seeing Chuckie, but, I think it'll be ok. Josh's girlfriend Hannah showed up at one point, and discussion turned to a lot about TV shows and a little about movies and I sort of zoned out, partially from the sore throat, partially from the non-mudslide mudslide I was drinking, etc. But it was really weird to be having dinner with that subset of people... ten years ago it would be normal and now it was just weird. Well, weird, but cool. I dunno. It turns out that Josh's housemate is another Josh who I went to middle school with, who was even in my computers class in 7th and 8th grade. How weird is that? So when we dropped Josh off at home I told him to say hi to Josh "and any other people from Northeast Philly that you're rooming with that I know," but you know, even in Philly it's turning out that my dr4biquity is working against me. Or something...
I suppose I had a pretty good evening and it was excellent to see the Philly DDR group and excellent to see my old high school friends, but at the same time I feel sort of weird, like I'm on another planet or something, and I want something familiar, but of course all of my close friends are 300 (or more) miles away. I wonder how I'll ever get acclimated to somewhere non-Pittsburgh...
You know, I hugged my dad goodnight before I went out with my friends for dinner... an odd gesture for me, now that I think about it. I guess somewhere in my mind I am worried about the whole eye surgery thing and all... but in reality I'm sure everything will work out just fine and my brother and I will get some quality hanging-out time tomorrow and life will be good. At least he's over 21... maybe I will get to drive him somewhere, as my dad says Philly now has some really strict policies on pulling over people who might or might not be breaking the driving laws. I have no idea, but I don't want to chance getting arrested and the car impounded and any crap like that.
madmadammim) just gave me the best idea of what I could do with my summer... I should go see if I can volunteer at the Carnegie Science Center. It would be almost as cool as volunteering at the Franklin Institute.Anyway, tonight so far I went to play DDR at Gameworks with
sorjai. (Hmm, I wonder if he knows I know he has a livejournal. Maybe I will friend him and then he'll find out :P) I had a misunderstanding and he had the wrong cell number for me so we went half an hour later than we should have, but I hope he doesn't hate me too much for it. Both of us were freeloading off the Gameworks people and Rob (djayxero) for credits... so we were only there for like two and a half hours playing, since Rob left and then Jessica the GW girl (who btw KICKED MYASS at Paranoia Rebirth SSR... I swear the last time I saw her play DDR in February she could barely do 4-foot songs) also went away... leaving the machine with like no credits in it... and neither of us had a card. So we quit and left. It was ok because I was, quite frankly, zonked. See, I made the mistake of starting off with a really tough set again... Rob and this other guy were doing In the Navy SSR and they failed it... so there was this other person who was like "yeah! i'm gonna do in the navy!" and so I jumped on and so my first song was In the Navy SSR. I got an A, and even managed to pass a few other SSR songs in my first set, like Kakkai and Beautiful 21C, but then I went off to cough up a lung and nearly throw up. Must be something about Gameworks since I threw up last time I was there too. After I calmed down from that I had a pretty good time. I played most of the Korea ver 2 songs... I think I did all of them SSR except for one of the Fin.K.L songs, I forget which. It was cool. I was able to read the Hangul to know which song was which! (Dang... I am such a wannabe Asian it's not even funny) I even got to play some 2nd mix, freestyle a little, and watch Sorjai full-combo every single SSR song on the machine. (he is SCARY to watch... I mean, he does things like Dynamite Rave Double Maniac and full-comboes it with like 15 Greats or something) I also got to see Rob freestyle Beautiful 21C Double Maniac... that was really really cool. Anyway, I had a great time, and then on the drive home I found out that Sorjai went to Central, which means he must know a bunch of people I know, but we couldn't remember any people in common except Shell Kruvczuk, which I guess I'll tell her next time I see her or something.I got home and took a shower and continued to have a sore throat and be coughy. Around 10:30 I finally got in touch with Aiton, and a bit after that Ben picked me up, with his Kat (the one who went to school with Ralph), and Aiton, and Josh Marcus (who is someone I've known since sometime in 1988 or so, but who I have vastly lost touch with in the past several years, as he went to Penn and our interests/personalities sort of diverged quite a bit). We went to The White Dog Cafe to eat dinner and hang out, which is in the middle of Penn campus, and I felt sort of weird, like someone would feel if they were walking down Atwood street towards India Garden or Mad Mex, but didn't actually really know the neighborhood. I figured that my University of Catan t-shirt was my first fashion faux pas, and my Kiltie Band jacket was the second... oh well. All in all it was an interesting dinner, and they made me glad I skipped out on seeing Akiba HS's performance of Titanic the musical, although a little sad since I missed seeing Chuckie, but, I think it'll be ok. Josh's girlfriend Hannah showed up at one point, and discussion turned to a lot about TV shows and a little about movies and I sort of zoned out, partially from the sore throat, partially from the non-mudslide mudslide I was drinking, etc. But it was really weird to be having dinner with that subset of people... ten years ago it would be normal and now it was just weird. Well, weird, but cool. I dunno. It turns out that Josh's housemate is another Josh who I went to middle school with, who was even in my computers class in 7th and 8th grade. How weird is that? So when we dropped Josh off at home I told him to say hi to Josh "and any other people from Northeast Philly that you're rooming with that I know," but you know, even in Philly it's turning out that my dr4biquity is working against me. Or something...
I suppose I had a pretty good evening and it was excellent to see the Philly DDR group and excellent to see my old high school friends, but at the same time I feel sort of weird, like I'm on another planet or something, and I want something familiar, but of course all of my close friends are 300 (or more) miles away. I wonder how I'll ever get acclimated to somewhere non-Pittsburgh...
You know, I hugged my dad goodnight before I went out with my friends for dinner... an odd gesture for me, now that I think about it. I guess somewhere in my mind I am worried about the whole eye surgery thing and all... but in reality I'm sure everything will work out just fine and my brother and I will get some quality hanging-out time tomorrow and life will be good. At least he's over 21... maybe I will get to drive him somewhere, as my dad says Philly now has some really strict policies on pulling over people who might or might not be breaking the driving laws. I have no idea, but I don't want to chance getting arrested and the car impounded and any crap like that.
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