Dinhternet

So read­just­ing to Cal­i­for­nia life has been good for the most part, but I’ve noticed a cou­ple of things.

First, I’ve for­got­ten every­one in six months. I feel really bad, espe­cially since I used to be really good at remem­ber­ing people’s names. Last night, I went to Swirl Cul­tive with some friends, and a girl waved to me as she left. I thought she looked famil­iar, but couldn’t put name to face. A lit­tle embar­rassed, but she left already. Thirty sec­onds later, she came back in, though, and was like, “You don’t remem­ber me, do you?!” I fig­ured it was some­one from APhiO, and Joe, Eddie, or Mika would help me out, but alas, no. Turns out it was Lin, who I worked with at Yolo Fruit Stand.

Sec­ond, I seem to have “Min­nesota gog­gles.” Not to say that Min­nesotans aren’t attrac­tive. I’m sure there are, in the­ory, attrac­tive Min­nesotans; I just didn’t meet any while I was over there. Mostly due to my lack of a per­sonal life — I worked 7–3 every day, and then went home, which is half an hour from the down­town area, so I couldn’t really enjoy the nightlife. The two cousins I have over there roughly my own age are both (a lit­tle) older, mar­ried, and their friends are all mar­ried or in seri­ous rela­tion­ships, so I couldn’t really meet any­one through them, either. I sup­pose I could have hung out more with my not-yet-bar-legal cousin, who is in col­lege and par­ties often, but it would have been weird to be the older guy at par­ties that no one really knows, and it also would have been incon­ve­nient, since he lives in a sub­urb half an hour in the other direc­tion from downtown.

So yeah, just glad to be back in town.