ok, ok, thoughts

And the thoughts are...

Well since the ISKL reunion I've been thinking about ISKL days a lot lately. Almost being immersed in random memories I forgot were even there. Like this morning on the train I remembered that time that Eamon and I ended up alone in Kelly's house for some reason.

And speaking about Eamon (hello, I know you'll probably read this at some point, at which feel free to discuss if you want or ignore at will), it's all been wrapped up in how lately 2 of my friends have told me to go steal someone's boyfriend (er, long story. But I don't want to steal him, really). Which of course makes me think about first year and how my friend's girlfriend still hates my guts because she thought I was trying to steal him, even though I'm not the type of person to steal boyfriends! But then whenever I think/say that, I remember a very very guilty little thought that, actually, in a very stupid little way, I might once have. But we were young (13) and they hadn't been together long anyway and it didn't mean anything, right?

And then that gets me to thinking about what would've happened if I hadn't done it. If I'd just let things go, shrugged my shoulders and told myself it wasn't important in the grand scheme of things, left, and never looked back. And I think how different our lives might've turned out, if, because of that, we never kept in touch, and that scares me quite a lot. But then I remember how close we were back then and I think (hope) we would've kept in touch anyway.

And what I said about TCKs earlier - that might've been an untruth. I was possibly on a TCK kick after meeting kung fu girl, but after the ISKL reunion I have been dissapointed. It's interesting how people who ignored you at school still ignore you years later - not actively but because you just weren't very important to them. I'm contrasting this to other people at the reunion who I'd never met but were still quite open and willing to talk to me, which is cool. But I'm just a little surprised that there are those other types of people, too, who have grown up as TCKs yet don't seem to have benefitted from it.

That's all really.

there she goes!

Quick catch me before I fly away....

Yeah I've been really rubbish with updating lately, I know.

It's just that I've been so bus.... ok really I've just had a boring life. Nothing to say, nothing to show.

Sorry.

I did go to an ISKL reunion last week which was random - in that I didn't really know anybody there apart from the sister, and I knew a couple of people from my grade but no one I hung out with. It was cool to meet new people though.

I might be on a new TCK kick - I met this girl in Kung Fu from UWC Singapore and we get on like a house on fire (before figuring out we were both TCKs) which is *awesome*.

Was going to go see R this weekend but he was being flakey so I didn't. I felt kinda bad though when he called me again and apologised for being flakey. I also realised he must be pretty lonely where he is, so perhaps I should've gone. I dunno. I'll go one day....

philadelphia

For some reason I was thinking about Philadelphia on the train this morning.

My exeprience of Philadelphia was very interesting - I got two different viewpoints of the city.  The first viewpoint I got was taking a trip down for a few hours with a co-counselor and her well-off friend.  We drove into the city centre, parked in valet parking, visited the art college my co-counselor's friend was studying at, had dinner and cocktails in the fancy side of town, then got driven back to Princeton.

The second viewpoint I got was from less well-off friends, who lived in the rougher side of town.  I had a lot of fun with them too - I crashed on someone's couch after spending 2 hours talking to his housemate about something or another, then we had breakfast at this great place called Honey's where I tried grits, and we spent lots of time walking around the streets.  It was really cool, but it seemed like a whole different city altogether.