To old friendships renewed and library books

September 23rd, 2004 by lynnylchan under Uncategorized

I took a risk that day looking for an old friend of mine I knew back in secondary school. Our university has a massive email address list, if you’re looking for somebody you type in their name and tada! you have their email address. This friend of mine was supposed to enter the same university as me, but I’d lost touch with him. So I entered his name into the search field and came up with an exact match. The niggling thing was, this person was a freshman just like me, and my friend should have been a sophomore. But I sent off an email to him anyway, explaining that I hoped I had the right person.

2 days later I had a reply, it was my friend! I was delighted to find him again. In a campus as large as this, even friends from my junior college days are hard to find, much less from high school, which was 3 years and 200 miles ago. I haven’t seen him for more than 2 years, and in the meantime I think we’ve both changed a lot. I know what he’ll probably say when he sees me again: “You still look the same!” Everyone tells me that. It’s a bit sad, because you’d think that going to college would give you a polish you didn’t have when you were still a schoolkid.

I had a scholarship interview on the 21st, and I think I screwed it up royally. I’m probably the antithesis of what they’re looking for. The scholarship committee, from past experience, has a definite bias against Arts students, and I’m probably the embodiment of everything they dislike about us poor Arts people. They love Science and Engineering students though, probably because they’ll make better workers and are more worth spending money on.

As if to join me in my black mood, it rained heavily later and continued all day. It wasn’t just torrential. That I can take. It was enduring. It’d stop for a breather, and you’d say, “Oh good, the rain’s stopped”, and it’d start again as though it was laughing in your face. On top of that I had a library book due that day, but no way was I going to the library in that sort of weather. Our campus is full of mounds, slopes and hills. And I happen to live at one of the lowest parts, so for me to go anywhere it’s literally an uphill struggle. I guess I was somehow irrationally afraid that a gush of rainwater would wash down the hill, and me with it.

But! technology is a good thing. Very good thing sometimes. I found out that all I had to do was log on to the library portal and access my borrowing records, and from there I renewed my loan. Hah! Take that, capricious weather-determining beings! I’m nearly done with the book, so it probably will be returned on time now.

Today is the last day of our break, so starting tomorrow it’s back to dressing decently and going for classes… sigh. And neglecting my Tamagotchis again. They haven’t suffered, they grew into quite adorable and beautiful teenagers, and this augurs well for their adult form. I want to get the ‘best’ adult, which apparently comes only through good care. That’s the only reason I’m still playing with them. The caretaking gets repetitive after a while, but it’s the outcomes that keep me guessing.

Somebody in the hall called me cute yesterday. He really made my day =)