cheer up, emo kid

[nibot]

Where did you come from? ... And why are you so cool? No, not you, emo kid.

There's something nice, floating about the backroads of the Berkeley hills in a jetta in the night with nifty music, searching for aurora but finding meteors. ("If we don't see aurora I'll just describe them in vivid detail.") Even something small is an adventure.

Small moves. Sit at Café Strada, prove theorems, drink coffee on ice with brown sugar. Hack away on a renovated hacktop. Transitive closure, Lempel-Zif, yay!

Night swimming with Sara just before dinner, at the pool by loth, freedom in water. It's perfect pool weather in Berkeley; nice to be friends with Sara, too. I've been swimming twice this week but never before in this city. I guess there are always new Berkeley adventures.

* * *

Maybe I'll apply for the PhD program in Applied Science and Technology. It sounds sort of vague, but the description matches my background extraordinarily well.

Comments

[odd-dog.livejournal.com]

haha... your subject line is funny. I never thought of you as emo before...

[nibot.livejournal.com]

yeah.. i didn't mean for it to be interpreted that way.. it's to all the emo kids out there! but not me. no, I don't know this "emo" thing.

there's a girl here who has a sort of patch sown onto her bag saying "cheer up emo kid" and I thought it was clever. (-: