Soooo, on the way back to Indiana tonight, I wished that I was driving so that I could randomly honk the horn while going down the highway (nobody was around)... About three minutes later, the kid (lol he's five years older than I am) driving did exactly that. I almost died of laughter. The girl whose car he was driving was all, "STOP THAT!" and the other girl in the backseat with me had no reaction, while the two of us were just dying.
I might have to hang out with him more now.
Random edit to add that it's going to be really weird around future September 11's when all of my brothers are adults. Just thinking... My youngest brother was only a few days old. I was eleven and watched the entire thing unfold on television; school was forgotten that day. It's so odd that I remember everything in obvious detail while that brother and the one that was two won't have any memories of it at all. The one that was seven will have some... I'm sure it was the first news event he remembers. The then nine-year-old remembers it almost as clearly as I do.
I think the first news story I remember was the chase of OJ, and some snippets of the WTC being bombed (I was three for that one; I also distinctly remember watching on MTV several music videos that I now know debuted when I was 2-3... i remember a LOT from that age, things that were confirmed by my parents as happening when I was 18 months-3 years, but music videos? Really?). Then Rwanda, the OKC bombing, pipe bomb at the Atlanta Olympics, Clinton's second win, Princess Diana and Mother Teresa's deaths, Kosovo, murder of Bill Cosby's son, Dolly, Tim McVeigh's sentencing, Keiko the whale's death (Free Willy) and Macaulay Culkin's marriage on the same day (ah, the things a seven-year-old remembers...), the Clinton stuff, Sammy Sosa/Mark McGwire race, Columbine, Y2K, Elian Gonzalez (that all happened on my tenth birthday; RUDE) Tim McVeigh's execution, 9/11, aaaand then that and everything since then feels like it happened five minutes ago. I'm sure I remember more... I keep editing adding... lol.
Most of the kids in elementary school today were either not born or just babies when 9/11 happened. Ick.
icehound wrote:
Melly317 wrote:
umm
how do you forget to do those things?
...believe it or not...it's who i am.
i can stay awake for days working on a problem...and just forget...when i'm at work, if someone doesn't say "hey! it's lunch..." i lose track of time and just work...and then i come out of my office and the place is empty and it's like 7PM...
i'm just fucking crazy. i only eat when i'm hungry...and that might mean i don't eat for like 3 days...then i eat a ton...then i don't eat for another 3 or 4 days.
always been like that. might be some form of brain damage. dunno.
might be i've grown used to suppressing certain needs/instincts.
I'm like that. When I get really engrossed in something, if someone doesn't come into my dorm room and ask me to go down to dinner or lunch, I'll completely forget to eat and won't feel hungry at all. Consequently, I've been eating, on average, one meal a day for the past couple weeks, as the amount of homework I have due has really picked up. (I usually only eat about 900 calories a day, anyway; I kept track of my intake for a week once for a class in high school.) Sleeping when I'm plugging along is a difficulty, too, though it's not something I forget as much as it is something that I just ignore. I will feel tired, but sleeping when I'm actually enjoying the work I'm doing is probably impossible, and if I have work hanging over my head, I'll get it done before sleep whether I enjoy it or not. I've yet to pull an all-nighter, but I've had nights where I only slept an hour or less, after the sun had risen.
I've a friend who is the same way. She lost ten pounds last year because of it; by April she was asking people to come into her room and get her for meals, lest she work right through them. If we were ever roommates, we would starve.
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