guest pimp

2002-01-24 [ 12:49 am ]
fishy in da hizzouse! This is the first, of hopefully many guest pimpHATs by fishy, and others, too. (Express interest, and I can send you a prompt, like I did him.)

All responses via pimpBOX will go to him. Enjoy!

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I am not shown in this photograph, but five years earlier, and two kilometres away, I would have been deadcentre. I would have blended with a bunch of sunshined university students ceremoniously trudging.

Ceremoniously is the right word... they may not have matching backpacks, and the population is split between the sandal and the runner... but they are moving in ceremony... moving with devastating purpose. They are going to head back to their flats, and make themselves a sandwich. They will eat the sandwich over a copy of The Poetics, and they will highlight passages.

Can you see it? The young woman on the left has a couple of highlighters in that bag, I am certain of it. Yellow, of course, and probably a blue one.

This reminds me of a day about 10 months into my university career, after my car broke down, sitting on the lawn out side the Math and Computers building, with mouse, and working away at Calc 2, and Linear Algebra 1. I had a awful blue backpack, and, yes, a handful of highlighters pilfered from Nortel (they subsequently ran into terrible financial roughwater, and I take credit for nearly $15 in pens and paperclips).

We were chatting about life, integration, Eigenvectors and lovers. I almost fell asleep on a page of inner product spaces, which was nicely toasty thanks to the mid-summer sun.

I look at this picture, and think back to then... and I wonder: If that was me then, who the hell am I now? Because that isn't me.

by: fishy
photo by: kam2k