just came back from watching "21" with a bunch of mit peeps. there's something about watching a movie featuring mit nerdiness -- you find it all nostalgic when the camera pans over the dome or laughing hysterically at fake mit class names that are clearly just a random permutation of nerd words. "i have a paper due on tuesday in quantitative literacy." tee hee. "he aced combinational algorithm." hehehe. yup, it's not funny to anyone else but us dorks.
though i have to admit, our nerdiness is really wearing thin. instead of missing boston throughout the entire movie, we all came out of the theatre talking about our next vegas trip. and no, not to go count cards -- we just wanted to go hit the dance floor. unch unch unch (that's my clubby music sound and my dancing to it, please use your imagination). ooooh yeah.
what else. oh, i was thinking about how schools with names like xavier could never recruit asians to go there. it would be too hard for the parents to pronounce. yesterday, my mom came over in the middle of my watching the ucla-xavier game. she looks at the screen and says, "oooh, so is ucla doing well against...HA-vi-er?" i start laughing and say, "mom, it's xavier, not javier like a mexican name." she insisted that she had a student once who spelled his name xavier, but pronounced it javier. after a while, she said, "whatever, the team is losing anyway."
and today, i went home to say what's up to my papa. he says, "your team played well yesterday. they beat that....x-team." i tried to teach him how to pronounce xavier, but after three tongue twister tries, he said, "well, that's just stupid."
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