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Thursday August 28, 08
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03:02 PM - well...
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I don't know.
But I have caught him looking at me more than once. He had cut his eyes towards me. I didn't turn my head, but looked out of the corner of my eyes at him. He looked quickly away.
I'm not sure if that's a standard post-break up game or what where people wonder what the other side is doing. but he tried to change seats today. the mutual facebook friend decided to make his appearance in class for the first time today, and even though Robo had a seat staked out somewhere else from last tuesday and Robo was friends with some of those people that facebook guy was sitting with, he appeared to be asking the people around that area if all of the seats were taken. They were. Of course, the other interesting thing is that we would have been facing one another the entire time in class thanks to half-circle shape of seats in class.
anyway, i'm on a Toto kick thanks to that episode of Scrubs.
I've been catching some of those episodes in re-runs. Prime-time shows are generally too early for me. Plus, I'm more into dramas so I don't actively seek out comedies.
At night, however, I leave the TV on and it pops up and I find it funnier than I thought it would be.
There was an episode of Scrubs where J.D. is soaking in the bathtub and he harmonizes along with "Africa."
Suddenly, the tune gets stuck in your head.
and THEN, on two separate mornings, my alarm clock went off and "Africa" was playing!
I guess the song also digs at me because it is a place i SHOULD have gone while in Spain. You look at a map and say, "wow! it's RIGHT THERE!" because the American line of thinking is that Africa is on some distant planet (no doubt fed by the idea of "racial purity") when in reality, its visible from the southern coast of Spain and there have been centuries of intermingling between the two. It's not like the Moors said, "stop! we can't go there. That's a completely separate continent!" Back then, it was just some land mass that was visible on the horizon.
of course, it IS interesting that on that other land mass, there is a very different culture and religion. Imagine if you boated across Town Lake and found that they spoke a completely different language!
Even so, Spain and Portugal acknowledge their proximity. The "spanish tiles" that were brought to Mexico (and used very prominently in Portugal) are actually an Arabic influence.
speaking of my spanish experience...
Homewrecker is in one of my classes, although we don't really acknowledge one another. My feelings are not very hurt by this, although I feel indignant being regarded like that by a person such as her. ...Although finding out that information makes me feel better. I know I'm not a sociable individual by any stretch of the imagination, so I'm always willing to doubt myself when I'm being excluded by the herd...but now I feel like I've found the true face of who was in that group. There were a handful of nice, normal people. The rest of those people....let's just say that they aren't the kind of people I'd actively socialize with if I was given a chance.
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