At the moment, I'm typing this from Faisal's condo from a crappy laptop that Tahir gave me. This place in Evanston is where I'll be living for until at least January due to school. Aside from clothes and various hygienic essentials, I've brought nothing. Thus, effective today, I am celibate towards video games. If I am to play a game, it'll only be on weekends, provided I have no homework to do.
You know, the fact that I have this crappy laptop is a very good thing. Because if this thing ran Team Fortress 2, I would never get any work done. While I'm sure I could stick an SNES emulator and waste time with Fire Emblem 5, I have to resist the urge to do so.
Anyways, Faisal and I brought my stuff in last night after watching the Bears game. I still feel pretty bad that I'm living here, since Faisal does need his privacy, seeing that he's a full-time English teacher (meaning he has a ton of papers to grade at all times) and a part time student getting a second Master's degree. I mean, he didn't even allow Aisha or Tahir to stay with him while they were in between apartments! I feel more like an intrusion, so I hope I won't betray his trust during my stay.
Ultimately, I guess I feel this way since I never bothered to visit Faisal very much ever since he purchased this place, if ever. And most of the time I would come, I'd spend much of it sleeping. And I hardly lifted a finger when he needed help remodeling. And now when his place serves my interests, my mood suddenly shifts and I'm willing to come over and help clean and such. I almost hate myself for thinking this way.
I guess at the end of the day, Faisal understands my situation and is willing to forgive me so that my college situation doesn't get any worse than it already is. And hey, at worst, I can always mooch off of Derek and Lindsay's place once one of their roommates moves out in January.
Song: One of my favorite Kirby songs in Mario Paint? Hell yes!
Factoid: So when HAL Labs was developing Kirby's Dream Land, the simple sprite that we know as Kirby was nothing more than a placeholder until they could finalize the real lead. However, the developers liked Kirby so much that they ended up keeping him.
3 comments:
I'm sure Faisal doesn't see your stay as an intrusion. Don't get nervous about things. Besides, you'll probably be here all the time on the weekends. Also, you wouldn't be mooching on us when our roommate leaves - you'd be paying rent :P
Hope to see you this weekend.
I'm still skeptical that you can do the celibacy thing this year. Hopefully you'll get angry enough to prove us all wrong on that or something.
Mr. Chen, you realize that your insistence that I will break only makes my resolve stronger! Like I said, I'll still play something here and there if (and only if!) I have actual free time.
And Lindsay, you know what I mean by mooching. I feel that just my presence would label me as such.
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