I found a new blog buddy, someone who christens himself Fez
and tries to hide his blog from the world.
The last few days have been one close shave after another. I
stress out, almost break down. Rinse and repeat in an unforgiving loop. Credit
for keeping me from going to a dark place goes to a fitness obsessed, eternally
cheerful fellar I know. You, sir, are the absolute best. None of which happened or is
happening is life alteringly or irreversibly disastrous. It took a white hair
on my head to put the humor back in life, to lighten me up.
Pittsburgh is beautiful, even in the blazing heat. The
rivers and the bridges and the old buildings will be sorely missed. The bay
area seems crass and unrefined in comparison. I will eventually move to a
proper city, not a place where downtown means a half block filled with
restaurants and hair salons. Move somewhere where there is still some lingering
romance in the buildings, somewhere where there exists layers of memories, so
that I can add mine to them.
The one thing I regret is being so caught up by graduation,
that I did not take many pictures of the ceremony or my friends. Carnegie
Mellon was all that I hoped for and more. Some good, bad and truly ugly times
happened in those 1.5 years. But I loved it to bits. I won’t harp on the
endless nights spent on assignments. It was all worth the Dunkin donuts, the discovery
of Kiva Han and the teensy French crepes place; worth the last minute trips to
Washington and the other well-planned ones; the student lounges and the weird
street art sculptures. It was worth Tom Mitchell and the other, equally
brilliant profs. I am so glad I made it there.
