A couple of weeks ago, I got my second and third degrees from MIT. The commencement speech, by one of Qualcomm’s founders, was monumentally uninspiring. The central message of the address was, “things change, sometimes quickly.” I’m so glad a man with his record of accomplishments was able to enlighten me with such wisdom, surely acquired only through decades of experience. Meanwhile, Stanford grads got Steve Jobs for their graduation address; he got a standing ovation.
Since then, I’ve been spending my time helping people move, doing some work for IBM, and watching unreasonable amounts of anime. (I especially recommend Last Exile, Samurai Champloo, and Naruto.) I helped Yong-Hwa ship several large boxes, helped my dad move into his new office, and helped Megan disassemble her room, pack it into a truck, move it into her new home, and assemble it again. The moving experiences were pretty typical: long lines at the post office, harassment from security guards, uncooperative weather, a box spring that resisted being pushed up a small spiral staircase, a U-Haul truck with a busted radiator that spilled coolant all over the street, a couple of lunatic hispanic tow-truck drivers, and a bunch of thinly-veiled threatening remarks to the U-Haul guy to ensure they didn’t profit from our inconvenience. OK, so hurtling through Davis Square in the passenger seat of a tow truck while the driver laughs hysterically into his walkie-talkie, intentionally torturing his poor partner as he lay illegally across the front seat of the busted U-Haul truck we were dragging behind us probably isn’t typical. But what do I know?
My travels begin this Sunday. I’ll post an itinerary, in the event that any of you find it useful to know when, precisely, I will be slurping ramen noodles in Narita.
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June 14th, 2005 at 6:04 pm
u-haul is evil. cambridge is evil. last exile is good.