So today, I vistied my great aunt in Staten Island and she gave me a blueprint for life.
Finish School.
Find a nice Christian Woman.
Have three kids.
….Sounds good to me!
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Well today, I ran into my ex-barber. It was quite awkward. I left him a couple of months ago.. it just wasn’t working out… When he saw me, I noticed he was checking out my hair, it was a a fresh cut too. It was like i was walking around with the new barber in his face. I had my guitar in my hand, he asked me if I played. I told him I did, and we began talking to about guitar. I was scared of the question that could come at any time. “So why did you leave” I kinda left him with a word. No clue, no hint. Not even a phone call, I just left. It wasn’t that he was a bad barber or anything, its just that.. i felt awkward going there, I don’t know why.It wasn’t him it was me.. ok maybe it was him a little. He spoke too much. I’m a quiet guy. I just want to cut my hair ok? Be in and out. And I don’t like to be tied down to one barber. When I would walk in the place, there were two other barbers, but I would have to wait for him. It was like some sort of unspoken rule or something. So basically I stalled with the small talk until I reached my house and ran in.
The barber Im seeing now is jewish, and thats cool. When I walk in, 95% of the the time, there’ll be a seat waiting for me. And he doesn’t talk much, which is good, neither do I. He’s a real barber ok, he knows how to treat a customer. I don’t think he gets much black customers, he keeps telling me to invite my friends. I want to tell him I don’t know any of the black people that live around but, he probably wouldn’t believe me. (Shrug).
But there’s a 99 ct. store in my neighborhood, and I have a crush on the owner’s wife. I guess it’s like when your young, and you have a crush on your best friends mom, but in this case, my best friend is chinese, and his mom works at the register of a 99ct. store. Haha I find it so amusing to myself that I think she’s so pretty. When she’s at the resister and I have to buy a blank CD for $1.08, I give her two bucks and let her keep the change. And then I wink and say, by something nice for yourself. Ok, I’m just kidding, I don’t say that. But I do let her keep the change. I hope her hubby doesn’t find out and bans me from coming to the 99ct. I need those blank cds…
One thing, I’m very proud of myself for accomplishing is being able to recognize Korean. Now, to my asian friends out there, you might be saying, uhh so what? But to black people, all Asian languages sound the same! On my way down to the computer lab, I saw three friends walking together speaking in Korean, and I was immediately able to detect it by just walking past them. I first noticed this ability a year ago I think, when I was in a Asian beauty supply store. Typical me, just assumed it was a chinese beauty supply store. But then I heard I heard the emplyess talking to eachother and said to myself, hey this language sounds vaguely familiar, and bam! I picked up on it rite away! It was korean. Now, of course I don’t know what they’re saying, but I know they’re Korean. Thank You Korean dramas, you have improved my ears.
Is what I say for lunch now. Now I know Burger King was my spot and I bragged about it and stuff, but omgosh! One Friday afternoon, I decided to explore the other side of FIT and right there across the street was a Mcdonalds! Now I wasn’t too amused, I know already that there are NO Mcdonalds in Manhattan. with a $ menu. But my goodness, I walk in, and right there, smack dab in the right of the menu, is a dollar menu! It was like they didn’t get the memo about no dollar menus in Manhattan, or they transported themselves from Brooklyn. Not only that, they have the Mcchicken on the dollar menu! That can be hard to find in Brooklyn sometimes. So forget walking all the way to Korea town to Burger King! I just gotta walk right across the street to get my $3.24 lunch on! The lady already knows me. Today I forgot to say no ice and instead I said “2 Mcchickens and a small Hi-C please” and then she said. “No Ice?” and then I said “Oh, yeah no ice” That lady is great. I would tip her, but I don’t think that’s allowed in Mcdonalds.
So I’m on my way to school, late as usual, walking past the strangers on the street. When I hear “Hi Sammy!” Appearantly, one of those stragers, wasn’t a stranger. It was one of my neighbors, I hadn’t seen her in a quite a while and she looked different. She had glasses, that was new. “Hey! When did you get those” I said pointing at her glasses. She took them off and looked at me, “Non-prescription” she said and put them back on.
What a day and age we live in, where glasses are actually considered stylish and fashionable. I remember the days when kids hated wearing glasses, because it looked nerdy. I remember being called four-eyes back in kindergarten. I hated that term, but now, everyone wants to be a four eyes. Who would’ve thought poor vision would become so trendy. But when you think about it, its almost like the equivalent of getting crutches and you can walk just fine. Isn’t it? Glasses are made for the visually handicapped. Crutches are made for the …leg-ally handicapped. Imagine wearing crutches becoming the latest fad. Sure, it’ll take you twice as long to get somewhere, but you’d look so darn cool getting there.
I like my FIT breaks, I get to write blog entries =)
Never Leave Sam in a classroom with a sub with sunglasses… ever!
Bad Boy Baby!
Never give Sam a guitar after eating… EVER!
Now I want you to watch carefully at what Joel is doing at about 1:00 – 1:03. I like to call that the stack dance!
..That day was one of the best Seekers hangouts ever!
Those are the Tech memories I miss..
