Introvert

This morning, I have renewed respect for my stapler. My stapler is not your average stapler because it has a plastic covering and is gray instead of black. Now I just need to find my colorful staples! So what did it accomplish? It stapled all my powerpoint slides from lecture 2 to 13!! Beast.

Does a word count as a false cognate if it isn't spelled exactly the same? (A false cognate is a word that is the same in two languages but means a completely different thing in each language.) Our Dutch Prof said he would give us extra credit for false cognates over 5 letters long. Feest means PARTAAY in Dutch, and then there's feast.. which is kinda like a party for my stomach but obviously they are different, but spelled wrong.

I've come to the realization lately that I've always been an incredibly solitary person. Okay maybe not from when I was like up to 6 years of age. I had a lot of fun those days, cause there were FOUR nearby playgrounds!!

Okay digression: do they still make that really cool playground fixture where it's this huge round wheel (read: circular piece of wood) and then it has poles sort of running in a cross so you can hold on, and some people are on the sides pushing the wheel in circles and then the other kids are standing on the board getting dizzy?? I can kind of see how that might possibly be dangerous, but not to the point that they shouldn't have it anymore! Gooood times.

Anyways, after I moved to South Carolina, there was no one nearby in my neighborhood to play with really, or at least no one I knew. And I didn't have a lot of super close friends at elementary school who I would have playdates with outside of school. So I would wait until the weekends when I would go to Chinese school and Saturdays, and then afterwards I would hang out with one of my Chinese school friends or other Chinese family friends (
THEN in North Carolina, I was kind of less nonsocial in 5th grade while in Cary? A lot of my classmates already knew each other by the time I had moved there but I fit in alright.

SO THENN I finally moved to Chapel Hill. Our street was pretty tight while everyone lived near there, but altogether, I never felt like I was as close with the other girls; I don't know if it's because I had a lot of random obligations, or if I just liked more time to myself. But we had a lot of fun until high school when everyone started dispersing and branching off.

Ya and I still loved my Chinese school peeps but they all lived too far away for me to hang out with them a lot besides in Chinese school.

At Science and Math, I felt like I spent too much time in my room. I should have bonded more in general. But I liked my roommates so that's gooood.

And at Penn, I definitely spend too much time in my room. Everything I need is in here! But ya, my goal is to LEAVE HERE MORE, next year, when I get back form Belgium.

But evaluating the situation, I don't really feel too bad about myself; either it's because I exercise enough that I get an adequate amount of endorphins to not care about my dearth of social interaction, or maybe I do get enough for me.

Or maybe my life has been fueled by way too much reading and online chatting. -_-