happy thoughts...happy thoughts...sitting in economics with kyle at 8 or 9 am. worst professor ever. kyle is super ADD. at one point in the lecture it's blah blah blah "let's start today!" kyle starts singing it and i crack up. it becomes a running joke for a bit. then i dropped the class. kyle switched majors.
the semester before we take a trip to this distro place and kyle buys at G.B. long sleeve shirt. after stealing my friend kate's sxe coca-cola t. he has assorted weird shirts from his 5 minutes of being sxe in prep school in boston. years later he gets a barfight shirt from me, not knowing who or what it is. starts wearing it to black cat and almost gets in a fight one night. i think.
i met kyle when i was looking for another person, a kyle from syracuse who knew my friend courtney. he was a raver. he also decided to go by his full name, khalil, once we got to GW.
kate, (my orientation roommate who became my friend based on a bouncing souls t she had on), and i wandered the halls of the freshman dorm on day 2 or 3 of college. everyone's names were on those lame cut-outs that they always put on dorm rooms first semester.
we make a game out of finding kyle, floor by floor, room by room. we get to maybe the 6th floor and someone's dry erase board has a message signed "kyle" about a shift show that we missed. the writer left his room number. we hightail it over there.
the kyle i was looking for i'd met before at a rave in syracuse. (laugh it up!) he's indian and gay. we get to said room and the kyle within is a tall, lanky preppy guy. so not my image of a hardcore kid, based on my limited experience.
he invites us in, despite not being the "right kyle". he's organizing 7"s on his bed. not sure which ones, but very boston-centric. i'm sure piebald, since he was classmates with one of those dudes, converge, chisel, his favorite. kate and i were psyched to find another like-minded soul. no idea how long we hung out or when we met up with him next, but that first meeting is etched in my memory.
why isn't it so simple these days?
for k.d.m. rabbit rabbit. 5 days late.
-mjm
kyle's version/reply:
"ha ha ha...i wish i knew where those coke-a-cola SXE and barfight shirts went. and i was SXE all through high school. i started drinking summer after senior year. i'm a "tall, lanky preppy guy. so not my image of a hardcore kid, based on my limited experience"? i believe the correct expression is/was "emo". no relation to today's emo."-via email 10:12 am, 8.13.08
touche, my friend, touche!
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