Time for everyone

I was at a party at one of the International Fellowship people's apartments this evening. We watched Chariots of Fire, which is a great movie - I'll have to ask my XC runner sister (not FMF, the one in between us) if she's seen it. I couldn't take my eyes off Ben Cross as Harold Abrahams. I liiiiiiiike the runner physique. ^_^

Which is sort of funny because about the only thing EK has in common with Abrahams is that he's Jewish, hehe. ("a runner? i have flat feet!")

After the end of the movie, Fan, who'd been hiding in Sarah's bedroom with textbooks and occasionally popping out for popcorn, emerged and attacked Terrell, the IF advisor.
"You ignored me for three hours!"
"What do you mean, we ignored you? You were studying the whole time!"

Then I hung around for about half an hour while Terrell counseled Fan about academic stress and her aunt yelling at her, LY tried to take a digi SLR photo of Sarah's cut of baby back ribs for Sarah's doctoral thesis on CT scanning (don't ask what she did to the ribs previously, but maybe one of the CT machines at the UW hospital smells like raw beef now), and LY's wife skimmed through the thesis.

Terrell gave me a ride home - the UW grad student apartment complex, Eagle Heights, is too badly lit at night for cycling without headlamps. On the few minutes' drive back he asked me what year I was, what I planned to do in the future, and about EK. It's funny...I expect people to make time for people like Fan, who's an exuberant little freshman, and talks in that hyperventilating way that some PRC girls have. You know she wants someone to talk to, not to talk at. Because she's a cute vulnerable FOB international student who needs the help, you know she'll be happy if you listen to her and tell her things.

What I don't expect is for people to make time for an arrogant punk like me who's pretending to be a grown-up, with a bad sense of humour, and so assimilated into Anglo/American culture that she can cap lines from the Wizard of Oz. On the rare occasions that happens, I'm more than happy. I'm astonished. =P

Ah. Jesus made time for everyone. Even the smartass punks.