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[kamianya]

Wow. Been a month since I last posted.
Anyways, today was a pool party barbecue that we got invited to through my parents. My goal was to make friends. I both succeeded admirably and failed horribly.
Let me explain.
So it was raining, and everyone was inside or under the overhang. Food was good, people were eager to meet the new people. Except, of course, the people my age, the four or so of them, one of whom I was already friends with, the others who were talking among themselves, and I couldn't seem to strike up a conversation with.
So some of the young boys start swimming, and it turns out the pool is heated, so it's warmer than outside. I decide, after one of the adults go in, to get in as well.
Plenty of younger kids get in the pool, after a while, and a bunch of guys around my age come...and start playing croquet. I discover it's pretty much impossible to get to talking with any of them, and end up playing and making friends with a bunch of the younger kids. Including being monopolized for about half an hour by an adorable little 3 year old named Dalia.
So I now have a whole bunch of friends 8-16 years younger than me, and no new ones my age.
On the other hand, an 11 year old, who's birthday is one day after mine, asks my mom once she is ordered out of the pool for our information, because she had such a great time and wants to meet up with me again.
So, like I said, I both succeeded and failed.

Comments

[blalien.livejournal.com]

Heya, you wanna get together this weekend? The near lack of social interaction is starting to get to me and I need a dose of vitamin Sharone.

[kamianya.livejournal.com]

Can't. I have lunch with a family this Shabbat, which includes the one girl my age who I did make friends with.

[malachconstant.livejournal.com]

But, Brian! There's a million things to do at Brandeis/Waltham over the summer, and so many people to talk to! I mean, look, there's roughly eighty thousand vapid, unininteresting minors who are infesting the campus for one reason or another, maybe twenty actual Brandeis students in Ziv 129, and a whole lot of professors doing pretty much nothing! And not only that, but the summer office is continuing their wonderful policy of holding no events over the summer. You should totally have lots to do right now! >_>

...yeah, seriously. It got to me too, s'why I left after the first five weeks.

Well, I have a question, and it's going to seem like an odd one given the context: Do you have Warcraft 3?

[blalien.livejournal.com]

My name is Brandon, yo. But I forgive you, because I'm not even sure who you are.

Yeah, I have Warcraft 3 and Frozen Throne. But I'm miserably bad at them. Why?

[malachconstant.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, I really suck. I totally blame that on jetlag, Brandon. I totally didn't mean to reflect my Shadowrun character's stats so well. (lol, 2's in mental stats) -_-

This is Ben Miller, by the way.

And I was asking because there exist what is pretty much a Brandeis clan on Battle.net, actually - and since we have a Ventrilo server, we talk a lot.

Well, Jason Bauer yells a lot, but Jason does that all the time anyway.