nathan

i was sitting in the cougareat today, minding my own business (and diligently working on my 443 homework), when along comes a guy who asks if he could use the outlet against the pillar. the outlet he was asking about just so happened to be under the table i chose to sit at. of course i said that was fine and he pulled out the chair and took a seat. he then proceeded to plug in his phone charger while i continued doing my homework.

the guy made a phonecall and a few minutes later, after his phone conversation ended, he unplugged his charger and started chatting with me. like a lot.

he asked what homework i was doing...i told him engineering homework...he asked what kind...i told him electrical...he told me he has a friend in the program...i asked what his name was...and we concluded that i dont know him.

he asked what my name was...i asked what his name was.

we talked about how he's in business and his major is kinda like mine...sort of. he says 10-40% are girls (i thought that was a pretty huge range) but most of them are married. he also mentioned that there are many beautiful girls...but they're already taken.

he asked if i have a boyfriend.

and then he wanted me to try and explain my homework to him...so i tried to water it down as much as i could and gave him the layman's version. he asked me questions and i tried to answer them...and then he wanted to try and plug the equations into my TI-89...he said it looked expensive...and then he gave up trying.

he told me about a christmas present he gave his dad...it was some kinda glass block that had a figure carved out of the center...and somehow there was a light, attached to a stand, that must've lit up the hollowness...anyways, he didnt like the stand that came with it cuz it was too big so he decided to make his own...he called up his brother (who's done some physics and other stuff) who told him what to buy in order to make his own battery-operated light stand. his dad appreciated the gift.

he also asked where im from...and we started talking about how "cool" it is to be from hawaii...and then we started talking about sharks, which led to a jelly-fish he once saw, and continued on to the deadliest jelly-fish (which btw is from australia).

he told me he was wearing a suit cuz he went to the career fair...he had class all day so the only time he could go was during work...fortunately his boss let him leave for half an hour. i asked where he works...he said the bookstore...and he asked if i bought my books there...i said yes...and he said that i probably saw him then...we switched back to the topic of the career fair and he told me he's looking for a summer internship...preferably out of country...but the one he was looking at is in lehi...go figure.

he asked if i have facebook...and when i told him no he asked if i was anti...so i explained the whole spam/virus thing and how it took over 2 weeks to clean it off my computer...and he told me about this one time his computer had a virus and all he did was delete everything from the computer and restart it from the very bottom...it was before school started so he had nothing to lose...but i have tons of pictures on mine so i told him there was no way i would do that.

i knew this next one was coming...he said, "we should hang out some time. do you want to?"

and i said sure. i gave him my number and he gave me his. then he said he was starving and was gonna go grab something to eat. as he walked away he said he'll call me some time...some time this weekend...and that was that.