40 days and the ticker has started...

It's been 4 months since my last post. To answer the question in my first post, I fail at this 'blogging' business.

40 days until GRADUATION! Crazy...

So what made me post today? Nothing too much really. I met this 57 year old hippie. I was coming back home from the CSC and in front of my building, on the steps, a man was sitting and his head was between his knees and he was kind of slouched. Just to make sure he's not dead, just had a MI, a stroke, or passed out, I asked if he was ok. Which lead to a 20 minute conversation. He was more or less comprehensible - his speech was a bit slurred, which he said was due to alcohol ("I don't have any problems...well except that alcohol thing" were his exact words). But whatever right. He was dressed exceptionally nicely (well-ironed khakis, solid shoes, and a plaid jacket). He talked about his years of youth. Mostly he rambled about church. I guess it IS Good Friday so it is a pretty fitting time to talk of such things. He goes to the Unitarian church. He kept saying "I need to go to church" like it was some sort of epiphany. Then he talked about spirituality and ... this is the craziest thing ... thanked me for being non-Caucasian.

The exact conversation that led to him thanking me for my ethnic-ness?
Him: I was walking in Charles Village recently and I was the only Caucasian on the entire block. There were Asians, Ethiopians, Latinos...and I was the only Caucasian.
Me: Oh really?
Him: I thank you guys for showing me the world.

Not sure what to make of that. Even more weird (perhaps?) was he asked me, in a really confused way "What are you doing here?" When he was the one sitting in front of my apartment building.

If I tried hard enough (and am actually a real humanities major instead of a pretend one), I think I can extract some sort of philosophical meaning out of this exchange, but I'm too tired and I want (need?) to read more about eukaryotic cells (damn MCAT).