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god love technology.
i was napping and woke up to the phone ringing. i let the answering machine pick it up and heard a bunch of people on the phone chattering away. i picked it up and it was just about my whole family. my uncle darryl had called from his Skype account --a phone service that makes calls from your computer and can have up to 9 people on the phone at once. he had called the family for a cross-continental phone party. it was Aasim...and eventually Olga... in Spain, Atief in Chicago, me in MA, and mom, Benjamin, and him in St. Louis. we tried to call my sister in VA, but she wasn't there. it was really fun.
once we established that it was a bona fide party, i played DJ and started it out with some Flashlight. few things are cooler than your family singing "da-da-da-dee-da-da-da-da" from literally all over the world. it was really good talking to Sim. i haven't talked to him in a long time and he's going to Afghanistan for a couple of months in June. he's flying into STL next month and i'm going to go home to see him before he heads out. after that, i think i'm going to go back to Spain with him in August. i've been flirting with the idea of moving over there; maybe not forever, but at least for a little while. so, i'm partly going over to see him and travel with him, but i'm also going over to scope it out and see if i'd like it. if nothing else, i want to live there long enough to become fluent in spanish. it's all in the works, but i'm seriously thinking about it.
anyway, it was really fun being able to talk to my whole family. i really miss Aasim and that phone call really made my year.
you know, for as inauspiciously as this year started, it's turning out to be pretty fucking dope.
i was napping and woke up to the phone ringing. i let the answering machine pick it up and heard a bunch of people on the phone chattering away. i picked it up and it was just about my whole family. my uncle darryl had called from his Skype account --a phone service that makes calls from your computer and can have up to 9 people on the phone at once. he had called the family for a cross-continental phone party. it was Aasim...and eventually Olga... in Spain, Atief in Chicago, me in MA, and mom, Benjamin, and him in St. Louis. we tried to call my sister in VA, but she wasn't there. it was really fun.
once we established that it was a bona fide party, i played DJ and started it out with some Flashlight. few things are cooler than your family singing "da-da-da-dee-da-da-da-da" from literally all over the world. it was really good talking to Sim. i haven't talked to him in a long time and he's going to Afghanistan for a couple of months in June. he's flying into STL next month and i'm going to go home to see him before he heads out. after that, i think i'm going to go back to Spain with him in August. i've been flirting with the idea of moving over there; maybe not forever, but at least for a little while. so, i'm partly going over to see him and travel with him, but i'm also going over to scope it out and see if i'd like it. if nothing else, i want to live there long enough to become fluent in spanish. it's all in the works, but i'm seriously thinking about it.
anyway, it was really fun being able to talk to my whole family. i really miss Aasim and that phone call really made my year.
you know, for as inauspiciously as this year started, it's turning out to be pretty fucking dope.
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