MARCH 14 WAS OLGA'S BIRTHDAY
HAPPY BIRTHDAY OLGA!

i apologize for the delay - i was away on spring break - and for the font size - the new blogger won't let me go any bigger, either that or i just don't know how.

a few weeks ago i had lunch with liz tulis (jamie's factotum, the one who visited and taught us how to do library research) and whenever she put forth a tasp-reuniony/fundraising idea i kept saying, i don't know, maybe the more recent taspers, but our generation's lost our tasp nostalgia.

i must have said this at least three times before liz finally asked me what i meant by tasp nostalgia.

i still have no idea what it was. it's not just that we're busy - relatively speaking, we were busy senior year of high school. at some point, i think, at least for me, not getting over tasp nostalgia became uncool. tasp was a great thing that happened in my life, but it would have been just sad to resign to the idea that it was the only great thing that would ever happen in my life. once over aim, which i'd gotten senior year of high school in order to keep in touch with taspers, jacob shed a painful light onto our moanings and pinings: "i think the other taspers have lives," he said.

it's true, we all have lives - even myself, hopefully - and i think what we all need to get over is the fear that other taspers, who have their own lives, don't care about ours. i don't want to be preachy, and i am most guilty of this fear myself. i fear that tasp was our only common ground and that we've all run out of things to talk about because one can only reminisce so much about six weeks.

so here's my attempt at sharing my recent non-tasp-relevant life:
i'm going to the DMV today so i can get a non-driver's driver's license, because i don't want to carry my passport around everywhere to prove that i'm 21, and because i failed my driver's license exam in the philippines that doesn't have a road test component.

posted by Tae-Yeoun Keum   [4:14 AM]

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