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The WHCC guys were at Meta retreat, and Linton apparently was taking a nap, so Elliot didn’t really come.  I met Chris at T. H. Rogers.  It was just the two of us, shooting around.  We played a game of HORSE, which he won (I was leading in the beginning, but he said what probably happened was that I kept trying to make three-pointers so my arms got tired).  At the end he sat down and rested.  I practiced some lay-ups, from both sides.  But playing by myself is even worse than just the two of us.  So I sat down in front of him, drinking my water.  I asked him if he missed Plano, to which he answered, “A little.”  He says he has lost touch with most of the people he knew from back there.  While we were walking away, Chris said that Linton was taking swing-dancing lessons.  I exclaimed that he invited me as well, except that I didn’t want to pay $40 at this time (which isn’t expensive for 4 weekly lessons, but I figure when I start I’d take more than that plus I don’t want to spend that kind of money right now without a job).  Chris said the money issue ($50 for guys I guess) was his same idea.

We went to Old Place Cafe (his choice) in Chinatown for dinner.  Jacky was napping when Chris called him for basketball, so he called back and joined us.  I got eight lamb dumplings (which were okay, not that fond of the lamb taste) and Chris always orders Dan-Dan Noodles.  He says that his friends never seem to particularly desire to come here to eat when he suggests it.  Jacky said he could understand.  He said that his Beef Noodle Soup tasted so bad that he wanted to buy a drink to wash out the flavor.  Yet he still finished it all (cleaner than Chris’s bowl, who said, “And I liked my food”); he admitted that the noodles were good because they were home-made.  Then we went over to the Dun Huang Supermarket area.  Chris got a strawberry drink from Juicebox and met Jacky at Star Snow Ice & Teriyaki.  When I went in, I saw Vivian and Christine from BASIC were sitting in the front corner eating dinner, so I went over to say hi and chat briefly.  We all forgot each other’s names, but it’s okay, we repeated them.  Then I joined Jacky and Chris.  Jason So? and Jen Chi Chen? came in.  They recognized my face (and Jacky’s) so we waved at each other.  Chris, who’s back was towards them, turned around to see who we were waving to, and they recognized him and stopped to talk with him.  Apparently, Andrea (who recently got married to Justin?) had recently moved into the same apartment that Chris had moved into.  They asked him how long he’s been in Houston, and that’s all I heard (wasn’t exactly straining to eavesdrop).

Did you know that Chris is sleeping on the ground in his apartment?  His guy friends have offered to help him move in, but you know him, naw that’s alright.  So his bed and other furniture is still in Nathan Kim’s room.  Chris is leaving his couch there.  But come on, his nice (it is a nice) bed?  Doesn’t that backfire on the purpose he got a new place so quickly?  Chris says his bedroom doesn’t have a window, so it’s really hard to tell when it’s time to wake up (circadian rhythms).  At that time when told us (in the car as we went to the Beacon last week), we were joking that he should draw a sun or something.  Anyway, he moved the smaller objects, like his television, his guitar, and his laptop (he somehow has free internet from somewhere).  I guess he doesn’t have a table either, which reminds me of what Sarah Su had said when she moved to Virginia: ”sleeping on an air mattress and having nowhere to sit other than a chair and a table makes you surprisingly stressed”–so I would imagine it would be even more unsettling to just use a box as a seat….

psi, why are we like this?  Maybe we need to check out something on http://www.baylor.edu/christianethics/index.php?id=15933.  I keep wondering if we are so desperately not going in the right direction:  http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=19fd9c84c942a08316e0 (Paul David Washer).