At 12am on January 1st, 2009, I watched people ring a bell in Seoul with a giant hammer. I was nestled warmly in my bed (I'm old now, so I'm allowed to have low key New Years Eves), when it occurred to me that I was magically 28 (even though my birthday is in April). Since this realization, nothing has been the same.
My father got me a beautifully modern Canon Digital Rebel xsi for Christmas. Eric brought it with him on the plane, and brought much joy to my picture taking. Sadly though, my Digital Elph (Canon Powershot) was a few years behind the times. In Seoul, the tiny camera decided to spontaneously combust. There are currently two competing theories on the combustion: 1. The time travel had a delayed, but powerful side effect on the tiny and delicate elph. 2. The elph was overcome with jealousy for my newer, bigger, fancier toy, and took its own life. No matter which theory you subscribe to, it just adds to the chilling feeling that time is moving more quickly than I'm prepared to accept.
After my camera's tragic suicide, I decided to try to make time stand still to the best of my ability. I took as many photos as I could (without my fingers going numb from the chilling cold of Seoul), and tried my best to live in the moment. Unfortunately, there is no escaping the aging process, and the snow boarding pics speak for themselves. I'm so old that I couldn't even stand by myself without falling down. ;-)
But at least a few questions are answered about the future world.
1.In the future (or at least in Korea) it is common for people to celebrate New Year's Day by watching the sun rise on the beach.
2.My boyfriend cannot iceskate or snowboard now or in the future.
3.The future has a huge market for food chemists. Only yesterday did I discover pizza flavored rice puffs, which far surpassed the salad flavored potato chips in quality.
4. Technology continues to get better.
5. Despite global warming, winter sports continue to have mass appeal (which really sucks for Eric).
6. You don't have to understand a movie's language to laugh a lot at bad acting.
3 comments:
Carrie- You and Eric look so happy. I can't snowboard either (or ice skate, or ski). I have gotten to the point where when someone mentions a winter sport, I shudder with fear.
Enjoy your new camera.
Winter sports are overrated.
I don't know why you are suddenly older than me, but i am just going with it! Looks like you and Eric had a blast!
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