it's a small world after all...
So last week, I went to see The Dark Knight on IMAX with an odd assortment of friends and friends of friends. (Yes. I saw The Dark Knight on IMAX. And it was MAGNIFICENT!!!) There was me. There was my former dorm next-door-neighbor and two of his friends whom I didn't know. And there was a girl from my new lab who only knew me. While stuck in traffic on the way to the theater, (Seriously, why was there immense traffic going out of the city at 3:30pm on a Thursday and even more immense traffic going in to the city at 6:30pm on a Thursday? It violates all laws of rush hour!) we got to talking. Turns out the two friends of a friend are also physics grad students, which wasn't that surprising because it is a sad fact of life that 90% of any given physics grad student's friends are also physics grad students. What was a surprise was apparently they lived in the house three doors down the street from the Malibu Barbie House! There's another physics house on our street! How cool is that?!
Okay, written down like that it doesn't seem that exciting, but it was (and, okay, continues to be) the awesomest thing I've ever heard of. Think of the hijinks! Think of the shenanigans! We can have barbecues! We could start a prank war between our two houses! We could join forces for awesome, not evil, and invade neighboring houses one by one, filling them with our peers until we've conquered the entire street in the name of physics!!
But I digress. The other instance of small world syndrome occurred today. I was in Harvard Square this afternoon for some DVDs and bubble tea. I had just scored success at Newbury Comics and was about to enter the Boston Tea Shop when I ran into this vaguely familiar-looking guy outside the shop. I didn't have much time to ponder why he looked vaguely familiar because (a) my thoughts were occupied with the fact that he was blocking my way to bubble tea and you just don't do that and (b) he was asking me whether I had gone to TJ. Turns out, yes, we had gone to high school together, and before I knew it, we were making plans for a mini high school reunion for TJ Class '03 living in Boston/Cambridge. Should be interesting. Or really, really awkward.
But lest you miss the most important part of this post, I'll restate it:
DARK KNIGHT + IMAX = PURE WIN
Seriously. Do it. Do it now.
Also, I've started buying Batman comics. Because I lose. :)