time space continuum

6am. Can't sleep. Figured instead of trying I might as well stay up and wait for the Laker game. It's totally unlike me to not have blogged about basketball the last few days. But well, there's a first for everything.

I received a facebook invite two nights ago about my high school's 10 year reunion. Even though I thought it was odd that the invite was sent out so early (I graudated in 2000) I RSVPed immediately because I had always looked forward to the 10 year reunion, dating back to maybe 2nd year out of high school. Dunno why.

Turns out the invite wasn't for the actual reunion, but for the first official meeting to plan the reunion. Meeting's in a week. I thought to myself "ain't that a bit early?". It's a year away! What's there to plan? Everyone's on facebook anyways.

Then I realized that as we get older, time passes faster and faster. Can you believe it's almost the midway point of 2009 already? WTF? I still remember staying home on NYE, hanging with the crew at Park Island during that one week in December like it was yesterday. But that was half a year ago. I have this sappy/fruity habit of looking back at my old blogs to reminiscent, and stuff I wrote from 2007 feels only like months ago, entries from 2005 feels like maybe a year and half ago. One entry that hit specifically is from 2004. Conan O Brien had just been announced as the successor to Jay Leno as the host of The Tonight Show. Being a huge Conan fan, I was ecstatic and blogged this at the time:

"I can't wait until Conan takes over The Tonight Show, then the rest of America will finally see that he is the funniest man in television. But I shouldn't get ahead of myself... 2009 is still so, so, so far from now."

I still remember writing those exact words then, and now that day is almost here. In a week, Conan O Brien starts his Tonight Show gig and he will rule America after 11pm.

Let's get back to the original point--time flies, man. Next thing I know it'll be June 2010 and I'll be back in LA for the reunion. I'll see my three high school crushes, one of them my prom date, all married with children. Not that I still crush on them and secretly hate their husbands or anything, but it will be weird to see how they're totally in "adult mode" and I'm still "hey I'm the shy dude who always stared at you but never talked to you" mode. I'll see acquaintances who will look the same on the outside but be completely different on the inside. I'll realize that out of everyone, I've probably changed the least.

I'm generally happy with who I am and all, but being the exact same dude for the past 10 years is kinda scary, isn't it? Like I haven't made any progress or something.

I left Alhambra High in 2000 Kobe hatin', rooting against the Lakers in the Western Conference Finals, and listening to Green Day.

Guess what I will be doing in a few hours?

The time space continium is tricky. Speaking of that, I want to drop one of my favorite exchanges from any film here:

Marty McFly: Wait a minute, Doc, are you trying to tell me that my mother has got the hots for me?

Dr. Emmett Brown: Precisely.

Marty McFly: Whoa, this is heavy.

Dr. Emmett Brown: There's that word again; "heavy". Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the earth's gravitational pull?

I love this movie.

"The night is darkest before dawn, but I can promise you, the dawn is coming"

-Harvey Dent