The year is winding down, and I am pooped. So, in the disconnected spirit of finals week, here are some highlights of the unquenched desires of my youth:
When I was a child, my only pets were aquatic. I acquired my first fish on a field trip to the pet store. My mom, advised by the internet of the early 2000s, fed the new family member lettuce and boiled egg yolks. The next day, I was informed that my buddy took a pilgrimage down the toilet. We had what equated to a guppy farm for most of my elementary school years, with some ghost shrimp, albino frogs, hermit crabs, and betta fish in between. What I really wanted was a seahorse -- I spent long hours searching for shipping and tropical care methods online, but it was a no-go. Considering the untimely deaths of my lower-maintenance creatures, I guess that was probably for the best.
I first saw my love sketching pedestrians on the streets of Seoul, gazing wistfully in the distance as the sun creamed over his gentle features. I began to learn more about him with each passing day -- his gaming habits, his parents' occupations, his reputation as a trickster... Unfortunately, I learned all of these from the research of thousands of girls across the world similarly starstruck by this charismatic superstar. Kyuhyun (of the Korean boy band Super Junior) has been my one true love for around two years now, and I can only hope that my life with him will someday become a reality.
My most recent unfulfilled wish is manifested in the swiftest scout I know. In honor of his beauty, I drew him in citrus form and sculpted him out of clay for an art project. Teemo is the cutest character from a certain real time strategy game, and his cherubic image was commercially immortalized in a furry green hat that is currently being sold online. Given my history with frivolous novelty purchases, however, I have not been permitted to order this treasure for myself. A friend of mine offered to buy one for me if I could guess his convoluted password. Whatever destitute avenue I must traverse in order to reach absolution with a Teemo hat will be absolutely worth it, but they all seem pretty impossible at the time being.
I have a tendency to fixate on unattainable, grandiose ideas, all the while sitting at my computer knitting and watching Korean dramas. I guess life wouldn't be all that fun if every self-centered wish was granted. If there's one dream of mine that is nearing fulfillment, it is to create fifty limes on this blog. This post, my last for the class, marks forty-six. Maybe I'll be back to provide those last few limes. For now, thanks for sticking around in the lime-o-sphere, and have a great Winter break!
